The short clip floating around where “Dancing with the Stars” champ Jennifer Grey says it felt damn good to beat Bristol Palin — and who can blame her? — is a wee bit deceptive if you look at the entirety of her interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell. While he goes on and on like a DWTS Truther about the Tea Party supposedly stuffing the ballot boxes in favor of Bristol, Grey refuses to take the bait. Actually what O’Donnell is doing is more like throwing chum, but still Grey refuses to bite and join him in his sad conspiracy mongering or say anything negative about the Tea Party.
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O’Donnell also spends a few minutes hoping to coax the “Dirty Dancing” star into saying something negative about Bristol Palin, either personally or about her dancing abilities. But once again, Grey keeps it classy:
Grey: I have to say that [Bristol] really came a long way.
O’Donnell: No, you don’t have to say that.
Grey: No, she did.
O’Donnell: I saw her dance.
Grey: Did you see her at the beginning, see her at the end? Totally different, and she’s a lovely girl.
O’Donnell: How could she not improve slightly? If they keep her — if the fake votes keep her in the competition the whole time.
Grey: Well, bully for her. Bully for her.
Grey couldn’t have been any more gracious. And I want to thank her for that. If you don’t insult me or mine I don’t care how you vote. So all remains good on the “Dirty Dancing” front, which is a relief because I’m kind of an eleven year-old girl when it comes to that one.
As far as O’Donnell, in this interview (and in his life) he typifies the hateful cruelty we see becoming more and more mainstreamed on the left (mostly through MSNBC). Bristol isn’t Sarah and yet he absolutely refuses to do anything other than to degrade and insult her — he refuses to let loose even a single kind word for a young woman who showed moxie, stamina, and a willingness to tough it out with an impressive display of poise and class throughout what must have been quite an ordeal that included death threats and envelopes filled with white powder addressed to her.
O’Donnell’s always been a rancid-souled bastard, but his unwillingness to check his bitter partisanship at the door even for the young daughter of a politician he disagrees with is a new low in a career of lows.
He also makes a bit of a fool of himself here trying to be cute and flirty. The whole interview reminded me of the scenes between Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lectre in “Silence of the Lambs.”
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