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Lawrence O’Donnell Praises O’Reilly On Stewart Debate: ‘Brave Enough To Admit That He Lost’

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Ever since Donald Trump bowed out of the 2012 presidential race he was never in, Lawrence O’Donnell has been in quite the charitable mood to the right. Yesterday he stood up for the rights of the conservative-leaning Boston Herald, and today he lauds the courage of… Bill O’Reilly? Yes, it’s true: O’Donnell aired the results of the Fox News poll showing viewers thought Jon Stewart beat O’Reilly in their recent debate and noted O’Reilly had, too, proving he was “brave enough to admit that he lost.”

Because this is Lawrence O’Donnell, he did begin his “Rewrite” segment tonight talking about Donald Trump, and how the meeting between Stewart and O’Reilly to debate the presence of “the most non-controversial rapper in the history of rap,” Common, in the White House, had been negotiated “way back when Donald Trump was running for president.” He doesn’t really elaborate on the connection, but argues that once “Donald Trump ended his fake presidential campaign, nobody, not even Fox News viewers, cared anymore about Common.” To prove his thesis– well, the part about Fox News viewers, not so much the part about Trump– O’Donnell first played a lengthy clip from the interview, and then the results of what he called a “rigged” Fox News online poll.

The results were a landslide for Stewart, “the biggest shock in the history of Fox News,” O’Donnell quipped, and admitted that he would have to retract the word “rigged.” As as much as that was a positive development in O’Donnell’s eyes for the audience, he peeled off only a little bit of his characteristic description of O’Reilly as a “faux Irish tough guy”– he’s at least tough enough “to admit that he lost.” That said, O’Donnell made it clear that he wasn’t expecting lighting to strike twice– “something tells me we’d better not get used to that.”

A departure from the typical blustery derision O’Donnell tends to reserve exclusively for O’Reilly? Yes, but, as likely to return as O’Donnell thinks O’Reilly’s admission of being wrong would be, one imagines, and we’re still waiting to hear what Donald Trump had to do with any of this.

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  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Comcast has a big broom… & socialism is not a part of their business model Lawrence…

  • Glackin

    skoorbekim said:
    Comcast has a big broom… & socialism is not a part of their business model Lawrence…

    Meeoww!

  • Sam M.

    skoorbekim said:
    Comcast has a big broom… & socialism is not a part of their business model Lawrence…

    Poor baby.

  • Barack Must Go

    O’Reilly stuck up for you in that bar the other night Larry. When everybody else were making fun of you for ____ing those three dead guys, O’Reilly stuck up for you and said he saw one of them move.

  • BFD: Widow Tormenter

    O’Reilly didn’t just lose.

    All the racist teabaggers who didn’t have an argument to stand on lost on that glorious night.

    It was a smackdown of Birther proportions. lol

    ______________________________________________________________
    CAUTION: BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE EX-BIRTHERS, THEY ARE ARMED AND IGNORANT…

    Dem4Ever, The Lantern of Truth, juan, Arkansas Steve, murf, Jaurez/WCinWI, Barack Must Go, NOBAMA, Colorado_Conservative, gordonbloyershow
    TeaPartyPatriot, notsofast, Severian, Dronetek, TfT, mitchflorida, skoorbekim
    mdanielson, Harry Flashman, OxyCon and NORBIT

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Did you see the people in Egypt filling the downtown square yelling “Kill the Jew”!
    No?
    Strange the DEMOCRATIC MEDIA doesn’t report that too much.

    I wonder if they were chanting “Kill the Gay” or “Kill the Black” if the DEMOCRATIC MEDIA’s coverage would be different…What do you think?

  • Sam M.

    Barack Must Go said:
    O’Reilly stuck up for you in that bar the other night Larry. When everybody else were making fun of you for ____ing those three dead guys, O’Reilly stuck up for you and said he saw one of them move.

    You are sick and mentally ill and the more you post the more evident it is.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Did you see the people in Egypt filling the downtown square yelling “Kill the Jew”!
    No?
    Strange the DEMOCRATIC MEDIA doesn’t report that too much.

    I wonder if they were chanting “Kill the Gay” or “Kill the Black” if the DEMOCRATIC MEDIA’s coverage would be different…What do you think?

    Is it the media’s job to report everything said at every rally around the world at all times?

  • Jaurez

    Sam M. said:
    You are sick and mentally ill and the more you post the more evident it is.

    The irony meter was just shattered….

  • Jaurez

    BFD: Widow Tormenter says:

    So, tell us about driving trains in germany….

  • timzank

    Publius219 said:
    Is it the media’s job to report everything said at every rally around the world at all times?

    No but they are seriously ignoring Egypt since it’s no longer “young people protesting for freedom” and turned into a military run oppressor of it’s own people. Big surprise, huh?

  • Dem4Ever

    This piece was well written and delivered by Lawrence, but who could expect anything less from a guy who is an expert on losing?

  • Barack Must Go

    Publius219 said:
    Is it the media’s job to report everything said at every rally around the world at all times?

    I hope you didn’t just type that with a straight finger.

  • Jaurez

    timzank said:
    No but they are seriously ignoring Egypt since it’s no longer “young people protesting for freedom” and turned into a military run oppressor of it’s own people. Big surprise, huh?

    Puby knows that he’s too much of a hypocrite to admit it. Maddow and AC devoted most of their shows for weeks to the “freedom fighters” now they are dead silent. Journalists they are not.

  • Fokker News

    Publius219 said:
    Is it the media’s job to report everything said at every rally around the world at all times?

    timzank said:
    No but they are seriously ignoring Egypt since it’s no longer “young people protesting for freedom” and turned into a military run oppressor of it’s own people. Big surprise, huh?

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Did you see the people in Egypt filling the downtown square yelling “Kill the Jew”!

    Damn, sounds like free speech to me, which you guys wouldn’t have a problem with if it was yelled by a KKK member.

  • Jaurez

    Fokker News says:

    Change names much?

  • timzank

    Fokker News said:
    Damn, sounds like free speech to me, which you guys wouldn’t have a problem with if it was yelled by a KKK member.

    I sincerely hope you are being sarcastic, given the turmoil in the middle east.

  • timzank

    Jaurez said:
    Fokker News says: Change names much?

    Who is it this time? Girth, Garth, Ted, etc?

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Publius219 said:
    Is it the media’s job to report everything said at every rally around the world at all times?

    It’s their job to be honest and objective in their reporting – not be the In-House Propaganda Arm of the Democratic Party!

  • Glackin

    Dem4Ever said:
    This piece was well written and delivered by Lawrence, but who could expect anything less from a guy who is an expert on losing?

    I’d love to see your work. You seem to have a lifetime of experience at it.

  • Jaurez

    timzank said:
    I sincerely hope you are being sarcastic, given the turmoil in the middle east.

    “fokker news” wouldn’t give to shity if the jews were wiped off the map.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Did you all see what our NEW Israeli Policy is???

    Hey Jewish Democratic CONTRIBUTORS – Every Dollar to the Democrats is pushing one more Israeli into the sea! – which one of your contributions to the Democratic Party is going to be the one that puts an Iranian Mushroom Cloud over Jerusalem?

    Hey Goldman Sachs, do you get your trees back when the Muslim Brotherhood over-runs the Homeland? LOL
    How do those Contributions to Democrats look now? – YOU PUTZS’!

    Which Jewish Democratic fund-raising party – in LA or NYC – will be the coup-de-grace for the Jewish State?

    Hey Benny N. – How’d the palm of Obama’s hand feel across your face today?
    LOL!

    Hey ISRAEL, how’s the view from under that BUS?
    LOL

    Hey Jewish voters, keep contributing to Dems, you putzs’!@

    You’ve gotta’ be a Honduran Dictator, a New Black Panther, Soros, GE, SEIU, or Goldman Sachs to get Barry’s support

  • Dem4Ever

    Poor Lawrence. The two guys that he obsesses over don’t even know he’s alive. I wonder if crazy Larry has Tump’s and O’Reilly’s publicity photos taped to his bathroom mirror.

  • Glackin

    timzank said:
    I sincerely hope you are being sarcastic, given the turmoil in the middle east.

    I certainly hope you are being sarcastic, posing as the Pres. in white-face, given the “racial climate” Blingrich and others are warning about.

  • cjd ohio 1

    Glackin said:
    I certainly hope you are being sarcastic, posing as the Pres. in white-face, given the “racial climate” Blingrich and others are warning about.

    its the joker from batman, but nice try bigot

  • Barack Must Go

    Sam M. said:
    You are sick and mentally ill and the more you post the more evident it is.

    You’re talking to yourself in the mirror again. I’ll call the nurses desk to get someone to help you.

    Good thing you gave me that number a few weeks ago. That’s 3 times in 2 weeks I’ve saved your pathetic life already.

  • Barack Must Go

    Glackin said:
    I certainly hope you are being sarcastic, posing as the Pres. in white-face, given the “racial climate” Blingrich and others are warning about.

    The lack of ears is a dead give away it’s not Barack. So what are YOU implying…all black guys look alike or someting like that?

  • brownsound

    Frances Martel said:
    Yesterday he stood up for the rights of the conservative-leaning Boston Herald, and today he lauds the courage of… Bill O’Reilly? Yes, it’s true

    So Larry is a navel gazer of conservatives now? Sounds about right… the navel gazing part at least.

  • felixw

    Does anyone else note the irony in a host on MSNBC offering commentary on who won a political debate? I didn’t think the hosts at MSNBC even knew what the word “debate” meant. They practice ranting, mudslinging, gotcha, character assassination and insults, but hide from honest debate.

    Remind me when Lawrence O’Donnell engages in a lengthy, open debate over multiple evenings on his show, and posted the entire unedited video on the web?

    I’ll answer that for you: never.

  • Glackin

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    its the joker from batman, but nice try bigot

    Barack Must Go said:
    The lack of ears is a dead give away it’s not Barack. So what are YOU implying…all black guys look alike or someting like that?

    Thas’ odd. Two answers from two others(?).
    Are you three the same guy, or just sharing the same sleeping bag?
    Whaddya do? One puts the jammies on backwards, and one wears the union suit with the drop seat and fly?
    Stay close, I know you three are watching each others @sses.

  • Jaurez

    Glackin said:
    Thas’ odd. Two answers from two others(?).
    Are you three the same guy, or just sharing the same sleeping bag?
    Whaddya do? One puts the jammies on backwards, and one wears the union suit with the drop seat and fly?
    Stay close, I know you three are watching each others @sses.

    You’ve said that like a hundred times and it was never funny.

  • Glackin

    Jaurez said:
    You’ve said that like a hundred times and it was never funny.

    Actions speak louder…..
    Cover your bootie.

  • Glackin

    Jaurez said:
    You’ve said that like a hundred times and it was never funny.

    Look, you are all the same guy, okay?
    I get it!
    BUT, how does the Juarez/WC thing work?
    Are all three sleeping with her?
    Or, is she just your “feminine” side?
    Must be crowded in your head.

  • Color Me Badd

    Here is another reason O’Reilly lost. Today on the IL Senate floor a Republican senate member read a letter from Raekwon, a member of the Wu-Tang Clan (who is best known as Chef Raekwon because he knew how to cook crack).

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lUMc7we5ks&feature=share

    But uh oh Common went to the WH

  • cjd ohio 1

    Glackin said:
    Thas’ odd. Two answers from two others(?).Are you three the same guy, or just sharing the same sleeping bag?Whaddya do? One puts the jammies on backwards, and one wears the union suit with the drop seat and fly?Stay close, I know you three are watching each others @sses.

    you got caught bigot, name call and insult all you want, another bigot outed

  • Color Me Badd

    Seriously, out of all the feigned outrage that the Right has pushed onto the American people, this might be the most ridiculous, just admit you were stupid and we can move on to bigger issues. We will forgive you this one time. Because we know you are stupid, kind of like a retarded child who is forgiven for throwing their dinner on the floor.

  • Paul G

    Is this all you libtards on the left have? Attack FOX attack FOX attack FOX? …99% of you cubicle diaper babys probably don’t even know it’s a cable channel. Or know who BOR is, or Beck…or PROBABLY Stewart.
    But for MAYBE the other 1% that does….This idiot is your hero? All he’s got is attacking FNC people? You guys must be proud!….?

  • Glackin

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    you got caught bigot, name call and insult all you want, another bigot outed

    Whiteface is whiteface. Hang your bigot label off your ear. BMG can kiss it while he shares the “love which must not be named.”
    You are boring, infantile and petulant. And rude, as you entered another’s conversation.
    UNLESS you are Timzank.
    Go away, little boy(s).

  • seek

    Color Me Badd said:
    Seriously, out of all the feigned outrage that the Right has pushed onto the American people, this might be the most ridiculous, just admit you were stupid and we can move on to bigger issues. We will forgive you this one time. Because we know you are stupid, kind of like a retarded child who is forgiven for throwing their dinner on the floor.

    You’re Sam. How special.

  • ganymede

    It was a pretty dumb debate and, while I’m a big fan of Jon Stewart, I don’t think he had anything significant to say. However, I’m beginning to see something interesting happening at FOX. You must remember that Murdoch is probaly the biggest opportunist stalking the planet. In Britain, when the unlamented Tony Blair was about to become Prime Minister and the British public was very upset with the ineptitude of the Conservative Party, Murdoch’s papers and television properties suddenly switched their support to the Labour Party. I wouldn’t be surprised if something like that could happen here. Murdoch loves winners.
    It does appear that the Republican/Conservative/Tea Party coalition is tanking because of the gross ineptitude and lack of common sense with these rightwingers. Admittedly, Paul Ryans’s attack on Medicaire, the Koch Bros attack on all social and economic legislation of the past 80 years and Killer Obama’s number on bin Laden is having a terrible effect on Republican chances of making any gains in 2012. And many people still remember Bush II’s wonderful adventure as boy-President. I would use O’Reilly as a bellweather – he’s an extremely skilled fellow and he’s nowhere as awful as most rightwing media characters.

  • Jaurez

    Glackin said:
    Whiteface is whiteface. Hang your bigot label off your ear. BMG can kiss it while he shares the “love which must not be named.”
    You are boring, infantile and petulant. And rude, as you entered another’s conversation.
    UNLESS you are Timzank.
    Go away, little boy(s).

    You don’t make the rules, son. You exposed your bigotry and it’s fair game to all. Just like when you claimed your mother was drafted it’s fair game to bring it up. CMB refuses to sleep with a black man, fair game to bring that up, too.

  • John Michael

    felixw said:
    They practice ranting, mudslinging, gotcha, character assassination and insults, but hide from honest debate.

    Are you sure you weren’t talking about FOX News? They’re all that and much more. What’s even more intriguing is that they are so blatant and obvious with their bias while claiming that they’re ‘fair & balanced’ – At least the hosts on MSNBC criticize Obama way more than FOX did Bush. And MSNBC doesn’t deceptively edit material like FOX does.

    It’s amazing how much dis-information comes out of FOX. No wonder a majority of FOX viewers think Saddam was responsible for 9/11 and also believe that TARP was initially proposed by Obama (it was actually Dubya). I’ll never forget months after the election when they Brietbarted Biden (they apologized for the “mistake” the next day). The panel wasn’t told that the quote was from months ago and that Joe was actually quoting McCain! They ripped him good. FOX actually apologized for misrepresenting what they claim Biden said months after the election. March 2009, Fox News’ Martha MacCallum: “Take a look at what was said in recent interviews this weekend.” Fox then aired a clip of Biden stating: “The fundamentals of the economy are strong.” The panel FOX assembled wasn’t told that Biden was quoting McCain and that it wasn’t recent. There are hundreds of similar examples of FOX’s deception. Let me know if you’d like an emailed list.

  • Jaurez

    gaynmede says:

    “Fox News”

    *drink*

    “Koch Bros”

    *drink*

    belch…

  • Jaurez

    John Michael said:
    No wonder a majority of FOX viewers think Saddam was responsible for 9/11

    Huh, this is news to me. Source?

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    you got caught bigot, name call and insult all you want, another bigot outed

    Oh my god YES YES YES!!!!!!!!1111 Anyone who knows me knows that I get a BIG OL’ rubbery FREEDOM CHUBBY whenever we call a lib a “BIGOT” or a “RACIST”!!!!!!!1111 Holy CRAP it’s awesome!!!!!!!111 Cause they’ve always been the ones BITCHING about the WHINY MINORITIES, the irony of it gets them SOoooo MAD!!!!!!!1111 HahahaHAHAHahahaHAHAHAhaha SUCK IT, libs!!!!!111

  • WildMan

    Lawrence O’donnell, can you do anything besides spending your whole silly hour going after the good, honest people over at Fair & Balanced FOX News? There is a reason why all of their shows beats all the crummy, childish and angry presentations on LSDnbc? You people are so small and simple minded. If us adults ever acted the way you juveniles act night after night after night we’d be put into a rubber walled room at the local Insane Asylum locked up in an Industrial Strength Straight Jacket.

    Yes Little Larry O’donnell, you, Chrissy Tingles, Cenk the Jenk, and old Fatso Edith Schultz ain’t worth the time of day and it shows in your meek and feeble ratings. Why don’t you 4 little girls try growing the hell up, you imbecilic, moronic, idiotic, hate mongering Ignoramus!

  • John Michael

    Jaurez said:
    Huh, this is news to me. Source?

    Out of all the facts I laid out in my rambling comment, you could only pick one you need a source for. Does that mean you concede that all the other evidence I cited is true? If that’s the case, then you must think FOX News is wrong to deceptively crop video like they do so often. My question is “how can it be a ‘mistake’ when you have a politician quoting another politician without the full context… why would they even have that cropped clip available if McCain was the original source of the quote, not Biden?”

    It’s no surprise you never heard of this survey. You probably get all your news from the right-wing echo chamber where facts don’t matter.

    On Sep 29, 2004 FOX News had a poll up asking folks if they thought Saddam was involved in the 9/11 attacks.

    54% of Fox viewers said they did think Saddam was involved in the attacks on 9/11.

    Not surprising, even after this poll FOX Newsers still tried to push this theory. In a report aired on Fox News’ The Big Story with John Gibson and Special Report with Brit Hume, They tried to advance the discredited claim that “45,000 boxes of Arabic-language Iraqi documents captured by American troops” have revealed a connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.” And the Bush Administration told them they were dead wrong! John Gibson touted the documents on March 24, stating: “This is the Bush-lied story. No WMDs, no connection with bin Laden, no connection with 9-11, no connection with any attacks on the United States. Now these documents are saying, yes, all that’s true.” The administration official described the political logic: “If anyone in the intelligence community thought there was valid information in those documents that supported either of those questions – WMD, Al Qaeda -or 9/11- they would have shouted them from the rooftops.”

    “Our view is there’s nothing in here that changes what we know today,” said a senior intelligence official, who would discuss the program only on condition of anonymity because the director of national intelligence, John D. Negroponte, directed his staff to avoid public debates over the documents. “There is no smoking gun on WMD, Al Qaeda, 9/11 – those kinds of issues.”

    Well, FOX did their best to misinform. They succeeded and continue to do so.

  • John Michael

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    You’ve gotta’ be a Honduran Dictator, a New Black Panther, Soros, GE, SEIU, or Goldman Sachs to get Barry’s support

    Looks like your another one who lives in the right-wing echo chamber, where facts are not allowed and where one dittohead spreads mis-information to another ignorant dittohead.

    When Bush invaded Iraq, Saddam was the third worst dictator in the world. Bush’s buddy King Abdullah from Saudi Arabia was the number one dictator in the world. The US has always supported dictators when it’s in our “best interests”. Both Democrat and Republican presidents are guilty of this, so to point out Obama’s support is a bit disingenuous. The New Black Panther case was first dismissed by the BUSH administration, but you won’t hear that on FOX News. And Goldman Sachs, Enron, and other corrupt companies got plenty of support from the Bush Administration. So quit talking out of your bum just to make ‘Barry’ seem different from Repulican administrations. Shame on you.

  • sponge bob

    ganymede said:
    It was a pretty dumb debate and, while I’m a big fan of Jon Stewart, I don’t think he had anything significant to say. However, I’m beginning to see something interesting happening at FOX. You must remember that Murdoch is probaly the biggest opportunist stalking the planet. In Britain, when the unlamented Tony Blair was about to become Prime Minister and the British public was very upset with the ineptitude of the Conservative Party, Murdoch’s papers and television properties suddenly switched their support to the Labour Party. I wouldn’t be surprised if something like that could happen here. Murdoch loves winners.
    It does appear that the Republican/Conservative/Tea Party coalition is tanking because of the gross ineptitude and lack of common sense with these rightwingers. Admittedly, Paul Ryans’s attack on Medicaire, the Koch Bros attack on all social and economic legislation of the past 80 years and Killer Obama’s number on bin Laden is having a terrible effect on Republican chances of making any gains in 2012. And many people still remember Bush II’s wonderful adventure as boy-President. I would use O’Reilly as a bellweather – he’s an extremely skilled fellow and he’s nowhere as awful as most rightwing media characters.

    Yeah , I remember that same attitude just before the midterms by a lot of libs .
    How did that turn out for you ? 60 plus seats ? bwahahahahah.

    Koch brothers ? Compared to Soros they are minor leaguers .

    ” And many people still remember Bush II’s wonderful adventure as boy-President. ”

    Yes , you libs remind us every day because the real ” boy president ” has no idea what he’s doing .

    And if Murdoch loves winners why didn’t he back Obama in 08 ?

    But even more insane is the notion Fox will move left .Yeah , join MSNBC ,CNN , ABC, CBS , and NBC , because that’s a real money maker . Another lib station .

  • sponge bob

    John Michael says: ” The New Black Panther case was first dismissed by the BUSH administration, but you won’t hear that on FOX News. ”

    You want to hear it on Fox ? Here you go . Right here at mediaite .

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/must-see-tv-megyn-kelly-and-kristen-powers-epic-battle-over-new-black-panther-case/

    Next time know what you are talking about. Or at least check and do some research yoursef , instead of repeating what you read at Media Matters.

  • JasonMays

    John Michael said:
    Looks like your another one who lives in the right-wing echo chamber, where facts are not allowed and where one dittohead spreads mis-information to another ignorant dittohead.

    When Bush invaded Iraq, Saddam was the third worst dictator in the world. Bush’s buddy King Abdullah from Saudi Arabia was the number one dictator in the world. The US has always supported dictators when it’s in our “best interests”. Both Democrat and Republican presidents are guilty of this, so to point out Obama’s support is a bit disingenuous. The New Black Panther case was first dismissed by the BUSH administration, but you won’t hear that on FOX News. And Goldman Sachs, Enron, and other corrupt companies got plenty of support from the Bush Administration. So quit talking out of your bum just to make ‘Barry’ seem different from Repulican administrations. Shame on you.

    Good lord. so much libtard ignorance here, I don’t know where to begin. So I won’t.

  • JasonMays

    felixw said:
    Does anyone else note the irony in a host on MSNBC offering commentary on who won a political debate? I didn’t think the hosts at MSNBC even knew what the word “debate” meant. They practice ranting, mudslinging, gotcha, character assassination and insults, but hide from honest debate.

    Remind me when Lawrence O’Donnell engages in a lengthy, open debate over multiple evenings on his show, and posted the entire unedited video on the web?

    I’ll answer that for you: never.

    He had Condoleeza Rice on his show, but he just stammered, interrupted and insulted her. It’s a complete waste of time for anyone with a brain to try to debate a beligerent socialist retard like crazy larry

  • superyankees

    Looks like liberal pranksters played with the poll.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-oreilly-jon-stewart-reddit-poll-2011-5

    The votes are in: Jon Stewart kicked Bill O’Reilly’s butt in their showdown.

    Say who?

    Says O’Reilly’s own website.

    Wait, what?

    Amazingly, 79% of the 72,145 votes cast in a poll on the Fox News pundit’s site favored Stewart’s argument regarding Common’s invite to the White House.

    How is that possible?

    Blame Reddit.

    The internet message board sent thousands of voters to skew the poll numbers, claiming a fun little victory in their ongoing war with Fox News.

    The influx of voters gave Stewart the win in every state. There is a lot of red on that chart to the right, almost certainly the only time you will see the color associated so closely with the Daily Show host.

    (By comparison, almost every other poll on O’Reilly’s site has less than 10,000 votes.)

  • WildMan

    Gay Lawrence,.one of these days Bill Oreilly will beat you like a wet paper bag in a tornado when he crosses the street and runs into you when you leave 30Rock ya big mouth wimp. Bird brains you don’t have. They are too damn big for your empty head. Go catch a flea and use a Q-tip to stuff it down your right ear. Be sure to plug your left ear so the flea brain doesn’t fall out of your empty noggin;. Damn you are stupid, Lawrence…I mean really, really stupid…! But what the hell, have a good weekend you big mouth wacko Socialist Commie!

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    To all the SIMPLETONS out there buying Stewart’s sophistry…

    The difference is that Comet, Common, whatever, was espousing an advocacy position; the others, a justice position.

    Either way, this guy is toast in the next election, and he’ll bring the Senate down with him.

    THEN we start reversing the Moral Decay of Progressives.
    ——————————————————–

    btw, How’s that Jewish support looking for 2012? LMAO!!!

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    I can’t believe Crazy Larry actually even did a segment on this… talk about obsessed.

  • tatboy

    Fokker News said:
    Damn, sounds like free speech to me, which you guys wouldn’t have a problem with if it was yelled by a KKK member.

    You are one dumb F*CK.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    A completely meaningless , inconsequential poll on Fox , and O’Donnell covers it .

    Nuts .

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    superyankees said:
    Looks like liberal pranksters played with the poll.

    figures.

  • writer

    Next up, Larry reveals Bill’s grocery list.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    John Michael said:
    Looks like your another one who lives in the right-wing echo chamber, where facts are not allowed and where one dittohead spreads mis-information to another ignorant dittohead. When Bush invaded Iraq, Saddam was the third worst dictator in the world. Bush’s buddy King Abdullah from Saudi Arabia was the number one dictator in the world. The US has always supported dictators when it’s in our “best interests”. Both Democrat and Republican presidents are guilty of this, so to point out Obama’s support is a bit disingenuous. The New Black Panther case was first dismissed by the BUSH administration, but you won’t hear that on FOX News. And Goldman Sachs, Enron, and other corrupt companies got plenty of support from the Bush Administration. So quit talking out of your bum just to make ‘Barry’ seem different from Repulican administrations. Shame on you.

    What, in my posts, ever gave you the impression I was a Bush supporter?

    I don’t nearly have time for the LITANY of corruption that has beset this administration, but I’d guess it surpasses even the Carpetbagger Clinton – under whose administration all these changes in investment law and regulations took place.

    You do know that Raines & Gorelik cashed in to the tune of 130 Million through Fannie/Freddie via HUD Quotas!!

  • Barack Must Go

    Jaurez said:
    You’ve said that like a hundred times and it was never funny.

    He insists on beating his own little dead horse over & over again, even though it’s so swollen, raw and oozing puss.

  • Jerps

    It’s funny how Crazy Larry can’t go a day without talking about Fox.

  • VW

    There is just something sadly pathetic and humiliating about Lawrence doing a segment on what another host on another network did on his own show. Larry’s lack of shame ranks him right up with the 30 year old adult baby on SSDI. C’mon MSNBC, you are your own network with our own hosts. Go out and get your own guests and do your own segments. If you want to spend your time telling me what they are doing on Fox News, I’ll just watch Fox news….

    seriously, Larry, stop being such a sensative p*ssy and do you own show.

    Don’t worry about what O’Reilly is doing. Your meager attempts to get Billo to take the bait are the efforts of a desperate and inferior feeling man with low self-esteem.

    I know what will make you feel better- go out tonight and do a segment where you call conservative woman a bunch of vulgar names. That will boost your self worth right up. You and Ed Shultz can have a circle j*rk as you proclaim your hatred for Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman aka- women who would never f*ck you.

    haha, cheer up big Larry.

  • brownsound

    John Michael said:
    54% of Fox viewers said they did think Saddam was involved in the attacks on 9/11.

    That’s actually 54% of people who responded. Not 54% of viewers. Big difference, don’t ya think?

  • brownsound

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    What, in my posts, ever gave you the impression I was a Bush supporter?

    I don’t nearly have time for the LITANY of corruption that has beset this administration, but I’d guess it surpasses even the Carpetbagger Clinton – under whose administration all these changes in investment law and regulations took place.

    You do know that Raines & Gorelik cashed in to the tune of 130 Million through Fannie/Freddie via HUD Quotas!!

    This is something the lefty loons can’t get through their heads… most conservatives had/have major problems with Bush. Since libs all adore and hero worship 0bama, they assume anyone who considers themselves conservative or supports republicans has their same type of love for Bush. Sorry loons, FAIL.

  • John Michael

    brownsound said:
    That’s actually 54% of people who responded. Not 54% of viewers. Big difference, don’t ya think?

    Good point. I wonder why they even have these polls since that’s the case.

  • John Michael

    sponge bob said:
    John Michael says: ” The New Black Panther case was first dismissed by the BUSH administration, but you won’t hear that on FOX News. ”

    You want to hear it on Fox ? Here you go . Right here at mediaite .

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/must-see-tv-megyn-kelly-and-kristen-powers-epic-battle-over-new-black-panther-case/

    Next time know what you are talking about. Or at least check and do some research yoursef , instead of repeating what you read at Media Matters.

    You got me on that one… and I was accusing Norbit of talking out of his bum, while I was doing the exact same thing!

  • John Michael

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    What, in my posts, ever gave you the impression I was a Bush supporter?

    I never assumed you were a Bush supporter. I just wondered why you were blaming Obama for things that all administrations do. The last administration supported corrupt companies, the New Black Panthers, dictators, etc.

    Why not mention that? Why act like these things are exclusive to ol’ Barry?

    And BTW, I also don’t nearly have time for the litany of corruption that has beset the past administration. Every week there was something new. Besides, a lot of what’s on your list regarding corruption in this administration you probably heard on Rush’s show or FOX News, so I would consider the source.

  • Colorado_Conservative

    Little man Larry is always trying to get a response from anyone at Fox News that might help his ratings…I find it funny as hell that they all ignore him.

  • felixw

    felixw said:
    Does anyone else note the irony in a host on MSNBC offering commentary on who won a political debate? I didn’t think the hosts at MSNBC even knew what the word “debate” meant. They practice ranting, mudslinging, gotcha, character assassination and insults, but hide from honest debate.

    Remind me when Lawrence O’Donnell engages in a lengthy, open debate over multiple evenings on his show, and posted the entire unedited video on the web?

    I’ll answer that for you: never.

    John Michael said:
    Are you sure you weren’t talking about FOX News?

    Compare Bill O’Reilly with Keith Olbermann. O’Reilly invites liberals on his show almost every evening for frank and open debate. Olbermann never debate a single conservative in the entire history of show.

    So go back and try again. Maybe if you watch Fox, you can come up with a more intelligent comment.

  • donalan

    I think O’Reilly willingly swung into the ‘satire-zone.’ Further it seemed he took some pleasure in Stewart calling-out this particular Fox BS. O’Reilly knows where his bread is buttered but he also knows ratings – and this was good for ratings.

    I think it reveals that any intelligent person knows FOX is just plain silly and Bill did not mind pulling the curtain back a little, almost as if to throw a bone to thinking people and most likely himself…

  • Heywood Jablowme

    Now will Insane Larry O’Dumbell admit that he lost to Condi Rice? That she beat him like a drum?

    No such luck, especially when Insane Larry likes to suck his own dick on each show.

  • John Michael

    felixw said:
    Compare Bill O’Reilly with Keith Olbermann. O’Reilly invites liberals on his show almost every evening for frank and open debate. Olbermann never debate a single conservative in the entire history of show.

    So go back and try again. Maybe if you watch Fox, you can come up with a more intelligent comment.

    Right. Did you read the rest of my comment? I outlined things that FOX News does almost daily (creative editing to distort) that MSNBC doesn’t do.

    BTW, Olbermann left MSNBC 4 months ago. Why are using him as an example to compare BillO to? That’s only one show anyway. I was comparing FOX News to MSNBC. While both seem biased, FOX takes it to a whole new level.

    I was struck by the ignorance of your comment, like you never read my full comment. I was talking about FOX in general – not comparing shows that don’t exist anymore. In addition to the fact that FOX News deceptively edited a clip to make Biden look bad (that they claimed was recent, to boot), in a follow-up comment I mentioned how FOX News tried to advance the idea that Saddam was partly responsible for 9-11 and that there were WMDs found in Iraq, The Bush administration and the CIA had to correct them!

    Please respond to my whole post next time. Don’t just take a quote out of context and respond to it. I gotta hand it to you, though. You have learned from the best.

  • seek

    Fox edited a clip that made Biden look bad? You’re kidding right?

  • John Michael

    seek said:
    Fox edited a clip that made Biden look bad? You’re kidding right?

    I getcha. Good one, brother.

  • joe7

    Maybe that just proves O’Rielly’s audience is more objective than lets say O’Donnell’s? That seems like a more plausible correlation than whatever he was talking about Trump. And what did he just claim something was rigged and retracting the idea that it was? I would say stick to news but this probably counts as it to him.

  • Dem4Ever

    Crazy Larry…’nough said!!!

  • BatBoy

    John Michael said:
    I was struck by the ignorance of your comment,

    I will act as a spokeman for felixw and many others….We all agree with the comment from your very own post that in reality applies to you….

    Everyone is struck by the ignorance of your comments!

    In case you have never looked it up, here is a definition of finger pointing that applies to you…. “noun “the act of assigning blame as for a harmful policy or unwise decision to another or others, often in an effort to deflect blame from oneself”

  • John Michael

    BatBoy said:
    In case you have never looked it up, here is a definition of finger pointing that applies to you…. “noun “the act of assigning blame as for a harmful policy or unwise decision to another or others, often in an effort to deflect blame from oneself”

    What are you talking about? Felix and I weren’t discussing policy or an unwise decision. He seemed to have misread my post and I was correcting him. What in my post was ignorant? I told him why I thought his post showed ignorance and how he took my post out of context (I actually explained why I said what he quoted, but he seemed to ignore it). Can you do the same? It’s easy to call someone ignorant, not so easy to back it up. So, explain to me what was ignorant in my post without some meaningless quote.

  • tegeagent0007

    It’s the other way around. O’Reilly switched the numbers. No way Fox viewers would vote O’Reilly down 71-29, or any other Fox Host. Lawrence you’ve been had.

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