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On Thursday’s “Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” former Obama Administration official promised an “American Autumn, just like we saw an Arab Spring.” The Arab Spring resulted in violence in the streets and the over-throw of governments in Egypt and Tunisia.

Left-wing Nation Magazine editor Chris Hayes sat in for self-proclaimed socialist Lawrence O’Donnell and interviewed left-wing Salon.com contributor Glenn Greenwald to discuss former Vice president Dick Cheney’s new book. Not only did Greenwald provide an uninterrupted and undisputed laundry list

“They want to see two girls come together and have a mud wrestling fight. And I’m not gonna give it to them because I have great admiration and respect for the Governor.” Bashir later says that Bachmann is using a

It was close, but we’re confident that this report on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” is the most egregious example of the media’s attacks on Andrew Breitbart for reporting the Anthony Weiner story. For an editor of a

Jerry Springer on “Piers Morgan” last night and Lawrence O’Donnell on his own show offer up what may well be the next Weinergate talking point: It’s all about the sex! These gentlemen both raise the question: what if he is

Lawrence O’Donnell attempted to debate interview Condoleezza Rice and Rice promptly are his lunch. Ate his lunch and slapped him around. Ate his lunch, slapped him around, and completely owned him. I can’t with either a straight face or accuracy

From Columbia University’s Journalism School’s website, a statement of their purpose for training journalists: …finding out the truth of complicated situations, usually under a time constraint, and communicating it in a clear, engaging fashion to the public. Similar rhetoric from

You watch a few of these new “Lean Forward” ads and the approach becomes obvious, director Spike Lee and MSNBC are hoping to fool people into thinking they’re all about “The People,” “The Kids,” and “The America.” An extreme left-wing

Lawrence O’Donnell on his show Friday read an email from a woman who said she couldn’t afford either cable or birth control so “please Lawrence,” she wrote, “shout some sense into them.” The way O’Donnell said that she couldn’t “even

Just a few weeks ago, the national media wrung its hands about the need for greater civility in our political dialogue. Almost within minutes of that sanctimonious plea, the institutional left launched an assault against any and all perceived opponents.

This is actual content on MSNBC. Lawrence O’Donnell doing his best Shocked Olbermann impersonation about the racial makeup of Michele Bachmann’s district, because race is the only thing that matters to progressives such as O’Donnell, apparently. “What makes those voters

Here you see the President depicted in half man, half animal form with ears that don’t exist in the Homo sapiens species. Far worse, the JibJab brothers’ idea of a clever political joke was to present this racist obscenity in

We’ve learned quite a lot about how loathsome a commentator Lawrence O’Donnell is from his “Rewrite” segment on James Hudnall’s and Batton Lash’s “Obama Nation” cartoon. His hilariously uptight lecturing and blatant hypocrisy have already been documented, but one element

Meet the New Tone. Same as the Old Tone. [youtube qwKWMPZjbiE nolink] A note for readers, we’re now on day three that Lawrence O’Donnell has refused to condemn the racist Alternet attack on Herman Cain or the progressive calls to

The New York Daily News published a column Tuesday on the fabricated cartoon controversy – except they saw no reason to hyperventilate as Lawrence O’Donnell did last night, and bring race into a situation where it clearly doesn’t belong. In

The way Lawrence O’Donnell sees it, cartoonists Batton/Lash are the new Theo Van Gogh, collectively. You’re not allowed to criticize the hypocritical policies of the President or First Lady, in word or in graphics, lest a D-List talking head will

Read Hud and Lash’s latest response to this non-controversy at Big Hollywood: Racial McCarthyism: MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Screams ‘Racist’ to Intimidate Artistic Political Opposition Recently, Mr. O’Donnell implored family, friends even strangers to harass cartoonists James Hudnall and Batton Lash

When reality-impaired MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell decided to call Batton Lash and myself racists on national television, we received a steady stream of death threats and viscous hate mail, which I detail here. The whole thing brings up memories of

When Batton Lash and I decided to take on the Obama Administration with our strip 16 months ago, few people were willing to mock the president. Yet we both saw that this president was at times foolish, mendacious, clueless and

When Batton Lash and I decided to take on the Obama Administration with our strip 16 months ago, few people were willing to mock the president. Yet we both saw that this president was at times foolish, mendacious, clueless and

The First Lady looks overweight in this cartoon, and even though the two other adults in the cartoon do as well, it must be – according to MSNBC standards – racist. So why didn’t Lawrence O’Donnell go off forever on

Dana Loesch hits back at Lawrence O’Donnell here. Read the cartoonists answer to the charges here. Enjoy the oh-so-earnest, whispering outrage of Lawrence O’Donnell.

Progressives have taken issue with a cartoon published recently on this website mocking the government overreach of the First Lady’s food regulations. The cartoon ran specifically post-Super Bowl to emphasize the double standard of what Michelle Obama says regarding American

The New York Times’s digital media writer Brian Selter reports that Keith Olbermann’s new show will see him taking on both old colleague Lawrence O’Donnell, who assumed Olbermann’s MSNBC time slot, as well as Fox’s Bill O’Reilly. The show is

I’ve always thought better of politicians who make themselves available in the lions’ dens that are networks like MSNBC. Lawrence O’Donnell spent and inordinate amount of attention of the President’s religion. He makes an insane leap of logic from King’s

MSNBC host and Olbermann disciple, Lawrence O’Donnell played the “I thought of it first, dummy” card against the Tea Party Monday night when he stated “Most of them [tea partiers] didn’t know there was a debt ceiling until I raised

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

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy For another, more generous take on Ms. Grey’s interview performance, read John Nolte at Big Hollywood. The ’80’s film star appeared on MSNBC’s ‘The Last Word’ with Lawrence

Picking up where they left off in last week’s viral video, Salon’s Glenn Greenwald and Hollywood screenwriter-turned socialist MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell continued to debate what to label themselves. At the end of the segment, O’Donnell trots out a clip

The details of the Olbermann – MSNBC slapfight are still emerging, but one thing we’re hearing now is that one of Olbermann’s conditions for returning to air was for MSNBC to apologize for the ordeal. And it looks like his

This morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, Lawrence O’Donnell proudly declared the obvious: he’s a socialist. After hearing the news today about the suspension of Keith Olbermann from the same network, I can’t say anyone’s all that surprised. O’Donnell’s proclamation

Here’s one example of race hustling via liberal commentator Alicia Menendez delivered where else but MSNBC: [youtube eugGUG9HFEE nolink] Another example is MSNBC’s election night panel which consisted of hosts Lawrence O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews. As

The leftist media has some favorite public figures that it just loves to hate like Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, and Michelle Bachmann – but there is one candidate that the media has left alone. This candidate was a total underdog.

From Paul Bond at the Hollywood Reporter: He has been on only for a week, but MSNBC’s newest host Lawrence O’Donnell is already channeling Rick Sanchez and Dr. Laura Schlessinger by apologizing for insensitive remarks directed at a minority. In

Lawrence O’Donnell has already put his foot into his big mouth: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Luckily, liberals can never be racists! Right, Lawrence?

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Somehow, Lawrence O’Donnell still ends up making his apology come across as a self-aggrandizing opportunity to accuse another Republican of racism and to further demean and diminish the