Lawrence O’Donnell Offers To Moderate Debate Between Michele Bachmann And 10th Grader
Earlier this month, high school sophomore Amy Myers challenged Rep. Michele Bachmann to a debate on American history, after the latter made several factual errors in referencing it. Myers received threats and insults for it, but nonetheless agreed to appear with Lawrence O’Donnell last night and explain her cause. O’Donnell, on his part, offered to moderate the debate along with any co-moderator Rep. Bachmann would like.
O’Donnell opened the segment by noting that Bachmann had been invited to debate Myers on The Last Word, but declined. Or, rather, she hadn’t responded, because “I didn’t even think about this til about four o’clock this afternoon” and there was no time to put anything together by then. O’Donnell then turned to Myers, whose pursuit he considered somewhat unfair. “I absolutely refuse to debate you on US history because you just told me that, as a tenth grader, you are taking AP US History… you kids today,” he joked. He then asked whether it was a fair match to pit herself against Rep. Bachmann: “Michele Bachmann hasn’t studied US history in, I don’t know, three or four decades.” Myers replied that she believed it was fair to expect public servants to understand “basic civil matters and the Constitution,” and had been shocked that Rep. Bachmann couldn’t keep her facts straight.
Myers also confessed a desire to run for office, but had a separate passion– veterinary care. “Plenty of people have had real careers,” O’Donnell noted, before running for office, and he recommended it to keep from acquiring a certain “tunnel vision” about the world. He also offered to host the debate between Myers and Bachmann along with any co-moderator of Bachmann’s choosing, which is giving Rep. Bachmann an incredible amount of power. Which begs the question: which sympathetic-to-Bachmann political personality would you choose to sit next to O’Donnell in a debate if you were Bachmann? I can’t decide between Sarah Palin and Donald Trump.
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