Below are the links to all of the "Very Last Word" videos from this week. Enjoy exclusive web interviews from all of our New York guests and of course our host, Lawrence O'Donnell. Above is my favorite video from the week — former McCain campaign staffer Nicolle Wallace talking about the film"Game Change," which debuts this Saturday on HBO.
- California Attorney General Kamala Harris and the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza preview the upcoming general election between President Obama and, as of now, an unknown Republican candidate.
- MSNBC political analyst Karen Finney wonders why people are still listening to Rush Limbaugh after his offensive remarks about law student Sandra Fluke.
- Washington columnist EJ Dionne says what Limbaugh said about Fluke was "truly scandalous."
- George Washington University student Will Healy talks about the big issues on his college campus.
- Lawrence recaps his trip to Washington and the "great debate" between him and Ann Coulter.
- Salon.com's Steve Kornacki breaks down the Super Tuesday exit polls out of Ohio.
- Santorum supporter and author, Eric Metaxas, says Senator Santorum is "the most genuine and most humble politician he's met in his life."
- The Daily Voice editor, Keith Boykin, reminisces about his former Harvard Law colleague Barack Obama and his uncanny ability to unify people.
- Our Thursday dream team of Alex Wagner and Chris Hayes talk about the upcoming Obama documentary.
- Lawrence talks about the momentum HBO's "Game Change" that absolutely blew him away.
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McCain's fool-hearty decision to choose the Whining Wannabe from Wasilla as his running mate is simply another "inconvenient truth" for the Republican Party.
You know what I find extremely fascinating, and yet painfully depressing; the way any mainstream media news source scurry away from the Medical Marijuana subject like it’s a plague.
I am 59 yrs old diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). This is an incurable neurodegenerative disease that leaves you with an outlook towards a slow, painful death. Various groups and individuals have come out in support of Medical Marijuana and polls show over 70% of the American public support the use of Marijuana for medicinal use. One of the latest groups to conclude a review of cannabis was the Mayo Clinic. The title line to the renew was “Blurred Boundaries: The Therapeutics and Politics of Medical Marijuana”, and in the review Mayo reaches the following conclusion:
“It is high time for the federal government to acknowledge and accept this “both-ness” by reclassifying marijuana so that it has the same status as certain opiates and stimulants. The Schedule II classification of these pharmaceuticals countenances not only a healthy respect for their addictive potential but also a robust appreciation for their medicinal value.112 By forcing marijuana to languish as a Schedule I drug with a “high potential for abuse, no accepted medical use, and no accepted safety for use in medically supervised treatment,”104 the federal government thumbs an illogical nose at contemporary public sentiment, recent scientific discoveries, and potentially head-to-toe therapeutic breakthroughs. This reclassification would be a first step toward reconciling federal and state law and permitting long-stifled research into a potential trove of therapeutic applications to commence.”
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Why do you guys ignore this very important relevant subject ? There are so many Americans suffering terrible chronic pain issues because the Federal Government won’t re-schedule Marijuana. What is the bottom line; Big Pharma, Prison Industrial Complex, Campaign Contributors, etc.... The news media could be so helpful to this glaring obfuscation exhibited by the political arena.
Thank You