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Lawrence O’Donnell Revisits Obama Antichrist Story In Light Of Religious Heckling

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On last night’s The Last Word, Lawrence O’Donnell spent an entire segment explaining what the Antichrist is, and how the image of the Antichrist hurts President Obama’s reelection chances. It wasn’t the most bizarre segment he’s ever done, but it did generate some question marks, so tonight O’Donnell explained why such a segment was important– namely, because people actually believe the President could be the Antichrist, and are going to his events to yell it out at him.

Beginning the segment with the video of that heckler, who attended an Obama fundraiser to yell “you are the Antichrist!” at the President. “That happened less than an hour after we had a discussion on this program about people who believe that President Obama was the Antichrist,” O’Donnell noted. He used it as a launchpad to explain precisely why he had aired a segment on the matter– because people believed such a thing, and while O’Donnell noted that the emergence of the Antichrist should make believers “kind of happy” to know the end is near, “they are certainly in no mood to vote for the Antichrist.”

The actual Antichrist situation was marginal to O’Donnell’s point, however, which was that many Americans believed hopelessly ignorant things and were swaying the nation’s politics based on them. For example, O’Donnell cited a study that showed 12% of Americans think the President is Muslim, and 25% think he was born in another country, despite the release of the President’s birth certificate. But, O’Donnell argued, “the resistance to fact is not evenly distributed,” and is more prominent in the South and among Republicans. Fundamentally, he concluded, “too much of the Republican opposition is not really opposition to President Obama’s policies, but to the man himself,” whether he be Muslim or foreign or of Antichrist nature.

The segment via MSNBC below:

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LDO6LIQBI2JQ4Q5MWLWBKGKSJY bensanity

    When people lose faith in those charge (who have proven that they will lie, cheat and kill in the name of Greed), they turn to religion. Obama has proven to be a liar about Libya (“protecting civilians” sure turned into bombing Tripoli awfully fast), reining in Wall Street, and a “Recovery and Reinvestment Act” that turned into a “jobless recovery” that turned into a ”double dip recession” and by this time next year will likely be a “depression.” Charisma can’t stop that from happening.

  • Anonymous

    Once again MSNBC is the only place for an honest discussion of politics.  You would never see this being discussed on CNN or Fox News.

    (Fixed Quote from another thread, to show partisan hackery)
    (Honest discussion of politics, blacks are racist against Obama and Obama being Anti-Christ, sounds right)

  • Jayamerican1

    You would never see this on Fox or CNN because it is pure crap and they avoid hiring raving lunatics to spew this garbage.

  • Anonymous

    You’re right, we would never see anything like this on fox.  We could never fathom such an obvious attack on the seperation of a free press and the government and leaders it covers.  That is, until a republican was in office.

    /you’re right tho it is pure crap.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    o’donnell cites 12% thinking obama is muslim and 25% thinking he was born on foreign soil as justifying important segments…  i’m curious to know the percentage of people who actually believe he’s the anti-christ…  perhaps he’ll next do a hard hitting piece on the tooth fairy…    

  • Anonymous

    A fringe element of our population is all fringy and thinks weird stuff, MSNBC will go to any lengths to connect them to conservatives.

  • Anonymous

    Fundamentally, he concluded, “too much of the Republican opposition is not really opposition to President Obama’s policies, but to the man himself,” whether he be Muslim or foreign or of Antichrist nature.

    That’s BS. All Crazy Larry is doing is trying to demonize the opposition.

  • Anonymous

    I actually appreciate MSNBC’s tenacity.  That network actually spent time wondering whether Scott Brown’s pick up truck was racist.

    MSNBC:  The network that even calls inanimate objects racist!

  • Glutton

     You’re right, you would never see this on Fox.  On Fox they would be running a story that actually legitimatizes the claim that Obama is the anti-Christ.

  • Glutton

    I highly doubt if people who complain about Obama being the anti-Christ are mad about war and kickbacks to the rich.  

  • Anonymous

    “When people lose faith in those charge (who have proven that they will
    lie, cheat and kill in the name of Greed), they turn to religion.”

    You’re right, when people lost faith in Bush and realized he lied, cheated, killed in the name of greed they turned to religion then voted the Republicans out of office, they just didn’t vote enough of them out of office.

  • Anonymous

    Great piece, and as usual the foxbots attack the man but none of the points in his argument.

  • Boycott Donkeys

    BSNBC, Lawrence O’Donnell and the rest of you donkeys start reporting some real news and stop trashing

  • Anonymous

    As an evil foxbot, I officially condemn the one person who called the President the Anti Christ.

    Please let me know if you find another strawman to condemn and I’ll be happy to do it for you.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LDO6LIQBI2JQ4Q5MWLWBKGKSJY bensanity

    You’re right also, both parties are the problem (along with the holier than thou media). The media and most politicians want us to bicker with each other, that’s why they bicker with each other. I believe as a society we need to become more responsible and reasonably debate the issues in front of us. Now, that may be because I am a proud Ron Paul contributer/supporter and when it comes to the serious issues before us, he’s been consistently right for 20+ years. If we realize that instead of going left or right we can choose to unite and move up the political contiuum instead of letting mudslinging soulless ideologues take us down the low road. Those Wall Street Occupiers have the right idea, we are the 99%, and at the end of the day we hold the power. Don’t believe me? Go look up the seismic activity created with 50,000 or so people cheered Marshawn Lynch as he had his epic, game-sealing playoff run last January in Seattle. You say conservative don’t believe in science? Well that day’s momentary shift in seismic activity is change I can believe in.

  • Anonymous

    “Those Wall Street Occupiers have the right idea,”

    Hmmm, you’re a anti capitalist Ron Paul supporter?  I think you better look at his positions before you donate any more money.  Lol.

  • Anonymous

    “Those Wall Street Occupiers have the right idea,”

    Hmmm, you’re a anti capitalist Ron Paul supporter?  I think you better look at his positions before you donate any more money.  Lol.

  • Jason

    Kinda like the “anarchists” who run with the libs who hate the government, but  seemingly want it to run every aspect of our lives as long as it allows them to have abortions, do drugs and get gay married.

  • Jason

    Are you really this stupid?

  • Jason

    I suppose if I believed in man made religion I might think he was the anti christ. Being agnostic I just think he’s a lying bag of shit.

  • Jason

    I remember seeing polls during the mid 2000′s that showed about 35% of Democrats believed Bush was behind 9/11. I don’t recall crazy Larry getting his argyle socks in a twist over that.

  • Jason

    I remember seeing polls during the mid 2000′s that showed about 35% of Democrats believed Bush was behind 9/11. I don’t recall crazy Larry getting his argyle socks in a twist over that.

  • Anonymous

    Lol.  Exactly.  Can anybody pinpoint the exact moment that Anarchy turned into Totalitarian Statism?  Weird.

  • Latin2

    Obama can’t be the Anti-Christ….the Anti-Christ is supposed to do great things to fool the people and make everyone follow him.

    Obama has done stupid things and only fools are still following him.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Lawrence should take a poll on the percentage of knuckle dragging, Fox News lovin’, Mediaite commenters who think the President is the antichrist. I have a feeling these mouth breathers won’t disappoint.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    No on Fox we get such hard hitting analysis like “Did Bill Ayers write Obama’s autobiography”, “Did Obama give his wife a terrorist fist jab” and “Did Mr. Rogers destroy an entire generation”.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    A proud Ron Paul contributor=I like to throw my money away cause I love freedom

  • Anonymous

    Why would O’Donnell revisit a story that was irrelevant the first time around? Is he just filling time to avoid relevant stories?

  • Anonymous

    see what ideas you put in people’s minds larry, it happened a hour after you brought it up

  • Anonymous

    O´Donnell nailed it.

    Can´t have any illusions about what will happen till January 2013: Nothing.

    Irresponsible Cons will sabotage everything knowing a significant amount of hardcore loons will applaud them for being heroes in the fight against the “Anti-Christ”. Pathetic.

  • TruDat

    Crazy Lawrence O’Donnell, the totally irrelevant left-wing boob on America’s worst network

  • TruDat

    You bettcha!  All those left-wingers out there protesting the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya are an inspiration to . . . . what? . . . the lefties stopped protesting the wars when Obama was elected? . . .  they no longer care that Obama is involved in endless, unapproved wars of aggression against countries with no threat to the U.S.? . . .

  • TruDat

    No worries, they finished the job in 2010, when the Republicans took over a record number of House seats and governorships.

  • TruDat

    Logical interpretation, Republicans/conservatives will do anything in their power to rid the White House of one of the most incompetent simpletons ever to have occupied the space.  Tootles Obama!

  • TruDat

    This guy is such an unethical fool, he probably paid the fee to get the nut in to attend Obama’s speech and yell out the nonsense, then claim his own brilliance.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    What proof do you have that O’Donnell did as you said he did?

    O’Donnell provided poll numbers and reason.

  • Pablo

    A classic example: http://tinyurl.com/3tuxdq2

    If the tea party movement takes over this country they will really hurt poor people by getting rid of social programs like food stamps, unemployment benefits, disability benefits, student aid, free health care, etc. The tea party movement will say these programs must be gotten rid of because hard-working taxpayers cannot afford to pay for these things especially when the economy is in a depression.

    Anarchy? You’re doing it wrong.

  • Pablo

    Terrorist fist jab? Fox?

    1. E.D. Hill works for CNN now.

    2. I blame The New Yorker. http://tinyurl.com/3lnqopd

  • Pablo

    Yes, the same network that needed to invent a Rick Perry racial slur about a “big black cloud”. But when the LA Times actually uses the phrase regarding Herman Cain? Crickets. http://tinyurl.com/3juxjxw

  • TruDat

    Reread simp.  I said “he probably”.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    What are the odds that O’ Donnell would say that ignorant Republicons think Obama was the Antichrist, and one hour after he makes the comment, a ignorant Republicon calls the President an Antichrist??

    Thank God Republicons aren’t known or their intelligence!!

  • TruDat

    You libs don’t believe in God, so why reference God?  Never mind, I fogot for a second that libs are hypocritical thinkers.

  • TruDat

    You libs don’t believe in God, so why reference God?  Never mind, I fogot for a second that libs are hypocritical thinkers.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    That’s how you’re walking back your idiotic and nonfactual comments? What if someone had said your mother was probably Osama bin Laden’s mistress?

  • TruDat

    I wouldn’t respond.  Unlike you, I have a brain.  What’s your problem?  Do you have “feelings” for Crazy Larry?

  • Walt

    TruDat, you are a perfect example of how years of listening to the Limbaughs out there have instead of expanding your horizons have actually reduced your brain power to residing in the land of ignoramuses.  It is just one ignorant statement after another with you.  You are not even worth challenging.  But I’ll give you a bit of truth.  There are a lot of “Jesus Freaks”… excuse me… the politically correct way to say it is social conservatives… who are anything but Christian in their behavior.  I would say there are a lot more progressives practicing Christian behavior than you right wingers.

    And whatever you may think what you are… you are first a jackass.  I suggest you work on that.  You’ll be better off for it. 
           

  • TruDat

    That rant sounds as though it came straight from the mouth of one of the left-wing loons who works at MSNBC.  I guess that makes you a lefty parrot.

    (see how easy it was to make insinuations?  I’ve never listened to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show.)

  • Walt

    Makes no difference who you listen to… same results.  And it doesn’t change the fact, TruDat, that you made an incredibly ignorant statement just like your last one that deems you the well deserved being called out as a jackass.

  • TruDat

    You’re not intelligent enough to be deemed a jackass.

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    Hey Lawrence, in a free society people are allowed to believe what they want.  Just look at how you Socialists heckled GW and Cheney.

    Of course in your Socialist utopia this guy would be in a Concentration camp by now.

    “TMP”

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    It seems to me that you’re the ignorant one here Walt.  Can’t you engage in a civil conversation with anyone who doesn’t think like you do?  ”Jesus Freaks” “Ignoramus” anti “Christian” “Jackass” .  Typical Liberal post.

    My guess is that most of your posts are just like the last one.

    “TMP”

  • Holistic

    LOD was hoping —HE would be seen as the anti-christ. Either way it could be true.

  • New Guy

    I enjoy some of the random stuff on Mediaite, but it seems like so much of the posting is just name calling and personal attacks. Information is posted without citing sources, and in some cases appears to be entirely fictional. Sometimes I’m interested in productive conversation with others about the political situation in our country, but almost everyone posting seems so certain they’re right, that very little productive conversation is actually occurring. Not that anyone actually cares (and this will likely be my only post here ever), but when I do read through the comments on any website, if you’ve posted one that contains an insult, (either to the right or left), or one of the oh so clever names used to describe the “other side,” I want you to know that as an outside observer my immediate assumption is that you have nothing more intelligent to add beyond your passion for the fight. Occasionally I find rare gems, bits of information I didn’t already know and I love that, but so much of the public discourse just seems so pointless.

    I’m relatively sure that there are plenty of people out there like me, who find that kind of snarky, insulting conversation not only very dull, but something to skip over entirely. 

    So, I guess I’m just saying that if you’re really interested in someone like me listening to what you have to say, please don’t fall into the back and forth stuff, or on those occasions when you do happen to post something noteworthy, I probably won’t be paying too much attention to you.

  • Hagen619dj

    It is amazing to me how people can still defend this president knowing his personality and what he stands for.  He doesn’t  stand for the US….he wants to destroy it.  It’s the  blind leading the blind and this country is going down because of him.  His charisma is fading and he knows it. When a president apologizes for his country….there is something wrong and negative about all of that.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    it was also a liberal los angeles writer, not sure which paper, that coined the phrase “barack the magic negro”…  of course, limbaugh took that and ran with it, predictably catching flack by throwing it back in liberal’s faces…

  • Walt

    So There, I just wanted to let you know I did try to reply to your comment at me.  Mediate deemed not to publish it.  I don’t no why?  I have seen some pretty vile things come out you rightees’ minds posted.  I’m sorry you weren’t able to find my first comment funny.  I don’t know, I thought it was pretty funny.  I know, I know… I’m a hateful, godless, socialist meany. 

    So I leave you with this. Without rehashing  all those wasted comments on that other site… was I an asshole to you?  Absolutely.  Did you deserve it?… … … Yeah.  You did.  Until next time…

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    @jefdongar:disqus 
    ”  I have seen some pretty vile things come out you rightees’ minds posted.  I’m sorry you weren’t able to find my first comment funny.  I don’t know, I thought it was pretty funny.  I know, I know… I’m a hateful, godless, socialist meany.  

    So I leave you with this. Without rehashing  all those wasted comments on that other site… was I an asshole to you?  Absolutely.  Did you deserve it?… … … Yeah.  You did.  Until next time…”

    You have the habit of running off at the mouth Walt.  You tried to blame me for all your hatred but I’m not the one responsible for that.  I’m only responsible for what I post and not others. I never post vile things  about anyone.  The fact that you admit that you acted like an a$$hole is a start.  You also acted like the typical Liberal hypocrite.  You had a chance to engage in a reasonable discussion but you chose to take your frustrations and hate out on me.  It showed the inherent weakness of your argument and ideology.  Is this the way to unite the Nation or further divide it?

    You got what you dished out and now you whine about it.  I researched dozens of your posts and they are all the same, hate and bigotry, ridiculous suppositions and verbal attacks on every Conservative you ran across.  Keep it up.  I’d like everyone to see what people like you are all about.

    To all those who had the comical pleasure of watching a Liberal Progressive implode, please note the hatred for others and the division he is causing from his hate.

    The next time Walt, leave the hate behind and come prepared to back up your rants with verifiable facts or it’s just a bunch of rhetoric from an uniformed leftist.

    “TMP”

  • http://spacegod.tumblr.com/ spacegod

    The comments on Mediaite are the worst anywhere.
    Not only are the same rightwingers commenting over and over again ad nauseum, the comments are the same stupid non-arguments over and over again.

    Nobody seems to even read the article.
    If you did read it and still make off-topic comments like most of these annoying righty-tighty talking points, then you are indeed fact-immune idiots.

    Conservative + Christian = it’s like talking to a box of rocks.

  • Jkee

    Jesus did not call us to act or behave like Him. He called us to be like Him. Unfortunately, man is fallen and imperfect, which means that though we may spend a lifetime trying to be Christ-like, we are destined to fail. This is why God allowed Christ to be sacrificed on the cross; so that our sins would be forgiven through the blood of the final sacrifice – Christ. He died for me, and for all the terrible and sinful things I will do and say in my time on this earth. He also died for you, Walt. You may not believe it (and it does not sound like you do), but Christ loves wants you to come to know Him. He wants to heal your wounds and to fill the holes in your soul. You may think that you are fine on your own, but you are not. Your behavior on this thread shows that you do not have any peace in your heart. If you did, you would not fly off the handle when someone posts something to which you disagree.

  • Jkee

    You know, one day the Antichrist will appear, and it will be people like Lawrence O’Donnell who will criticize and mock anyone who stands up for what they believe in. I do not believe that Obama is the Antichrist, because it is written that he will be loved by all and will be one who unites the divided. Though promised by Obama, this has not happened on his watch. However, what if Obama is the Antichrist? Then Lawrence O’Donnell would be wrong. Obvious statement, I confess, but hang with me.

    Some people may truly believe Obama is the Antichrist, and other may not, but neither side can prove their claims, can they? How can I prove what is in YOUR heart? How can YOU prove what is in MINE? It cannot be done. At this point, O’Donnell is doing what so many – on both sides these days – are guilty of. He is assuming he is right without any grounds for doing so. Again, two parties disagree on a matter, but neither side can prove their claim, then whose to say which party is right?

    My point is this: If Obama is, then he is and we who believe have reason to be, as O’Donnell said, “kind of happy”. If he is not, which is much more likely when you look at it statistically, then all you can say is that someone is wrong, which is hardly newsworthy.

  • Jkee

    So this is what passes for civil discourse these days? You know, name calling it typically the last resort for those who had nothing valuable to say in the first place.

  • Jkee

    It is also funny that O’Donell take 12% and 25%, respectively, to represent some sort of majority. Put another way: 88% of Americans DON’T think Obama is a Muslim, and 75% of Americans DON’T think he was born on foreign soil. But no, really, we should fear for our country when a paltry 12% believe he is a Muslim.

  • Bornagain

    Lawrence’s mocks Christ and His Church. He mocks the Blessed Hope of the Rapture. That expert misquoted the events of the return of Jesus Christ. The New Heavens and the New Earth is after the Great White Throne Judgement and not at the Second Advent. He is not expert in fact. If most Christians don’t know who the AntiChrist is in the context of his purpose or personality then they are ignorant of their scripture and are not grounded in the Word of God. Lawrence Odonnel and his kind prove the scripture correct when he mocks “His appearing and the promise of His return.”  Lawrence demonstrates perfectly the “Spirit of AntiChrist” as described in scripture as a spirit of rebellion to God and His will. Lawrence will soon enough accept the Mark of the Beast because he refuses to acknowledge Jesus Christ as the Son of God and submit his will to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

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