“I think that he’s missing the burger too….and most likely even the drink and the toy”—That’s funny!!

Back when he was doing lines with Aaron Sorkin, looking for a way to rehabilitate Bill Clinton and the DNC’s reputation (resulting in the West Wing), he must have done one line too many.

I’m surprised that GE didn’t have him committed after that one.

My husband and I were actually watching The McLaughlin Group live when Larry had his anti-Mormon meltdown. I remember us being not only shocked at his behavior, but also shocked at the fact that they didn’t cut his mike.

Which is why I wrote this diary in the first place. A diary with this same video is on the rec list at Daily Kos as an example of Lawrence O’Donnell making Congressman Culberson look bad–when I thought that just the opposite happened (actually, O’Donnell doesn’t need any help looking bad–he accomplishes that all by himself). Anyway, I thought that we needed to expose what a biased, hate-filled, nutty jackass Lawrence O’Donnell is, so that Republicans won’t walk into the lion’s den any more.

Do Republican pressers in Republican markets. Nobody in NYC, DC, or LA is ever going to vote for a Republican. Almost no reporter in either of those places is ever going to be fair with a Republican. Why subject ourselves to them? Republicans take their actions and make their news in places where people vote for them or are likely to vote for them, not in places where they are hated.

Local and regional stations have to be more fair with them because they need to sell ads and papers and they don’t last long flying in the face of their market. This is just another example of the Potomac Fever that infests our elected officials; once elected, they forget to dance with who brung them and start lusting after the trollops on the Georgetown circuit.

If so, it’s time to send Geico some transcripts and ask them point-blank if they think that this raving idiocy is somehow better than Glenn Beck, since their advertising dollars are saying exactly that.

It’s not that conservatives need to boycott watching these guys.

If I understand ColdWarrior; the question is why Republican politicians allow themselves to go be smeared by Democrat party operatives on national TV.

As Culberson pointed out; most “regular people” type conservatives stopped watching smear TV a long time ago.

It’s not that conservatives need to boycott watching these guys.

If I understand ColdWarrior; the question is why Republican politicians allow themselves to go be smeared by Democrat party operatives on national TV.

As Culberson pointed out; most “regular people” type conservatives stopped watching smear TV a long time ago.

My premise is that the Republican Party has leaders that actually think about strategies for getting their message out. I know I probably need to “check my premises” — first, that the Party has leaders, and second, that they actually attempt to come up with strategies.

You’re also guessing that they try to think.

At one time I would have agreed with a boycott. Now, I’d prefer that the interviewees go on air with knowledge of tactics to turn the lefties’ craziness back on them, sort of like verbal jiu jitsu. I admire Congressman Culberson for sticking it out to the end. I might have called O’Donnell an idiot and left him with nobody to talk to about halfway through the segment. I wonder when he would have noticed he was talking to himself literally as well as figuratively.

Back to strategy and tactics. I used to get peeved at Bill O’Reilly because he didn’t call out the libs who wouldn’t answer his questions; wouldn’t get off the Dem talking points. Yet, he would let them spin after a while. In fact, his is sort of the direct opposite of O’Donnell’s approach. I no longer disapprove of Bill’s manner of treating his guests. His spinning guests are always obvious. He doesn’t have to call them “liars,” as O’Donnell seems wont to do.

He has always said that the viewers can see what is happening for themselves. I now agree. If you aren’t drunk on Kool-Aid, it’s obvious that it was O’Donnell who went over the cliff.

Anyway, far better for ‘Pubs to make the questioner look uninformed or just plain biased and let the public decide for itself who is right. Culberson did it by trying to keep O’Donnell on the subject. When O’Donnell didn’t like the answers he was getting, he tried to change the subject. Culberson commented civilly on what was happening, and it made O’Donnell look foolish. Calling a guest a liar is definitely bad form.

what liberals want to do is “socialism” is not sufficient and why I think the good congressman could have done a better job, although given O’Donnell’s temperment, I doubt anything but a punch in the mouth would have shut him up:

Republicans need to acknowledge that Soc Sec and Medicare are socialism programs that started out as part of a federal safety net for the truly needy that we support but that they need to be reformed.

That the issue is not purely whether something is “socialism” but also the size of same and the degree of its distortion of the wealth producing fre market and its effect on freedom.

That a modern industrial society should have a safety net to prevent homelessness of the elderly and medical acre for the truly needy is a given but that the expansions of soc sec and medicare from their original purpose doesn’t justify extending same to those less needy.

more later

….and most of the the others that you’ve listed here, but I’ve never heard “His biscuits ain’t all done”. That’s funny!

And my brain can’t come with anything accept he did just come over on the banana boat.

To TNJim, you would talk about pixels: ) But he does have a problem with the incandescent bulbs you mentioned. I heard they are going away.

And janis, they would have to know the details about mules…

Furthermore, being really angry can definitely make a person act crazy.