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Lawrence O’Donnell Accepts Apology From Actress In Anti-China Hoekstra Ad: ‘She Did The Right Thing’

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Last week, Lawrence O’Donnell very publicly called out the young Asian actress in Pete Hoekstra‘s negative ad for Congress, in which she played a Chinese girl thanking America (and Hoekstra opponent Rep. Debbie Stabenow) for making China’s economy strong. He called on all actors to do not what the actress, Lisa Chan, did, but to have principles. Today, Chan apologized on her Facebook profile, saying that the time since O’Donnell singled her out, she has felt “horrible” and knows she “absolutely” made a mistake. O’Donnell accepted and thanked Chan for her apology, which “retaught America what a real apology sounds like.”

RELATED: Lawrence O’Donnell Targets Asian Actress In Hoekstra Ad, Calls For ‘Dirty Politics’ Boycott

O’Donnell noted that his staff had gotten “very close” to finding her in recent days but never quite did, until she apologized on Facebook today. “We can only imagine what she has gone through in the week since I singled her out on national television,” O’Donnell noted. “She says ‘I feel horrible,’ and we know that’s an understatement.” He noted that her “personal Hell” was not exclusively hers, as the Hoekstra campaign suffered significantly financially and in the polls from the ad, but turned back to Chan.

Noting that everyone has the “ability to make mistakes,” in an age where “the honest public apology has all but disappeared… there is not ‘if’ in Lisa Chan’s apology.” Concluding that “she just retaught America what a real apology sounds like,” he told his audience, “Lisa Chan deserves to be forgiven.”

The segment via MSNBC below:

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  • Anonymous

    Prime example of liberal arrogance. SHE DID NOT APOLOGIZE TO YOU LITTLE LARRY.

  • val smith

    Aw…you must be mad she actually appologized!!! That must be so distressing for you.

  • Anonymous

    Republicans used an American Chinese girl standing next to rice a paddy thanking America for making China’s economy strong…. wow.

    Nobody works harder than Republicans to get President Obama re-elected.

  • Anonymous

     The GOP can learn something from her…….

  • http://profiles.google.com/hardworkinjudy Judy SheldonWalker

    The ppl who designed that ad should be apologize.

  • http://profiles.google.com/hardworkinjudy Judy SheldonWalker

    sorry should say should apologize.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    For all you Lefties trying to contrive another Racist Smear, this is Racism.
    Can you spell BLATANT HYPOCRITES?

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/snarky-chimichanga-tweet-by-obama-official-erupts-into-controversy/

     

     

    Democrats to Hispanic voters:

    “We apologize for the chimichanga faux pas.
     Oh, and the other thing, you’re not allowed to be Catholic anymore!”

    Rience, wake up!
    Where’s the TV spot?

     

    When will ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, The NY Times, AP, etc. be
    reporting this?

    Do they still report the news in this country, or just the news favorable to
    Democrats?

    =======================================

  • Anonymous

    Don’t you get it?  You insane clowns with your perpetual outrage are being tuned out.  You are irrelevant.  All the news shows that you watch with your circle jerk of uninformed lunatics are not being paid attention to.  The more you yell and scream about media bias the more everyone not in your little ideological echo chamber turn away from you.  Check the polls.  You are done. You have nothing.  No policy ideas, no leaders, no legitimate candidate for president.  You only have your anger and hate.  And you have 9 months to prepare to be trounced.  This is not midterm elections.  People are paying attention to what damage Republicans continue to do to the country. Start preparing your excuses- voter fraud, donor scandals, racism, whatever you need to convince yourself that you didn’t deserve your fate.  We’ll be here to mock you, as always.

  • Anonymous

    It sure as hell worked well for this idiots Democrat opponent,her lead after the ad aired has now widened to 53% to 37%.Arsewipe,needless to say,has pulled the ad.As far as the actress goes,she’s just trying to make a buck regardless of which side of the political spectrum she was working for.Hell,pay me enough dough and I’ll vomit on cue for Romney!!!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/3EV7LMBN3SWQMEVDJCAKUCTCKM Top

    I am deeply sorry for any pain that the character I portrayed brought to my communities.
    As a recent college grad who has spent
    time working to improve communities and empower those without a voice,
    this role is not in any way representative of who I am. It was
    absolutely a mistake on my part and one that, over time, I hope can be
    forgiven. I feel horrible about my participation and I am determined to
    resolve my actions.

    - Lisa Chan

  • Anonymous

    Confucius say… “Lawwy…you number one stupid plick.”

    Of course she apologized after you friggin’ lefties are out to destroy her.
    She is probably getting death threats.
    She is only twenty one.

  • Anonymous

    Republicans think all Asians are like that girl from Full Metal Jacket. 

  • Anonymous

    Low IQ alert

  • Anonymous

    No idea what you are talking about.

  • Anonymous

     Sounds like Edin from New Jersey (NJ) is upset that, Governor Christie won’t let him marry his boyfriend.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/3EV7LMBN3SWQMEVDJCAKUCTCKM Top

     And Pete Hoekstra is one pretty old wingnut sht “approving this message” backfiring on his racist arse.

    It seemed like a great idea at the time. Right?

  • Love of Country

    Projection in its purest form …. thanks for sharing.

  • Hout Bosques

    Hey, I called this the night O’Donnell started after her. No public figure other than O’Donnell did anything like that.  

    Nice Crusade avatar there; telling. Nicer still: this ended up hurting Hoekstra in the polls. And telling-er still: Congressional Dems are surging in the polls all over the country; could be the coattails effect – Obama’s lead on Romney & Santorum is getting up towards 10 points:

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/15/fox-news-swing-state-poll-is-landscape-shifting/#ixzz1mUnPLR00 

  • Hout Bosques

    Consider how O’Donnell knew right away when the ad came out that this was an American actress doing the ad in the U.S. – there’s a lot of rice production in California. 

  • Hout Bosques

    Gotta be Fred Davis – he of that nutty demon sheep ad in the California Republican primary battle for U.S. Senate in 2010.

    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2010/02/violence_of_the_lambs.html 

  • Hout Bosques

    Your avatar picture seems right of this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHpPKwRMDPk 

  • Anonymous

     Ha Ha, good one. 

    Interestingly enough I see that, this video was Stalin approved.

    So now i have a question for you, who killed more people, the crusaders or Joseph Stalin? APPLY JEOPARDY MUSIC NOW:

    Well history cant give us an exact # of either, but it does give us a good estimate of Stalin and his genocide. 20,000,000 Approximately.  Making him runner up to no one other than Mao Ze-Dong who really out did his self. ( Funny this video is about the Chinese)

  • Anonymous

    Dumbest freakin thing I have possibly seen on MSNBC, the girl did nothing wrong, she played a role, and honestly she played the role of a girl in China, what was she to do, tell the director to go to hell and speak perfect English… You liberals are really in the tank on this one..

    It should be Larry the goon apologizing for making that poor college girl’s life a living hell for the last week just so that he could  wear his liberal badge of honor by feigning an outrage where there was nothing offensive in what she did…  

    Yeah you libs can be real proud of Larry for beating up on this young girl, I know that I think he is a piece of mierda, so I am sure that you must see the good in what he did.  

    By the way, maybe one of you libs can whip me up a Chimichanga, all this typing is making me hungry…  

  • Anonymous

    You’re right .. just look at Tom Delay who used slave labor in the Marianas Islands . Republicans are the worst offenders in using foreign child labor – Repug Projection at it’s finest.

  • Anonymous

    No large problem, Lisa, one way or another. This idiot O’Donnell has a
    tiny audience and even fewer would know who the hell he is were it not for Mediaite!

  • Anonymous

    Someone ‘splain to me, please, what in the hell is that
    language, O’Donnell’s MSNBC colleague, Al Sharpton
    speaks…

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Would that be all the Media Matters-written news?

    Did you see O’Reilly’s monologue?
    The questions will be broad and all encompassing:

    Freedom vs.Government
    Religion vs. Marxism

    Obama’s Democrats have become THE ESTABLISHMENT!

    We’ll see what the results show once the battle is engaged.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     Where’d you find such rare OWS footage?

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     No, my link a few posts up of Obama’s campaign manager SLANDERING HISPANICS is Racism – except THAT STORY is not being PROMOTED by the Media Matters Mainstream News Cabal!

    But it’s getting out there!

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     Eubonics.

    The mail-order “Reverend” was going to take up sign language instead, but they said he had too much blood on his hands!

  • Anonymous

    Blame the messenger huh…

    now if we could only get the rich white jackasses of 99.9% of the media to offer such an apology for the constant whoring of journalism so they can get big fat paychecks (or the opportunity to get them) I guess I could applaud Larry’s ‘cleansing’ of this young woman.

    Why didnt Larry call out the writer, director, cameraman, make-up person, gaffer, key-grip etc.? They all knowingly took part for money for this ad. I am very liberal on most issues but Larry get a grip.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I can’t watch Bill-o any more. Every time he comes on now, I find myself going out for a falafel and batteries.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Libs call this racism, and then Media Matters instructs their news networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, etc.) on how to promote the smear.

    Yet Obama’s campaign chief denigrates Hispanics, refuses to apologize, and the Obama Media IGNORES THE STORY!

    Mediaite Staff:
    When will you be calling THE MEDIA on this blatant double-Standard?

  • Anonymous

    Who cares what Odonnell thinks.  She should not have apologized.  The Asians know that thanks to bad economic policy from Obeyme, their economy is strong.  There was nothing wrong with that ad at all.  Odonnell is just one of those ninny pinny over sensitive liberal girly men.   

  • Anonymous

     And democrats create idiotic economic policy that forces the work to go overseas in the first place.  As for child labor in America, I’d look at Pelosi and her involvement with Dole and Del Monte, first.

  • Anonymous

    He has a tiny audience to match his tiny brain.

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