MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why the former governor of Alaska is running for the spotlight, not the White House.
Sarah Palin's the new Trump in town
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Thu May 26, 2011 9:13 PM EDT
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why the former governor of Alaska is running for the spotlight, not the White House.
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How boring, another Palin Rant. You are so original Larry. All of your return viewers must have very meaningless lives to turn into your daily tirades on Palin and Newt. I think even the Left gets tired of the same childish rants night after night.
KURT 3183071
What do you consider a meaningful life?Worshiping Sarah from afar.
No, I don't like her. I Just think Larry is obsessed with her in the same way he was with Beck.
you hit the nail on the head Kurt. Larry says the same BS every night, it's no wonder their ratings are low. He must hang out with Bill Maher. Two penis heads with ears. It's just a matter of time and Larry will be out on his ass like Olbermann. Mr. Ed and his phony apology, this is another guy that this network should put out to pasture permanately, fire the whole crew and start with some fresh new faces. Watching these shows is like watching the Jerry Springer Show. No class.
Why aren't you watching FAUX NEWS?
kurt, yet you continue to watch night after night to larry's "boring" , "meaningless tirade". it simply can't be that you enjoy it also? or you simply use it as fodder to come here and sound silly and sophmoric.
and nick, as for Ed's apology, he didn't apologize like most others do, as in, "i am sorry if so and so was offended". he apologized directly to laura ingraham on the air when he started his suspension, and tried to apologize directly to laura by phone, but couldn't so he left a message instead. Ed's apology to laura ingraham is a good example of what all of us should do if we hurt someone the way Ed must have hurt laura.
Suzette, I am sorry for always upsetting you for voicing my opinion.
Kurt, I guess you like sis Palin. Larry nailed it correctly and deep down you know he's telling the truth, he called out Trump and predicted the date Trump would announce his final decision. At least give him credit for that.
I'm impressed that you watch his show and now on his blog, guess this is an
antidote for all the poisons you've gotten from Fox News huh?
Back to sis Palin, I like her; she's smarter than we give her credit for. Yes dumb
when it comes to politics beyond Alaska, she’s clearly not interested to be
President however, why not make as much money as possible from the American morons as she has been doing all along.
She's riding the wave of hatred towards the 1st black man President. She knows as a Christian, what she's spewing are absolutely wrong and most of the time false about Obama. But she couldn't resist because of the love of money. Even the bible say that "The LOVE of money is the root of all evil" The bible did not say don't have money, it just say don't love money than the person standing next to you. Don’t tear down others in order to be build up, treat others the way you want to be treated, etc.
She loves attention which gives her plenty of what she loves-MONEY! She use to make $125,000 or so as a governor and now, she rakes in millions riding the hatred wave. As a President, she'll only make $450,000 or may be $550,000 with rules not to be involved in any other event that might compromise the office of the President. As you can see, $450K or $550K just won't cut it.
@Sam-If being a Christian means not tearing other people down or being mean spirited, then Larry, MSNBC, and most of his listeners must be the center of evil. But all of that is irrevelent because once you threw in the race card; "riding the wave of hatred towards the first black president" I knew any hope of an intelligent conversation was over.
Gee, kurt. I'm sorry Sam upset you by voicing his opinion.
No Problem Skippy I will be fine. Thanks for caring.
Great show Lawrence. Thanks for taking the time to give us your take on Sarah Palin. I think you are spot on and I posted it on my blog with your video:)
i am from egpt
i hate sarah plain evil women okay
she gay women okay
Ah, o.k.
Worst. Haiku. Ever.
frescas:
Thanks for this. I was having a really crappy day, but this will keep me chuckling for days.
Now I have to go to IT to get a new keyboard. This one has coffee all over it.
frescas! OMG that is the best laugh I've had in a long time....geniously hilarious!
Why Sarah Palin always wearing thick make up!! her face looks like a clown! she also "too" licks her lips all the time too..also!
You are right. She is a clown and a bad one at that. Her campaign is about as credible as mine would be. For sure Obama would win by a landslide. And she would disappear from the airwaves for ever. Please God.
from nyc
Really
Can wait until Obama runs on his RECORD
Gas and Oil Doubling since he has been in office
RECORD National Debt RECORD deficits RECORD Forclosures
RECORD Bankruptcies
After a FAILED 1 TRILLION job stimulis unemployment is not at 8% as Obama stated but 9%
even though the true unemployment number is closer to 17-18%
Go speak to your TEABAGGER FRIENDS who ruined the economy before Obama got to the White House and did "NOTHING" to help save the economy..Yea, have a talk with Mitch McConnel and BONER.
There goes another MSNBC-style sexual slur. We get it creeps, "teabagging" is a gay sex practice. Tee hee. And "Boner." You're a regular Mort Sahl.
politicalwatcher ticked off what you have to concede are at least factual assertions. Do you refute, counterpoint, introduce additional or more relevant factual assertions. Nope. You say "Na na na, teabagger, boner, it was your fault not ours.
Keep it up, couldn't ask for a better contrast.
Thank you Pratt
As you can see cm is a typical MSNBC viewer and poster
A perfect example why MSNBC viewers are regular watchers of one of the lowest cable stations
see cm as many others can not argue on the merits but finds the need to bring the posting to the gutter
Notice how cm was also incapable of disputing any of my factual posts
So So typical
MSNBC rating is better than FOXNews, and MSNBC always tell you factual informaton and news , so I think you should listen to MSNBC with open mind and adhere to their news, you can ask them any questions and they can direct you to their factual findings, also to check if they are saying, after that then you should check with factcheck.com
Pratt: I do NOT concede that those are factual assertions, and believe that the burden is on politicalwatcher to prove them, instead of on anyone else to refute them.
He can't because every one is false. The President has NOTHING to do with the price of gas or oil. He might want to check which agency boehner defunded. Gee, it was the one to over see wall street. Surprise.
larry
do you have a problem that obama and thre democrats took 500 BILLION from
Medicare and moved it to Obama Care?
“The average gas price on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 was $1.85.”
Just type in what was the price of oil and what was the price of gas on January 20, 2009!!!!
Two years ago on January 20th, Barack Obama was inaugurated as president of the United States. Are you better off today than you were two years ago? Numbers don’t lie, and here are the data on the impact he has had on the lives of Americans.
http://www.factcheck.org/2011/02/sorry-statistics/
Funny, I see you conveniently left out Obama's Senate voting record. You must be a journalist. He voted for every Bush spending bill while he was a Senator.
Perhaps you'd like to take a good look at WHERE the stimulus money went. Obama said that if we don't spend this $867 billion that we'll have a catastrophe, but if we pass it, unemployment will be kept below 8%. Well, unemployment is way up, foreclosures are at record levels and job growth totally sucks. His stimulus in WI, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, totaled $732 million and 75% of it went to union-based workers there.
The Obama spending, like the $26 billion education bill last June, are sluch funds for Obama. He also paid Black "farmers' $50,000 each. But did you know upon application, all those black farmers needed were a few potted plants in their yard to qualify. That's the Obama way.
I see you conveniently forget the Housing crisis evident in 2005. The CEO of Fannie Mae explains the "FAMILY" connection with Democrats. Google it! Video and all. Barack Obama and Cong Black Caucus on C-Span2 with Daniel Mudd, CEO of Fannie Mae. Obama was among largest recipient of campaign MONEY from FM and his mission was TO DO NOTHING to reform FM and accept the payoffs.
The collapse of anything is fine with Obama. He's just getting started with collapsing our once great nation. Sit back and watch it happen.
Joyce
This is for you
The key finding in the telephone poll of 1,070 likely voters is that network news is dying. Some 28 percent say that they trust Fox News the most, followed by CNN at 18 percent. After that, the trust in TV news nose dives. NBC was third, at 10 percent, MSNBC fourth at 7 percent, CBS and ABC tied at fifth with just 6 percent.
POLL: Bill O'Reilly Is The MOST BELIEVABLE Person On All Of Television
A new poll out of Boston's Suffolk University reveals that Fox News and Bill O'Reilly are the most trusted names in news.
By a lot.
More that a quarter of those polled believe that Fox News is the most trustworthy, and 9% say that Bill O'Reilly is the most believable (from a list of 28 choices).
bill oreilly is very good at what he does, especially if you come to the program as a republican. i listen to both sides, and am very liberal, so i come to his show as a skeptic.
i listen to bill oreilly 2 to 3 days a week at 3:00 A.M. i don't disagree with everything he says, but as a consistent viewer, (i have watched fox news since its inception in 1997) i have noticed a few things about america's most believable.
bill oreilly loves to surround himself with people who grovel at his feet. he does this several times a week with bernie goldberg and dennis miller. bernie goldberg will throw in a token disagreement or two, ya know, just to make the discussion look authentic, but the fact that bill oreilly just sits there and lets him prattle on and on about how great he is, i am embarassed for the whole conversation. not that there is anything wrong with being gay...
this morning i listened to oreilly and miller talking about "enhanced interrogation" and how it contributed to the capture of bin laden.
leon panetta sent a report to john mcCain that said the information they got regarding bin ladens courier did not come because of water boarding. they went on and on about how the left wouldn't admit that enhanced interrogation led to the capture of bin laden, and why won't the left admit this. oreilly even stated that leon panetta said that enhanced interrogation led to the killing of bin laden, which is not true. i find it very disturbing that the republicans and fox news want to take credit for the killing of bin laden, but want absolutely no credit (blame) for the tanking of the economy. they pick and choose about what they want to take credit for.
when bill surrounds himself with "yes" people, people who build him up on air as a daily part of his show, as goldberg and miller do, and others like laura ingraham and dick morris, viewers believe what oreilly and his sycophants say day after day, week after week, month after month, indeed, year after year.
i must say i have noticed a change for the better in bill oreilly since the killing of dr. tiller. he wouldn't admit it, of course, but i believe he was concerned that his "tiller, tiller, the baby killer" rant may have encouraged a right wing zealot to kill the doctor. i have heard him say that the media must be held responsible for what they say, though i doubt he was referring to himself when he said it.
having watched fox news for years, i do not find them the most trustworthy, but i am liberal.
Oh happy happy joy joy The Scary Palin carnival shows back! God help us all!
Oh Kurt just kiss you're life size poster of Scary Palin good night again and go back to bed. You know darn well if you keep using such big powerful words like "tirades" you'll give yourself a headache. So just go back to sleep and remember to keep repeating to yourself "There's no place like home, there's no place like home!" and soon when you wake up again you'll be home from OZ and you can tell us all another story!
Why is Sarah Palin even news? She's a repulsive clown, a pig with lipstick, a comedian's wet dream. If she has any credibility at all, this country is truly dumbed-down. But as entertainment, she pales in comparison to people like Gary Busey, the Kardashians, and Charlie Sheen. Trump too is a pig. But this creature makes anyone who's ever run for political office look like a statesman.
auramac
typed and posted like a true MSNBC viewer
Thank you for making yourself as an example!!
And people want to know why MSNBC has such low ratings!!!
That's what I said, auramac! Sarah Palin, boring!! I think Ed is the hot topic! We Want Ed!
Sarah Palin has a fire in her belly. She says it four times. "I have that fire in my belly, I struggle with it every day."
I don't think she's going to run for President. I think she's going to get an advertising deal from Pepto Bismal.
Maybe Maalox.
My first thought was she is pregant. God forbid another palin.
Osama bin Laden i hate all amercain people
aways about talk obsama bin laden okay
fox new world okay
i am egptain okay
you suck
No, your a reichwingnut showing your intelligence
The Nazis are taking a strong political stance in Egypt.
Egptain...what is that exactly? I've tried saying this word three times aloud, sounds like I'm trying to spit.
Lawrence, we'll soon ask her to tell us what put the fire in her belly off. I think she will say the cold beverages in the new million mansion put the fire in her belly off. She is best fit for Hollywood, or maybe step in to replace Oprah.
Watch your mouth, she could "NEVER" replace Oprah, she doesn't have the class.
hey...where's that ed guy from msnbc? where's keith olbermann? during obozo's campaign, how many times did he say the healthcare debate was going to be on c-span? o'donnel has to be careful as he BLATANTLY campaigns for obozo and watch his vernaculars or comcast will kick HIS unobjective, obozo @$$-kissing face off the air...what a joke...
I remember when calling the President slanderous names was consider treason and prosecuted. But it does really show the intelec of the right wing. Shows us what you are all about. No ideas, no solutions, just call names.
Where in communist Russia, China, Iran? I got it, you use to live in one of these places.
Too bad you can't read the law
Just watched this on the 11PM re-airing of it.
I am a fan of Palin, and consider LO to be fun to watch, albeit essentially wrong about everything, as the Socialist that he affirms that he is, always is. However...
...This was 15+ minutes of the best-delivered, most-well-thought-out, most well-paced, and passionate political commentary I have ever seen. (And you were "Leaning Forward!")
My compliments, sir.
yes, it was a great campaign speach for obozo 2012
Can some right winger please give a rational reason that you constantly slander the President of the USA? You can disagree with his policies, but the name calling has NOTHING to do with policy. That is a PERSONAL attac on the President.
I'll give you 3 good reasons. He's a USERPER, an IMPOSTER and a CROOK.
And your full of it. You also have far to much disrespect for this country.
obozo is really going to need msnbc, cbs, abc, nbc, npr, la times, ny times etc. to run an even harder campaign for him in 2012
No, all he needs is to sit back and watch the reichwingnuts cut their own throats voting to end medicare, voting FOR 21 billion in tax breaks for big oil, trying to bust unions and all the rest of their BS...See New york 26.
Once again. Why do you feel the need to slander the President? The name calling has NOTHING to do with policy.
Hey Larry, was it ok for Olbermann, Schultz, Matthews to slander George W Bush. Truth hurts doesn't it. Your nothing but a typical left wing weak liberal, no balls. Smart as Olbermann got whacked, Mr. Horseface Ed, is currently suspended, hopefully the whole crew should get whacked. As I mentioned before it like watching the Jerry Springer Show. Were u a fan of that show Larry.
i see ya got support from the egptians, good 4 you
i've always been a mod. i vote dem. tell i herd you, why so much foul talk sara p. said fire in the belly an you get porno from that . how sick
Another instant classic. After seeing much of this silly coverage today, I was eager to watch tonight's show. You didn't disappoint. Thank you, once again, for pointing out the bleedin' obvious!
I actually caught a few minutes of your show while you were ranting about Sarah Palin. At first, I thought you had some subconscious desires about her, but, then I just realized you were boring. It was then that I fell asleep. When I awoke, to your paint drying monotonous log, I felt that I could have a bigger audience if I scheduled a showing of Fiddler on the Roof at a mosque in Tehran. Your show has the right title, you had the last word right before I turned it off.
It's amazing how so many here missed the point. He wasn't "ranting" about Palin, he was expressing his annoyance about how easily political reporters fall for publicity stunts. The New York Times irresponsible reporting was what bothered him, not the publicity hound herself. We're used to her stunts. The outrage is that she's taking the media for a ride.
How come @1TEXN missed that point. Alleycat you understand Lawrences' last night show than most. She's taking the media for a wild ride that's all he was saying with passion.
Mr O'Donell, Romney and Palin are not electable on their own.However,if Romney is the top of the ticket and Paliin the VP,the issues of Romney being a Mormon and a wobbly knee Republican are balanced by her right wing credentials. Romney gives Palin credibility and takes away some of the dimwit,fluffy comments made against her.They may turn to be a dangerous one two.
He would never pick Palin as VP. Her negatives are too high and she's too polarizing. I'd bet on someone more like Rick Perry. That helps Romney in the South and with the tea party.
@mad-
you must be a liberal making fun of the right.
you can't be serious.
Well, we know choosing Palin worked out for McCain, didn't it?
has worked out as well as Obama being President
close your eyes when perry is talking and its just like listening to W.
its too frickin' soon for another george bush.
the republicans might not care, however.
Sarah Palin's "fire in the belly" maybe she was having a bowel movement of all the stupidity she speaks.
BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump is renewing his calls for Obama's eligibility pertaining to the totally fake, totally computer generated long form birth certificate. Boys and girls, HE's BACK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is impossible to "check" from a computer screen. He;s so full of it. I want to see bush's long form. How about ronnies? Convince anybody it isn't about race. First time in history it's been an issue. It's a non-issue. File paper work to run for president and you will find the requirements are more than met. But then when you don't want to beleive NOTHING will convince you. Stay ignorant.
Goddamit, where is the REAL long form birth certificate !!!
Jerome Corse's book "Where's The Birth Certificate" is now New York Times best seller. Be afraid, be very afraid.
You might check the Presidents file cabnet. You wouldn't be convinced if you saw the birth on vidio. Where is Bush's long form. How about Bush senior. All you're doing is letting your racism show. And with this being the black President and the ONLY one ever ask for a birth certificate of any kind, it can be nothing else.
Trust me Larry, they got one.
Question - LO's main reason he believes she's not running has to do with this Fox News contract and that, like Gingrich and Santorum, she would have been given the boot in March had she been a serious candidate. However, what is the consequence if she breaks the contract?
Yes, she'd obviously lose income, but maybe she feels she has enough to live a comfortable existence in Arizona (I mean, she did just buy a $1.7 million house after all). Would Fox sue her for breach of contract? Possibly, but the publicity and ratings they'd get by her running for President could certainly outweigh her value to Fox as a mere commentator.
Lawrence has called it correctly so far (Trump, Huckabee) but I'm not sure his prediction on Palin will stand. I think she may run just because everyone is saying she won't. Kind of her "take that" moment! Now whether she'll stay in the race is another question.
The consequences are simple--Fox would simply take her off the air and stop paying her. And that "stop paying her" part would be a problem; that's got to be a large part of her income. I'm no fan of Fox, but it's hard to believe Ailes hasn't laid down the law; they'd take her off the air by this point if they didn't know she's not running. This is just a publicity routine, same as Trump--narcissists and charletans.
And what's her new "documentary"? "Undefeated"? It's about her term as Governor of Alaska; it oughta be called "Uncompleted"...
Lawrence, what's it like working at MSNBC with Ed Schultz? You know, you and Mathews were once almost respectable. Now you're pretty much just shills. But Schultz? How can you tolerate a misogynistic bigot at your side, further degrading the MSNBC (and, sadly, NBC) brand. How do you explain it to your daughters?
Oh, this is off-topic?
People are abuzz about Ed today not, ho hum again, Sarah Palin. We want Ed! We want Ed! We want Ed!
You righties just can't keep from calling people you disagree with names and trying to put them down can you? You guys are a joke and a disgrace to your party.
Pratt
Who is going to tell the majority of MSNBC viewers and ED Schulz viewers what to think over the long Memorial Holiday day weekend
Pratt
Also,
why do they give Ed Schulz and others Friday off and play for hours Lockup: RAW
Maybe because Lockup gets better ratings???
Larry do you look at your fellow posters like Scully, Mrs T, Valerie and others before calling the kettle black
Where is the uproar???
Faced with a looming vote on a planned one-year extension of special powers authorized in the USA PATRIOT Act, the Obama White House did not object or propose reforms, as the president vowed to do as a candidate.
The Obama administration instead asked Congress to grant those powers for an additional three years.
"As a US Senator and candidate for the presidency, Barack Obama never actually argued for a repeal of the Bush administration's security initiatives. Instead, he's consistently argued for enhanced judicial oversight and a pullback on the most extreme elements of the bill, such as the use of National Security Letters to search people's personal records without a court-issued warrant."
"While many in his own party opposed the PATRIOT Act outright, as president Obama has said repeatedly that the emergency measures remain a valuable tool for law enforcement engaged in national security prerogatives."
On Tuesday, ahead of a House vote to reauthorize the PATRIOT Act for another year, the White House did something unexpected: they asked for even more.