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Lawrence O’Donnell Tears Newsweek Apart For Sarah Palin ‘Love Letter’

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Lawrence O’Donnell has made a bit of a sub-segment on his program of playing Duck Hunt with what he considered ridiculous presidential threats from sure losers. He first shot down, repeated, the potential Republican presidential bid of Donald Trump, and now that Sarah Palin is “echoing Donald Trump’s looney mantra of ‘I can win,’” O’Donnell is out to make mincemeat of that prospect, too.

The main recipient of O’Donnell’s ire today was not particularly Palin, but Newsweek, for putting Palin on the cover and “allowing Palin to say ‘I think I can win’ without discomforting discomfiting her in any way.” The “discomfort discomfit” O’Donnell wanted to see comes in the form of almost every 2012 presidential poll, which O’Donnell noted show “she’s the most unpopular politician in America” and, beyond that, “the most unpopular politician in Alaska.” He notes that only one approval rating appears in the piece– her 80% pre-John McCain approval rating.

In attacking Newsweek, O’Donnell even went out of his way to compliment Palin in a way she rarely hears from his side of the aisle: “She knows she’s lying when she says ‘I can win’– she’s smart enough to know.” “Newsweek does everything to make the madness of Sarah Palin sound reasonable,” he notes, ripping through sentence after sentence of what he called “the softest treatment the Lamestream Media ever has [given her].” He went on to attack its “pathetic pro-Palin tilt” and “utterly absurdist” conclusions, and conclude that Newsweek negotiated a deal with Palin to put her on the front page in exchange for access, which they feared they could lose if Palin didn’t “trust” them.

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  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    WOW, I am sure O’Donnell came to the same conclusion when the Obama Administration came right out and said that if you talk bad about the administration, you would not get access.

    Oh wait…………………….he didn’t.

    Oh the LSDNC, if you want to see 1984 Newspeak, just watch about 5 minutes, you will get about 30 examples.

  • Gabriel.Rhodes

    This has to be one of the most batshit loony toons rants i have seen in ages. hell, i’ll admit: i got a little hard from it.

    He’ll never be able to live this down. Ever.

  • Dem4Ever

    Surprise!…Crazy Larry is pissed off at someone again for not trying to destroy Sarah Palin.  He’s certifiable!

  • NeoKong

    What a sad angry little man venting his rage towards successful attractive women who would never give him a second look.
    God help us if little boys ever run for president then he will really go over the edge.

  • felixw

    There probably isn’t a single editor at Newsweek who doesn’t hate Sarah Palin. But even that isn’t enough for the crazed Lawrence O’Donnell. Wasn’t he recently trying to blame Sarah for a shooting in Arizona? But as we all know, they don’t practice news or even punditry at MSNBC. Just character assassination.

  • TfT

    MSDNC is at it again.

    Poor LOD, he is quickly becoming irrelevant slipping in the ratings. I am waiting for him to be escorted off the stage while throwing a hissy fit….happened before and I expect it to happen again. He is near off the deep end.

  • valkyrie101

    felixw said:
    But as we all know, they don’t practice news or even punditry at MSNBC. Just character assassination.

    felix you attack people personally more than anyone I know. Every post has a few. I’m cool with that, but don’t point fingers because it is unseemly and laughable.

  • WillP

    What more would you expect from this lib. She knows she is lying when she says she can win? That’s what you say O’Donnell? Can you read her heart? What a stupid, cruel thing to say!!! Nobody has been treated worse by the lamestream media over the last few years than Sarah Palin.
    You libs better hope that Mamma Grizzly doesn’t decide to run. She would growl away in a heartbeat your plans for a socialist utopia. She would give you socialist skumbags hell. You betcha!!! We love you so much Sarah. God bless Sarah Palin. And God bless the United States of America.

  • The Voice of Reason

    Larry’s right. You are supposed to hate her and spew sexist vitriol. Shame on you Newsweek.

  • gefforyk

    It is amazing to me how this woman can still tie liberal panties into knots… I think that she is just out having fun while cashing in big checks she derives directly from liberal hate…. No one follows her more closely than the liberal media, you could not buy the publicity that they give her…This is a no lose situation for Gov Palin. For the MM mouthpieces that love to purse this site… she has got to be your ultimate role model, nobody gets paid better for pissing off their political advasaries than does than Sarah Palin, and each time you see her smile you can just imagine a thousand liberal heads exploding.. You go Sarah!

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    Okay, AGAIN I get two thumbs down, why if you do not agree don’t you address my point?

    Afraid?

  • Jackyboy

    O’Donnell, you are arguably the most ridiculous commentator on cable news today, and that is saying something.

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    Jackyboy said:
    O’Donnell, you are arguably the most ridiculous commentator on cable news today, and that is saying something.

    Think about what they say about the extremists in the Republican party on LSDNC, it is ALL projection. They are the loons, the fruitcakes, the extremists, etc etc etc. Whatever LSDNC states about conservatives, it actually applies to themselves.

  • Arkansas Steve

    UTTER IRRELEVANCE, Larry?
    You’ve got Sarah confused with ugh, YOU.

  • AmericaSucks

    Frances: It should be “repeatedly,” not “repeated.”

    Can’t this site afford a decent copy editor, ferchrissake?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Catherine-Coy/1207016798 Catherine Coy

    Larry, you think you’re an articulate, intelligent, persuasive pundit. You’re LYING! You KNOW you’re LYING! Admit it!

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    AmericaSucks said:
    Frances: It should be “repeatedly,” not “repeated.”

    Can’t this site afford a decent copy editor, ferchrissake?

    People are not writing dissertations here prof!

    Get off your editorializing and read the articles and address the points. Oh sorry, you cannot help it.

  • WildMan

    Lawrence must have looked at his ratings over the past couple of months. They are tanking bigtime. They are now down around Chrissy Tingles numbers which means you are sucking air.

  • Rokker

    Great work Lawrence!!

    Palin is a grifter and pathological liar who deserves every smack she gets.

  • Nature Freak

    Love Letter :Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KZqfN9eh8w
    I hold this letter in my hand
    A plea, a petition, a kind of prayer
    I hope it does as I have planned
    Losing her again is more than I can bear
    I kiss the cold, white envelope
    I press my lips against her name
    Two hundred words. We live in hope
    The sky hangs heavy with rain

    Love Letter Love Letter
    Go get her Go get her
    Love Letter Love Letter
    Go tell her Go tell her

    A wicked wind whips up the hill
    A handful of hopeful words
    I love her and I always will
    The sky is ready to burst
    Said something I did not mean to say
    Said something I did not mean to say
    Said something I did not mean to say
    It all came out the wrong way

    Love Letter Love letter
    Go get her Go get her
    Love Letter Love letter
    Go tell her Go tell her

    Rain your kisses down upon me
    Rain your kisses down in storms
    And for all who’ll come before me
    In your slowly fading forms
    I’m going out of my mind
    Will leave me standing in
    The rain with a letter and a prayer
    Whispered on the wind

    Come back to me
    Come back to me
    O baby please come back to me

  • AmericaSucks

    DavidKramer said:
    People are not writing dissertations here prof!

    Get off your editorializing and read the articles and address the points. Oh sorry, you cannot help it.

    It’s people like you who are to blame for how far we’ve fallen behind China. We don’t demand enough of ourselves.

    Enjoy your mediocrity.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lars-Svensen/100001028197161 Lars Svensen

    Humpty-Dumpty O’Donnell sputters & spits in fit of jealousy because Super Sarah Palin won’t give him an interview.

  • valkyrie101

    AmericaSucks said:
    how far we’ve fallen behind China

    ???? LOL

  • Just my Opinion

    Look at the picture above. Does anyone know why Larry had his ears amputated?
    Looks weird. But he is one ugly dude.

  • Just4thefax

    Rokker said:
    Great work Lawrence!! Palin is a grifter and pathological liar who deserves every smack she gets.

    Fact: Rokker is nuts. Sarah Palin stands for less government, less taxes and states’ rights being upheld under the 10th. She is a Tea Party Patriot which means she knows that entitlements should be cut way back to at least 2008 levels that in it would save trillions of dollars toward balancing debt. Try to learn how to balance your own check book before guessing how others perform.

  • re-writer

    If Larry worries this much about people he’s sure can’t win, think how upset he’d be if he ever thought one could.

  • glenn113

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Rokker is nuts. Sarah Palin stands for less government, less taxes and states’ rights being upheld under the 10th. She is a Tea Party Patriot which means she knows that entitlements should be cut way back to at least 2008 levels that in it would save trillions of dollars toward balancing debt. Try to learn how to balance your own check book before guessing how others perform.

    I just want to know if she has her high school diploma?

  • lane

    The marketing genius of Sarah Palin is this. Now, she’s only allowing interviews with MSM that are fair towards here right now, and media knows it now. If Newsweek wants to sell magazines, they know her interview will do so.

    She is the new Ronald Reagan, just as liberals feared. She will be president, it’s not a matter of if but when. Romney’s the front-runner because jobs creation is the priority, but in the future, her small government message will win out. It has a good chance even now.

  • tatboy

    Sounds a lot like how Obama worked the media in 2008 and continues to do so to this day. Cutting off access to the POTUS if you are not trusted or not getting called on in the press meetings if you are not a trusted member of the MSM.

  • Doughboy

    “’Newsweek does everything to make the madness of Sarah Palin sound reasonable,’ he notes, ripping through sentence after sentence of what he called ‘the softest treatment the Lamestream Media ever has [given her].’ He went on to attack its ‘pathetic pro-Palin tilt’ and ‘utterly absurdist’ conclusions, and conclude that Newsweek negotiated a deal with Palin to put her on the front page in exchange for access, which they feared they could lose if Palin didn’t ‘trust’ them.”

    Funny, if you replace “Palin” with “Obama”, you’d pretty much have the state run media’s M.O. over the last 4 1/2 years.

  • wake up america

    Of course they have to protect Obama. Don’t forget that the same people that continue to sell Palin as an idiot and stupid are the same people that sold Obama as brilliant, highly intelligent. Having said that who are you going to trust to tell you what’s what. Well lets look at their highly intelligent candidate, Obama. If someone on this site can tell me what intelligent/ brilliant move he has done to improve our nation then I will concede that he is brilliant. Let’s not forget unemployment was at 7.2, now 9.2, gas 1.87 a gal, now close to 4.00. Housing 20 precent worse. Just one thing he has done to improve our nation. The media had to sell him as brilliant because they knew that in fact was not the case. He is ” Hollywood produced” and was in fact the biggest scam put forth on Americans. Community organizer, yes, presidential worthy, NO!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    Palin can’t win, which is why Newsweek is worried they’ll lose access. That’s some Larry Logic for you.

  • Doughboy

    wake up america said:
    Of course they have to protect Obama. Don’t forget that the same people that continue to sell Palin as an idiot and stupid are the same people that sold Obama as brilliant, highly intelligent. Having said that who are you going to trust to tell you what’s what. Well lets look at their highly intelligent candidate, Obama. If someone on this site can tell me what intelligent/ brilliant move he has done to improve our nation then I will concede that he is brilliant. Let’s not forget unemployment was at 7.2, now 9.2, gas 1.87 a gal, now close to 4.00. Housing 20 precent worse. Just one thing he has done to improve our nation. The media had to sell him as brilliant because they knew that in fact was not the case. He is ” Hollywood produced” and was in fact the biggest scam put forth on Americans. Community organizer, yes, presidential worthy, NO!

    And don’t forget he’s added $4 trillion and counting to our national debt. All in a mere 2 1/2 years in office. We’re gonna be spending decades working to undo the damage done by this “highly intelligent” individual.

  • Harry Flashman

    Vile, shoulderless little girly man twerp.

  • LizardLips

    O’Donnell is a one-horn band, a broken record of caterwauling and jealous sniping at others’ success. He tied his dinghy to the SS Obama and one can only hope he’ll get dragged down when the ship of state founders.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Mediaite shows that liberal slant with an artical such as this one. The American public has removed the LSM blinders that put us here and will return to normal outcome in 2012 by removing the progressives stain for good!

  • valkyrie101

    Nature Freak said:
    Love Letter :Nick Cave and The Bad Seedshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KZqfN9eh8wI hold this letter in my handA plea, a petition, a kind of prayerI hope it does as I have plannedLosing her again is more than I can bearI kiss the cold, white envelopeI press my lips against her nameTwo hundred words. We live in hopeThe sky hangs heavy with rain Love Letter Love LetterGo get her Go get herLove Letter Love LetterGo tell her Go tell her A wicked wind whips up the hillA handful of hopeful wordsI love her and I always willThe sky is ready to burstSaid something I did not mean to saySaid something I did not mean to saySaid something I did not mean to sayIt all came out the wrong way Love Letter Love letterGo get her Go get herLove Letter Love letterGo tell her Go tell her Rain your kisses down upon meRain your kisses down in stormsAnd for all who’ll come before meIn your slowly fading formsI’m going out of my mindWill leave me standing inThe rain with a letter and a prayerWhispered on the wind Come back to meCome back to meO baby please come back to me

    Come gather ’round people wherever you roam
    And admit that the waters around you have grown
    And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone
    If your time to you is worth savin’
    Ahh you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
    For the times they are a-changin’

    Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
    Keep your eyes wide the chance won’t come again
    And don’t speak too soon for the wheel’s still in spin
    There’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’
    The loser now will be later to win
    For the times they are a-changin’

    Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
    Don’t criticize what you can’t understand
    Your sons and daughters are beyond your command
    Your old road is rapidly agin’
    So get out of the new one it can’t lend your hand
    For the times they are a-changin’

  • Gorgegirl

    lane said:
    The marketing genius of Sarah Palin is this. Now, she’s only allowing interviews with MSM that are fair towards here right now, and media knows it now. If Newsweek wants to sell magazines, they know her interview will do so. She is the new Ronald Reagan, just as liberals feared. She will be president, it’s not a matter of if but when. Romney’s the front-runner because jobs creation is the priority, but in the future, her small government message will win out. It has a good chance even now.

    She’s NOT anything like Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan had a brain. She seems to be posing for Newsweek thinking it was Playboy.

  • Gorgegirl

    LizardLips said:
    O’Donnell is a one-horn band, a broken record and jealous sniping at others’ success. He tied his dinghy to the SS Obama and one can only hope he’ll get dragged down when the ship of state founders.

    Kick the messager if you don’t agree with the message. Sarah Palin should try something she can actually do, like Dancing with the Stars or posing for Newsweek.

  • Gorgegirl

    glenn113 said:
    I just want to know if she has her high school diploma?

    Could be a legitimate question, because I don’t think she could beat a Fifth Grader.

  • chatmandu002

    Larry is a clown for sure, but what else I didn’t see from the MSM is a comment about what our Campaigner-in-Chief said about taxes on the “rich”. He thinks it’s bad that the government should allows him to keep “hundreds of thousands of dollars” of his own money. Doesn’t anyone see that he is a socialist and that all your money belongs to the government?

  • Bill Huggins

    wake up america said:
    Of course they have to protect Obama. Don’t forget that the same people that continue to sell Palin as an idiot and stupid are the same people that sold Obama as brilliant, highly intelligent. Having said that who are you going to trust to tell you what’s what. Well lets look at their highly intelligent candidate, Obama. If someone on this site can tell me what intelligent/ brilliant move he has done to improve our nation then I will concede that he is brilliant. Let’s not forget unemployment was at 7.2, now 9.2, gas 1.87 a gal, now close to 4.00. Housing 20 precent worse. Just one thing he has done to improve our nation. The media had to sell him as brilliant because they knew that in fact was not the case. He is ” Hollywood produced” and was in fact the biggest scam put forth on Americans. Community organizer, yes, presidential worthy, NO!

    You really like to FORGET HOW HIGH GAS WAS SUMMER 2008. Drill baby drill ring any bells? Your disinformation is laudable.

  • MTinMO

    lane said:
    The marketing genius of Sarah Palin is this. Now, she’s only allowing interviews with MSM that are fair towards here right now, and media knows it now. If Newsweek wants to sell magazines, they know her interview will do so. She is the new Ronald Reagan, just as liberals feared. She will be president, it’s not a matter of if but when. Romney’s the front-runner because jobs creation is the priority, but in the future, her small government message will win out. It has a good chance even now.

    You seriously must be joking. Except you probably have Ronnie spinning in his grave with that one. Even Nancy said it- “she is no Ronald Reagan”.

  • Bill Huggins

    Anyway.

    CLASSIC ODONNELL

    REally ripped apart the language in that piece. HILARIOUS

    And when was the last time a serious political candidate wore a HOODIE on the cover of Newsweek? HAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHA “Well, that shows that she’s just ONE OF US!”

    HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • timcajun

    lane says:
    If Newsweek wants to sell magazines, they know her interview will do so.
    ………………………………………….
    Would this be like selling copy about a disaster or major crime, when the numbers always go up?

  • wake up america

    Bill huggins, you have to be kidding! Drill baby drill was because we were going towards 3.00. Compare that to 4.00 that we have today. However on the day that Obama was sworn into office it was 1.87. So get your facts right However if you’ve drank the koolaid, then I will give you a pass. Kinda too late for you anyway if you’re still defending the biggest scam put forth on Americans, Obama! Vote for him again, and you won’t even have the wallet to put your unemployment money in.

  • mmmmarilyn

    Sarah Palin couldn’t win a rigged BINGO game.
    First the Lady Di bomb issue, now this travesty?
    2 for 2?
    Hey Aunty Sarah, when exactly was the last time anyone
    paid you $1,000,000 for giving a speech?
    3 years ago. Four?
    Last I heard they gave away ticket and still
    couldn’t even half fill a theater.

    Who are htese morons who still support you?

  • X-3

    Larry -0′Dummell is a nobody, a pipsqueak, and his opinions don’t carry the weight of a gnat.

  • X-3

    He’s also a socialist and therefore hates the Constitution that has given him the right to voice his lame-brained opinons.

  • Yukon Jack

    NeoKong said:
    What a sad angry little man venting his rage towards successful attractive women who would never give him a second look.
    God help us if little boys ever run for president then he will really go over the edge.

    One little boy already ran, sadly, won and Larry HAS gone over the edge.

  • Yukon Jack

    glenn113 said:
    I just want to know if she has her high school diploma?

    Has anyone ever seen 0bama’s?

  • The Voice of Reason

    Yukon Jack said:
    Has anyone ever seen 0bama’s?

    Its different. Obama’s a man.

  • Nature Freak

    Tomorrow Belongs To Me: (aka Sarah Palin’s song)

    The sun on the meadow is summery warm
    The stag in the forest runs free
    But gathered together to greet the storm
    Tomorrow belongs to Palin.
    Tomorrow belongs to Palin.

    The branch on the linden is leafy and green
    The Rhine gives it’s gold to the sea
    But somewhere a glory awaits unseen
    Tomorrow belongs to Palin.
    Tomorrow belongs to Palin.

    The babe in his cradle is closing his eyes
    The blossom embraces the bee
    But soon says a whisper, arise, arise
    Tomorrow belongs to Palin.
    Tomorrow belongs to Palin.

    Now Fatherland, Fatherland, show us the sign
    Your children have waited to see
    The morning will come when the world is mine
    Tomorrow belongs to Palin.
    Tomorrow belongs to Palin.

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    Bill Huggins said:
    You really like to FORGET HOW HIGH GAS WAS SUMMER 2008. Drill baby drill ring any bells? Your disinformation is laudable.

    When Obama was elected, the price of gas was $1.80/gal, it is now $3.85/gal. You were saying?

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