Via Newsbusters, Lawrence O’Donnell decided to rewrite history on the story of progressives, Newt Gingrich, and foodstamps:

There’s a tremendous amount of cynicism in Gingrich’s use of food stamps because of what he actually know that his Republican debate audiences do not know. His Republican audiences do not know that most people on food stamps are white.

Actually, it’s been progressives that didn’t know:
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Yesterday in New Hampshire Larry O’Connor of Breitbart.tv caught up with Lawrence O’Donnell and asked him his opinion on the Republican field. Here’s what he had to say:

Romney is the one they don’t want. They know they can beat anybody else. Romney, they think they can beat, but it’s a harder road… The problem Romney has is that he cannot energize Republicans.

Lawrence O’Donnell also sounded off on how the vice presidential picks don’t really matter and how McCain would have been marginally better off picking Tim Pawlenty and not Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Really? Could it be that Lawrence O’Donnell and his MSNBC colleagues simply have the largest opposition research file on Mitt Romney from years of following him?

O’Donnell perhaps gave us a taste of the Democratic strategy against Mitt Romney when he said the following, after repeatedly calling Romney by his first name, Willard, so as to make him look out of touch:

Mitt Romney is so rich he doesn’t have a reality show on NBC…It couldn’t be more clear that Mitt Romney knows how to kill jobs. There is absolutely no evidence that he knows anything, anything at all, about how to create jobs.

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Breitbart.tv’s Larry O’Connor caught up with Mr. Shakespeare, Lawrence O’Donnell.

“Romney is the one they don’t want. They know they can beat anybody else. Romney, they think they can beat, but it’s a harder road.”

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Yesterday, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews exhorted his viewers to boycott major restaurant chains because, in his words, the National Restaurant Association is “protecting the secrets” of GOP presidential frontrunner Herman Cain.

O’Donnell also asked Occupy DC activists to break the law and occupy the NRA’s headquarters in the nation’s capital, even given them the building’s address as well as directions from the Occupy DC protest site.

Which invites the question: why is Lawrence O’Donnell protecting the secrets of Chris Matthews?

After all, Matthews is known to have a record of “misogyny,” is he not?

I cite the estimable Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America, MSNBC’s favorite show-prep source:

In fact, in Matthews’ case, the sexist outbursts have helped propel his career. That’s how he landed on the cover of the Times magazine…

So if Matthews doesn’t display any actual journalism skills in terms of unearthing scoops or edifying the race, and if his ratings are just so-so, what explains Matthews’ Hot Journalist status?

Answer: Misogyny.

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No one should be surprised that the media has invested all of its might to lynch Herman Cain now that he has become a front-runner in the GOP presidential primary. Nearly three weeks ago the liberal writers at “Saturday Night Live” lampooned him for not having a chance. Since that time Americans have taken notice of his pragmatic approach to solving our country’s problems. He has become a Titan in business like Oprah Winfrey, Russell Simmons, and Bob Johnson and now the media is attempting to destroy Herman Cain because Herman Cain is a politically conservative black man in America, an unprotected minority. Liberals have created conditions where expressing conservative beliefs subjects blacks to another set of standards.

The most disgusting example of the media lynching was the interview with Hermain Cain by MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell. O’Donnell’s questions were predictably misleading. That’s to be expected because they cater to a small (and I mean small) leftist fringe. He relentlessly attempted to cast Herman Cain as a race traitor through innuendo like accusing him of not participating in civil rights demonstrations, insulting his father, and misrepresenting passages from his book.

I concluded than this Ivy League elitist has ordained himself with the authority to declare who is black. Although Herman Cain gave a spirited interview, he showed the obvious restraint of a presidential candidate leaving the host visibly frustrated by his defiance. I guarantee that if this was 1840, O’Donnell would have filled Cain’s back with welts like the Democrats used to do to non-compliant blacks. Nonetheless, since I am not a presidential candidate, and have no restraint and can directly address his racist assumptions.

I challenge Mr. O’Donnell’s and his newfound authority to a “black contest.” Conservative black Americans are regularly challenged on their racial integrity, and I say this from experience. While I believe that there is no standard “black experience,” there are experiences, conditions and traditions that tie the millions of African-Americans together that are distinctly different from other groups of Americans. Unfortunately, racist liberals like O’Donnell and self-proclaimed “black leaders” like Cornell West have given themselves the authority to decide who can call themselves black.

For years conservative African-Americans have tried to convince the brethren that despite political differences, they are no different. Too often these pleas fall on deaf ears as their “black cards” are revoked for simply exercising Constitutional rights; at the same time we people like Obama, whose descendents were not forced into slavery, and Bill Clinton who continues to be touted as the first “black” president.

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From NBC Universal:

Starting Monday, October 24^th, “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” will move back to its original time slot of 10 p.m. ET/PT, Monday-Thursday. “The Ed Show” with Ed Schultz will lead off MSNBC’s primetime lineup each weeknight at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The announcement was made today by Phil Griffin, President of MSNBC. “The Rachel Maddow Show” will continue to air live at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

“This move will strengthen the flow of our programming throughout the evening. As the name implies, “The Last Word” belongs at the conclusion of our programming day, thoughtfully wrapping-up the day’s political dialogue,” said Griffin. “Ed’s passionate voice is a perfect kick off to primetime at 8 p.m.”

“The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” debuted in September 2010 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on MSNBC and moved to the 8 p.m. ET/PT time slot in January 2011. “The Ed Show” launched in April 2009 at 6 p.m. ET on MSNBC and replaced “The Last Word” at 10 pm ET/PT in January 2011. (more…)

If you’ve been analyzing how the MSM has approached the coverage of our candidates and potential candidates over the past few years, you should probably start worrying about what the Washington Post — the co-sponsor of tonight’s GOP debate — might have in store for our new (according to some polls) frontrunner, Herman Cain. Whenever we have any kind of rising star who isn’t Mitt Romney, the MSM targets them for destruction. Palin and Bachmann are just two examples, but the most recent and glaring has been Texas Governor Rick Perry.

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I’m not going to sit here and pretend Perry isn’t his own worst political enemy, but even if he wasn’t, there’s no question the Governor’s been targeted by the MSM for political assassination. In the debates Perry’s participated in thus far, we’ve seen CNN, Politico, and MSNBC moderators do everything in their power to turn the entire night against him. Batting clean-up, though, was the Washington Post, who last week Sunday savaged Perry with lies of commission and innuendo that embroiled him in a racially-charged debate that in a just world never would have seen the light of day.

And who knows how much better Perry would’ve fared over the last month had he not been targeted?

The MSM’s plan is simple: Obama can’t get re-elected on his failed record so one-by-one every GOP threat must be taken out using any lie, rumor, or distraction necessary.

So knowing what we know, what can we expect at tonight’s debate?

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CNN’s Candy Crowley and her absolutely shameful interview with Herman Cain over the weekend was yet another piece of evidence that proves my theory that the MSM is involved in one big left-wing conspiracy. They use each other, they work together, and because it comes so naturally thanks to their shared ideology and social circles, they don’t even know they’re conspiring. Trust me, that’s the worst kind of conspiracy, and Journolist was only a symptom of something much more insidious and widespread.

And MSNBC plays a very important role in this.

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For the most part, the only emotion MSNBC stirs in me is indifference. Unlike the rest of the corrupt MSM, MSNBC is openly partisan, which means I don’t find their leftism as offensive as the likes of Politico, CNN, and the other usual suspects who disguise their agenda as “objective.” Also, MSNBC bores me. Until around 2002, I would’ve told you Chris Matthews was one of the most fascinating and intelligent talkers on television, but in the past decade both Matthews and the rest of the network have become dumb, predictable, and shrill.

MSNBC does, however, still serve a vital role in supplying ammo for the MSM to use against the right.

Since MSNBC is so marginalized and has so few viewers, they’re able to constantly float narrative trial balloons for their MSM confederates. This, I believe, is why so much shocking stupidity emanates daily from the cable net’s hosts, who simply can’t be as dumb as they appear without receiving a medical directive to wear a helmet at all times. What Matthews, Schultz, Maddow et. al. are doing is trying out different attacks against Republicans and Republican ideas to see what might gain a little traction — which is something only MSNBC can do.

If, for instance, “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams were to regularly try different shameless attacks against the right, he would lose whatever credibility he has with the millions of viewers who still watch him under the mistaken impression he has credibility. But if Chris Matthews does this, it’s just more red meat for those few hundred thousand rabid partisans who still watch him. Thus, on a daily basis the MSNBC Doo-Doo Crew throws line after line against the wall, which has the double positive of gaining them a lot of attention for their outrageous antics and sometimes revealing a trial balloon with a little air in it.

And when that happens, the MSM jumps.

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During a lengthy Thursday interview, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell suggested GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain served in the Navy during the Vietnam War, and Cain clarified that he was not a service member in the Navy but worked as an employee of the Navy designing artillery. After finding this out, O’Donnell immediately asked Mr. Cain why he “avoided” military service, implying that because he did not volunteer like John Kerry, that disqualifies Mr. Cain from becoming Commander-in-Chief:

After Cain explained that he made himself available for the draft but simply was not picked, O’Donnell doubled down with this lengthy harangue:

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 gonna do. They had the courage to join and to go and to 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?

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Normally I loathe Lawrence O’Donnell’s overly-dramatic Shatner-esque editorial delivery, but it was so apropos in his interview with Levi Johnston.

Johnston is out hocking his next book that is all about trashing the grandmother of his son. O’Donnell forced Johnston to read not just any passage from his book, but the passage where Johnston got into the shower with Bristol Palin.

Ever the gentleman, Johnston obliged.

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It only took a few days for NBC News’ newest star Al Sharpton to insult his colleagues and further undermine the already diminished journalistic credibility of MSNBC.

In an interview with The Daily Beast the controversial activist turned TV news anchor defended himself against criticism from the National Association of Black Journalists.  (emphasis mine)

“To be fair about it, the NABJ understood that if I didn’t get it, it wouldn’t have gone to a journalist,” Sharpton tells me. “It’s a moot point. There are no journalists [as hosts] after 5 p.m. on MSNBC. Everyone after 5 deals with opinions. So the argument is kind of apples and oranges.”

In an effort to defend himself from the obvious observation that there are many more qualified journalists (of any color) to fill a nightly anchor spot at MSNBC, Sharpton has inadvertently “outed” Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell and Ed Schultz as mere commentators voicing opinions rather than legitimate journalists presenting news as well as ideas and opinions to their audience.  For the sake of this column, let’s forget O’Donnell and Schultz for a moment because their shows do border on the brink of pot and pan banging temper tantrums, let’s just focus on Matthews and Maddow.

One has to wonder how Chris Matthews feels about his new workmate telling the world that he isn’t a journalist.  Matthews spent fifteen years writing for the San Francisco Examiner.  He’s covered politics for decades on behalf of newspapers and television news bureaus.  I bet if you asked him, he’d say he was a journalist.

And Rhodes Scholar Maddow (a title Sharpton could never dream of acquiring) also has her share of opinions on her show, but she also prides herself on her excellent team of researchers who painstakingly dig for stories and facts to present news to their viewers.  Look how she presented herself in her first “Lean Forward” ad.  Surely you can see that she considers herself a journalist obsessed with details and facts, not opinion:

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During a film montage tribute to late director Sidney Lumet, the obscenity “f**king” was broadcast on MSNBC. There have been no repercussions. This is in stark contrast to the immediate and indefinite suspension of MSNBC analyst Mark Halperin today after he said President Obama was “kind of a dick” at yesterday’s press conference at the White House.

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It was close, but we’re confident that this report on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” is the most egregious example of the media’s attacks on Andrew Breitbart for reporting the Anthony Weiner story.

For an editor of a magazine and for television journalists, Mr. Hayes and the producers at the O’Donnell show display a disturbing lack of curiosity toward what the actual story was in this entire saga.

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Jerry Springer on “Piers Morgan” last night and Lawrence O’Donnell on his own show offer up what may well be the next Weinergate talking point: It’s all about the sex!  These gentlemen both raise the question: what if he is guilty? And then they offer the same answer: who cares?

First O’Donnell:

We can only hope that the majority of American voters are not far from understanding that human sexually is just that – human… Voters need to realize that sex doesn’t matter when it comes to casting their votes.

And Springer:

Given the fact that details surrounding the initial tweet are still murky and given all that has transpired since, this talking point is going to be a very hard sell to the American people, but Springer and O’Donnell are still giving it a try.  We will continue to refrain from speculating what the final outcome of the Weinergate scandal will be, but it’s worth noting that traditionally liberal media figures are already test-driving a talking point that’s much more serviceable when used to temper fallout than it is to prove innocence.

Lawrence O’Donnell attempted to debate interview Condoleezza Rice and Rice promptly are his lunch. Ate his lunch and slapped him around. Ate his lunch, slapped him around, and completely owned him. I can’t with either a straight face or accuracy call this display of fake journalism a “debate,” because calling it such would suggest that Lawrence O’Donnell brought wit and intelligence equal to that of his opponent, Rice. He did not.

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From Accuracy in Media’s Logan Churchwell:

With Republican presidential announcements approaching this summer, MSNBC has seen fit to promote their underwhelming primetime lineup with a new round of Lean Forward TV ads. Each of these spots take our beloved hosts out of the studio and into the “real” part of America that they seek to speak for. Some are ironic, others are downright hokey. All videos, however, offer not-so-subtle endorsements of progressive policies that play like in-kind donations to the Democratic National Committee. They serve as excellent examples for logical fallacies, too.

Straw Man- First up, Chris Matthews stands before the White House in an act of symbolic protection and labels all potential Republican presidential candidates as birthers. Interesting, considering that Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Haley Barbour, Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty have scoffed at the issue publicly. Sarah Palin seems a little confused, but Jon Huntsman has a man crush on Obama. We know where The Donald stands, but attention must be given to this gross generalization. I’ll posit that once Mr. Matthews stops talking about President Obama’s citizenship status, the oxygen will be sucked out of the whole debate. This straw man attack does nothing for the MSNBC brand, but give its critics more ammunition.

Etymological Fallacy- Next, Lawrence O’Donnell brings us into his bourgeois living room for a lecture on [illegal] immigration. You might find yourself agreeing on the surface, but pay attention to context. No one with two brain cells to rub together has argued that all borders must undergo an absolute shutdown. In that case, is MSNBC openly pressing for a disregarding of long-standing federal law? (more…)

Lawrence O’Donnell on his show Friday read an email from a woman who said she couldn’t afford either cable or birth control so “please Lawrence,” she wrote, “shout some sense into them.”

The way O’Donnell said that she couldn’t “even afford cable t.v. to watch this program” as though it was the Great Depression and she was going without food rather than cable.

In his haste to carry water for abortion advocates, O’Donnell makes no mention of the Women’s Health Program in Medicaid that already does exactly the things Planned Parenthood does (and even provides mammograms) or the many other clinics and organizations which do the same thing.

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