Wait, who kidnapped the real Tommy?  You know, the bootlicker for MSNBC and all it’s idealogues.

That same is interview is conducted every night on fox. Shut the whining. Behold a new in your face progressive movement.

This article shows Tommy is at least fair. Your comment shows you’re ungracious.

sure dave.  ck the ratings.

It was a despicable interview.  If those questions had been asked of Obama O’Donnell would have been called a racist.  And where where these questions when Clinton was running for office.  Last time I looked he was a draft dodger.

liberai filth.

His victory in the GOP primary race would be great for America, as it
would keep a party, hell-bent on fundamentally crippling the
government’s ability to govern, out of the White House for at least four
more years.

Yes… Obama is doing a great job. We should keep HIM for 4 more years. That’s the ticket. Maybe Obama can block ALL non-union factories from opening by then.

In your face like a doughnut to Ed Schultz’s mouth, right Dave?

Look no further than O’Donnell’s display of unfairness and intellectual dishonesty as an embodiment of the whole liberal movement as despicable. This is why our country must be saved from cesspool scum like this.

Liberals are hyping up Herman Cain because they know he can’t win the general election.  So far they have promoted Bachmann, Parry, Huntsman, and now Cain. 

If his name was Sanchez instead of O’Donnell, he would have been fired!

http://friendsofricksanchez.com/

ratings have what to do with his comment?

I also like O’Donnell very much. He’s very smart, knows his facts and has real world experience working in Washington, unlike blowhards like Hannity and O’Reilly who don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. I also agree that last night was not O’Donnell’s finest performance. He was pugnacious and a little too glib. But if this was “offensive,” then what do you call the finger-jabbing, hyper-partisan, red meat interviews that Faux News’s primetime pundits conduct on a nightly basis?

tommy is still that, read it carefully, he adds his own dislike for cain. he also tries to paint odonnoll as something great that just made a simple mistake. tommy would not know a fair story if it slapped him in the face

I am a huge fan of Lawrence O’Donnell, but I really have to agree – this interview had my skin crawling last night.  

Not sure what got into him, but here’s to hoping it doesn’t happen again.

Tommy, Aside from your ridiculous comment that Republican’s want to cripple the gov’t, I applaud you for your piece.

I like Herman.  He’s not afraid to be politically incorrect.  And boy is he showing who the real racists are. 

Well done , Tommy .

peple know truthbs when they hear it.  ratings are votes.

You call them typical of Fox News.  Personally, I don’t want to watch Fox News’ liberal equivalent – I want to watch in-depth, insightful analysis, which is what Lawrence O’Donnell normally presents.  But that’s not what Lawrence O’Donnell presented last night.

That being said, you have quite a fair point.  The “liberal media” meme has been utterly destroyed by the pass given to Fox News on a daily basis.

Context little girls, context. O’Donnell was linking Cain to the discrepancy’s between  Cain’s public statements and Cain’s book. Was O’Donnell brusque, absolutely but unlike Sean NoBrannity, he actually let his guest talk.

Michelle is not afraid to be incorrect.

i love it when conservatives are asked why they never went into the military even though they really love war or why they never pull the heavy load–they just let the ‘lower’ folks do it as they reap the rewards—they go into the “WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT ME-WHEN THERE IS SO MUCH HORROR IN THE WORLD”…
what a bunch of losers..
i do not care if Herman went to vietnam or marched for civil rights-i am glad he chose to go to college and make money–good for him.
we also have a president who gave up a million dollar salary to become a community organizer and help the less fortunate..
for conservatives–that is just satins communism…BUT WHEN YOU AVIOD THE DRAFT OR AVIOD MILITARY ALTOGETHER..as you cheerlead other mother’s children dying—then by some warped reasoning THAT IS HEROIC?
what ever–conservative leaders are cowards and phonies and exploit the fears of the less informed by playing on their faith and values…
and that just stinks

Another particularly despicable aspect of this “interview” was the part where Lawrence O’Donnell, who spent SEVEN(!) years as an undergraduate at Harvard College from 1969-1976, accused Department of the Navy ballistics mathematician Herman Cain (i.e., a bona fide rocket scientist) of hiding from the Vietnam War. O’Donnell’s hypocrisy was mind-boggling — even for him!

But Tommy is right — Cain effectively parried everything the knave O’Donnell threw at him, with clarity and good humor. O’Donnell proved himself and MSNBC to be the deranged, lying partisans we already knew they were, earning Cain a lot of goodwill in the process. Game, set, and match to Herman Cain. Cain should be on MSNBC every day!

Except nobody watches MSNBC.

And your comment shows your favorite pass time is still attacking Conservatives.  99.999% of the time, Tommy is just that, but every once in a while he will post something honest and fair.   Though as cjd points out, he still has to get his digs in. 

It showed TC was off his medications.

“I also don’t like Herman Cain” — TC is a Racist!!!!!

HAHA, the corrupt, liberal media is alive and well.  Nice try though!!

Josh, the “Republican” once again only attacks Conservatives.  Some things never change.

Nice lie- have any more?

I watched it and Cain lied about when he was in college and basically admitted he sat in the back of the bus while other people fought for the rights he’s benefitted from. How is O’Donnell out of line?

Poor Larry- he wanted so bad to call Cain a “House” N” and “Uncle Tom.” Come on Larry, say it, child!

To say Conservatives “love war” is beyond ignorant.  No one loves war.  We just know that sometimes it’s necessary.  We know that you can’t hold hands and sing kumbaya and turn terrorists into friends. 

Why is Mitt Romney using the troops as props in his campaign?

Why is Mitt Romney using the troops as props in his campaign?

Fair?! He’s pissed that O’Donnell made Cain look good. He despises Cain and wants him to fail at all costs. He has no interest in discussing the merits of his ideas. How’s that in any way fair?

Two questions?
Does anyone know why Lawerence O’Donnells ears were amputated?
What does Phil Griffen hold onto?

Yeah, I wasn’t sure what he meant by that. Did he mean if Cain won the presidency or just the primary/Obama wins re-election? I’m assuming the latter since he directly expressed his dislike for Cain. Still, poorly phrased sentence.

Well, that’s a lie. I prefaced the commentary with my existing opinions of the two in order to help the reader evaluate the commentary, within the context of my point of view, and to be honest. I.E., the fact that I was inclined to like O’Donnell, and dislike Cain, illustrates the degree to which O’Donnell crossed the line. That’s something I explicitly state in the commentary, which means you’re just willfully lying.

Saying I said it was “a simple mistake” is a lie, as well. You owe me an apology.

again–lies and distortion..
ODonnel has addressed not going to Vietnam–he was never for the war and was against it..unlike the many ie cheney, bush, rove and limbaugh who were for the war–but did not fight in it..

so again–can you guys get your facts straight ever? is it always with the spin and hyperbole?
geesh~
and for the record–ODonnel always supported and praised the men in uniform–he just did not like watching 18 year old boys dying in vain–
but glad to see another conservative being a cheerleader for vietnam..you want to praise Nixon too while you are at it?

What were the discrepancies?  I turned the interview on a few minutes into it, so maybe that was part of why it struck me as so offensive.

Really Tommy? O’Donnell  “doesn’t talk himself into a corner”? Did you watch his attempt to take down Condoleeza Rice and her all-too-easy but epic takedown of him? Facts wrong, not being able to support his statements…. and then trying to avoid being shown for the intellectual wannabe in-real-life idiot that he is by saying “I’m the interviewer” when she flips his factual inaccuracies around and asks him questions?

Fair??  Tommy??  Re-read the article, please.  It was anything BUT fair.  Tommy is a liberal moon bat.  Nothing more…Nothing less.

I’m getting weary of the way people, liberals especially, toss off the “whites who sat on the sidelines as thousands of blacks were….murdered” as if the past had no attachment to the present. In reality, for all those blacks who were lynched since the Civil War, more thousands of whites have been killed by blacks in the last 50 years. Just ask the FBI!

this is from the same people who say liberal LOVE abortion just because we want to save young Christian girls lives so they do not have to go into back allies when raped by their uncle or father…
nobody loves abortion …

but some people do love war–ie the war profiteers that make billions–and they all support the gop–
we pay them to build weapons for us and our enemies..
and conservatives take tax dollars to kill mothers and children by the millions so a few assholes can make more money–
that is sick..
but i guess when you are NOT fighting like michelle—the TV version of war can be very romnatic–but living in a dark room in front of you computer can really distort reality i guess?
how is that xanac/codine cocktail this morning? add a sprinkle of prosac–that may help darling~

I’m no fan of Herman Cain…can’t believe I’m defending him, but Lawerence O’donnell was waaaaaaaay out of bonds! This is further proof of the racism that exist in America regardless of political ideology. Typically racism charges are launched at Republicans and the TEA Party, and rightfully so in many cases. But there is also strong element of racism that comes from White liberals. Who is Lawerence O’donnell to question how ‘Black’ Herman Cain is. Alot of Black people in the South were taught not to anger ‘white folks’. Not because they thought Jim Crow was OK…but out of survival. O’donnell is completely ignoring the history of violence towards Blacks. I do believe that Herman Cain is an ‘Uncle Tom’, but not because he did or didn’t participate in the Civil Rights movement. O’donnell line of questioning shows level arrogance and racism in trying to talk as an experrt on subject he obviously knows absolutely nothing about.

Tommy, at the risk of being banned yet again, I have to be honest.  You seem to be very sensitive lately.  CJD voiced his opinion of what you wrote, so I don’t see why he owes you an apology.  Are we not even allowed to opine anymore?

Most estimates put the number of blacks lynched during Jim Crow at around 3,000. Obviously despicable, especially in the case of innocents. But the media (and blacks) are much less interested in the fact that the number of whites murdered (and raped, which is a real eye-opener) by blacks since then dwarfs that number. Shhhh. Don’t tell anybody, though.

But you must be afraid of being correct because you never are.

Yep, and I’m allowed to opine right back. Most writers wouldn’t bother. 

 O’Donnell may have  cynically tricked the republican’ts into nominating an African-American.  Willard, Jimmie, and the rest of the dwarfs are not happy.

Wow…what demented logic….blacks were killed for being black, whites weren’t killed just for being white

Just curious: Why is Herman Cain an “Uncle Tom” to you? 

I wasn’t speaking of his skills as an interviewer, but of the tendency of some liberals to analyze an issue to death and reach ambiguous conclusions.

BTW, Lawrence, Cain was about 10 years old when Rosa Parks refused to move to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, a democrat held city.

Was he supposed to march in those boycotts, too? The Freedom Rides started in1961- he was 16 years old- was he to disobay his parents , be a truant, and run off and protest?

while i think it is beyond bizarre that grown adults sit and post lies on these forums in fake names–i have to back up michelle on this one.
this is a public forum with very very easy acccess–i think you may need to have tougher skin tommy–
i wish there was a way we could hold people accountable for their words–we cannot. but i really hate the ‘you need to apologize’ thing. i hate it when either side plays this trick. apologies are for suckers.
but the best thing liberals can do is just keep posting facts–eventually it does work–it is just hard to beat down all the lies and distortion that have no basis at all–ie the birth certificate..
eventually most people understand that is the the very small minority that are creating the problems–and then we can ignore them~

Yes, but you are demanding an apology for someones opinion.

i was kind of impressed that you actually responded–at least you read the comments00
kudos bro-

Joe, your comments the last couple of days show you are off the rails and not able to be reached.   I wish you the very best and hope you seek help for your issues.

Poor thing- THIS is not about FOX news- but I’m not surprised you want to change the subject. If I were a lib, I would too.

Poor thing- THIS is not about FOX news- but I’m not surprised you want to change the subject. If I were a lib, I would too.

Well he refuses to tow the liberal line.  Isn’t it obvious!  How DARE a black man try to get out from under the thumb of the Dems who have spent their lives telling them they are too stupid and lazy to make it on their own.  He is a threat to them. 

Excellent write up. You nailed it completely.

I think O’Donnell perfectly displayed what so many complain about in the liberal establishment, and that is that if you are black you must think and act in a particular way. To O’Donnell it is unthinkable that a young black man wasn’t out there protesting during the Civil Rights era. Why? Because that’s what black men do, right?

Nothing so exposes the bias on the left as a black man who thinks for himself, and is a conservative. (The same can be said of women.)

I think O’Donnell perfectly displayed what so many complain about in the liberal establishment, and that is that if you are black you must think and act in a particular way. To O’Donnell it is unthinkable that a young black man wasn’t out there protesting during the Civil Rights era. Why? Because that’s what black men do, right?

Nothing so exposes the bias on the left as a black man who thinks for himself, and is a conservative. (The same can be said of women.)

I think O’Donnell perfectly displayed what so many complain about in the liberal establishment, and that is that if you are black you must think and act in a particular way. To O’Donnell it is unthinkable that a young black man wasn’t out there protesting during the Civil Rights era. Why? Because that’s what black men do, right?

Nothing so exposes the bias on the left as a black man who thinks for himself, and is a conservative. (The same can be said of women.)

right back at you sister…

at least we agree that conservative spin is crazy–
it is funny when we hold the mirror up to conservatives–they really hate what they see..

everything that the conservatives complain about–are not even done by liberals–at all –and there is -0- evidence that liberals do the things conservatives complain about—but ironically—conservatives are the only ones who are actually practicing the same madness that is condemned–BY CONSERVATIVES..

it is like a car load of clowns—condeming sad faces…WHEN THEY ARE THE ONLY ONCES WHO HAVE THEM…
it is really bizare~

Gonna have to agree with tommy this time……first of all he wrote in the article:

On Thursday night’s The Last Word, O’Donnell conducted an interview that surpassed unfair, sped through the tollbooth at offensive, and came to rest in the parking spot marked “Reserved For Despicable.” 

Which hit the nail right on the head..i watched this last night…..L O’D was not only out of bounds…..Cain had a response to all his outrageous assumptioms/questions…acted like a getlemen..and left L’O'D with an expression on his face that made him look like he had just been hit by a truck

once again….as i said on the earlier post on this story…Cain earned my respect last night…..he deserves a serious look…..not an automatic dismissal

as to the whole apology thing…for once i don’t have an opinion on that matter..i’ll let you guys duke it out

“I do believe that Herman Cain is an ‘Uncle Tom’, but not because he did or didn’t participate in the Civil Rights movement.”

Then why? Because he doesn’t line up with what YOU think a black man should believe?

Where was Herman during the civil rights movement ?????????

Tommy clearly states his dislike for Cain and then goes on to illustrate his disgust for what was a lame attempt at a hatchet job. Points for fairness.

O’Donnell’s “interview” was just another hack looking for his “Have you no shame, sir?” moment. He was looking for pats on his narrow, bony little shoulders from his progressive audience and ended up showing himself for the partisan hack he is.

No ned to dog pile Tommy for illustrating the obvious, and this comes from someone who has criticized as well as supported him in the past.

And why could Cain not win the general election????

He would be running against his inferior in every possible and conceivable way.

That is my first thought as well, but I was curious if it wasn’t just the standard “African Americans are Uncle Toms if they are Conservative and Republican” garbage. I’d like to see liberals try to come up with something better than this because its just pathetic that liberals think an entire race of people have to think exactly alike. Its really ironic, that liberals are always crying about a lack of diversity in many areas but want no diversity at all for black people and their political positions.

Great comment. Too bad it has no facts in it. By the way, we seem to have an in your face progressive president that even his minions are getting sick and tired of, check tingles and howard finemans’ commentary at 5 last night regarding the prez’s presser on matthews show. And Mike Barnicle on Joe, they/re starting to shake their heads in disgust. So keep the in your face coming, it’s working swell.

Great comment. Too bad it has no facts in it. By the way, we seem to have an in your face progressive president that even his minions are getting sick and tired of, check tingles and howard finemans’ commentary at 5 last night regarding the prez’s presser on matthews show. And Mike Barnicle on Joe, they/re starting to shake their heads in disgust. So keep the in your face coming, it’s working swell.

Major props to Tommy, a left-winger, to see through the bigotry that is white liberals who seethe with anger at the thought that there’s only one way for blacks to think (walk, talk and vote) or they’re a bunch of Uncle Tom sellouts. The level of O’Donnell’s anger and vitriol was off the charts. Only when the left can begrudgingly admit there is more than one way for a black to act and more than one party they can subscribe to, only then will we come closer to some modicum of equality. And if you think there’s no way a black Republican has no chance of unseating the black Democrat in this election, you’re seriously deluded.

Joe, while I know it hurts you to agree with me, please stop with the “Conservatives lie and liberals are truthful” meme.  No one is buying it. 

Also, where was Lawrence O’Donnell during the Vietnam War? He was of age to voluntarily sign up and fight in 1969 and he didn’t, but he has the gall to criticize Herman Cain for not voluntarily signing up? What an ass. But then again why should I be surprised? He made himself look like a child whose toys had been taken away when John O’Neill was on Scarborough Country during the 2004 election.

Proof please, when you defend a station that only presents dem’s and progressives, or overtalk any conservative or republican they put on. give me a break.

Wow, it’s true was that say, liberals is a form of mental illness and one of the key symptoms is being prone to delusions. 

Many did at his age. He didn’t stand up to the angry white mobs.  Nothing wrong with that, but he must know that he stands on the shoulders of giants like Fred Shuttlesworth and Thurgood Marshall who paved the way to his sucess.

The same place Joe Biden was- in college.

Just like his 1960′s progenitors, O’Donnell would be perfectly happy to spit on current returning military.

A leopard never changes its spots.

“but the best thing liberals can do is just keep posting facts”

Try STARTING posting facts, child.

O’Donnell wasn’t any tougher on Cain than he has been on any number of white interviewees…white liberals, even.

LOL

Nice lie- make some more up!

 Fred Shuttlesworth was 39 in 1961- NOT 16 and Marshal was 53!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love when you libs reesort to lying!

Fixed Nooze is in a league all by itself as part of the rightwing echo chamber of misinformation and distortion.

again with the lies..
there is no evidence that ODonnel has ever had anything against the troops or would have ever spat on them.
the people who spat at troops are the small minorty–just like the few tea party wackos who spat on American congressmen..
unfortunately we have people in the world who are just very childish and do very stupid things…
they are the fringe~
but to say ODonnel would have spat on the troops–is just a lie~

You are wasting your time and effort on her. Make your comment and then move on. She is like a little gnat. Irritating at first but easy to swat away.

No one owes you an apology Tommy, you constantly and consistently misrepresent your presentation of what is in the news. I am not going to make a list as it would be too long and I am not going to waste my time..not worth it and your not worth it!! You are a biased liberal and you spin the news accordingly.
Besides, all one needs to look at is the above article where you state “as it would keep a party, hell-bent on fundamentally crippling the government’s ability to govern” and understand it is a blatant lie!!!
You speak as though this is a fact when in fact it is only your opinion, which you are entitled to, but you are not entitled to make up your own facts!!
The GOP is trying to stop Obama from doubling down on his failed policies that have passed and failed…..they are not “crippling the governments ability to govern” like you state!! You are just reiterating liberal talking points, which in my opinion, are pretty childish and unprofessional for a reporter of the news to stoop to!! Takes away credibility, which is why the lame stream media has become immaterial to most.
You act like anyone who disagrees with Obamas socialist policies are obstructionists….that is called politics and it has been going on as long as there have been governments.

Bachmann, “Parry” and Huntsman are done.  Cain is just getting started, and there is no reason to believe that he can’t win the presidency.  He’s already won the GOP FL straw poll, the GOP women’s straw poll and if he gets the nomination, it will all come down to the Independents, the same people who put Obama in the White House and are now 2 to 1 in disapproval of his presidency.

So full of hatred and lack of facts. Fear? barry has been exploiting fear for the last 4 yrs. You cheer barry, because he gave up a million dollar salary? Wow, ignorance is bliss.

Hey Tommy !

Kudos for calling out O’Donnell…he badly needed that.
Do you see his behavior as isolated, or part of a bigger meltdown at MSNBC? 

Take for example:
Bashir’s viscous attack of Palin during his “tribute” to Steve Jobs 
Ed’s thin skinned and arrogant walk-off over Dylan’s critique of the Jobs bill.

I’m a Conservative, so to be honest, I find their actions quite amusing. MSNBC’s ratings continue to decline. So does the Dem’s chances in the 2012 elections. Is it time for a little corporate (Comcast) intervention over there?
 

The real heros of the civil rights movement were the teenagers who stood up to the angry white mobs while many of their peers were afraid of messing up their resumes. Like I said, nothing wrong with that, but history has shown that the true victory goes to the righteous, not to those who stood by and watched.

Good God man, another conservative “cheerleading”?  Talk about lies and distortion, and hyperbole. Right out of the DNC playbook. Keep spewing, some dopes will believe it.

With is hosts like Larry O’Donnell, is there any wonder why MSDNC is consistently last in the ratings. Herman Cain is a great American success story and to be questioned in that manner should be insulting to all right thinking African Americans. MSNBC is the lowest of the low. They have no shame.

Dflojak, meet Joe Scarborough and Dylan Ratigan.  Joe Scarborough and Dylan Ratigan, meet Dflojak.  

For that matter, meet the rest of the conservatives who routinely appear on the network:  Michael Steele (former RNC Director), Steve Schmidt (former McCain/Palin aid), Nicole Wallace (former McCain/Palin aid), Pat Buchanan (former contender for GOP presidential nomination), Susan Del Percio (Republican strategist), Todd Harris (Republican strategist), Mike Murphy (Republican strategist)…

These were only the ones I knew off the top of my head.  I’m happy to look for more.

It’s amazing how fired up the rightwing nutjobs here get about a low-rated episode of low-rated cablenews programming.

I’m fairly certain I rejected the very notion of making this about Fox News.  

As I said, I would never want “What Would Fox News Do?” to be my standard.

Tommy Christopher: “I found myself doing just that. “What the f***?…Are you f***ing kidding me?”

That’s weird, ’cause that the same thing I was thinking when you were interviewing that NBPP dude, Shizzle McDizzle, or something like that, a couple of years ago. I thought you were going to cry and pee.

so go navy–
where are the lies?
where is the hate?
what has  our president done to push fear? he has done nothing but push conservative plans..
he is has not exploited the war or the economy like the cons..
he has asked to make our education better, do not fire teachers and nurses and warned we are falling behind–all true..
and for a top Harvard Law student with the Law Review credentials—1 millon a year is very viable..
even if it was 500k, 200k or even 100k–he still gave it up to go back into empoverished communities to help the poor…
and that is more than YOU or any of your so called compassionate conservatives have ever done..
SHOW ME ONE CONSERVATIVE THAT HAS GIVEN UP A SALARY TO HELP THE POOR–JUST ONE…
lies? look in the mirror..
hate? ya–you are filled with it..
but truth–i have the facts~

I just wonder when LO’D is going to get around to trashing Obama’s drunken, bigamist, deadbeat, deceased Daddy.

There’s no such thing as a highly rated show on MSNBC.

That’s because you have no standards.

As a socialist (who had a fortune under the capitalist system) he hates anyone like Cain. Won’t life be “great” under a Lennist system in the USA?

Cain is running for president. O’Donnell isn’t.

The difference may have escaped your focused scrutiny, but what Cain did in the past is relevant, while O’Donnell’s past is not.

That is irrelevant.  The hard news segments on every channel but FOX lean left.  Well I take that back, FOX has Shep, who’s also a liberal and isn’t afraid to show it.  A majority of American’s believe there is a liberal media bias.  You’ve already lost this fight. You can keep denying it, but it just further diminishes any credibility you have left. 

Why don’t we start the body count with the Middle Passage during the slave trade, and two and half centuries of chattel slavery? 

“It has been estimated that in 1600,
the population of Africa stood at about 50 million people,
or thirty per cent of the combined populations of the New
World, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. By 1900 the
population of Africa had grown to 70 million, but made up
only ten per cent of the total combined population.
Furthermore, the population of Africa in 1850 has been
estimated to have been only about half of what it would have
been had slavery and the slave trade not been a factor in
African history.”

http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/migrations/four5.html

”
In Slavery A World History, Milton Meltzer estimates that 10 million
slaves arrived in the Americas. This would be the residue after 12.5% of those
shipped out from Africa died on the ocean, 4-5% died while waiting in harbor,
and 33% died during the first year of seasoning.

In the chapter on African population in the Atlas of World Population
History (1978), Colin McEvedy estimates that 9.5 million African slaves were
imported into the Americas between 1500 and 1880. He also suggests a 15%
mortality rate on the ocean.”

http://thegiftoflife.info/slavery.htm

  I’m here to douse every false cross of racist lies about Black and White death in the Western Hemisphere right wingers want to light in here.

As far as Herman Cain goes?  Hell no. Lawrence O’Donnell was KIND to this man. He didn’t request his college transcripts calling his academic credentials into question. O’Donnell called Cain out on CAIN’S own writings, words and policies.  Because Cain doubled down on all of his positions doesn’t mean he handled the questions “well.”  This interview was a confirmation to ALL conscious minorities, African-Americans in particular, as exactly what Herman Cain is.

 Bravo, Mr. O’Donnell.

–Cobra

I also don’t like Herman Cain, for a variety of good reasons, some of
which O’Donnell touched on in his interview. His victory in the GOP
primary race would be great for America, as it would keep a party,
hell-bent on fundamentally crippling the government’s ability to govern,
out of the White House for at least four more years.

Why wouldn’t America dump a black poseur for a genuine black man, Tommy? He could win quite a few black votes and independents by asking Cain’s wife how proud she was of America alone.

Cain could also show great accomplishments outside of government and academe. Barry would have to hide his deeper.

Cain has probably put more black men to work, while 0bama has cost black unemployment to rise to 16.2%. Wow, I think Can could make a great bumper sticker right there. Leftists like bumper stickers, don’t they Tommy?

Cain has never admitted to taking drugs which would have excluded him from being anywhere near sensitive material in the Military. Barry was a pot smoking punk who grew up adoring his communist loving father who had more marriages than Barry has term papers under his belt. A daddy who died of alcoholism. His finger is on the nuclear trigger.

Cain has run several successful businesses and made them profitable. 0bama is turning America into one great Enron scam. Fundamentally crippling America’s ability to remain the freest nation on the planet. Wow, hes managed to do that in just under 3 years.

They say the third time’s a charm, Tommy. We had the first black president, BJ Clinton. 0% black. We have the second black president 50% black. Lets have the third black president be the real think, Tommy. Surely America can get behind a real black president? Even your liberal buddies could assuage their white guilt once and for all?

come on big boy–show where the lies are..
i can say you are a fake navy wanna be who wears your mothers panties—
but that would make me like YOU..
so please—if you are going to call me names–have the courage to back up your stupid crap..
unless you are another grad schooler playing hooky just causing problems..
and i will play a gam with YOU..
i will post every conservative publicy CHEERLEADING Vientam and Irag and you post every liberal publicy against the troops—and i will give you 1000 for everyone you have and you give me 1000 for everyone i have..
very simple–if you are not a liar–you will make out ok..
but you are a liar–aren’t you?
and you are a fake and a phoney–right?
you are a little nobody–maybe a stay at home wife with nothing to do?
sad really~

where are the lies?”

Where are they, you ask?

Here they are:

Close Gitmo? End rendition? End warrantless wiretaps? End the Patriot Act? Unemployment not to exceed 8%? Provide a missile shield to the Czech Republic and Poland? Transparency? Health Care debate will be carried on C-Span? His mother was denied Health Care coverage? Shovel ready jobs? No lobbyists in his administration? Americans want higher taxes? Pledge to cut the deficit in half during his 1st term? USA involvement in Libya will be in days not weeks?  Pledge not to rest until the BP leak stopped?  ObamaCare Fee is not a new tax?  His pledge to “immediately” implement “Pay-As-You-Go.” No Earmarks in the $787 Billion Stimulus? 2010:Obama vows to cut huge deficit in half in first term? Obama promises a comprehensive immigration bill in his 1st year

“what has our president done to push fear? ”

No SS checks, no welfare checks, the Repubs will throw Granny over a cliff, the Repubs  HC bill is to “die quickly”, etc.

Compared with the network news, nothing on cable is highly rated.

Why is it that “Thinking for oneself” = “Agreeing with White Conservative Males”?

–Cobra

O’Donnell was such a clown.
I half expected him to ask Cain if his favorite food was fried chicken and if not…why not.

Why don’t you realize that many, many  countries had slavery back in the 1770s-1800s and Africa still has countries that do today and that today is 2011 and not 1600 and that all your whining and bitching will not change history, you pathetic racist cry baby!

LOL

yeah, I love your revisionist history of indigent teenage blacks riding from town to town to protest.

Try again.

Your straw man argument may do well in your universe, but it doesn’t fly here on planet earth. Criticism of a republican’t presidential candidate isn’t a choice between the sacred market and marxism, it’s just criticism. Deal with it.

You should praise Nixon for ending the war that Lyndon Johnson escalated.  And you left Clinton off your draft dodger list.  Those 18 year old boys “died in vain” because Democrats cut funding after US troops withdrew, allowing the commies to win.  Just like they did in Cambodia.  

In 1975 then-Representative Christopher Dodd of Connecticut said of our ally Lon Nol: “calling the Lon Nol regime an ally is to debase the word…. The greatest gift our country can give to the Cambodian people is peace under Pol Pot, not guns. And the best way to accomplish that goal is by ending military aid now.”

Which the Democrats did. The killing fields followed. 

Well, compared to American Idol, let’s cancel all other shows then.

Rolls eyes.

No, the article is not fair.   However, O’Donnell is a disgrace,and I watched the clip and wondered how any decent person could be so disrespectful.  These were PREPARED QUESTIONS.

Here is the fundamental problem with your premise:  The US mainstream media is almost 100% corporate-owned. 

You simply CANNOT argue with a straight face that the very corporations that have benefitted from our corporate structure – and have spent the past 30-40 years consolidating their corporate power – are promoting some leftist view that seeks to destroy or diminish the power of corporations.  It. Makes. No. Sense.

The fact that conservatives have successfully waged a 30-year “liberal media” propaganda campaign means nothing.

I watched this interview and must say that I was luke warm about Cain but he was very, very impressive with these ridiculous questions.  Lawrence was really trying to embarrass Cain with his inane questions but the way Cain handled them actually was pretty impressive. 

Racially charged because he was asking Mr. Cain to clarify his military status? Typical RW arrogance and double standards. You had no problem asking the duly elected President of the United States – elected with a mandate so big that it hasn’t been matched in the past 2 decades — for his PAPERs. And you think THIS IS RACIALLY TINGED!  What happened to “just b/c u disagree doesn’t mean ur racist.” The hypocrisy!

LOL

Nothing  I enjoy more than seeing lib racism!

Come on libby, use the “N” word- it rolls right off your tongue ya have used it so often!.

Yeeeeeeeeeeee, haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

And did YOU JACOB, see his epic takedown of Orly, his epic takedown of Joe Walsh, etec., etc., etc. You are so full of crap, as are most Faux News viewers. Pathetic.

says another libby whack job!

What is it with you people you can’t call anyone by their give names. Our President becomes Barry. Lawrence O’Donnell becomes Larry, but you have a problem when Dems call Mitt by his actual GIVEN name?  Get a grip.

Kudos to Mediaite for the best depiction possible of the bias inherent in O’Donnell specifically and MSNBC in general.

you need to be called STONEDpark..
#1–these are not lies–a lie is when you say YOU KNOW THERE ARE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION and you do not.
2. the president claimed the stimulous SHOULD get unemployment down-no promises–a lie is when people say he did promis and he did not or when they say there were no jobs created–when there were.
see the difference in lies and projections?
and again–the president never said there would be no ss checks-he said he could not guarantee–and he could not. and it was the cons with granny off of a cliff in the bush years and cons with death panels and cons COMMUNISM..
and the cons HC bill IS to die quickly—becuase almost 50 millions have little to no health care at all..
and what is the cons solution? go to church? if it is NOT to die quickly–what the hell is it?
so YOU have posted the lies..
if the president had things he tried to do and the cons stopped it–you cannot say the man lied..but you know this–and as cons do–project YOUR OWN sins on others..
at least we all know that WHAT YOU DO IS EVEN DESPISED BY YOU..
just as we see the hate in the rallies–that were onced praised as patriotic..now condemned as antiamerican?? really?
THE MIRROR IS AN UGLY TRUTH HUH?
now where is that birth certificate?

Your use of wikipedia is impressive. Your luck of having been born into the present circumstances is to be commended. Anyone not so lucky envies your life  and accomplishments which are due totally to your hard work and ambition. The rest of us are in awe.

He pretty much lied a lot … but rwnjs never seem to acknowledge that .. always the victim.

The epic disrespect (where are you papers) for our elected President is racist. The epic questioning of a political candidate is news.  So sad you all don’t see the difference.

Racially charged because he was asking Mr. Cain to clarify his military status? ”

What was Biden’s military status? Oh, that’s right- 5 deferments!

” What happened to “just b/c u disagree doesn’t mean ur racist.”

you libs still haven’t accepted that, dear!

Of course, that makes no sense, since O’Donnell’s criticism is apparently about his weakness with regard to the movement, not on stereotypical views of his race.

Did you watch the video?

You defend ODonnell for not going to Vietnam by saying he always opposed the war yet O’Donnell tried to make Cain look unpatriotic for NOT enlisting like “John Kerry did”.  See the big picture and be consistent.

The terms socialist and communist just run off the liberal clown’s back. Audio is unfazed by socialism and communism. One they are clueless about the harm, and two it is the only way they think they will “get theirs”. Losers every one of them.

Notice the clown has his cliché “straw man” argument at the ready? Even though the once capitalist LOD has admitted to being in favor of his socialism. He’s made his in America. It’s time to stay on top for LOD with little lapdogs like Audio7 yapping yes, yes, throw me MY bone. You are contemptible to even LOD, lapdog, because you are what he would call very low on the useful idiot rung.

I have no problem with mitt- but you seem to.

Well, at least Clinton didn’t make people think he was in the war.  Oh, and BTW, how do you explain GWB being missing most of the time he was in the National Guard … ah, forgot about that.  I will never praise Nixon for lying over and over to this country.  Too bad we never impeached Bush — “Clinton lied, but nobody died.”  Bush’s lies lead to over 6,000 US deaths and countless hundreds of thousands of others , so let’s stick with modern history, ok?

Yes, my post was filled wiith hatred……LMAO! The problem is your hatred is so vexing you can’t see past it.  We’ll talk when  barry leaves office and he gives up the”millions”.
You broadbrush of all conservatives is nauseating, you are what you complain them to be.  Guess you never heard of John Murtha, although Murtha did serve, he was a war machine propagandist.  And when he thought it was politically correct, he threw the Marines under the bus.  Can you guess what his party was? So all your hyperbole means nothing, the Ameican peo0ple are sick of the extremists, and you fit right in there.  Good luck with that.

LOL

man, you must be mighty ignorant if you think you have to look up everything ya post.

I suggest you get an educated- start with the 1st. grade this time.

I grew up with people who rode the buses, cars and even their feet to fight the angry white mobs. I also grew up with those who were in the mobs.  History really doesn’t care what you think.

Cain is a retrograde oligarch who says if you are unemployed in America then you are lazy.  Cain is an anti-Muslim bigot.  Cain tax ideas are as loony as your Randian fetishes, Danielson. 

He would nightmare anywhere near anything but a pizza joint.  Heck, this entire exercise was just an excuse to hype a book.  No one in America is more surprised that immigrant bashing, Muslim bigotry, and not being Willard Romney can take you to the top of the Party than Herman Cain

More comments from you, please.

#1–these are not lies-”

They are lies!

LIES! LIES! Liberal LIES!

Where is the Immigration bill? Is Gitmo closed? pay as you go?

LOL

ALL LIES!

Didn’t know idol was a news program. Your lack of reading skills is awesome.

Why don’t we talk about which race rapes, robs and murders the other–today? I hope you have talents other than cutting and pasting.

no sir, i do not owe you a apology. your article here like many others you write tries to soften the blow from the left’s perspective. odonnoll was being a ass just ass hank williams jr was being a ass. my opinion of your writing style and bias is just that “my opinion”. you do not have to like it sir

The difference between American Idol and this Republican primary is that there is a modicum of talent on American Idol.

Oh, and that even Ryan Seacrest is not so money-grubbing that he would caught near any of the half-wits and crazies running for the R nomination

The difference between American Idol and this Republican primary is that there is a modicum of talent on American Idol.

Oh, and that even Ryan Seacrest is not so money-grubbing that he would caught near any of the half-wits and crazies running for the R nomination

No history doesn’t care what I think but it refutes the lies you post!

Yes, quite the liar whatever you say, now come in off the ledge.  Another of the level headed libs. Call you names? Surely you are delusional.  Have a nice life.   This site needs an ignore the crazy function.

Thank you for the opening.  Lawrence has never ONCE made ANY anti-troop statement.  The GOP on the other hand cares so much about our troops they blocking all of these bills that would support veterans?   So, stop lying, and making crap up. I support my posts with facts.  http://tinyurl.com/44repja

What you passed up your usual straw man card??? And still dodged the question. You liberals are like card sharps. Your favorite cards: Dodge, weave, evade, smoke screen, blame, accuse, and run.

What you passed up your usual straw man card??? And still dodged the question. You liberals are like card sharps. Your favorite cards: Dodge, weave, evade, smoke screen, blame, accuse, and run.

Disgusting interview, is O’Donnell trying to undermine Cain as not being black enough? Is this the new liberal tactic that we get to see unfold as they try to discredit Cain’s personal experience growing up black in America with segregation, racism and intolerance – by questioning whether or not he suffered enough, whether or not his action were worthy enough? Seriously!  Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to sit at the back of the bus, a grown woman not a HS student.

Wish they had picked apart the fiction in Obama’s book “Dreams of my Father” At least Cain’s father stuck around to give advice, understanding the history and consequences of a young black student in Atlanta during the sit-ins and the civil rights. 

Handling the likes of O’Donnell with grace must be something else Cain learned from his father.

Disgusting interview, is O’Donnell trying to undermine Cain as not being black enough? Is this the new liberal tactic that we get to see unfold as they try to discredit Cain’s personal experience growing up black in America with segregation, racism and intolerance – by questioning whether or not he suffered enough, whether or not his action were worthy enough? Seriously!  Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to sit at the back of the bus, a grown woman not a HS student.

Wish they had picked apart the fiction in Obama’s book “Dreams of my Father” At least Cain’s father stuck around to give advice, understanding the history and consequences of a young black student in Atlanta during the sit-ins and the civil rights. 

Handling the likes of O’Donnell with grace must be something else Cain learned from his father.

I didn’t say it was.Your lack of reading skills is awesome

He didn’t just insult Herman Cain, he insulted his father too. O’Donnell knows he’ll have the left (i.e. the mainstream media) on his side and therefore need not fear repercussions to his career.

Yep, TC is racist and is mad at Lawrence of Arabia for showing the dark underbelly of libertal racism.

So Herman Cain was supposed to have the foresight to know he was going to run for President over forty years later? GIVE ME A BREAK!

Fact: Not all black males presented themselves to public floggings in some marches!

Cain served as a civilian employee for the Navy during the war and contributed. That’s enough. It’s more than Lawrence O’Donnell did.

Uh, do you people all own TV stations?  Why the hell do you care what MSNBC’s ratings are?  If TV rating made something valuable then we would be hailing President Charlie Sheen

He was just more hypocritical and douche baggey than usual

Yawn

Do you have an “Off Button?” Press it!

If the words of any president  scare you, you should be medicated.

Disrespect=racist? These are the statements that qualify you as a dingbat.

Willard.

Geez, she must have needed hospitalized with all the terms that GWB was called LMAO!

i did not dend odonnell–i just ponted out the lies..
as far as cain? he was the one who used Martin Luther in his commericals—and yet never had the courage to get his hands dirty–
that is the big picture and always has been..
the religous right –being very anti christian.
the war mongers–never fighting but always profiting..
that is the big picture–if you are for war–fight in it…
if you are for civli rights and want to be a hero–at least get out into the streets..
cain would be a no named pizza guy if not for obama..just a palin would be a dead end 1 term governor if not for obama and clinton..
everything good that come from the gop–is a direct influece of something that a liberal had to fight for.
cons sit on our shoulders and squawk about how tall they are..
that is the big picture~

Jesus TapDancing Christ, Junior.. did you actually imply that the liberals who post here are generally factual?

You have to be kidding… unless everyone here who posts and is to the right of Che Gueverra is a “toothless, inbred redneck” who “wants to murder black people and homosexuals”, then you couldn’t be further from the truth.

A utopian classless society with an all-intelligent, selfless elite with godlike omnipotence who knows how to distribute goods and services better than the free market is not earth. It’s more like la-la land.

that is how i see your writing’s tommy, you give the left the benefit of the doubt (Attkison story or non-story) and rick perry and his rock with your evidence being provided by unnamed sources. I see left slant in your articles, and that is my opinion nothing more nothing less

Fact: Blacks sold blacks for slavery and it’s all whitey’s fault!

LMAO — keep dreaming .. I find it hilarious that everyone here has posted really awful stuff about Tommy Christopher.  But, when he writes a supportive story of a RWNJ – then he’s great.  Jeesh you all just can’t be consistent.  If Herman Cain is so popular, tell me, why he couldn’t even get the Republican nomination for Senate in his home state?   I will take nothing away from what he has accomplished. He is clearly very smart, and has accomplished a hell of a lot. But, he is as bad for this country as any of these right wingers.  Repealing DADT? Tell me, how many military people have you spoken to? I’ve spoken with dozens who really don’t give a crap. He’s a typical right winger who thinks the first amendment is only for people who think like he does.   Being gay is a choice? Despite all the scientific evidence otherwise?  Get rid of the minimum wage? yeah, great idea given the state this country is in thanks to the do-nothing congress.

Care to cite some evidence, moonbat?

Oh sure, like Iraq?  You really are an idiot.

Wow, Mike, you were able to peer into O’Donnell’s soul and realize that his criticism of Cain’s not taking part in the Civil Rights movement is actually based upon his hatred of Civil Rights.

Do you have other voices in there too?

nd if you think there’s no way a black Republican has no chance of
unseating the black Democrat in this election, you’re seriously deluded

Uh, Tommy didn’t say a black man couldn’t beat Obama. He said CAIN can’t beat Obama. You know, because he has no power base (he’s never been elected to anything), because he’s a anti-Muslim bigot who hates poor people and worked on TARP.  The fact that all you see when you look at Cain is that he is an African-American and not his toxic political views says way more about you than it does Lawrence or Tommy

Beyond that, you are talking about a news outlet that actually FIRED its hosts for daring to question the Iraq War.  There were no fewer than two at MSNBC who lost their jobs for this very reason – Phil Donahue and Ashleigh Banfield.

Then there is also the despicable way with which that bastion of “liberalism” –  the New York Times – actually sat on a story about illegal wiretapping for over a year so as not to frustrate George W. Bush’s reelection efforts.  

I mean, really.  The facts simply do not reflect support argument.

Now who’s lying?  Jersey never said TC was a racist, he said he wants him to fail. 

This interview was so offensive. Not only the civil rights drilling, but the Vietnam portion as well. 

O’DONNELL: I am offended on behalf of all the veterans of the Vietnam War who joined, Mr. Cain. The veterans who did not wait to be drafted like John Kerry who joined. They didn’t sit there and wait to find out what their draft board was going to do. They had the courage to join and to go and fight that war. What prevented you from joining, and what gives you the feeling that after having made that choice you should be the Commander-in-Chief?

When did O’Donnell serve in Vietnam? His bio doesn’t mention anything about military service, or Vietnam. He was 18 in 1969…. 

When did Clinton serve in Vietnam? When did Obama serve during the Gulf War? 

O’Donnell took a portion of Cains book, it sounds like, where Cain said during high school he kept his head down. Does that mean he never did anything when he was older? Where does Crazy Larry O’Donnell, a privileged white Harvard student during that time, get off lecturing a black kid from Atlanta on the civil rights movement? Seriously, oh my gawd, that was so offensive.

That person is a regular reader, and she posted a lie about what I said. I wouldn’t expect an apology from a random troll. 

Actually, if you listen to the clip, he says he was in high school and that it was the college kids who were the backbone of the movement. 

Agreed. I’m sold on Cain’s ability to handle the scrutiny of the political stage that comes with being a Republican nominee. O’Donnell’s show is definitely one of the tougher forums to go into (this is a guy who has shouted down a Vietnam veteran calling him a “creep” and “liar”) and came out unmarked while making O’Donnell look like the partisan tool he is. CAIN 2012

Oops sorry Jason, that wasn’t directed at you. 

Yes, Tommy is right, Cain should be thanking Psycho Larry!

http://www.zogby.com/news/2011/10/06/ibope-zogby-poll-cain-expands-lead-over-gop-field-leads-obama-46-44/

Yes some more immigrant coddling is in order right?

What kind of language is this? Check out the bold.

timb116 5 minutes ago in reply to NDanielson

Cain is a retrograde oligarch who says if you are unemployed in
America then you are lazy.  Cain is an anti-Muslim bigot.  Cain tax
ideas are as loony as your Randian fetishes, Danielson.  He
would nightmare anywhere near anything but a pizza joint. Heck, this
entire exercise was just an excuse to hype a book.  No one in America is
more surprised that immigrant bashing, Muslim bigotry, and not being
Willard Romney can take you to the top of the Party than Herman Cain

You don’t even know who is running on the republican ticket for the nomination? Can you dissemble more for us? Yes point at Cain, dodge about 0bama. You liberals are classics. Cain doesn’t mind calling a spade a spade, and I believe if you go back you’d find that Cain’s “problem” with Muslims are the ones that call themselves terrorists??? Too bad clowns on your side don’t have that “problem”.

More nonsense than anything near a reply. This is what is known as a non-answer. These boards are full of them by your lefty clowns. They are overrun by them here on Mediaite. Your buddy tbag is the queen of dodge and weave.

Fact: Again Bush isn’t the president now!

brandondarby Brandon Darby  by marychastain
Watch an identity-politics player tell a successful Black man how wrong his successful life has been. @theHermanCain

awesome tweet.

“as it would keep a party, hell-bent on fundamentally crippling the government’s ability to govern” is a self-evident characterization.

Why can’t you stay on topic, libby boy?

Lily, you are delusional.

Well, it was pretty obvious that Cain supported the Civil Rights movement, so I guess one question about why, if he supported it, didn’t he do anything about it is valid.  However, Cain’s father provided him advice about what to do and he did it.  I don’t think it’s wrong for a parent to more concerned with the safety of his children then in a political movement. It’s one reason we laud the men and women who DID participate;  they were putting everything on the line

Um, you do remember all of the Dems that voted for the war in Iraq right?  And it’s not because we love war, moron. 

So many words. So little content.

Trying to point out how liberals play the race card when it suits your purposes and expose how you engage in the same behavior you decry as racism is not hyporcrisy. It’s exposing liberal hypocrisy which is rampant. 

You should spend more time surfing and less time pretending to think.

Where was Joe Biden during Vietnam?

BTW, unlike Jesse Jackson, Cain didn’t dip a handkerchief into MLK’s blood as he lay dying

Is that because he wasn’t there?  By that time he was 23, what was his excuse for not standing up for the right of workers?

Was the lefts disrespect for Bush also racist?

What country are you living in, pal?

Don’t you see all the jobs Obama has created… or errr saved?

Don’t you see how the American people have come together and united for the greater good?

Look at the defecit shrinking… were fast on our way to a balanced budget.. all we need to do is get rid of those racist Republicans so we can tax the ever loving crap out of anyone who creates jobs.. you know, the “evil capitalist pigs” who dared to get off their couch, take a risk, and employ millions of Americans.

Did Obama not pay your mortgage and fill your gas tank like he has for the rest of us? Did you not receive your magical unicorn that farts skittle rainbows like the rest of us?

Look around you, America is great again. You’re racist if you don’t see it.

timb116 4 minutes ago in reply to Audio7
More comments from you, please.

Hillarious! More comments from you please. Some one doesn’t want to look like the only one with idiot liberal posts! LO f’nL. That’s classic! Bail him out Audio!

Say what you want.  Cain said he was in high school and specifically said he was under 18 during the height of the civil rights issues and when he was confronted with the fact that he was in college from 63-67, he got pissed.  In his book, he stated he consciously did not participate in the civil rights fight. That man is a coward.

Have you never paid attention to the Civil Rights movement?  It was composed of young people.  Go and read about the sit-ins.  Those were high school and college kids.

I’d say you were revising history, but I have no faith you knew any of it to start with

Has Lawrence O’Donnell ever interviewed Obama?  Did he read his books and did he question anything in those books?  Has he ever questioned Obama on anything?

I’m always glad when our resident racist weighs in.  Hey Cobra, what’s Whitey done to keep you down today?

Whitey’s keeping me down!! 

Your comment has point? 

Because their low ratings are evidence of the inferior product they put out

Then why did we go to Iraq after 9/11?  Bush wanted that war…he needed that war and he got it.  We will never bge able to pay this thing off though. 

He was in HS in 1961 when the Freedom Riders started- he was in college in 1963.

Because it’s blatant and obvious hypocrisy.

Who/Where are these liberals pushing Cain? I’d like to see that.

That wasn’t funny the 1st. 100 times you posted it.

Your logical reasoning and debate skills are “awesome”

At first cain said he was in high school during the civil rights fight.  It turns out, he lied.  He was in Moorehouse from 63-67 in Atlanta in the middle of the biggest civil rights fight in our history and he didnt participate. 

Coward.

Your grammar is “awesome” too.

My, you certainly are a former Republican. Real Republicans LOVE Socialists!

Do you actually think you’re fooling anyone?

Your name is so, so fitting!

Well Limbaugh led off his show with the Cain story, he just went up another few points in the polls.
TC is unhappy b/c LO looks like a fool in his exchanges with Cain who BTW has been more successful in his life than any employee/news readers at MSDNC. 

And you are totally unsuccessful!

The CR movement is considered to have run from 1955-1968- so all blacks should have been involved for all those years or you are a coward?

The best part about these Racial Dissociation Rituals, where blacks are formally cast from their skin color, is that they’re purely a Twenty Percenter exercise.

No one who is not a committed liberal partisan has any need to reconcile Herman Cain’s blackness with any other part of their worldview. This is wholly a totemic excommunication ritual on the part of ardent believers. Some of them – the less intelligent – simply can’t bring themselves to oppose a black guy in purely platonic terms, so they have to indulge in this behavior.

That it’s viscerally abhorrent to everyone outside the twenty five percent or so of the public who are completely and irrevocably committed to voting for Barack Obama (and half of them as well, see: this post) is immaterial to the need for the purging; they literally cannot help themselves. They wouldn’t be able to maintain their own beliefs if they didn’t refute the contradictions, however ugly it looks.

I have no problem with people debating the tone of this interview and whether O’Donnell was too aggressive in his questioning. But what everyone is missing is the fact that Cain has still not provided a coherent explanation of his 9-9-9 plan. This is the centerpiece of his campaign and it sounds like nothing more than a scheme to transfer even MORE wealth to the top one or two percent of the country by shifting the tax burden to the working poor.

Why aren’t any of his supporters defending his plan? Probably because it’s a $hit sandwich and they need to switch the subject to O’Donnell.

Not sure about Tommy, but I’d saying allowing yourself to serve as a token for a movement which doesn’t believe racism exists (except toward the poor white male) and stands against the economic interests of everyone non-wealthy person in America counts.

Although, the term Uncle Tom is so loaded and gross, I, as a white guy, would NEVER throw that label at someone; I certainly would understand someone else doing so

Has Obama ever served in the military?  Did he march in the civil rights protests?

And you have no counter-argument, so you devolve to name-calling.

Larry just doesn’t like black people. It couldn’t get any more obvious. Which, they keep beating him up, so…

http://tinyurl.com/6ggreqh

Make it up tim- BTW, it doesn’t even matter this is 2011- not 1963-  I mean it’s not as though Cain sat in a church for 20 years and listened to a racist minister say “GD America” and then  call that man his “mentor.”

How is it that Cain had to sign up for the movement…  it seems to me that back in the 60′s Atlanta was still a place where one just might be killed for being an uppity black bringing dissent into their streets.  Listen to the Shirley Sherrod speech where she describes her father being killed in the front lawn of his home, Atlanta was hardly any different.  Cain made a difference by working his ass off and becoming someone who was able to break through…  but that means little to you on the left, instead of admiring his accomplishment during the most trying times in our country you instead denigrate him for his commitment to making something of himself.  The left is laughable, you can’t just see Cain as a man who is trying to offer something to his country, you have to bring his race into your argument and hold him to your lofty standards as to what it means to be a black man in this country and measure his blackness against your liberal benchmarks…  Sorry Tim, Cain does not nor never has lived on your plantation..  He is not like Obama, he is not going to isolate and try to appeal to each minority in a different manner.  He evaluates his policy by simple standards, is this good for my country, and is this going to be good for our economy.  He will leave the racial and minority politics up to Obama and his minions.

Says who? Where do you get the idea that corporate = conservative? Jeff Immelt? Warren Buffett?

Is that what Dems tell them, Michelle?  Can you prove that? It would have to be published or said by a public figure, ’cause Lord knows in 80% Caucasian Utah*, you aren’t getting an accurate personal sampling, are you?

*According to the 2010 Census Utah’s percentage of black residents is 0.9%.  So, most likely, Michelle can’t even lie and says she has black friends

http://www.hermancain.com/999plan
http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/dean-clancy/herman-cains-999-plan-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugl

no sir, i do not owe you a apology. you get your shots in to soften the blow from the left’s perspective which is your right. most of your articles have that slant. this is my opinion of your writing sir, you dont have to like it

Stop screwing your daughters and nieces and we won’t have to worry about that.

Did Lawrence O’Donnell serve in the military or evade the draft through college deferment?

That’s insane. At that measurement, ALL news is an inferior product, since reruns of Family Guy on TBS draw more viewers than cable news

It’s easy to sit in your parents basement on your little computer and call the man a coward, but I’m assuming you did not live during the 1960′s when black Americans were murdered, spit on, abused by police, banned from entering certain stores and businesses, etc. If you had you would not make such an ignorant and offensive statement.

I’m willing to bet you’ve taken no proactive steps to foster any kind of social and political change. Have you refused to be subjected to invasive pat downs by TSA? Have you ever attended a protest of any kind? Do you even vote?  

Typical fox viewer.

Cain may be the president with ideas like redoing the tax code which could eliminate taxes for people of his economic class.  Those defending him so rabidly probably don’t have a clue what he stands for.

LOL

It was actually worse than I thought-

JJ wiped MLK’s blood on to his shirt:

From Andrew Young:

“After they removed his body, Ralph Abernathy got a jar and started scraping up the blood and said, and crying it was Martin’s precious blood. This blood was shed for us. It was weird. But people freaked out and did strange things. Jesse put his hands in the blood and wiped it on the front of his shirt. I mean what do you do in a moment like that.

 And people did things that were thoughtless. They did things that reflected their own insecurities. But, everybody seemed to blame everybody else. But that’s what happens in a crisis when your leader’s gone. And it took us a while to pull back together.”

SHOW ME ONE CONSERVATIVE THAT HAS GIVEN UP A SALARY TO HELP THE POOR–JUST ONE…

Jon Huntsman, Sr. He’s giving up a fortune.

Just because someone doesn’t pick up a poster or march down a street doesn’t necessarily make them any less supportive of a cause.  Are you posting this comment from Wall street?

Just because someone doesn’t pick up a poster or march down a street doesn’t necessarily make them any less supportive of a cause.  Are you posting this comment from Wall street?

joe is a frothy little dweeb, isn’t he?

joe is a frothy little dweeb, isn’t he?

So, we need to medicate the entire left, then?

You miss Saddam, don’t you?

Why did the Dems agree with him?

Own goal Tommy!
Own goal!
This is a Blue on Blue crime!
Focus on the target man!
Focus!

Individual liberty, free markets, and a smaller and more accountable federal government are color blind ideas. It’s liberals who like to break people up into certain groups with special rights. We all share the same equal rights and liberties regardless of race, religion, or gender.

Actually, Danny, Cain said he wouldn’t let a Muslim serve in his administration

“Cain made it clear that he would treat applicants for his administration differently if they were from the Muslim faith”

I replied to you noting why his ideas are gross. If you can’t deal with the fact that his policies make him unelectable, then that’s not my problem

So, we are in agreement then. He was in high school.

So, we are in agreement then. He was in high school.

His 999 plan is just silly

Not to mention what a significant portion do to each other. In DC, a 15 year old black male stands a 1 in 12 chance of being murdered before he turns 45. The probability of being murdered by age 45 is 2.21 percent nationally
for all U.S. black males and 0.29 percent for all white males. It ain’t Whitey killing them.

Somebody up there sounds a little brainwashed.

Somebody up there sounds a little brainwashed.

I don’t find it weak. I find that his dad was being careful and that he did what his dad told him.

I was explaining what I thought Lawrence thought

I don’t find it weak. I find that his dad was being careful and that he did what his dad told him.

I was explaining what I thought Lawrence thought

You make a point about the interview a lot of people are overlooking.  Cain did get mad when he was caught lying about being in high school from 63-67.  O’Donnell was tough and aggressive but he is that way in a lot of interviews, because he tries to follow up when someone lies or gives a bullshit answer and I appreciate it.

So, we need to fear like the cons, then?

There, a comment just like yours.

Who says he’s a token? You? Who the fu*k are you, Timmah!?

Who says he’s a token? You? Who the fu*k are you, Timmah!?

your pass time is sucking rush limbaugh’s dick and attacking obama 100% of the time

Naw, the “lefts was” just disrespecting dubya for being dubya.  That was enough.

I’ve never done that joke before, but I will concede that the Republican nominees are so terrible that other people have probably made the point before

“Although, the term Uncle Tom is so loaded and gross, I, as a white guy, would NEVER throw that label at someone; I certainly would understand someone else doing so”

Wow, just wow……. 

The writer of this article stated in his article that if Herman Cain were to win the nomination that it would ensure the GOP to lose and Obama would be re-elected (paragraph 4)-do I have that right?  So does this mean writer is a liberal Democrat and that there is something in it for him to defend this WH? Has this writer covered Fast and Furious…Solyndra…etc…or is it not that important because it’s this WH and they can do no wrong?

How dare uppity Cain try to escape from the democrat party plantation!

Doesn’t he appreciate the low unemployment rate for blacks, the fine Teachers Union schools, the safe Public Housing, the high quality Medicaid, etc?

How dare Cain think for himself!

You’re comparing apples with oranges. Most people are not informed. They rather watch crap like American Idol rather than cable news or read People Magazine rather than The Economist. Now when you compare the audiences who watch cable news, MSNBC’s share of that demographic is at the bottom and for good reason. It’s a joke.

On a side note, I find it hilarious that liberals feign outrage over Fox News’ “style of journalism” yet have no qualms about MSNBC who have essentially copied the Fox News formula except from a liberal PoV.

Why did we go into Libya? Why is Barry continuing two wars? Why is Barry using killer drones in Afghan , Pakistan  and Yemen?

No, he’d be the National Jester. Which, he pretty much is.

Such a big head yet such a little brain.

He has explained this plan countless of times,,,and apparently you’re mathematically challenged.
I’m a 68 year old woman,,with no college,,,and even I can understand it,,and it’ is brilliant.
Go take some basic math courses before criticizing something you no nothing about.

In some cases. Not in all.  I’m sure it might hurt your brain to imagine, but some of those lynched blacks were accused of and believed to be guilty of some pretty terrible crimes and, breathe deeply now, some of them were even guilty. Another note that no one seems to give a shit about, whites were also lynched, including the white man who wa accused of murdering my great grandmother in 1922. In any case, what we have now is an interracial violence gap of epic proportions, not that anyone much cares. Least of all blacks, or the media or white liberals.

I doubt you do either.

Not in 1963 when he and Joe where in college.

You lose

The CR movement went from 1955-1968.

Where were you? In your parent’s basement?

As if you could read it.

Cain has revised and extended those remarks. Obama has let these remarks stand without comment.

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

No, the 70,000 page tax code we currently have is silly.

Over 200 comments already? This is crazy. I will say this.

There was nothing racially charged about Larry’s line of questioning. This is coming from a black perspective. It was uncomfortable to watch, but only because these are the types of things that are discussed in the privacy of black homes. You HAVE to acknowledge, however, that by Cain declaring he is a ****R.E.A.L.**** black man, he opened the door for questions that ASK just what the hell that means.

I will also assert that white people really shouldn’t declare what is or isn’t racism since they haven’t had to experience it. They seem to get it wrong 99% of the time! (The poor things.)

STOP WITH YOUR FACTS!!! MY LIES ARE THE TRVTH!!!!

Silly libbies. :)

What happened to the 4th Estate Tim, in all honesty where was the press during Obama’s meteoric rise to the top..  Not saying that Cain should not be asked hard questions, but this interview was over the top just as Tommy has suggested.  Where was the vetting of Obama?  Can you actually say that you are satisfied that the press upheld it’s responsibility in the last election?  The media avoided any hard questioning of Obama during his primary campaign…  If I am wrong about this I would welcome links to interviews of Obama that even begin to approach the intensity of this one…

Spot on. This tactic of the left to assert that if a black man is educated and has made himself successful is somehow “black on the outside, and white on the inside” is about as offensive and racist as you can get yet you hear no outrage from it. The left has no credibility when it comes to issues of race as they are maintaining a racial divide in this country through this disgusting garbage.  

Lawrence O’Donnell basically called Herman Cain’s dad an Uncle Tom who instilled Uncle Tom values on his son which caused him to sell out his black heritage and kiss up to whites in order to get ahead.  Furthermore, Herman Cain used his fake military service to dodge the draft to Vietnam.  I think this goes to show that Lawrence O’Donnell is an ignorant dingbat and Herman Cain just saved himself from criticizing Rick Parry’s ranch name.

“the fact that I was inclined to like O’Donnell, and dislike Cain, illustrates the degree to which O’Donnell crossed the line” -That’s how it came across to me.

In 63′ the President was 2 years old so it would have been hard for him to keep up with his fellow marchers. 

I need to get this off my chest:Lawrence O’Donnell  is,like Jeanne Garofalo a racist plain an simple.Lets face it the only reason MSNBC and O’Donnell like Obama is because he is NOT black.

This really sums up the typical black attitude toward “racial dialog”. It’s a lie. Blacks don’t want to have that conversation. And how can you possibly have an adult conversation with someone who thinks your perspective is a priori illegtimate?

Was O’Donnell tough and aggressive? Yes.  Was his interview despicable?  No.

Quite out there. But he has the truth and facts…LMAO! Firing teachers, nurses, wanting bridges to fall down.  And they think this is going to get barry elected again?  Good luck with that.

Almost every racist in the country today is on the side of Conservatives/Republicans/Tea Baggers. So all these racists they will suddenly give being racists and vote for Herman Cain because of this interview?

Yes, it can happen but only after the pigs start to fly.

America is still the land of opportunity. After all this guy grew up to be President:

http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://images.wikia.com/familymatters/images/2/20/Urkel.jpg&imgrefurl=http://familymatters.wikia.com/wiki/Steve_Urkel&h=400&w=276&sz=22&tbnid=fe9MeDxMJW4ptM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=62&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsteve%2Burkel%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=steve+urkel&docid=FCZvJQNTSv4zrM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OjSPTt2GAsjKsQLPhLSQAQ&ved=0CEoQ9QEwAg

I will also assert that white people really shouldn’t declare what is or isn’t racism since they haven’t had to experience it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APZ3-Lcbwmc

Hey, do you know of any neighborhoods that white people don’t dare walk through alone?

Here’s the thing about knowing what racism is: I’ve got a dictionary. Do you?

I’d like to ask O’Donnell  why he picks such questions??  Is it because the Democrats are scared out of their wits that a really intelligent man may win and now they have to beat him down about crap that happened 40 or 50 years ago?  Shame on O’Donnell,,MSNBC and all the other liberal stations that will undoubtedly try and rake Mr. Cain over the coals… It will have a huge backlash, I guarantee it.   I am fet up with the Media who do this to candidates… It will only make MORE people want Cain and vote for him.  O’Donnell ,,,,you are a FOOL!!

I think this website identifies Christopher as a columnist, not a reporter.  I am open to correction if I’m wrong about that.  While I agree with you that his characterization of the republican party as one that is ”hell-bent on fundamentally crippling the government’s ability to govern”  is offensive and false, I think its pretty clear its just his opinion. Like you, I vehemently disagree with almost all of his opinions, and your answer to this one was right on the money. As a fellow Colorado conservative I advise you to try to keep your blood pressure under control.  We’re going to need you in the next election.  And don’t be too hard on Tommy.  He’s just trying to land a job on MSNBC. 

Except for the black ones, who all vote Democrat.

The guy who observes that notices your movement is 80+ white people.

Are you upset, Pablo?

Didn’t post anything he said scared me, posted that he exploits fear.  Keep up.

OMG!  Are you for real?????  Nothing racially charged about LOD’s comments????

What the F**k is a “REAL BLACK MAN????  I don’t care what color you are..I know a racial attack when I hear one, and LOD was way out of line.

What a bunch of HYPOCRITES YOU LEFTIES ARE, black or white!

fine rebuttal as always

so, NPR is the gold standard of news?

I did not state a year-I asked if he had ever served in the military-period.

not born yet

You know, stoney, you’re such a frothing partisan hack, you missed the point that I have NOW agreed with you twice about Cain and the freedom rides and sit-ins.

Yes, it is so complicated

Nice lie- Cain specifically mentions the Freedom Rides which occurred in 1961, when he was 16!!!!!!!!

Cain was 10 when Parks did her thing.

you ought to learn a 2nd lanuguage that way you can be ignorant in multiple cultures.

Lawrence is not a war-monger. So if he dodged the draft, I have no problem with that.

A better question is, where were the rabid war mongers like Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Shawn Hannity during the Vietnam War?

That interview made O’Donnell look like an ass like all his interviews make him look like an ass.
Nothing new there.
But it was NOT a gift to Herb.  If Cain can’t handle such obvious baiting gotcha questions, like letting Larry lead him to admit that he thinks 81% of Americans are brainwashed IN THE FIRST MINUTE, then he is an idiot who is not ready to be anywhere near the presidency.

Lemme explain how things are going to work…..
In a week or two Rick Perry will make his comeback with that 17 million dollars he just received and Flavor-Of-The-Weak Herman Cain will be back down to single digits because he doesn’t have an organization or a chance and he is a joke of a candidate.

I don’t know why I have to explain the obvious to you teabaggers.

While surfing the TV last night,,I accidentally came across O’Donnell’s show as it was already in progress.   I paused to watch as I saw Mr. Cain,,who I really really admire.  I ALWAYS only watch FOX TV,,,and you can bet,  I’ll be sure NOT to watch MSNBC  ever again…What a pathetic attempt to disgrace Mr. Cain with all those idiotic questions about nothing.  Disgusting

No, it is not a self evident characterization…it is a deliberate character assassination of the truth by a biased liberal!!

Oh, look- it’s Barney Frank in drag!

Hi Barney!

“A real black man?” what would you know- you are in drag, Barney!

Wait, Pablo. Didn’t you notice all the blacks condeming him?

Oh, an equivalency argument? Thanks, pablo. The one thing this thread was missing was a “sure, Cain said that, but _____ said something else and that’s why Cain is blameless.”

Is your new crush, Pablo? First, Michelle, then Rick, and now Herman? You’ll just follow the flavor of the month anywhere

The Democrat Party and the Establishment Black Caucus and Money Making Machine. just looooove  to keep the African Americans down on their Big Government Plantation as slaves, which is EXACTLY what the poor suckers are who fall for their Bullshit! 

Wah-wah-  you a victim…you cain’t make it wif out us…we gonna take care o’ you from cradle to grave.  Yo not smart ‘nuf to make it wif out us.  So vote for us, boys, and stick wif us Democrats.  SUCKAS!!

I don’t think it was racially charged, but the implications were quite clear.  His father was an Uncle Tom that instilled Uncle Tom values on his son which caused him to betray his own race and kiss up to whitey and unlike his fellow brothers who were bore the brunt of the draft, he got a free pass from the draft.  He is a traitor to his race and to his country.  Personally, I think Lawrence O’Donnell should be ashamed of himself, but I guess that’s the level of discourse in America today.

He Should be fired

 mardec, it’s not about being black, it’s about being in touch with the black community.  I think LOD had a valid point on whether or not HC was true to his peeps, but I don’t think LOD should have asked him about it.  This is the type of stuff Rev. Al is for.  Oh well, LOD just had his Glen Beck moment.

You sound like a unemployed black Muslim, who hates pizza…and you’re afraid Cain may take your 
welfare checks away…

Did you know this about Herman Cain?

Herman Cain is running for president. He’s not a career politician (in fact he
has never held political office). He’s known as a pizza guy, but
there’s a lot more to him. He’s also a computer guy, a banker guy, and a
rocket scientist guy.
Here’s his bio:
Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics.

Master’s degree in Computer Science.

Mathematician for the Navy, where he worked on missile ballistics.

Computer systems analyst for Coca-Cola.

VP of
Corporate Data Systems and Services for Pillsbury (this is the top of
the ladder in the computer world, being in charge of information systems
for a major corporation).
All achieved before reaching the age of 35. Since he reached the top of the information systems world, he changed careers!
Business Manager. Took charge of Pillsbury’s 400 Burger King restaurants in the Philadelphia
area, which were the company’s poorest performers in the country. Spent
the first nine months learning the business from the ground up, cooking
hamburger and yes, cleaning toilets. After three years he had turned
them into the company’s best performers.

Godfather’s Pizza CEO. Was asked by Pillsbury to take charge of their Godfather’s
Pizza chain (which was on the verge of bankruptcy). He made it
profitable in 14 months.

In 1988 he led a buyout of the Godfather’s Pizza chain from Pillsbury. He was
now the owner of a restaurant chain. Again he reached the top of the
ladder of another industry.

He was also chairman of the National Restaurant Association during this time.
This is a group that interacts with government on behalf of the
restaurant industry, and it gave him political experience from the
non-politician side.
Having reached the top of a second industry, he changed careers again!

Adviser to the Federal Reserve System. Herman Cain went to work for the Federal
Reserve Banking System advising them on how monetary policy changes
would affect American businesses.

Chairman of the Kansas City
Federal Reserve Bank. He worked his way up to the chairmanship of a
regional Federal Reserve bank. This is only one step below the
chairmanship of the entire Federal Reserve System (the top banking
position in the country). This position allowed him to see how monetary
policy is made from the inside, and understand the political forces that
impact the monetary system.
After reaching the top of the banking industry, he changed careers for a fourth time!

Writer and public speaker. He then started to write and speak on leadership. His books include Speak as a Leader, CEO of Self, Leadership is Common Sense, and They Think You’re Stupid.

Radio Host. Around 2007—after a remarkable 40 year career—he started hosting a radio show on WSB in Atlanta (the largest talk radio station in the country).
He did all this starting from rock bottom (his father was a chauffeur and his
mother was a maid). When you add up his accomplishments in his
life—including reaching the top of three unrelated industries:
information systems, business management, and banking—Herman Cain may
have the most impressive resume of anyone who has run for the presidency
in the last half century.

Yes, I am satisfied that Obama’s two memoris, the anal probe examination of his pastor’s beliefs as if they were his own, and the investigation into his connections with some jackass from his neighborhood who blew stuff when Obama was 8 was dealt with.

Although, Florida, that’s not an issue here. My comment is about the idea that nothing has news value unless lots of people watch it.

Your fear of the guy in the WH is pervasive. Your side constantly screams that he’s taking our guns, he’s a socialist, he’s a commie, he’s taking our freedom, he’s hitler, he’s stalin, he’s unamerican, he’s kenyan, he’s not black enough, he’s too black etc.  The echo goes on and on ad nauseum.

Blacks in this country used to vote Republican. But that was before the Republicans turned anti-middle-class and anti-poor. And not to mention that now the Republicans prance around with every racist in the country.

So why should the Blacks not be voting Democrat now?

Of course, there’s also the subtle little point that by going to college, eventually getting an advanced degree, and succeeding big time in the “white” corporate world, Cain was striking a big, possibly bigger, blow for equal rights than as one more teenager in a march.

That is because you are an idiot and don’t understand basic math,,,he has explained it several times.
Get a Math book,,,bone up stupid.

Modern-day mugwump Larry O’Donnell is a dispicable human being.  He should be fired, but then, he is the posterchild of MSNBC, so that racist station will continue with their ridiculous diatribes.  Sick!

Hey,   I wouldn’t let a terrorist Muslim in my cabinet either…Remember 9/11  moron??  
They want to destroy America

I’m a pasty white guy who loves pizza, especially with sausage (and not halal either) and I don’t get welfare. I do have the ability to look at people through a more objective lens.

Hey Anon Hole!  Your pass time is keeping your head up your ass when it comes to political issues.  Why don’t you do some reading or better yet, a little thinking every now and then.

I would ask you the same question.  The whole interview was nothing more than attempt to insult Cain and call him a coward.

O’Donnell does not consider Cain to be an authentic black apparently because it seems Cain was not down for the struggle. In a soft way he is implying that he is an Uncle Tom because he wasn’t singing hyms in the street with his people.
It was very racist for him to suggest that all black people are supposed to have the same experiences.
He stereotyped him.

In that context I use the fried chicken reference because that is a racial stereotype.

I missed the original interview. Nevertheless McDonald, when he is rational and factual, can be a compelling commentator and interviewer. And then he does something like this. That vile interview is a perfect example of why I do not watch him. It’s hard to believe he worked for Moynihan.

It’s like he is on some kind of medication, and he’s OK, and then he forgets to take it and goes haywire. He could have done a probing, fair interview of Cain, because I have seen him do some interesting interviews with others, including those with views radically different from his own.

Thanks for the honest assessment of an ambush hatchet job gone wrong.

Who told you that? Michael Moore?

Quicker than you do with your erosion of civil liberties, torture and extra-judicial killings of American citizens?

I doubt, despite Herman Cain’s fever dreams to the contrary, that many terrorist will be applying for jobs in a conservative administration.

I thought there were times he really crossed the line.  Bringing up the Civil Rights movement was not his place to ask.  I was fine with the question about his navy experience but LOD shouldn’t have brought up the draft.  Question is whether or not Herman Cain ever had any experience dealing with the government internally. How could he go from being a complete outsider, take over the highest office in the land, and figure out how to deal with the system from there?  I think he should hold some congressional seat or perhaps run for governor before he runs for president.  Then I think he would be more electable. 

But you are despicable and will always be.

MSNBC is full of weird and nasty little people.

Math is your enemy, Cralex. You should look a poly sci book so you could understand what a plutocracy is, since that is herman’s real plan

Yawn- go back on you Imodium AD IV drip.

I’m actually surprised how non-racist most Republican types are. By and large they are not nearly as race-focused-loyal as their black counter-parts are.

Find me one interview on FoxNews where any of their reporters or hosts questioned a black person’s support of the Civil Rights Movement or accused them of being a draft-dodger.

BH..LO is a clown. He could have focused on 9-9-9 and/or asking Cain to articulate how to overcome his lack of government and legislative experience. Tough questions that all candidates that should be asked, with detailed follow ups so they can’t respond with sound byte answers. 
LO is lazy and it’s easier to (have your staff) skim a book than prepare insightful questions about economic and tax policy.
No, he acts as the liberal judge, pretends he is black and quizes Cain about his ‘Blackness” and motivations for not becoming a protester. (Apparently BHO did none of this either…but never mind…). Now, the far left audience of MSDNC no doubt loved this..as LO continues his rivalry with Bashit (..ir) to become the next KO. 
Cain did very well, did not lose his cool or affability so ultimately LO got nothing.

You shouldn’t talk to women like that. Did your mother not teach you anything about respect for women?

And what prevented Africans to sail to Europe and enslave its inhabitants.

Surely Africans had superior knowledge of ship building,  astronomy and navigation skills as clearly proven by the literature and art and science books produced by them.

Sad as it may be but all thru history there were conquerors and there were conquered.

The African black slaves in America who were kidnapped from Africa, were in every possible way far better off than the European feudal serfs.

Oh, I thought you meant that conservatives wanted bridges to fall, old people to eat dog food, kill granny, hate education, TEA party members are terrorists, you know that same old schtick…..

You know what’s really scary? 9.1 unemployment, $3.50/gal gas, war for oil, targeting US citizens for assassination. Barry needs to take those accomplishments and run with that.

Tommy, I couldn’t agree with you more. I felt the same way as you did, as I was watching the interview. I like Lawrence O’Donnell, but I also like Herman Cain, as well… I think Herman Cain has a great story to tell, about his view of America, growing up in the segregated south, and his success thru the years. I don’t agree w/ a lot of Cain’s policies, and I did not appriciate his comments about the poor & unemployed. I was really hoping that O’Donnell would come at Cain from a policy standpoint, his foreign policy opinions, and his vision for America in the future. I was disappointed in the line of questioning he went with. It’s rude, disrespectful, and does nothing to benefit the viewers. I appriciated the article. Glad I wasn’t the only one who thought what I did

Don’t give me that bull shit Ilene. You know damn well that anyone that questions Obama’s POLICIES is labeled racist. Therefore, anyone that says ANYTHING negative about Cain is a racist. Your rules, not mine.

Like I have said before. All Conservatives/Republicans/Tea Baggers are not racists. But almost all racists are Conservatives/Republicans/Tea Baggers.

Lawrence graduated Harvard in 1976, no doubt hanging around with Thurston Howell IV, and the offspring of other  millionaires and billionaires. Guess that was were he learned to become a black person.  

Question to you.  Is Herman Cain black enough?  A lot of people don’t think so.  Alan Keys had to deal with this so why not Herman Cain?

The history of the US began in 2009. All causation has been obliterated. Simple answers rule the day and problems are irradicated with the wave of the invisible hand of the market.   Obama should be tried, convicted and hanged for malfeasance, crimes against humanity, and treason against the state. Alleluia, we’re saved. And all our sins forgiven. Thanks for the insight.

 Just think about this.  What’s the point of running a black man if he can’t deliver you the black vote?

lawrence odonnell is a racist democrat plantation owner, this is a true democrat liberal on display, they don’t like it when the black man tries to break the chains of the democrat party

O’Donnell is the most vile, hateful disgrace.What do you expect from the Obama/Democratic network M.S.N.B.C.

Fugg you, asshole.

You couldn’t wash Herman Cain’s jock.

And I don’t even support him.

The fallout over this interview will last about a day.

The soundbite of Cain calling 81% of Americans brainwashed will last forever.

That is the real gift here.

Surfergrl, good points. Rfails…posts the standard liberal response….imply anyone who disagrees can’t think. The laziest of a lazy argument. 

“Larry just doesn’t like black people.”

That’s okay. MSDNC has another host, that piece of excrement, Al Sharpton, who hates white people and Jews, not in that order.

While I have a moment, I wanted to post this lovely remark from my personal fave tv personality, the Fat Fugg Jew-Hating Murdering Scumbag Al Sharpton:

“Tonight is the measure of whether the country begins, in the state of Wisconsin, a national drive to push back or whether we have more to go to build a movement of resistance. But resist we much…we must and we will much…about…that…be committed.”

Except for the black racists, who all vote Democrat. (like I have said before)

That’s why on any given day Fox News has millions of viewers, and MSDNC has less people than can fit into a phone booth watching their freak shows of socialist crappola.

Well most interviews are based on “prepared questions”. Sorry to burst your bubble.

A black man that campaigns against gay rights is going to get racist heat back.  I could see this getting ugly.  Black communities have been very homophobic in the past and the gays are probably getting mad back.  Why should blacks be able to marry whites if gays can’t marry gays?

The far left co-opted the civil rights movement after the signing into law of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. Cain is largely correct. He was a kid during the real push. What did you expect him to do, drop out of college and join the Symbionese Liberation Army to prove his black bona fides?

what does his deceased father have to do with anything?

There’s no mistaking you.

And next to the network news programs, fixed nooze is a fly speck. And about as relevant.

Actually O’Donnell is a coward, whatever his reason for evading the draft. He admitted on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show that the reason he criticized mormonism and not islam is because he feared for physical safety if he criticized islam. He gets credit for honesty but not much else.

O’Donnell simply put is a hate filled bigot with low ratings.

Crazy Larry tried “Gotcha” and succeeded, only it was to himself.  

LOL LOL

Go Herm!!! Keep the current version of the GOP away from D.C.!!! Romney is their only hope and he would be a great upgrade to what we have.. The rest of the GOP and its insanely undereducated members (uh, there are enough posts on the net by these historically dim users of new words they have yet to look up, like Tea Party. tOh, wait, thats right, the Tea Party is NOT GOP.. oops.. for you so see that America has a sickeningly huge number of folks who support the low ranking of our educational system) can stay home on Romney vs. Obie day.

I see no problem with it.  Herb Cain calls out everyone.  He called out black people for being brainwashed.  Why not call his ass out as well.

“The US mainstream media is almost 100% corporate-owned.”

Just because it’s corporate doesn’t mean the “news” content is not left biased. Journalism in itself tends to be more left wing. Also just because the NYT did not expose more of the Iraq war to the far left’s desires doesn’t mean that the op ed and slanting of other conservative viewpoints is not biased. Reality sez otherwise which is why there is a Fox News to counter MS left wing news outlets. BTW Hollywood is a corporation but most of the actors and director tend to be left wing. Just because something is corporate doesn’t mean it’s totally right wing.

No it doesn’t.  Mr. Christopher will ALWAYS continue to ‘like’ people like Lawrence O’Donnell no matter how vile he acts simply because Lawrence O’Donnell is on his side.

When one of Mr. Christopher’s fellow liberals act as vile as this, he will excuse it by saying its the exception, when deep down he knows its the rule for liberals like Lawrence O’Donnell.

twitter.com/darrenmcgeary

Keep spewing your bigoted comments.  It shows you for what you really are.

“TMP”

That’s a pretty bigoted statement, not based in fact.  You are what you are.  

“TMP”

What does Herman Cain’s father have to do with anything? You’ll have to ask Larry.

Nobody agrees w/you, socky.

O’Donnell is so strident and obnoxious I usually avoid him (and Maddow and Schultz) like the plague, but I watched this interview and it was hard for O’Donnell to speak, the way the bile was chocking him. O’Donnell holes up at Harvard during the war, no doubt lambasting anyone who went as a babykiller; he brought up Kerry, who got out of Vietnam after only 4 months with a bogus 3rd Purple Heart from a self inflicted wound that the medic refused to even put a BAND-AID on; he doesn’t bring up Clinton, who ACTIVELY ducked the draft; all of this while attacking Cain, who served honorably in a critical role for the Navy. And what the hell give Larry the RIGHT to speak for veterans?!?!
Is it any wonder, with leftist shills like this at MSNBC/ABC/CBS/CNN/NBC and Republican apologists like Hannity on the right, that the public has lost faith in the media? And to give Hannity his due, he is far more critical of Republicans than MSNBC EVER IS of Democrats.
The media needs to report the facts, ask honest questions and let the chips fall where they may. But I am afraid we are spitting into the wind…

I agree that O’Donnell, like most Caucasians is in no position to question the actions of an African-American in the 60s. Just getting an education was an act of defiance. Not fleeing the south and living under Jim Crow was brave. To imply, as O’Donnell did, that he was a handkerchief head, was beyond the pale.

On the other hand, to insist that he was too young to particpate, as Cain did,when we know that one of the most effective components of the Movement was the Children’s Crusade, in 1963, was very strange and disingenuous. While he considered himself too young, at 17-18 yrs. of age, kids much younger were exposing themselves to Bull Connor’s police and firefighters in Bombingham. Clearly, the claim of inchoate youth is nonsense. Make a choice, but stand by your choice. Cain didn’t do that. Rather, he sought to excuse his absence.

That he avoided serving in Vietnam is another matter. Given that he believed in the war, he should have gone, just as Dick Cheney and George Bush should have gone. Being a civilian employee of the Navy or a reserve officer doesn’t cut it. I’m sure the Navy would have let him enlist and go to the front, had he wanted to do so.

So, do we love Cain more than Palin? Is that decision that was made?
http://elovehate.com/Topics/People/GovernmentPeople/Republicans/HermanCain

That’s true and lamentable. But it is not a subject that our society shys away from discussing, the way there is an absolute taboo against discussing things like black-one-white rape, which is common, and white-on-black rape, which is a rarity.

That’s true and lamentable. But it is not a subject that our society shys away from discussing, the way there is an absolute taboo against discussing things like black-one-white rape, which is common, and white-on-black rape, which is a rarity.

 Because Gays and Race are two totally different things.

Patsy, time for a new act.

Patsy, time for a new act.

You mean the ones that call blacks Oreo’s, porch “N” and want to chop their hands and feet off or send them back into the fields? The ones who want to “string em’ up”. Wait a minute, that’s you folks.

“TMP”

He doesn’t need the “black” vote. He has the Pro-America vote. ;)

“The history of the US began in 2009.”

 Thanks for addressing the facts. Yep, quite the typical response, escape and evade.  Is this the “blame GWB mantra”?  Refreshing, was getting tired of the racist game.   LMAO!
 

.A couple of things …O’Donnell is a Socialist , has been for years, plus he is
a sick puppy, so for any reason other than humor his babbling is for amusement
only

And Obama implied that he was conceived in Selma when he gave his Selma speech and then added, “So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma,” to the delight of the crowd.  Trouble with that was he was four years old at that time.

You mean like Obama who spent half a term in the Senate campaigning to be President and never worked a day in his life in the Private Sector?  The person who wrote a book about how confused he was about his own race and White people, right?  

As a businessman, Herman Cain had more contact with this Nations Government and it’s regulations than Obama when it comes to economics. The fact that his experience isn’t tainted by the Political game is refreshing.

You mean a person like that?

“TMP”

Could we get a translator for this?

Try being a white boy at a East Chicago high school.

You don’t know shit, suburban boy.

What you are saying is that a Black man is useless if he doesn’t deliver the Black vote.  Pretty racist stuff Mama.

“TMP”

80+ white people? Like Occupy Wall Street? Yer killin’ me, Timmah!

Why would I be upset? I’m just wondering where you get off calling a very successful man who’s blazed his own successful trail in life somebody’s token.

So, why don’t you explain that for us?

Racist. That’s the same thing that people asked of Obama. You called them a racist.

“TMP”

That’s not fair……. there isn’t any.

Racist.

“TMP”

Can you please point me to your source. I think this is just a lie pure and simple.

your pass time is sucking Michelle Obama’s dick and attacking any Conservative 100% of the time

Looks like the bootlicker shook off enough brainwashing to wander off the MSNBC plantation for a bit.

Tommy Boy, don’t let your umbrage stop there.  Take note of the airing of the (dr)E(a)d Show after the Cain interview, specifically when Lizz Winstead, co-creator of the Daily Show, and Sgt. Schultz got together and guffawed over it, the privileged liberal whiteys later agreeing that Cain is an Uncle Tom racial coward.  Upset yet?

What do you think, Tommy?  I’m sure liberal hero Jon Stewart will hit Lo-Rent Lawrence over this disgusting interview.  Right?  Maybe not his old Daily Show chum Lizz Winstead, but surely Lawrence, right?    He’ll do it tastefully too, and won’t use the opportunity to break out his racist Amos-N-Andy “Holy Mackerel!” voice he uses to depict Cain, either.  Right?  Or perhaps he does hit Cain anyway, but not with his voice, maybe instead Jon tones it down and uses the ebonics-warbling black puppet he used on Michael Steele.  Does all that brainwashing ever give you migraines or anything, by and by?

Votes for what? Entertainment maybe yes. Truth no. If ratings were votes for truth then all the popular shows on Disney, Mtv, VH1 or any reality show would be truth. Your side are childish and you don’t want truth you want lies that entertain.

Sorry to hear about your ass. Your comment is funny considering that the republican’t party has blamed  FDR for any and all present, past, and future economic problems. 

Bzzzzt. Sorry. Your little 4 years of being teased don’t even BEGIN to equate centuries of oppression, moron. 

….This is crazy….My best friend’s mom makes $77 an hour on the computer. She has been out of job for 9 months but last month her check was $5487 just working on the computer for a few hours.. CashMany.com …..

Here’s a poll about the Tea Party:

The poll not only presents the results but cites its margin of error and the details of that poll. The poll of 1,002 U.S. adults was conducted March 19-22 by Selzer & Co. of Des Moines, Iowa. The results had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. What Bloomberg observes from the poll is this:
“Tea Party supporters are likely to be older, white and male. Forty percent are age 55 and over, compared with 32 percent of all poll respondents; just 22 percent are under the age of 35, 79 percent are white, and 61 percent are men….

Pablo, is there ANYTHING you know ANY THING about?
Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/289821#ixzz1a7fNn8ZP

Hannity was in grade school, Rumsfeld was in Congress as well as the Navy Reserve after serving on active duty, O’Reilly and Cheney were in college, and Limbaugh was working in radio.

Where was Biden? Where was Clinton? Where was Obama during the first Gulf War and Bosnia?

“teased” – LOL.

I rest my point…you’re some suburban-breed no-nothing dick.

When it comes to crying crocodile tears of what happened 200 years ago nothing tops the claim of a Democrat Congressman a few years ago who in his typical racist fervor claimed that there were 200 million Africans abducted for American slavery and so many of them died on the way to America that their bodies, dumped in the Atlantic changed the migrating habits of sharks.

This yahoo provided no proof or source his idiotic claim.

Bad Fox …..bad bad bad Fox… BAM BAM told us not to watch … Bad Fox ….not a news station my President told me so…. BTW O’Donnell must be proud as hell having the President Obama in the same Party .

O’Donnell is giving us a small example of what will happen to the rest of us if he and his fellow socialists ever sieze power.

I’ll be looking for O’Donnell to ask Bill Clinton why he was “allowed” to be Commander in Chief after avoiding Nam! 

Of course, it will be a cold day in Hell before anyone at MSNBC asks Clinton that question. 

At least Cain, as a civilian, was serving his country.

(Nam vet:
68 Vung Tau
71 Chu Lai
72 DaNang)

Up yours O’Donnell!

Bush served his time and was honorably discharged.  Knowing there are many hateful idiots out there that have no clue as to how the guard operated(AF in particular)  during the waning years of Vietnam, we see they still spew their ignorance.

His plane was phased out for use in Vietnam, there was no economic sense for the Air Force to retrain him to fly the jets that were being used because of the time he had left in the guard.  He actually served beyond what was required, requested an early out after his time was all alloted for, and was given the early out which made room for returning troops.  This was all published and explained in op-eds written by men that were in the same unit as Bush back when the bull crap was flying.

I also remember what it was like when Nixon was trying to wind the war down after Congress cut the funds.  One area of focus was attempting to get our POWs rescued and out of Vietnam, one of the last missions my husband participated in was the rescue at SonTay.  btw, Nixon did no more lying than who is sitting in the OO right now.

The subtle racism of entitled liberals like Lawrence O’Donnell or Helen Thomas will always be more hurtful and dangerous than the cartoonish racism of far right people like David Duke. One group gets treated with respect from the media (and thus their racist opinions are given value) while the other is rightly mocked.

I heard about Korean small shop owner heroes who stood up to angry black mobs in Watts, or Jewish heroes who stood up to angry black mobs in New York and paid with their lives for their impertinence.

Strangely, their sons and daughters never bawled for restitution, reparation, compensation.

Shakedown artists and poverty pimps like Sharpton and Jackson should learn from them about self-respect and self-worth.  

I don’t understand what the “big” deal is when people complain about MSNBC.  Yes, it is left.  FOX is right So what.!  Just something more for the idiots on here to complain about (both sides).

So is FOX!

Because the so-called black “leaders” never showed by example how to think for one self.

How old are you?  You can’t be older than 15.

Maybe it’s the fact that you’ve had no college that it sounds brilliant? Just sayin…

So please explain why both Fox News and MSNBC interviewed him and THEY couldn’t understand the numbers behind his plan either? This is nothing more than warmed over trickle down theory — but worse.

The fact that Pablo loves it should be proof enough that it’s a fraud.

To jerks like O’Donnell (why is that pretty much all O’Donnells are idiots – Lawrence, Kelly, Christine, and that WH correspondent) a black success story is that of a black person who got artificially elevated by Affirmative Action.  

Good one.. my bad. My deepest apologies. ;).

Yes, I guess that Lawrence in that interview kinda got to me.  IMO his resume is much less than Cain’s, I was a young boy back in the 60′s but I do remember the separate drinking fountains in the south as my family used to travel by car to vacation in the Carolina’s. I also know for a fact that there was no place in the south north of Southern Fl that was safe for the kind of dissent that O’Donnell calls Cain out on.  

Sorry to aim my post at you but it seemed to me that you were defending O’Donnell’s interview of Cain, and O’Donnell was again IMO very unfair to Cain, even about Vietnam, I am sure that Larry was doing every thing within his power to avoid that war, it is hardly a war that one can be called on to support, even my father who was a West Point grad told his sons that if they took measures to avoid going he would support those efforts.  I am not so much a Cain supporter by I do believe he is deserving of more respect than O’Donnell afforded him. 

Follow up to my earlier post ( http://www.mediaite.com/tv/lawrence-odonnells-racially-charged-attacks-a-political-gift-to-herman-cain/#comment-328945785 ) 

*****Update: O’Donnell was born November 7, 1951, turning eighteen and becoming eligible for service in Vietnam in 1969. As you might imagine, he never enlisted.

Despite being given a draft lottery number of 72 in 1970, and the military taking numbers up to 125 that year, O’Donnell evaded the draft through a college deferment.

Who is he to point fingers at anyone for their military service, especially someone that worked for the Navy?

*****Update II: I wonder if O’Donnell thinks Vice President Joe Biden is unfit to be Commander-in-Chief given his five deferments.

http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/10/07/herman-cain-asks-msnbcs-odonnell-do-you-stay-night-come-wording-these

The reverends you refer to have little to do with the argument about Mr Cain, nor do they have anything to do with those who sacrificed for civil rights in the 40s, 50s and 60s. It’s sad that you have to bring extraneous matters into the discussion. But, I’m used to such tactics on this site from those of your political and social persuasion. You have an axe to grind, but it has little to do with the subject at hand. Peace and cheers.

You’re simple minded thought that “white” people are always the racists and “black” people are always the victims.  Only just proves your lack of experience with the “real world.”

In all that effort, not one reply. 

It was simply pre-emptive, Audio7.

I would bet my house and the life of my kids and grandkids that the two so-called “Reverends” (can you say when was the last time these two worthies attended  to anything pertaining to religion??) will chime in and attack in their usual derogatory way to denigrate Mr. Cain, for his horrible transgression of being a reasonable black Republican.

Just wait. I have not been to MSNBC today, but I would not be surprised if it already happened.

Cain dodged the heat. He was looking to save his own skin and to his own future. He shouldn’t be condemned for his cowardice, but those who did lay it on the line should be praised.

yes Tommy . The new liberal breed of commentary is like the Walkman, out dated and not wanted. No one wants to hear old racist propaganda anymore. It used to be ugly but today it’s real ugly man.. If you keep leaning forward you’ll fall over. You have to learn to go sideways to keep your balance.

I am SO sick of everyone going to their political corner and coming out fighting. I have watched Shultz, Uyger, Raddigan, O’Donnell and MOST other leftist talking heads treat interview subjects with disdain, insulting them, their beliefs, THEIR FAMILIES and using savage sarcasm as a poor excuse for humor during reports and interviews. If the truth WERE on their side, they would not need to hide behind hate and invective. Hurling insults like ‘Republicans are racist and want blacks hanging from trees’ or ‘the rich don’t pay their fair share’ is dishonest and cowardly. If it is true, PROVE IT. Otherwise you are nothing but schoolyard bullies like Ed Schultz no doubt was…that is not to say I like everything that appears on Fox News, either. I find Bill O’Reilly condescending in his treatment of  ’the folks’ (god, is that annoying) and he tends to shout down disent. Hannity spends too much time supporting ‘whoever is the Republican’ in the room, but they are far more balanced and respectful in their treatment of issues and interview candidates AND far more critical of conservatives when it is warranted than MSNBC ever is of liberals.
MSNBC and the rest of the media fell all over themselves fawning over Obama in 2008, doing NO vetting of him or critical analysis of him as a candidate, for fear of appearing racist. Instead, the supported him ONLY because he was black, which is racist in itself! Now, the emperor has been shown to have no clothes and they don’t quite know what to do about it- blame Bush again?
You can’t get away with calling Republicans ‘obstructionist’ when Harry Reid won’t bring Obama’s jobs bill to the floor- everyone can see that for the lie that it is.
O’Donnell and his ilk are pathetic beyond belief and are trapped talking to an ever shrinking circle of East Coast elitists, while the rest of the country struggles just to get by until we can vote out a man who has proven not to be up to the job of President. Imagine for a moment- he has NEVER held a job in his life in the real world and when he finally gets one, HIS LAST JOB, he proves inadequate. What a legacy…

So what!!!

All that pales in comparison to being a communist organizer and 100+ “PRESENT” votes in two Senates, both abandoned for personal gratification.

Damn you making yelling at conservatives hard with your reasonableness! I don’t want to defend O’Donnell’s tone or the fact that he basically called Cain a coward for not placing himself in a very dangerous situation.

Lawrence was 18 in ’68. I’m betting he opposed the war and, even more than that, opposed his being drafted for it, and thus took a college deferment.

Here’s the thing about this sort of accusing one of “omission of action”: it’s ugly and a bit presumptuous. Larry is either accusing Cain of being a coward or not caring too much about Civil Rights, which is mighty reductive and I think unfair to Mr. Cain.

I wasn’t as offended as some of the people on this board….people who react so emotionally when race is the subject, but I have seen O’Donnell like this before. He is always ugly when he does it, even when he is in the right, because even when his facts line up, he’s just so nasty when he does it.

One sick interview to watch and turned me into a fan of Herman Cain. Not that I would ever vote for him but gained a ton of respect for him for dealing with such a scumbag in a decent polite way.

Another round of tough questions that left Cain looking like the nincompoop that he is.

All your chickenhawk heros were conveniently avoiding combat except Hannity who was still sucking his thumb. Cheney was so afraid of getting drafted that he got married in order to get a deferment, while Rush claimed a mythical medical condition on his fat ass. Rummy hardly voluteered, either since he received cushy duty as a trainer Stateside. The Naval Reserve where he served was reserved for the sons of the rich and the well-connected. As was the Air National Guard that Dubya slinked into. There was nothing illegal with what these guys did, but they thereafter never saw a war that they didn’t like. As long as none of them had to fight in it.

When Walker Bush got us into the First Gulf War and when Clinton bombed Bosnia, there was no draft. Biden’s son was in Iraq for a tour while Jenna and her twin were getting drunk and whoring around.

I like TC even though I don’t agree with him on most political points. But how anyone can like Lawrence O’Donnell and that crap eating smirk he wears is beyond me.  

You’re simple minded thought that “white” people are always the racists and “black” people are always the victims.  Only just proves your lack of experience with the “real world”.  Maybe you should visit Gary and East Chicago and ask the Mexicans, who the racists are?…I’m willing to bet that you’ll be suprised by the answer.

Come on ‘tough guy”, where’s your reply?

I imagine he was under a lot of pressure at that time.  His father, as was said, wanted him to stay out of trouble.  His family wasn’t priviledged, his father worked three jobs to get his sons to a point where they could better their lives, opportunity not afforded to him or his wife or many other poor blacks in the south.  So, Cain either went against his father’s dreams and wishes or he did not.  I don’t think it’s fair to hold it against him, we were not walking in his shoes.

Who was the last president that served in Vietnam?  We do not have one do we, but we now have to hold it against Cain because he served in a different capacity as a civilian.  We have multitudes of civilians that serve the military.  GW did serve and his unit was being called when he enlisted in the guard, he wasn’t avoiding the possibility of Vietnam service.  My husband’s group had many that volunteered for Vietnam duty, but they did not make those calls, during his time he served on one brief Vietnam mission, a colleague served 12 tours, commanders make those calls. 

Judging Cheney’s poor health at a young age, I have my doubts that he would even have passed a physical.  Biden had the same number of deferments and then asthma supposedly kept him out.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican.

But he committed the awful sin of encouraging people to judge others not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

That put an immediate end to any claim of victimhood.  

TC is Mediaite’s White House Reporter.  Not a columnist.  His shtick is spin the facts, leave out facts that would not support his reporting, and parrot the White House talking points.

Yeah, anything that is TRUE lasts forever.

Hopefully being brainwashed and stupid does not.

“Sorry to hear about your ass”

Another strike! You just keeping pitching them in there.  Too bad your lack of substance and addressing barry’s failures will be the libs downfall.  Keep up the jokes, they will provide solace in defeat come 2012.

Look everyone knows that Lawrence O’Donnell is a certifiable nutcase and only a morally corrupt organization like the lunatic bin at MSNBC would put this disgusting loon on National TV.

I am still of the opinion that MSNBC is a Republican plot to completely disenfranshise American Liberals, because no sane person could put together a more sorry case of nuts, loons and liars to hurt liberals that what is shown nightly by this station.

Herman Cain means that the ONE AND ONLY “weapon” (against anybody who opposes them) and “motivator” (for their mindless supporters) possessed by the  lunatic-left d-cRAT socialists, i.e., their patented “THE RACE CARD™”, is now dead, kaput, finished, over. They now have NOTHING. It’s no wonder they have become hysterically desperate, dispirited and depressed.

It’s fun to debate O’Donnell vs Cain, but I see that there’s still no one here willing to explain how his 9-9-9 plan works to rescue the economy. It’s the centerpiece of his campaign and yet with over 425 comments on this thread, not one person has managed to explain it, let alone make an actual defense of it.

I think that silence speaks for itself.

Florida, check on Conor Friedersdorf’s even better write up

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/10/lawrence-odonnells-offensive-interview-with-herman-cain/246328/

Obama is more like your side than mine. He’s not liberal, way too compromising with the radical rightwing economic agenda and has no skills at negotiating with the radicals in the republican’t party. Should he lose, he has himself to blame, but the rest of us will suffer since his future is assured and ours is not.  With a radical rightwing agenda being pushed by another republican’t president, we’re all screwed. QED.

Sorry, that doesn’t pass for an excuse or an explanation.

And God Bless Glenn Beck, a man who REALLY tells it like it is…..without the BS or the insults.

You are wasting your time…Leftists are mentally uncapable of understand the truth.

No matter how many times you show them they will simply never accept it. 

You could post it a million times in a row and within 5 minutes you would have another one of the loons post the same discredited claim as a certainity. 

So they have decided that Barry Obama was indeed conceived because of Selma and that Hillary Clinton was named after Edmund Hillary’s climb up Everest even thought they both happened well before the events ever occurred AND NOTHING YOU CAN EVER SAY, PRODUCE OR SHOW shall ever contradict their decision.

They have to make the decisions because their entire warped view and beliefs require it.  Once the decide that something happened they are NOT going to let any little reality or actual fact change that decision.

I agree with you 100%!
Without that chip on his shoulder, Hermain Cain isn’t an authentic Black man!
Fight the power!

Fox has democrats who routinely appear on that network also, quite a few quite regularly.  As far as the media being corporate owned, check out Comcast:

“Comcast launches all-Obama channel”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0109/Comcast_launchs_allObama_channel.html

And for those who complained about Ailes contributing to the RNC we have Comcast:

Comcast exec hosts Obama fundraiser in June:

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/20/news/la-pn-obama-philadelphia-fundraiser-20110520

LOL!  You got those Dems pegged.

Tommy Christopher + racial commentary means beaucoup clicks!
It’s a can’t miss strategy and that’s why Tommy is da man here at Mediaite!

See above comment about the Leftist inability to accept reality and truth for a better understanding.

The Leftist have “decided” that no Democrat voted, authorized or supported the war to throw Saddam out of Iraq and NOTHING YOU SAY, PROVE or SHOW will ever change what they have “decided”.

Their mental issues limit their ability to handle such contradiction so they have “decided” and thus it must forever be their “reality”.

And this means?????? Nice strawman. LOL

You’re correct.   It would be like trying to defend the existence of unicorns.   Can’t be done.  

My problem with Cain is that instead of having a chip on his shoulder and going through life holding a grudge and being a failure, he decided to embrace America and capitalism and makes something out of himself. He’s a traitor!

I’m going to give you one warning, since I haven’t seen you here before. Use my name, or an acceptable variation (Tom, Thomas, TC, Tommy X, Tommy Xtopher, Mr. Christopher), or you will be banned.

i did not say you said that

Tommy, I give you credit for writing this article.  You show some principles here that are more than just ideology, and I commend you. 

Tommy, I give you credit for writing this article.  You show some principles here that are more than just ideology, and I commend you. 

“Obama is more like your side than mine.”

It is true he has con’t with some bush policies.  Some which certainly were more left of center, depending on which policies you speak of. Some were not.   His immigration and  spending should have made you libs happy.
What’s “radical” is thinking that spending more is our salvation when we just had failure with spending.  Definition of insanity come to mind?
The radical left will never be satiated until their radical idea of utopia has bankrupted our Country.

LOL back at you, thrower of straw nonsense.

They are LEFTIST and THEY will decide who is the “Uncle Tom” and who is the Race Traitor not some conservative colored American who lived the experience and made his way thru the time of dishevel. 

So a lilly-white certifiable nutjob like O’Donnell is a hero to Leftists for his outing of this fake “Uncle Tom” African American man just as he was for his anti-feminist and vile personal attacks on Sarah Palin. 

You have to meet the standards set by this horde of blanche white LEFTIST to be labeled TRUE.

I’m hoping you a paid Obama blogger because if you’re not, you’re just plain stupid! Another definition of stupid, Obama voter!

And that is why MEDIAite rocks, the authors notice and pay attention to their audience…

I liked O’Donnell for a quick minute and I am unabashedly liberal.  Notwithstanding my left-leaning politics, I believe decorum and decency are demanded in these sensitive times.  O’Donnell was acting bellicose, pejorative, and rude to a candidate, who politics or not, is not totally crazy (uh oh… there’s my bias showing).
He was grabbing at straws to find something to get under Mr. Cain’s skin, and he almost succeeded.  Unfortunately, it was Cain who came out looking better.  O’Donnell’s theater might work on the mushroom eater’s show that everyone waxes nostalgic about, but it didn’t work on MSNBC. Show some class, O’Donnell or you will belong with that other social pariah that shares your surname, but your quote will be, “I’m not you, Limbaugh. But I’m just as silly.” 

after reading o’donnell’s interview of Cain, as with most of the hosts on msnbc, I can only surmise that
the “commie” o’donnell is a  horse terd reincarnated!! likely having 10 years of age on this terd, I would love
to run into him  a dark, no lighted, alley.

From GOProud Executive Chris Barron:  http://therealredbarron.com/2011/10/07/privileged-white-man-questions-black-mans-commitment-to-civil-rights/

There’s a great story Herman Cain tells about he and his brother going into town as children. Their mother reminds them to only use the ‘black’ drinking fountain at the local drugstore. Later that day they go into the drugstore and after getting a drink out of the designated ‘black’ drinking fountain, he tells his brother to go stand guard so he can take a sip out of the white’s fountain. His brother then does the same and they are so excited they run home to their mother. “Mom, mom! (they tell her) You’re not going to believe this, but ours is just as good as theirs! Tastes just as good!” 
The idea that that draft-dodging psychopath Lawrence O’donnell would question this man on race is so beneath contempt that I’m glad Mr. Christopher has put aside his left wing ideology to recognize it.
Now how about doing a story concerning the hypocisy of ESPN for firing Hank Williams Jr. for his non-Obama, Hitler reference, while allowing their own radio hosts to laugh hysterically as Mike Tyson spends nine minutes explaining the right way he and his jock buddies would violently rape Sarah Palin. Not only didn’t ESPN fire these two ESPN degenerates but they tweeted how pleased they were with the interview, practically begging more people to listen to it.  Anyone with a strong stomach can give it a listen and tell me I’m wrong. It is vile beyond words -but apparently not quite as bad as not quite comparing Obama to Hitler. That’s a fireable offense. Anyways, thank you for being fair on this one Tommy.

“That he avoided serving in Vietnam is another matter. Given that he believed in the war, he should have gone, just as Dick Cheney and George Bush should have gone. Being a civilian employee of the Navy or a reserve officer doesn’t cut it. I’m sure the Navy would have let him enlist and go to the front, had he wanted to do so”

This entire comment shows that you lack basic integrity and are a hack of the first order.  Only an imbecile would believe such nonsense.

What kind of a fool would posit that a supremely intelligent person who was working on an innovation which might have saved thousands of his fellow American soldier’s lives should abandon that work to “go to the front lines” shows that you are a dolt with little to add to the conversation.  What a foolish, embarrassing post?

The most disingenious part was the certifiable nut O’Donnell claiming that he was “HE was offended on behalf of the other soldiers” when this loon in fact avoided the draft completely. 

Lawrence O’Donnell is making a point to criticize him for not joining as if its a mandatory standard that one should volunteer to join the military whenever there is a war. Cain said nothing to criticize anyone else for their failing to join up so why is it necessary for O’Donnell to even bring it up?

Also you call Cain a coward for not going off to fight? I’m assuming you must be an Iraq or Afghan War veteran then if your going to cast stones then (you better be at least or that is insanely hypocritical).

Nope. Wrong again. There is no radical left. That boat sailed long ago except when the radical right is trying to stir up the troops to fork over some more of their hard earned shekels. The economy needs money circulating in order to expand. The unemployed can’t help for obvious reasons. The middle class is scared stiff to buy. And the wealthy don’t consume like the other two groups. The federal government, like it or not, is part of the economy. When austerity policies are put into effect, the economy shrinks, unemployment rises, and small businesses disappear. We can either borrow our way out of this or we can spend our way out. We can do neither until the obstructionists in the republican party stop obstructing and work with the president on moving forward. Their agenda is to beat him at all costs. The rest of us suffer in the meantime. That’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to why I’m as pissed off with Obama and the  republican controlled house.

Cain dodged the heat?

He worked for the US Navy as analyst, waited to be called up, and wasn’t. That is not draft dodging. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

“LOL back at you, thrower of straw nonsense.”Another strike, how do you do it? LMAO! 

Larry Boy supported the executive declared war in Libya that had no congresional approval. By your standards he is a war-monger. Your point is still ludicrous and off topic anyway, and you make some very broad and unwarranted assumptions.

Dude, what is wrong with you. You kiss your mother with that mouth. Geez

You are correct on all points, just try to post the truth for the fence sitters.  Welcome, love your spunk!

To timb116: NPR is the gold standard? I fail to see what your point is (likely because you don’t have one).

NPR has to rely on federal funding to operate, so I’d hardly call that a gold standard. 

The equation is

LIBERALISM >> RACISMSEXISMAnti_SEMITISM.

If you are believer in LIBERALISM, then that outweighs your racism, sexism, or anti-semitism.  That is why all LEFTIST feel completely comfortable with the hatred of O’Donnell, Helen Thomas and Barack Obama toward for Blacks, Jews and Whites. 

It is why they can so easily overlook that they elected a man to the Presidency who was a member of a  black version of the KKK at Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity Church.  What Obama called his spiritual underpinning from Jeremiah Wright about Whites and Jews is exactly what one would hear at a KKK rally about Blacks and Jews.

But all Leftists, including Timothy, were perfectly fine with that racism and anti-Semitism because first and most importantly, Barack Obama was a LIBERAL. 

“There is no radical left”

OK, just saying that doesn’t make it so.  I think you’ll find that there are different views of how kickstart this economy.  What happened to the first stimulus failure?  No radical left? 14 trillion and counting? When is enough, enough?
 You need to look at your own party when it comes to obstruction. 

Conservative Victimization Syndrome.

Very well put, Mr. Christopher.

Something has news value when it has some resemblance of journalistic standards which are sorely lacking at MSNBC. Fox may have a conservative tilt but they at least try to maintain some objectivity. For example, during election night analysis while MSNBC has Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow and Larry Boy sitting up there just spitting out DNC talking points and blantantly insulting sitting Congresswomen like Michelle Bachmann, Fox has people like Charles Krauthammer and Juan Williams who contribute something with substance.

I believe most cable news viewers recognize this hence MSNBC’s rightfully deserved low ratings.

Again, the victim? People are going to start referring to you as Our Mother of Perpetual Victimhood.

Funny how people on the left have been noticeably silent about the erosion of civil liberties under this administration.

Well, in that spirit, Gadfly666, let me just say that not all liberals are idiots… but you are…

The 9-9-9 plan is silly but OWS demands that everyone being guaranteed a $20 an hour living wage is reasonable? :-/

Actually, it is just the converse, Nutsofast. Classical logic.

My kids fought in the first Iraq War.  I was a combat engineer in country ’66-’67. So, bite me.

It’s deeply, deeply troubling. At Morehouse of all places. In Atlanta of all places. 1963-1967 or all times. How could he have possibly done nothing?

“…draft-dodging psychopath Lawrence O’donnell…”

Would  you care to prove this? I know a nutty right winger wouldn’t DARE say anything without backing up their claims without evidence.

Conservative Victimization Syndrome.

History seems to establish you do.

I’m confused by your comment. Are you supporting Laurence’s treatment of Cain? Are you claiming he (Cain) was not “victimized” by a highly offensive interview by a highly bigoted interviewer?

You own Michelle-in-Utah on this point, Joe. Very well made. And a complete non-response. Tells it all very clearly.

You don’t count, just like O’Donnell and the rest of the lilly white LIBERALS have decided that Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice and others are insufficiently LIBERAL enough to be considered properly “Black” and authentic, you are not to be worthy. 

So you see a mixed-race Obama who was raised with all the advantages of his white half, can LIE and MISUSE one of the most significant events in African American history for his own selfish need and HE IS HAILED and EXCUSED for misusing this event by all LILLY-WHITE LIBERALS because he is one of them.

LIBERALISM >> RACISM.

You are a worthless hate-filled human being. BTW… you do know VP Biden got 5 deferments from Vietnam and Laurence got 1 deferment… right?

Coward… and a bigot.

“let the ‘lower’ folks do it”  That’s what you think the make up of the best military in the world consists of?  I’ve got news for you, the educational level in the military mirrors that of the country.  These are not a bunch of hicks that choose to serve because they can’t do better.  How insulting!

No one loves war, least of all those we have fighting it, they see it up close and personal, yet, they know why they are called to fight and do so honorably. 

One thing I have noted, it’s been the conservatives that have supported the troops, they haven’t backed down when it would be politically expedient to do so and our troops appreciate having the support.  Having had the priviledge of speaking to a number of troops that have fought in both theaters, one common thought expressed was the disappointment they experienced when in the thick of it they had politicians using the war politically.  Their words went worldwide and the enemy heard.  That was shameful and it made their work much more difficult and dangerous.

Barack Obama was my senator, he did not give up a million dollar salary, he chose to be a community organizer. and part time lecturor, he didn’t even want to use his education to go after that “big money” he was just biding his time working the Chicago machine for something better to sate his ego.  Now the whole country is stuck with him, hopefully, not for long.

Cain lied repeatedly during the interview. High school v. college. Draft Board asking him to stay in his job v. “submitting” to the draft lottery. I’m cynical enough to believe all politicians, Democratic, Teapublican, Independent, Liberl and Conservative lie. But, such overt lies are rare. I guess we have to commend Cain for being overt in his lying.

You’ve been listening to the talking points of the republican’t party on the stimulus. They lined up to grab the money when their districts and states wanted the cash, and they always showed up at the ribbon cutting ceremonies. Then they bad mothered the largesse to the cameras when they got back to DC.
You fell for it, so it must have worked. The trillions you refer to is another matter, but I’m afraid you won’t like to hear where most of it came from since you fell for the previous talking points. The left has had no power in this country since HST when the witch hunts began and the rightwing corporatists took over the agenda.

Are you suggesting that due to the color of his skin she should be obligated to do more than better himself??? You know how that comes across…right?

Why didn’t they ask Cain what he thought of Obama marching with the Black Panthers in the last election?  If a white candidate had marched with the KKK or some other equivalent white supremacist group then his career would rightfully be over.  The party would demand it and the principles which conservatives advocate would demand it.

Yet here we have the president of the US doing just such a vile and disgusting thing and the left wingers are fine with it.  Not a single one of them has condemned it but they all want to race bait Perry and Cain over nothing.  This is the difference between the left and the right.  One talks about hating racism while using it and creating it and the other tries to stomp it out and does not countenance it.

That sorry SOB O-Donnell just made that plain as day to everyone who saw his interview..

Good Lord…if you truly censored my post for the reason I think you did…that’s really sad.

You DO realize that’s a common, non-offensive euphemism for your first name?  Is the Chris Farley movie of the same name also banned here at Mediaite?

Please give Tommy some respect. We may not agree with his views, but at least Tommy isn’t afraid to step up to the plate & respond t6o his readers. He may be a flaming lib but at east he isn’t like those at Huffington Post who delete comments.

Hear! Hear!

It wasn’t O’Donnell ‘s finest hour, but he’s not the candidate. Cain is. The fact is that Cain didn’t do himself any good in this interview other than stir up a few teabillies for one or two news cycles. He failed to make a good argument for his candidacy, didn’t explain his programs, got caught fudging timelines and hardly looked or sounded presidential.

It may make the right wing wackos feel good to attack O’Donnell, but they’re deluded if they think this interview advances Cain’s or the GOP’s chances in the long run.

“Pass time”? Michelle, you still haven’t proved you are not an under-educated high school drop out.

Point to me where I said that was reasonable?

Don’t create a straw man out of what you think I believe

Read Stowe and get back to us, Michelle-in-Utah. Your ignorance in this instance is frankly embarrassing. And, please, don’t tell us you have. Manifestly, you have not.

Especially, since Lawrence was only 18 in 68 and went to college.  If you’re gonna cast a net that calls everyone with a college deferment a draft-dodger, then you’re gonna pick up 90% of the hawks in either party

So, why did he lie about being in high school during the heart of the Civil Rights movement?

Many, many high school kids did indeed march and otherwise participate at risk and at cost. Heroes. American exceptionalism. Obviously some had other “priorities”.

Absolutely. Little Rock. Heroes. American Exceptionalism.

He did, indeed, lie. Bald-faced.

Guilty as charged; ever notice how these guys point the finger at everyone else but it is just to hide their own racism.

Playing cards with Dick Cheney?

Laughing at Limbaugh’s screams when he was lancing the boil on his butt?

True, but O’Donnell was opposed to the war. Cain was in favor of it and did nothing. Quite a difference.

That does NOTHING for the LIBERAL plantation. 

This is the dirty little secret, LIBERALS are not interested in the actual improvement of these people’s lives, they need to have dependents who are completely enthralled to these Lilly White LIBERALS.  Look at all the LIBERAL enclaves across the nation where Liberals have created third world hellholes dependent upon them and completely enslaved.  (Watts, Obama’s Southside of Chicago, etc.) 

You think that LIBERALS want more of those voters to become Herman Cain’s?  Why?  If that happened then how would the Obamas and all their Liberal neighbors in Hyde Park have become wealthy drafting all of that grant money for themselves and their little groups. 

Herman had to do it the proper way like Al Sharpton.

I do. They have a real problem wit Herman Cain don’t they. It brings out their real racism. They just can’t hide it any more.

“TMP”

Sometimes it is better to only have people think you are a moron than to prove it to the world.

You would have embarrassed yourself less by going down to the corner and dropping your pants.

It’s not fear, it’s the realization that everything we thought about him prior to being elected president has come true.  He’s an unexperienced, incompetant.  Apparently a large number of voters are now realizing that for themselves, he’s lost support in every category from independents, women, hispanics, jews, and African Americans, the youth, his polling is in the dumpster.  And, his supporters, people like you aren’t helping him at all by the name calling and insults.  But, imho, keep it up, it works for us.

The following post, directed at a female user, is apparently
acceptable according to Tommy (copied and pasted from above, and
censored slightly):

“your pass time is sucking rush limbaugh’s d*ck and attacking obama 100% of the time”

Apparently Tommy has no issue with this.  Chris Farley movies, on the other hand…

…that white guilt is just gnawing away at you…isn’t it…to sit there and watch that old white racist playing the reverse race card…

Pretty much clarifies and illuminates what they have been in denial about. Maybe this will be a relief for them.

Or not…

…NAHHHHH

…the liberal loons will pull out the WHITE GUILT card…

not as powerful as the RACE CARD…

but can deliver a powerful blow….

Cain…proved to the cracka’ O’Donnell…that not all black man are full of HATE and RAGE…

…like most of Obama boot licking blacks…and the Panthers…

once again……Tommy has a point…..and where I very often disagree with him….i respect the fact that he posts on the comments section of his own article………he’s right……MOST writers wouldn’t bother.

…white liberals fancy themselves as “Radically Chic” (libtards)…and thrive on the “others” anger and hatred and they collectively live vicariously thru that hatred…

That is why when the blacks SHOW their RAGE…thru violence the libtards are all excited and APPLAUD the violence…the hatred and unrest….and will make EXCUSES for the rage and violence…and sit back and cluck their tongues and share with us…that THEY understand…the hatred and violence… and it is JUST!

the LIBTARDS love when the underclasses MAU MAU to them…they sit back in their little white enclaves….amused by the hatred and violence they see…and they will dart in to engage in some hatred and violence…and dart away back to the safety of their “whiteness” bathed in liberalism…

thinking that SOMEHOW when this finally all explodes…that the RAGING FERAL PEOPLE will somehow “know” a white libtard from a Tea Partier…HA!

white liberals are fucking stupid white fools…who are going to get a schooling from blacks that are NOT like Mr. Cain…

fucking stupid liberal cracka’s gonna get their heads smashed…and then who will they blame?

Sterotypically speaking…

Niggas (defined by the View as the ACCEPTABLE way to use the N word can’t add the “ed”) are liberal democrats

Uncle Toms are conservative republicans…

VERY easy to see and understand…

Thanks for partially answering Roger (never) Fails question. 
“Despite being given a draft lottery number of 72 in 1970, and the military taking numbers up to 125 that year, O’Donnell evaded the draft through a college deferment.”
Cain worked as a civilian Ballistics mathematician for the Navy.  That trumps pant-LODe’s Nothing.
Buck up guys, It’s going to be a great year for the GOP!

The writers on this site must not get paid at all. The headline is a joke and the stiry is all about white guilt. Tommy, go get a real job at mcd’s

They are scared to death The One will lose the election so they want to discuss anything but the issues.

Tommy likes O’Donnell? Come on!! The guy is a freaking drama queen.

I dont have any facts to back this up but cain earned his name in the 70′s from selling cocaine to little cute white children. That is enuf to get him elected since he’s a business owner not depending on the govt. Long live GOP!!

Steny Hoyer wants to freeze their pay:
http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2011/02/2012-military-pay-raise-or-pay-freeze/

He was a democrat, last I checked.

Obama wants to raise pharmacy co-pays and institute a $200 annual fee for retired military over 65 for their medical care.

The GOP on the other hand are attempting to slow the spending of benefits that the military are not currently receiving because, we are out of money.  Obama and company want to reduce what they have.

I think the reason why white liberals want to be to label who isn’t and who is an uncle tom is because they themselves are white uncle toms, who know better than anyone how to hate your own people.

Danielle, I’m just gonna laugh at you for your rank hypocrisy for a moment, in that I’m betting taking these deferments didn’t trouble you quite as much when it was Cheney and Rove….

After laughing at you, which I have now done, I will also scoff at the notion that you believe Cain’s story at face value. Got any proof of that (bet you need to buy the book!)? Ah, hell, who needs proof! He’s playing for your team.

Lastly, I will scoff at the idea that next year will be great for anyone. Republicans have no ideas, so all they will do is obstruct the government and try desperately to further ruin the economy and the Dems have no record, so they will be whining all year. 2012 will be ugly and gross and about as high-minded as a Mediate comment thread.

And, still, if you nominate this Cain guy, you will lose. For that reason, I hope you can buck up the troops, Danielle, and get them to vote for the non-Romney, since any party which nominates a person with no experience in government and no knowledge of foreign policy and who thinks Americans want the rich to pay less in taxes does not deserve to govern.

Pablo responds with………

Race traitor? That term makes me cringe.

I haven’t seen any evidence that Herman (black walnut) Cain is “supremely intelligent”, have you? Who says he was such an innovator? Cain?

He had no “fellow American soldiers” since even he concedes he was a civilian, my fine, fond of ignoring important details, friend (Tea Partier?). All these gung ho, men, who had the opportunity to serve; the ones who talk about fighting for freedom, wouldn’t risk their own lives when the opportunity presented itself. There’s no way around that.

It’s relevant because these people insist on wrapping themsleves in the flag, to the exclusion of others, whose patrtiotism they, and, probably, you, insist on questioning. I’d love to see a candidate say “I wasn’t going to go to Vietnam and be killed in support of a policy I did not believe in”. I think the country is ready for that kind of honesty, at least, most of it is. Imbecile though I may be, I believe that.

As to another point made by someone above. All of of our recent presidents, since Kennedy, including Reagan, avoided serving in combat, though he , Nixon, and Johnson were in the service during WWII.

Bush went into the reserves or National Guard to avoid getting killed. That’s not a bad thing, but let’s call it for what it is. Cheney’s 5 deferments were for being a student and being a father. He was hail and hearty during the Vietnam war. He, too, could have gone to the front lines, had he chosen to do so. Obama’s the only one who wasn’t subject to a need to avoid being drafted. I’m sure he would have had the sense to avoid the draft if he had been exposed to it during the Vietnam era.

Kisses!

“as it would keep a party, hell-bent on fundamentally crippling the government’s ability to govern, out of the White House for at least four more years.”

You see Tommy, you had a good turn-of-phrase in your opening, but then you go and ruin it with a talking point!

The Tea Party / GOP / Independents are diametrically opposed to Obama’s worldview and policies; so why would’nt they do everything in their power to cripple his ability to “govern” and implement them?

Do you always attempt to speak for other people?  - I never said his questions were idiotic nor do I know enough about Cain to decide whether or not I ‘admire’ him.  If you are trying to defend this type of “interview” and whatever point oDonnell was trying to make with his line of questioning, that is your prerogative. 

Trust me, I never accidently come across MSNBC, nor do I watch only Fox. Do you have anything to add to the actual discussion?

obtuse.  The point is he something that dispicable and racially motivated AND it wasn’t ‘off the cuff’ like the singer’s obama comment.  This was prepared.

Wait, your point was, well pointless, and not meant to do anything but ignore the point.

never mind….

Funny thing is is that you are much to young to truly know of what you speak, you think that just because you are black that gives you unique license…  you weren’t alive to witness the 50′s and 60′s so what do you really know?

Damn. You’re dumber than I thought to think I would fall for this bait. But congratu-f*cking-lations anyway. You just stooped to the level of all the other trolling miscreants around here.

Uh Buh… uh buh buh buh… uh buh buh buh BUH BYE!

God bless you Larry, you are a gift that just keeps on bearing fruit. First 2010, onto 2012 and than the world! When the chips are down just call in a liberal hack like Larry O’Donnell and let the fun begin!

Blueblogger,
                   M.S.N.B.C. is not a news  network,it is a propaganda operative for Obama and the Democratic party.Their only job is to attack all Republicans and Conservatives for the 2012 election campaign.This is not journalism.It disguises the real news.

Interesting.  Mediacracy says Mediate regards TC as a reporter rather than a commentator.  I have to confess that the lines between those two roles have become incrasingly blurred, and I apologize for having difficulty telling the difference any more.  But I’m old fasioned enough to believe that there should be a difference.  I can accept TC as just another rabid left wing spinmeister, but if he and Mediaite are claiming he’s a “reporter” and that what he does is “objective journalism” then someone is seriously deluded and/or dishonest.

PS – sorry I coldn’t reply directly Mediacracy, but no reply buttton was provided.

Larry has the Rev Al on right now and a couple of other guests to talk about Herman Cain.

Hey Brian,
In response to your question:

 ”I haven’t seen any evidence that Herman (black walnut) Cain is “supremely intelligent”, have you?”—-Brian Kirkland

My response: Did you know Herman Cain was actually a rocket scientist for the Navy? You will not find the truth in the liberal lame stream media!!

Remember when he said a certain % of blacks are brainwashed and not open minded?

He speaks the truth and has a good story to tell….I highly recommend you do a little research on Herman Cain before you blindly judge him!!

Tommy, it was a good, strong question – and I wanted to hear the answer. There was nothing stomach churning about it.  Cain answered it well.  

Liberal Victimization Syndrome. Let me guess, that doesn’t exist right?

If I remember correctly, it was Jesse Jackson who wanted to cut then-Senator Obama’s n..s off.  For moving in on his territory, I guess.

Anon, your post name means Big Annus in Spanish, I think you are and a big one too

He’s got a point

Cain has a good chance, he was an unknow a year ago and look at him now.. Maybe even as a VP

“self evident”???  At the risk of being banned, that comment is only “self evident” to someone as far left as you. Journalists are supposed to be better than simple cheerleaders for the liberal left.

Tommy, why is it certain posters can say the most vile things towards other posters and never suffer the consequences, but if someone dares to type your name in an UNACCEPTABLE VARIATION they will get banned!!! Really? Wow.

At this point 4 years ago, Hilliary was the shoe in for the Dems and McCain wasn’t even on the radar for the Reps. It’s a long way until Nov 2012. Way too soon to count Cain out. I for one am liking him more and more. As for his inexperience (especially in foreign matters), well, the Dems didn’t care about that in 2008. It’s kind of ridicules to hold it against Cain now.

You know what I remember those times albeit that I was very young, but I do remember spending time in Georgia, and the Carolinas during those times and you really do not know what you are talking about when you use your almighty blackness to judge Cain..  People lost their lives, Atlanta was hardly any different than small town Georgia or other cities where when blacks were murdered those cases often were never solved..   Cain dealt with things in his own way, he made something of himself, you should have some respect for that, he came from a dirt poor family and lived in a deeply segregated environment when most blacks did not stand much of a chance, but he made it through..  You may not like his politics, but really you should leave it at that.  I have read some of your other comments trying to hold Cain out to the standard of Dr. King and I ask you who are you to do that?  Just because you are black does not give you license to disrespect Cain for what he did or did not do in the sixties, you never lived it thank god, and I can assure you that you have not experienced the humility of being poor and black in the deep south during those times.  Find other reasons to disparage Cain, but do not think that just because you are black you understand the challenges that Cain faced growing up.

Your posting history seems to establish you are a stalker. It colors every thing you say.

What ideas? That Muslims cannot build churches? That rich people should keep stealing our govt?

What ideas?

“racially motivated”?

Watch MSNBC The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell October 6 Herman Cain Interview Full Video: http://ow.ly/6R9si

I would not hold my breath

Yeah, he is not a moderator. Were you equally offended at the one Auntie left too?

How many conservatives victims have to suffer before Michelle can stand alone in Galt’s Gulch?

Maybe so other posters will not confuse a Tommy with the Tommy? How hard is that to figure out?

Watch ANY Hannity interview with any black guy, who is not a Republican

The fact that you might believe that AND that you vote frightens me for the future of the country

I am. You should vote for him. Often and give him lots of money.

It isso cute when Pablo finds a new crush

Yes, Timmah! Racially motivated. Racially based. Duh.

I am.

It’s so adorable when Pablo finds a new crush! What is this number three in about a month?

If O’Donnell was “never for the [Vietnam] war”, and avoided going because of his views, then why in the world would he berate anyone else for not “serving on the front lines”?  Because that’s what he did to Cain. Larry tried to rake him over the coals for being a civilian attached to the navy (where Cain obviously could do the most good) instead of being a grunt with an M-16. Good Lord, Larry really fell on his face this time.  

Funny you should say that in a thread that begins with a comment deleted by Tommy.

He is demanding an apology for an accusation that he lied. Even YOU, Michelle, are not so dumb that you missed that

Eat a bag of dicks, Timmah!

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You would think her wrists would be sore from hanging from that cross all day, but still is able to work in three hours of dope fiend’s thoughts and several hours of the Mormon Crusader. You is such a trooper

You know you’re absolutely nobody, and therefore you don’t count, right?

Look right ^^^there^^^.

Pablo, Cain mentioned his father. Try listening to the clip

Nobody could be “as bad for this country” than Obama.

Of course, the odds of a black child being murdered before he/she is born are considerably higher.

You accused him of lying. Back it up or apologize. You do not have to agree with his politics to admit you mis-characterized your difference of opinion as a “lie”

IIene, are you actually getting your panties in a knot because Stonepark3 wrote “Larry” instead of “Lawrence”??? Ha ha ha ha ha ha. And you think HE sould get a grip?

Do we have his college transcripts? Because accomplishments do not wash well with this crowd. Also, has he ever used a teleprompter?

Pablo responds with “What the fu*k are you talking about, Timmah!?” And where do you get off calling a far more accomplished man than yourself anybody’s token?

That is the question. Answer it.

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Oh, you are still here? I thought you left after I owned you down thread? Good to know that you can run away.

Who will be the next crush after this guy, Pablo? Santorum or Gingrich?

So sad to see you pine away now when next year it will be vote from Romney or whomever Stromfront is running. maybe you can ask Todd Palin which Alaskan secessionist caught his eye?

Am I a bigger nobody than you are?

A majority of Americans believe in UFO’s so I bet that is true too

bullshit where did i accuse him of lying?

Cain was 23 and working for the Navy in 1968, Timmah! Math is hard, huh?

Look Florida is Fedup w/ U!

I’m gettin ***real*** tired of talking about this shit.
Almost as ***real*** as Cain’s self-proclaimed blackness.

Did you know that earlier today, Cain said he achieved all
his american dreams and then some because of the great nation of the United
States?… The great nation that killed off damn near all the native Americans
and displaced the rest of them in arid ghettos, the nation that stole and
enslaved people from thousands of miles away, the nation that kidnapped land
from the Mexicans, the nation that caged the Japanese as if they had leprosy, the
nation that treated jews and the irish as second class citizens, the nation
that killed off an ungodly number of its own citizens in wars we had no
business being in, and the nation that sends it jobs overseas.

This, after being asked, prodded, and challenged on the
Civil Rights issue – an issue he didn’t even acknowledge during his little speech.
That offends me, and despite what you may have told yourself (or have been culturally
led to believe) I don’t need your permission or validation to be offended. The
fact that you subconsciously think I do is beyond amazing – it’s more like some
sort of psychological disorder. Perhaps you let your race go to your head. (Hell,
if I was white, I’d probably believe I had all sorts of rights to things too.)
But it’s time for a reality check, you old bastard. You’re dealing with a new
generation: One that doesn’t kiss your white ass and say, “Yes sah! I was wrong
sah! Thanks ya’ for correctins me sah!”

What is genetically so f*cking wrong with you, that you
can’t even fathom how utterly disrespectful that is? What is psychologically so
f*cking wrong with you, that you can’t even IMAGINE a BLACK person has a unique
and personal attachment to these issues so much so, that the personal, chilling
stories of rape, murder, kidnapping, lynching, water-hosing, and whippings, passed
down through generations, can be almost as mentally disturbing and emotionally
angering as the seeing acts themselves? What is so spiritually dry within you,
that you can’t begin to even TRY to empathize that which you are not a direct
witness to?

Some sectors of my community would say it’s because you’re
white. But that’s just silly, right? Like when people blame bad things on the devil?
The truth is, they’ve simply given up trying to explain your bizarre behavior.
If you want to chastise me for being offended at Cain’s retarded behavior, then
you can go straight to hell. Don’t ever chastise a jew for being offended at a
Neo-Nazi’s speech because that jew wasn’t around during the holocaust. Don’t
ever chastise a native american for being offended at being called an Indian or
for calling Thanksgiving a celebration cause she didn’t walk the Trail of
Tears. Don’t ever chastise a Japanese man for being offended at anything that
reminds them of Internment camps simply because they weren’t shoved into one.

Your diatribe is not going to change my perspective, nor the
perspective of any self-respecting black person who happens across it. In case
you haven’t noticed, this fool blew up the blog-o-sphere with his idiotic
statements. I am NOT the only person who is offended by his in/actions. This
dummy offended an entire race in less than an hour.

An HOUR!

Who the hell does that!? How many races do you think your
little black hero will offend in 4 years?!? I don’t think I really NEED any
other reasons to disparage him. He’s done enough damage to disparage his own
damn reputation! I won’t even begin to describe what you’ve managed to do with
yours.

Maybe self-evident to you but that doesn’t mean its self-evident to everyone else. Don’t make blanket assumptions!! 

Worthless post, as always.

And 4 years ago, the libs said Obama couldn’t beat Hillary. We all know how that turned out.

Saying that Cain should have left his job at the Navy to serve on the front lines is illogical. Cain’s mathematics and computer skills were needed to help develop guns for ships and fighter jets. War is won with brains and brawn and you wouldn’t sacrifice gifted people to fight on the front lines when they could be working ‘behind the scenes’ developing strategy and weapons. 

And I refute your assertion that Cain wasn’t an ‘innovator.’ Look at his resume … he was promoted in every job he had and helped struggling restaurant chains go from negative profits to through the roof profits. He’s a smart guy … give him more credit. 

Really? We said that? Then, why did I and so many others vote for him?

And you just proved that you are a petty message board grammar police. Grow up

But most interviewers don’t intentionally frame their questions to race bait and trap their guests. But this is MSNBC so im not surprised 

Go Lawrence!!! If Cain wants to be coddled, go back to Fixed News where you your crap against gays, muslims, bash President Obama, say Democrats brain washed blacks into voting Democrat and that 81% of the country is brain-washed into believing the rich s/b taxed a lousy 3% more like they were in the Clinton era if the Bush tax would EVER be allow to expire like they’re supposed to be.  Oh and “we’re not supposed to blame Wall St, the banks for the bad economy but those on OWS s/b protesting at the WH because it is this President’s FAILED POLICIES that caused this”. What more can you expect from a corporate hack that was a Chairman for the Federal reserve in MO and WORSHIPS the banks and Wall ST?  Go Lawrence for not giving this greedy rat a free pass and as far as 9 9 9 plan, the average person and those on lower to poor income sure as heck WILL BE CLOBBERED by that 9% sales tax.  He’s also a liar when he says he says his “personal savings accounts” for SS are not another way of saying it’s privatizing SS because of course it is and lowering the coprorate tax rate to 0.00?  Oh that’ll just give those corporations a BIG change of heart and shower this country with jobs, eh Hermann?  BS!!!!! Greedy corporate hack who took full adavantage of every program to help HIM through school, get job training and dodge REAL fighting in Vietnam but is all for defunding nd doing away with those programs to help anyone else out now as “entitlements” like the rest of his selfish party that for millionaires, by millionaires, of millionaires and screw the other 99%.

I don’t care for Cain either but the way Lawrence O’Donell questioned him was highly offensive.

You make some points that certainly give me pause to consider your words, although I may not agree with some of what you have said here your thoughts are well considered and help to give me perspective. 

Rock on Lawrence for not putting up with the “politics of selfishness” and these liars of the far right who love to dodge the hard questions and are not used to being put on the spot when Fauz Noise is their comfort zone of propaganda and BS. 

Good! Now stop being so civil to me, or I’ll… I’ll… I’ll have to reciprocate in kind!

(on your ass)

;-)

>:-|

Libs will avoid that question because it’s a non-winner for them. Obama could have joined the military, but he didn’t. Cain could have given up his civilian navy job, but the navy wanted him to stay in that position. Who is the coward? Answer: the patriot in the room is CAIN, who served his country according to his best ability. In the mean time, Obama only serves himself.

The libs racial attacks on Cain may just propel him into the White House. Ah, sweet justice.

I agree! Anyone between 17 – college is old enough to be courageous and stand up and fight for what’s right! Poor decision making at that age should disqualify anyone as president. Take for instance Obama: you didn’t see him sitting on the sidelines when he could have been standing up for his country against Marxist professors, and he always made good decisions that he could be proud of later in life as an example to all young Americans, unlike most college kids snorting cocaine and sleeping around! And his output from those days is remarkable, have you read his poetry and his incredible thesis paper?
agree! Anyone between 17 – college is old enough to be courageous and stand up and fight for what’s right! Poor decision making at that age should disqualify anyone as president. Take for instance Obama: you didn’t see him sitting on the sidelines when he could have been standing up for his country against Marxist professors, and he always made good decisions that he could be proud of later in life as an example to all young Americans, unlike most college kids snorting cocaine and sleeping around! And his output from those days is remarkable, have you read his poetry and his incredible thesis paper?

Obviously there is simply no comparison between the irresponsible young adult life that Cain led and the exemplary example Obama set.
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gotta love trying to comment from a crappy phone browser… I don’t normally stutter entire paragraphs, but then i normally dont snort so much cocaine. Go Obama and LO’D!

Well thanks for explaining and perhaps you should practice writing in less vague terms than “prepared questions”

The Constitution should be enforced?  We should be a nation of laws, not men?  Collectivist statism is the biggest humanitarian disaster of modern history and should be avoided at all costs?

What ideas?  Derp!!

My, oh, my…look at all the heads exploding.  An accomplished, avuncular black man with a compelling back-story rising like a meteor for the GOP nomination.  Kinda makes Obama look like a child, which makes you liberals what…children’s children?  Meanwhile, Harry Reid kills the supermajority filibuster requirement on the eve of an electoral wipeout, in which Dems will almost certainly lose the presidency and both Congressional majorities.

Pop!  Pop!  Keep following your instincts, libs–you too can end up like Mr. O’Donnell, exposed as the contemptible, racist scum that we’ve always known you to be.  Enjoy your last months in power, because you have pissed off the American people to a degree that your feeble hive minds cannot possibly comprehend.  (No, seriously–whatever you think is coming, it’s going to be much, much worse for you.)

Thank you, Obama–for waking real Americans up, and giving us the will to break the backs of you socialist vermin under our heels.  You are so utterly beneath this country, but it’s important to be reminded that our tolerant instincts ought not be extended to traitors.

O’Donnell has secured his place in the pantheon of racist pigs.  But of course, disgrace is an honor to Larry–after all, he’s a liberal!

My, oh, my…look at all the heads exploding.

Nice projection.
The reason that this Lawrence O’Donell interview of Cain has you GOPsters so “outraged”, is that you can see the coming parallels, written on the wall. Rush Limbaugh is totally freaked out about it, just like you. Here’s a snippet from his show yesterday…

“Okay, you see where this is going. [Cain]‘s not “authentic.” He didn’t march, he didn’t protest, he didn’t get mixed up in all of that so he’s not really black. He wasn’t interested in that. He didn’t… (interruption) Well, no. “How come they didn’t ask Obama?” They have asked him. They did. During the 2008 campaign, they made all kinds of references to the fact that Obama didn’t do any of this, the fact that Obama wasn’t down for the struggle — remember — that’s why Sharpton early on was not for Obama, that why — and where do you think the “Magic Negro” thing came from, that columnist in the LA Times? ‘Cause Obama wasn’t authentic, he wasn’t down for the struggle.”

Herman the Magic Negro lives in D.C.

‘Cause he liked the bus back seat…

They call these “unintended consequences”. Limbaugh unintentionally,”McCained” Mr. Cain, years ago, with that “Barack the Magic Negro” parody. Here’s how Limbaugh is going to try to spin his way out of his dilemma…

“You could even say, ladies and gentlemen, Herman Cain is marching now. He’s marching to protect the liberty and property of all Americans from avowed socialists like Larry O’Donnell, who proudly proclaims that he is one. Herman Cain’s doing his share of marchin’ right now.”

He’s going to attempt to present Mr. Cain as the modern, black, male version of Ayn Rand – minus her atheism, of course.

I’m confused.  What am I supposed to be freaked out about?  It’s not even clear what you’re trying to say.

But, by all means:  keep saying it.  Keep talking about how Herman Cain likes sitting in the back of the bus.  It clearly doesn’t bother Cain, and I find it positively amusing, in a surreal, David Lynch kind of way.  After all, the headline of this article is “Lawrence O’Donnell’s Racially Charged Attacks A Political Gift To Herman Cain.”  It sounds like a lot of liberals have a lot of gifts for Herman Cain, incapable as you are from betraying your true colors when confronted with the nightmare of an America finally immune to your endless race-baiting.  Without racism to flog, how will you hold on to power?  You have no other ideas, do you?  I mean, besides Solyndra, Cash for Clunkers, and running guns to Mexican drug gangs that behead people with chainsaws.  Not exactly the MOST appealing platform to run on, but I’m sure you’ll keep marching on anyway.

Get ready for Russian Winter, little comrade.

Surely you would have thought to go to Herman Cain’s website to get the answers to your questions. But be prepared to think, it goes deeper than ‘hope and change’.

YEAH!  Way to go, Larry!!  Rock on with your prep-school self!  You TELL that black man what his life is supposed to mean!  You are the AUTHORITY on blackness!

It’s SELFISH for a black man like Cain to expect to be treated like a human being, and not a projection board for the fever fantasies of white liberals!  SELFISH!!!

But seriously, Terry:  If it makes you feel better about not being “good enough” for Palin or Trump to have lunch with, I’m just a regular working schmuck, and you’re nowhere near good enough to have lunch with me either.  So it’s not just the rich looking down on you.  Your essential trashiness transcends economics.

Besides, even in a perfect socialist utopia, people like you are still victims of your own stupidity.  Some people are just destined to be losers.  Think of it as fate.

Good Christ, you’re an idiot.  Whatever its ultimate merit, one of the most obvious features of 9-9-9 is that it shuts down corporate welfare by eliminating deductions and an ultra-complex tax code that only rich corporations can afford to navigate fruitfully.

But don’t let rudimentary logic get in the way of your ecstatic paroxysm of envy and loserdom.

I’m confused.

Obviously.

Keep talking about how Herman Cain likes sitting in the back of the bus.

“Liked“. It’s from his book.

After all, the headline of this article is “Lawrence O’Donnell’s Racially Charged Attacks A Political Gift To Herman Cain.”

Tommy Christopher mischaracterized Lawrence O’Donell’s position, and the results that this interview will generate.

You have no other ideas, do you?  I mean, besides Solyndra, Cash for Clunkers, and running guns to Mexican drug gangs that behead people with chainsaws.  Not exactly the MOST appealing platform to run on, but I’m sure you’ll keep marching on anyway.

Red herrings, all.

“It may make the right wing wackos feel good to attack O’Donnell, but they’re deluded if they think this interview advances Cain’s or the GOP’s chances in the long run.”

Sweet, sweet delusion.

“since any party which nominates a person with no experience in government and no knowledge of foreign policy…does not deserve to govern.”

I dunno…it worked for the Dems in ’08.

Well, OF COURSE O’Donnell is an authority on what constitutes “true blackness.”  He went to Harvard!

I especially enjoyed O’Donnell’s creepy-ass rictus grin.  You could see him thinking, “I’m so fearless, I’m going to be a complete racist right now because that’s what our socialist President needs me to do.  He’ll understand.  I’m such a hero…”

You must be one of those Occupy Wall Street losers that Cain called out.

Get a job, parasite.  And take a goddamn bath while you’re at it.

This Lawrence O’Donnell is a serious moron! I’d like to know if he was
standing with Rosa Parks and protesting with the blacks? NO, he must be
a racist and wanted the blacks in the back of the bus! I’d like to
know if he was in Viet Nam? NO, he must hate his country and be a
worthless citizen! It’s a crying shame what a good man running for a
public office has to go through and how they are treated by people
(using the term loosely) like Lawrence O’Donnell. I can’t believe that
he thinks blacks and other Americans are ignorant enough not to see
through this kind of questioning. Mr. O’Donnell you are a pathetic
example of a man!!! I for one will never watch MSNBC again!

“My liberal emotionalism compels me to believe that Herman Cain cannot win a general election against Barack Obama.”

How’s that?  I was raised by liberals, so I’m fluent in Delusional Lunatic.

This is all Theater. However, if Cain continues to say such things that, if you don’t have a job and are not rich, blame yourself, such statements would come back to bite him if he were to win the nomination, not only from the left, from indepedents, and moderate republicans as well. Not everyone is blest with the ability to get rich whether you’re on the left, middle, or right. That was dumb statement for him to make. What I’d like to see in respect to his 9-9-9 plan is have the CBO score it. There is one thing that bothers me about how he’s explained that working people would no longer have to pay employment tax of 15.3%. Well, working people don’t pay 15.3% they have half of that amount withheld from their paychecks. Self-Employed individuals pay 15.3% in employment taxes. He should get a chart or graph and show exactly how he’s moving these numbers around. I believe that Bob Dole back in the 90s came up with a 17% flat tax which was determined at that time that to sustain a budget you would need a 23% flat tax, and that was at a time when we weren’t even involved in 2 wars and didn’t have 15 million unemployed.

Shhhh.  That’s a secret.

Gays want to get them some of that black historical victimhood mojo.  It just feels so real.

Wishful thinking.  Cain is exploding, and Obama is despised, a pathetic joke.

Keep dreaming your dreams, little ones.

Because there’s a difference between having a political perspective, and being a vile, hateful disgrace.

But you’re a liberal, so it’s understandable that you are baffled by this distinction.

Well, the Democratic Party is the party of slavery, after all!

Think of it like this:  O’Donnell is just returning to his roots.

Well, the Democratic Party is the party of slavery, after all!

Think of it like this:  O’Donnell is just returning to his roots.

DEVASTATING REJOINDER

My favorite part was when O’Donnell essentially demanded that Cain express gratitude to the government–and, by extension, O’Donnell himself (since he is a socialist).

To put a fine point on it:  O’Donnell is a white child of privilege.  Cain, five years his senior, is a completely self-made black man from a working poor background.  And O’Donnell is DEMANDING GRATITUDE.

Liberals are such complete pieces of sh!t.  It’s so entertaining.

“Red herrings, all.”

To you, perhaps.  Not to Americans who actually have jobs and pay taxes.

Enjoy your year.

Or maybe “that silence” speaks for the fact that Cain’s 9-9-9 plan is not the topic of this discussion.

Ya think?

We all intuitively understand what’s going on here.  Liberals have spent several decades advancing a political worldview in which race (especially blackness), rather than character, is the defining arbiter of an individual’s worth–and anyone who challenged that view, they have pilloried as racist.  Now they are completely screwed.  By virtue of their own perverse racial obsessions, they have pre-emptively and systematically foreclosed all possible means by which they could attack Cain without looking like raging hypocritical assholes, and bigots to boot.

Meanwhile, conservatives don’t care about race, but have been pleading to the heavens for a real conservative to emerge, so that Mitt “Government Health Care Seems Like A Good Idea” Romney isn’t nominated as an establishment candidate in the crucial 2012 election, when we must either roll back Obama’s efforts wholesale, over the horrifying shrieks of every dumbass liberal in America, or see the greatest nation on Earth devolve into a crappy European suck-ocracy.

Here comes Cain.  He’s a true-blue conservative–so far, so good.  He’s a corporate turnaround executive AND a rocket scientist?  OK, now he’s sounding fantastic.

Wait…he’s BLACK?  As in, his nomination will simultaneously castrate every loudmouth socialist for the entire election cycle?  We get a conservative candidate AND we get to see the entire Democratic Party disintegrate into a mob of panicking bigots?

I can barely even read what liberals are writing anymore.  Now that they’re all sh!tting their pants at once, my eyes are stinging from the stench.

I think I speak for millions of Americans when I say that I’ve been desperately hoping for a candidate on whose behalf I could channel my money, my time, my energy, and most of all, my bottomless disgust for scumbag leeches like Barack Obama and his chorus of mewling worshippers.  Herman Cain is that candidate.

This is too, too good.  Too good.  Am I dreaming?  Pinch me, I think I’m dreaming.

To you, perhaps.  Not to Americans who actually have jobs and pay taxes.

I did not say that they were not legitimate issues for discussion. But they are “red herring” arguments in this discussion.

Bill Maher understands perfectly why the GOPsters are so freaked out about interviews like these. The sane world knows denial when it sees it.

“Overtly racist bullshit thinly painted over. Honestly, could anyone have written a better metaphor for the modern Republican party?”

The brilliance of Maher’s observations, in this monologue, will make anyone, that isn’t prejudiced of other race, laugh their ass off.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-in-modern-republican-party-denying-racism-is-the-new-racism/

“Denying Racism Is The New Racism”. – Bill Maher

The most likely reason that someone would not find that Maher monologue hilarious, is probably because it hits too close to home.

“Bill Maher understands perfectly why the GOPsters are so freaked out about interviews like these. The sane world knows denial when it sees it.”

So, a racist douchebag Democrat interviewing a black GOP candidate who is enjoying a massive groundswell of support from rank-and-file Republicans is proof that Republicans are racist…how?

So, the President was not aState Senator in Illinois, nor apparently was he a member of the US Senate? Thanks, Aaron, for showing the conservative’s grasp of recent history.

Facts are just unimportant, eh?

As a black man a little younger that Cain, I was also too young to participate in a lot of things in the 60′s (I was born in ’62).. But in the 70′s I marched against Klan violence in North Carolina and for divestment in South Africa and against apartheid, as wellas staying active in politics.The issue is not why Herman Cain didn’t participate in the civil rights movement. The issue is that he reaped the benefits of the liberal policies of desegregation and now has the nerve to shake his fist at liberals as if he didn’t  grow up in a Georgia that fostered  a South Africa-like apartheid. He is a hypocrite which is the most despicable type of man. Uncle Ruckus with a suit. 

Yes Yes Yes! The slant on this headline gets it all wrong. He stood on the sidelines while others fought for rights he benefited from. If everybody thought like Cain blacks would still be in the back of the bus along with Mr. Cain and Clarence Thomas.

They like him because he was good boy and did what he was told. The ideal black republican.

we male whites, we were the main race, no longer is true, must of my piers have become reverse racist, Jason learn to live with it, or go somewhere else, Canada or Old Mexico

If we could only get rid of the far left and the far right, maybe Washington could actually start working for We The People. I remember Nixon working with Democrats, Reagan working with Democrats, Clinton working with Republicans. Both the left and the right have become entrenched in their resepective ideological boxes, unable to agree on one single thing, while the rest of the economic powers like China, Germany, Brazil, India, South Korea, and Japan are watching and laughing, while we fight and spend more money on Defense than the rest of the world combined. A $725 bloated Defense budget which no one dares to debate. They just pass it and the way you find out is to look at the news ticker at the bottom of your TV screen. 

After Larry’s incredible ambush (which clearly backfired) it makes me wish that more peole would watch MSNBC . In fact, MSNBC probably put him up to it so they’d get a little publicity; no one even watches the station except for masterbating liberals.

Also that pussy Larry O’donnell received multiple deferments from Vietnam because apparently he was a college boy. Didn’t that square headed jackass think we’d look into that?

Right…because he was GUARANTEED positions of great power in the Chicago machine?

Do you know how silly that sounds?

–Cobra

Stonepark3, it’s 2011. Calling Black people names won’t shut us up anymore.

–Cobra

Yeah, and millions of Africans SWAM across the Atlantic, built their own slave auction houses, and volunteered to be beaten, sold, and mass raped to the point that on average, 17% of African-American DNA is European.

 But I bet that line works great at the Tea Party rally, huh?

–Cobra

Most rapes in America are INTRA-racial. FBI statistics prove this. White girls and women have more to fear from other White males than Blacks by statistics.

 As far as “robbery” goes, The White Man is the Heavyweight Champion of the World as far as GRAFT, EXTORTION, CORPORATE MALFEASANCE and TAX FRAUD is concerned.  It’s not even CLOSE. The annual cost of White Collar crime runs into the HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS annually, and those perpetrators are overwhelmingly White males.  Bernie Madoff stole more money than every Black liquor store or bodega robber that every lived, yet, that doesn’t fit the White Conservative rapacious Black boogeyman narrative.

–Cobra

Have you made up your mind whether Herman Cain can go to Heaven or not, Michelle?

–Cobra

Oh and another thing since nobody else is talking. I thought only woman and homosexual men watched The West Wing. Which one is the author? What about Dan Abrams?

Million of DEAD Africans were better off than LIVING European feudal serfs?

 You really just made that statement?

–Cobra

How many DEAD Africans must there be before you find the number objectionable to you?

–Cobra

Stonepark writes:

“Make it up tim- BTW, it doesn’t even matter this is 2011- not 1963-  I
mean it’s not as though Cain sat in a church for 20 years and listened
to a racist minister say “GD America” and then  call that man his
“mentor.”

 Actually, Cain is an ordained minister who GIVES sermons like “homosexuality is a sin”.  You KNOW there are HUNDREDS of hours of Cain sermons just dying to heard by opposition research in the Perry and Romney campaigns.

–Cobra

Right. Some were snitches for Hoover’s FBI.  Some were cowards and stayed on the sidelines. Some were zombified wannabees who would rather SWITCH than fight.

–Cobra

What did Joseph Smith have to say about Black People, Michelle?

–Cobra

Nonsense.  In America “individual liberty” meant “Individual White Male landowners” had liberty. “Free Market” were only “free” for White Male Landowners.  It TOOK government to bring forth EQUAL rights for anybody OTHER than White Males, sometimes at the cost of HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of lives.

–Cobra

Yukon Jack, which slave-owning, rapacious White male Founding Father should Black leaders think like?

–Cobra

No, silly snake!

I am speaking FACT, and if you had used your head you would have known that I was talking about the ones that survived the trans-Atlantic voyage.

After the Civil War freed slaves were offered the chance and fare to go to Africa. Even a brand new country was created just for them. You know, LIBERIA.

Why do you suppose so few took advantage of that?

And I firmly stand by my statement that the European feudal serfs were far worse off. First, they were feudal serfs hundreds of years BEFORE America was even discovered by the evil white man. Nor were they freed many decades AFTER the American black slaves were freed by SURPRISE: Republican President Lincoln.

One additional point: The European feudal serfs’ descendants never cried crocodile tears about reparation.      

I found the congressman’s totally idiotic number and claim objectionable.

O’Donnell doesn’t “talk himself into a corner“????  Um, he’s trying to slam Cain as “being on the sidelines” during ‘Nam, while he was designing munitions for the war. 

But he tries to use this as a reason to preclude Cain from the WH — and brings up John Kerry???  Hey Larry, why don’t you talk about the military records of the past 2 Democrat Presidents?  I’m not one to say this is a requirement for higher office, but given the way Clinton and Obama would FAIL your litmus test you may need to come up with a better metric.

You’re acting like segregation and bigotry were the fault of African Americans. If racist white people wouldn’t have enacted segregation and fueled hateful stereotypes there would’ve been no need for the Civil Rights Movement. 

Why don’t you condemn the white people that sat back and watched Blacks get assaulted, arrested, spat on, and verbally tormented just for being black? Oh but its all Cain’s fault that Black people’s rights were taken away in the first place…. 

Your history is muddled. First of all, from a univesal natural law stand point individual liberty applies equally to all. Just because certain groups were denied their liberties and rights early in this country’s history doesn’t change that. Secondly, government perpetuated racism, protected slavery, and mandated segregation. It took PEOPLE who had finally had enough to influence the government to end these oppressive institutions.

Fair point, but it’s incredibly insensitive and just wrong to accuse people of cowardice for not taking part as some have been doing.

Why didn’t you go over to Vietnam to fight then? You are a hypocrite and I have my doubts as to whether you’re telling the truth anyway. A lot of my family and friends are veterans and they show a lot humility unlike yourself about their service as well as the service of others.

Also for a man your age to be posting “bite me” on an internet talk back is f*cking juvenile.

Was there any time in Lawrence O’Donnell’s life where he could have joined the military?

Can we please ban her again

“So, the President was not aState Senator in Illinois, nor apparently was he a member of the US Senate? Thanks, Aaron, for showing the conservative’s grasp of recent history.”

And he accomplished…what, exactly?  Or is chair-warming an accomplishment in your cosmos?

You need to own a pair before you need to use a jock.

–Cobra

Yukon Jack writes:

“And I firmly stand by my statement that the European feudal serfs were
far worse off. First, they were feudal serfs hundreds of years BEFORE
America was even discovered by the evil white man.”

  You can firmly stand behind human bondage, torture, rape and the breeding/selling of human beings like livestock all you like.  It only makes you look more deplorable than the worst Confederate Nostalgist alive.

–Cobra

Give me a break, Herman Cain sounded ridiculous with his reasons for not marching during the civil rights movement, he was even more ridiculous for the answer he gave regarding Rosa Parks. The best answer is he was a good boy, while hundreds white and blacks died, while fighting for his civil rights……… Now you want Lawrence O’Donnell to be fired for interviewing him and bringing to light to all the brainwashed blacks so they can see him for who he is….. ?WHAT A JOKE”

A racist Socialist mad that a black man doesn’t know his place?

Well I never!!!

I was not at all surprised how Mr Cain handled himself.  “Grace” could well be his middle name.  Mr Cain is a decent man.  Not sure how any one can have a problem with this interview — well, of course with Mr O’Donnell, but not Mr Cain.
The partisans are alive and well in this room.

Collectivism allows holier than thou individualists to dress up in their favorite Ayn Rand costume and go mug children for halloween.  Without the group, the individual is nothing but a nomadic barbarian.  Imagine civilization’s evolution if it didn’t have collectivism.  There would be no evolution of civilization.  DERP!

If you think O’Donnell is a disgrace, you should watch any actor on FOX News!  Talk about D list actors!

“Why don’t you condemn the white people”

They’re all dying off anyway and will catch their drift in hell. In the mean time, please stop talking about racism until you can at least get the logic part right.

“Cain, five years his senior, is a completely self-made black man from a working poor background.”

Cain is a product of civil rights advances. (We all are). Now do us all a favor, shut the hell up, and learn something!

“Keep talking about how Herman Cain likes sitting in the back of the bus. It clearly doesn’t bother Cain”

That’s the problem. But we know you like that shit…

Regardless who Tommy likes or dislikes, Harry, I agree with your comment and Tommy.  I respect Tommy for prefacing his feelings toward O’Donnell and Cain.  I don’t have to agree with it, but Tommy did it in order to explain the situation and voice his take on it. 

It was very disturbing to me, as an African-American, that O’Donnell would stoop that low to play “race” games and basically call Cain an “Uncle Tom.”  O’Donnell has never lived in the world of Black America, particulary in the 50′s and 60′s. Rather than ask Cain about his campaign and what his stances are on the issues, O’Donnell, to me, chose not to do that, as a way to score points with the viewers with this “gotcha” interview. 

Sadly, it continues to show, in broad daylight, that some people will use race, gender, or sexual orientation in ways that are to shame people and embarrass them, regardless of party lines.  

To that, it shows that even those who consider themselves liberals or Democrats will stoop as low as those who are conservatives or Republicans in attacking individuals based on their race, gender, and sexual orientation as a way to “swing their cajones” and get away with it.  Just as many Democrats, privately, isn’t going to tell you what they really think about Cain or the President.  They don’t want to be seen as “racist” within a party that exudes “diversity.” 

If O’Donnell was trying to say that he ”understands” Black America, he failed miserably and should be held accountable for his line of questioning.  It was garbage.  He doesn’t have to “like” Cain, but he should do his job by asking Cain about where he stands.  How Cain was able to handle it with class makes me respect him, regardless if I agree with his political opinion. 

I would have turned into the “angry black man” and try to attack O’Donnell. 

“Terry Van Remortel” has shown himself, above, to be a real expert on Herman Cain’s [excellent !] 9 9 9 plan, and of course perfectly suited to be able to pass judgement on it, by claiming this Cain tax plan  ”lowers the corporate tax to zero”.

What exactly do you think the last “9″, in the “9 9 9″ plan is, clod ?  Yes… THAT’S his corporate tax !, and that rate seems just about perfect, to me.

Enough to bring in some nice revenue, particularly from large and successful corporations, and low enough to encourage these companies to stay in this country and employ people here.

Because what tax-mad loony libs like Van Remortel, and Barack Obama for that matter, just don’t seem to be able to grasp, is that private corporations are not charities, and they all do have their “bottom lines”.

So if you try to soak them with higher corporate taxes [than, say, something comfortably low like 9 %] then they’ll simply proceed to make that up somewhere else.

And where’s the easiest and most obvious place to make that up, and hit their projected  bottom line ?

That’s EASY ! : Since there’s clearly no shortage of very cheap labor overseas, the obvious thing they’ll do is pack up even MORE American companies and take them overseas !

Which of course is JUST what this country needs riight now !  

Are you really that dumb? If you can’t follow the argument then don’t jump in.

You are a pathetic little man with even a smaller brain. You are what we call a drone because somebody elses hand is controlling the show. You are a puppet and need to get an education in the real world not just the one your sorry hide from the real world professors seeded in your pea sized brain.

He was 9 when Rosa Parks bus ride happened.  What would have satisfied you?

If a person whose life was actually in jeopardy simply for being black and in Atlanta, where was Lawrence who is making the accusations during that time?  An let me try and understand you, every black person that was not in the freedom marches were cowards?  Interesting….

I am not quite sure that I see all the vitriol directed at Lawrence O’ Donnell because Herman Cain’s explanation of his father’s words rang hollow and literally made no sense at all.  

 I’m a lifelong Democrat and I believe that line of questioning was completely uncalled for by O’Donnell… no one should question what Cain had to go through as a young black man in Atlanta during those times nor should they question what his fathers advice was to keep him safe. We all know that O’Donnell would’ve reamed any other white journalist who would’ve questioned a black Democrat for taking a safer approach with their children during those times…

Mr. O’Donnell’s infantile and, yes, racially motivated attack on Herman Cain is not so much the issue here as Mr. O’Donnell’s extreme anger problems. While one could not anticipate the shameless extent of Mr. O’Donnell’s complete lack of civility, it was no surprise that he would spare no invective in assailing someone whose only “fault” is not to be in complete agreement with Mr. O’Donnell. But, as I say, the larger problem here is Mr. O’Donnell’s mental health. It is not natural or normal for someone who is believed to have a fair amount of intelligence to exhibit the sort of froth-at-the-mouth volatility one gets from Mr. O’Donnell. When this segment with Mr. Cain was over, one was left not so much wondering who was right or whether Mr. O’Donnell conducted himself appropriately but, rather, why Mr. O’Donnell’s out-of-control temper rises so often to the surface. It’s cliche, of course, to say someone has “anger management” problems, but in this case it applies rather strongly. Mr. O’Donnell, who behavior is very worrisome, is badly in need of therapy. One gets the sense, watching him, that he’s the sort of person who is so out of control at times that he might easily pick up a gun and start firing. There is just something not quite right with him.

odonnell is a piece of crap

i see from reading the comments , that as in all things to the human , feelings about a subject trump any facts about the subject , so many bruised feelings here , the need to express ones feelings is very important to children and commenters here alike ….. one fact that i gleaned from the interview was that Herman Cain is a snake oil salesman , and despite being a mathematician and banker , that he does not think rationally , that he is unprepared and is not self aware  , Lawrence O’Donnell is not running for President ,  Herman Cain is , and he is laughably unqualified .

Is it fair to ask that if Cain would have a chance of even being up on that stage in republican debates had the dems not elected Obama? And is it fair to assume that Cain had asked himself that question? And should Cain ask himself if Steele’s fate awaits him?

I think it’s safe to assume that someone with good business sense would have some opportunistic strain in them and would have gone through the analysis. Furthermore, it is safe to assume that he’s up to the conservatives game and knows exactly what he’s being used as but his business instincts impel him not to let the moment pass without capitalizing on the moment to sell some books and possibly speeches in future. Smart man

BTW, unlike Jesse Jackson, Cain didn’t dip a handkerchief into MLK’s blood as he lay dying!

  You’re saying Cain left his handkerchief on his head?  Interesting….

–Cobra

 Your history is HIS-story.  What is “universal natural law?”  The only natural law is “survival of the fittest”.  If that’s the “universal natural law” you’re endorsing, then democracy is illegal.  You say “people” ended the oppressive institutions of racism, slavery and segregation.  You neglect to say people STARTED those same institutions.

–Cobra

 Your history is HIS-story.  What is “universal natural law?”  The only natural law is “survival of the fittest”.  If that’s the “universal natural law” you’re endorsing, then democracy is illegal.  You say “people” ended the oppressive institutions of racism, slavery and segregation.  You neglect to say people STARTED those same institutions.

–Cobra

Joe Biden isn’t walking around calling himself a “real Black man”, now is he?

–Cobra

Demanding that Wall Street not WRECK the world’s economy on derivatives, over-leveraging and greed is not “reasonable?”

 Asking that Wall Street help rebuild the destruction they caused by their actions by investing in the America that BAILED THEM OUT is not “reasonable?”

 Come on.

–Cobra

 If Cain was non-confrontational…and was afraid to participate in the Civil Rights movement…and played go along just to get along, that’s his business.

  When Cain starts calling 2/3rds of African-America “brainwashed”, and that he’s a “REAL” Black man, then he DESERVES to be called out on his Civil Rights record and activities.

-Cobra

Conservatives have historically shown absolutely NO respect for highly educated Blacks who aren’t Republican.

Explain, Mosely.

–Cobra

Did you actually support what Rosa Parks did, or the White Conservative position on segregation at the time?

–Cobra

It’s not illegal to be a punk, Mosely.

But if you make all this “Real Black Man” tough guy talk decades later, you will be CALLED out as a punk on the facts.

–Cobra

What stopped White Conservatives from supporting the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act and Fair Housing Act?

http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1543/article_detail.asp

–Cobra

Yeah!  Blacks should want those good ol’ days BEFORE the Civil Rights Movement…hell…before Emancipation, where there were REAL Plantations, right Mardec?

 We Blacks could INSTANTLY find work before that Civil War came along, right?

–Cobra

What’s the difference…you suck up to the Democrats?  You want to go back to the days of the Big Plantation, cause that’s where they want to keep you!  Maybe you’re just too blind to see it.

You’re talking about the Civil War and  ANCIENT HISTORY…I’M TALKING ABOUT NOW!!

Grow up and get a brain while you are at it Einstein!

Honesty Exgoper, Honesty… But you can only recognize the truth if you know what truth is…. just saying. And tommychristopher … while your article is at least honest, and your liberal bias still not veiled, you ought to realize that … forthrightness in your ‘objective journalism’ … in your political motivations will earn you my respect, more than pretending that your bias does not exist. How about a disclamer about your bias before each article, … Something like, I abhorr all conservatives, even the ones victimized by ruthless, liberal wacko’s like L O’D.

~AmericaTheWayItWasDreamedOfByTheFounders = Function( TeaParyCongress, FederalistPresident);

This is actually for “”"lillyluminatus “”". You clearly have displayed that you do not know the facts of 2008′ Political contributions from corporations. Not only are you wrong about corporations being conservative factions, but wallstreet bigwigs from goldmann to buffet came out of Pocket for Obama to the tune of 3/4 of a Billion… Yes with “B”, and that does have 9 zeros after it in case you process things visually… and what they bought was class warfare rhetoric. Too bad for Obama, I don’t think 10 Billion could get him to a win in 2012. Matter of fact, I think my little sister would lead in a generic poll against President B.H. Obama.

Did you actually read my comment or even watch the video clip? If you had, I have no idea where your question is coming from? 

He never said that. Herman Cain opened up that line of questioning in his book. Also what does Herman Cain mean by saying the president hasn’t had the black experience? You sound like somebody saying this gumball machine is racist because there are no black gumballs.

“Racially charged attacks”

Give me a fucking break.

Cain was in the right place and had every oppurtunity to join the Civil Rights protesters. Of course it’s ridiculous to expect every black man and woman to join in those protests, but Tommy Christopher is ignoring several basic facts, Herman Cain is not just any black man, he’s a black man running for the nations highest office. He attended College in Atlanta, from 63-68 which was the epicenter of the civil rights movement, durring the years that both the Kennedy brothers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King were assassinated. Herman Cain has accused the black electorate of being “brainwashed” despite the fact that many of the civil rights protesters he refused to join up with are now part of that caucus.

Herman Cain was the one who initially made these racially charged attacks, O’Donnell simply pointed out the hypocrisy on Cain’s part.

I think if you write a book and are on television to promote your book or running for President any and everything in that book is fair game for an interviewer to ask about. 

Why is Niles Crane hatin’ on a black man so much?

In my opinion, Lawrence O’Donnell is a fair and liberal journalist.  As an African American I did not perceive his interview with Herman Cain to be anything but fair, aggressive journalism.  Likewise, African American journalist should have access to interview relevant public figures of their choosing giving no thought to their race or ethnicity.  Herman Cain propelled himself into the public sphere as a candidate vying to run for president.  He then wrote a book noting several interesting facts.  That being the case…all bets off.  No one’s beating up anyone for jumping on Perry’s Social Security quote.  By the way, I’m from Texas too.