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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Lawrence O'Donnell Was An Asshole Last Night to Ashley Carson

And as David Dayen points out here, O'Donnell was also, of course, dangerously wrong in all his conservadem talking points about a looming social security crisis. I was quite appalled by the exchange between O'Donnell and Carson last night, in which he interrupted her and talked down to her and smirked at her while she patiently tried to talk sense. O'Donnell seemed flabbergastingly oblivious to the context of the segment, namely that another clueless old white guy Alan Simpson attracted a lot of negative attention (but of course paid no real price for it) by denigrating O'Donnell's very guest on the very same topic in the very same sexist way. I found it interesting that in the exchange with Ezra Klein a few minutes later O'Donnell tried the same crap but quieted a little in the face of Klein's push-back, a dick genuflecting as usual to another penis. O'Donnell is about to get a prime-time show of his own on MSNBC. I suggest that he and Chris Matthews be placed in the same dark paneled cigar-smoke filled studio beneath large grim portraits in oils of Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Tip O'Neill, and in lieu of doing interviews they could simply swap impressions of Burgess Meredith playing the Penguin while qualified professional women in suits are paraded endlessly before the camera.

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