Hardball Actually Hardballs Someone - O'Donnell v. Texas (R) Culberson - 'Awwww!'

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O'Donnel gets Republican Culberson of Texas to say he would have voted for a single payer government run system at the beginning of Medicare - and yet he is not willing to do it today for merely a government option which is what the President is asking. O'Donnel at his very best in my opinion, pulling apart the weaseling chatterbox that is the Republican talking machine.

[PDittie]

1. Pwned.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer Neanderthal.

[jeaps]

58. That interview was a joy to watch

Mr Culberson is a complete jerk and watching him squirm was a delightful. Congratulations Mr. O'Donnell, a job well done!

[valerief]

2. O'Donnell pulverized this republican asshat! Fabulous clip!!!

:applause:
:woohoo:

Thanks for posting!

[Tripper11]

3. "Go ahead, spin away."

"Thank you" :rofl:

[ShamelessHussy]

4. wow - he out right called him a LIAR

I hope that boosts his numbers, he deserves it!

And we got Keith O to thank for showing the way :bounce:

[PatSeg]

114. Yep

Not "misleading", not "misrepresenting".............LYING! Pretty much everyone else on TV is afraid to say what I end up yelling at the TV on a regular basis. A lie is a lie and should be called that.

[smuglysmiling]

5. Loved it!

I loved watching him pop that gas-bag...ROFL

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[cadaverdog]

31. I'm going to have to watch that clip half a dozen times more

before I can really get my head around it.
It is just so amazing on so many levels.
We definitely have not heard the last of this.

Hold tight wait till the partys over
Hold tight were in for nasty weather
There has got to be a way
Burning down the house

[Flagrante]

40. That is a beautiful clip, hypocrisy hangs the fool.

[wryter2000]

10. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[JohnnyK]

6. K&R Now! Do it! n/t

[DutchLiberal]

7. I hate it when the host never lets his guest finish a sentence.

Repuke or not, this is unwatchable.

[tomm2thumbs]

9. actually, the way I looked at it was

it was classic court room witness 'interrogation' and surprisingly it got the guy to admit to something he'd probably never admit to in a normal conversation not to mention on national television. That is why it impressed me, not because other hosts who do it just talk to hear themselves, I think Lawrence knew what he wanted to get out of the 'witness' and got it.

[DutchLiberal]

14. Well, he's ten times better than Matthews, I'll give him that.

You're probably right. Matthews does it so he can hear himself talk and Lawrence wanted to get something out of the guest. Still, it's too tiring for me to watch.

[mwb970]

51. Matthews hosts a different show.

It's called Softball.

[howmad1]

94. It's Time:

It's time that MSNBC replaced that blonde, ass kissing pussy Matthews with a real hard ball player. I thought I had died and gone to heaven watching O'Donnell make mince meat of that repiglican. On the other hand, Matthews would have told that putz how much he loved and respected him. It's time!

[bobshin]

95. I agree, this isn't a debate, they're both trying to get as many soundbites in

in the short time allotted. In that way it was successful. Instead of attacking each other, which is a turnoff to anyone watching, there should be a reasonable debate. This is just a bunch of grandstanding by both parties. It's like a sports match where you're cheering for your side and nothing more. Totally unproductive.

Overall, all this bickering is totally missing the core problems that need to be addressed. Fraud and overspending by the government programs already in place and more insulation from pure profit motive of the private insurance industry.

[PatSeg]

115. Exactly

Matthews asks a question and just as his guest starts to answer, he continues to expound because he is so self-absorbed.

O'Donnell tends to be very polite and reasonable, but periodically he goes off, and I think he was determined not to let this guy stick to his prepared talking points. If he did it all the time, I'd find it annoying as well.

[tomm2thumbs]

139. and I'm not a Lawrence fan by nature to be sure

[cui bono]

12. They shouldn't be allowed to finish their sentences when they refuse to answer

the questions. And when all they have to say is pre-packaged talking points. As O'Donnell said, we don't want to listen to his spin.

I think O'Donnell handled this asshat brilliantly. If he were willing to tell the truth and not evade the questions perhaps he could've finished. But LO has no patience for those who refuse to answer the question.

[SemperEadem]

22. dude was spinning and spinning needs to be stopped in its tracks

that's the difference between having a conversation and trying to wax everyone with spin.

[ShamelessHussy]

28. Me, too BUT that is the only level of discourse that get's ANY attention these days

so from a purely tactical point of view he is right on.

the reTHUGs have a HUGE advantage when they can use that kinda rhetoric but know they won't be subjected to the same when making their case (spinning) on the M$M.

Too bad we are so outnumbered in the M$M.

[Lil Missy]

37. The guest was not answering the question, and the host called him on it.

[DutchLiberal]

120. Well, he didn't get too much time to answer anything, now did he?

The interview O'Donell did with that protester woman, now that was much better. He totally exposed her for the fraud she was, but didn't need to yell her down all the time, so it was actually tolerable to watch.

[GreenTea]

126. The fucking republican wouldn't answer the fucking question he was asked, he started dancing

IMMEDIATELY after any question that was asked by O'Donnell, the republican just wouldn't answer the questions....

Instead the slimy republican immediately stated jumping into the same old fucking republican song & dance routine, i.e., the sickening republican talking points, which are, the lies, the spin, the propaganda, the distortions and the smears...the same shit from an old and dying outdated ideology.....fascism!

Is this the same shit you really wanted to hear over & over again?

O'Donnell knew what was coming, I sure as fuck knew, buy you actually didn't and wanted to hear the republicans usual same full NON ANSWERS to the questions?

You then simply need to just go to Fox news dude and hear the same bullshit over & over again...Cuz they can certainly use the ratings!

So many of us are so sick & tired of these republican NEVER answering the actual questions asked whether given an hour to do it or 30 seconds they go into their lying spin bullshit and NEVER answering the questions.

Cheers to O'Donnell what like most of us has enough of the bullshit and kept demanding an answer over & over to his question which the republican tapped danced and starting shouting that why nobody watches MSMBC...Then why in the fuck did he come on MSNBC the lying stupid fuck?

This republican liar is who you so desperately wanted to hear...Again you get can the exact same answer anywhere on the corporate media, said exactly the same way, with exactly the same words to any questions asked, whether the answer pertains to the questions or not...By a hundred of the same republicans on any corporate media forum or news show pounding it in daily for the robots. the ignorant & the sheep....Hmmmm.....!!! --- ???

[DutchLiberal]

132. Wow. Easy there, fella. Think about your blood pressure.

[Posteritatis]

137. It doesn't take long to give a monosyllabic answer. (nt)

[geckosfeet]

84. Not so. Flushing out a liar who is misrepresenting the facts on a national platform

is dirty business. I am glad that someone in the msm is finally doing it.

If they keep this up, I may start paying for cable.

[patrice]

87. C was not answering O'D's question. O'D was making that clear and giving C another chance to step up

to

what Culberson himself says he thinks is right.

[Raineyb]

90. The guest should not be allowed to finish if he doesn't answer the question

O'Donnell had every right to insist on an answer to his question. Too many hosts allow guests to filibuster by going into their prepared spiel of talking points without answering the question until time runs out. In those cases the guests gets to get his spin out while the rest of us get to watch bullshit fly.

[Gman2]

91. Cant we all just get along? Face them now, or face their increasingly bold

physical intimidations.

[Plucketeer]

101. He wasn't gonna let the Rethug

get away with their standard "chapter and verse" chants. Chants which are 99.99% of the time accepted as "answers". Hell, if all they ever get out of these automatons is chapter and verse, what's the worth of turning on the TV???

Lawrence deserves a BIG tip-o-the-hat for pressing Representative Dildo for an honest answer instead of the usual hat dance!

[dhill926]

8. ha-ha........

gave the bloviating bastard a taste of his own medicine.......

[lovuian]

11. He said it He would have voted for Social programs

he knows by saying He would not vote for Social Security or Medicare
he would be voted out of office

[NOW tense]

13. "Do you know who I am"

An Ass hat apparently.
:rofl:

[trocar]

15. Rude?

I actually thought Lawrence was very rude. I have enjoyed watching Hardball all week with him, usually really like his work whenever he is on the air. He was very thoughtful during his interview with the woman from the town hall, but this interview was much too much and wasn't the note to end the week

[SemperEadem]

20. screw that! O'Donnel did what needed to be done..

it's been a long time coming and liars need to be called out on their manipulative shit. The congressman is grown enought to dish it out, but he ain't grown enough to stand in his shit and take his asswhippin' like a man. Typical.

It was a brilliant end to a week that's been overtaken by thugs and their myrmidons.

This show is called "Hardball", not "Run and Hide Behind Your Mama's Skirts".

[dana_b]

113. agreed. I don't normally watch "Hardball"

because of Matthews. This guy puts them on the spot and calls them out. Maybe he could teach Matthews a thing or two.

[doc03]

25. Rude! Insanity and O'Liely have been doing the same

thing for years. The lying SOB got exactly what he deserved if the guy don't answer the question and wants to spin, f--- him, like O'Liely says "The Spin Stops Here".

[ShamelessHussy]

29. don't bring a spork to a knife fight

bring a tank!

This has been a serious handicap for liberals for years, time to use their same tactics against them if we hope to win the 'debate'.

[go west young man]

61. You have got to be joking.

Grow a spine please. Finally we have a strong voice as loud and agressive as the right wing blowhards and you wanna say he's rude. At 28 posts not a wise move really.

[Ka hrnt]

72. Agreed--extremely rude.

It was like watching Hannity or O'reilly. I had to stop watching ~3 minutes in.

[snort]

80. Proxy intimidation?

[patrice]

89. All C had to do was answer the question and explain the difference between his answer and

what he's proposing now.

He thinks he's going to get by with a few bones thrown to the dogs, the scooter thing and such, when the real issue is how salaries and bonuses in "Health" "Care" KILL people.

[City Lights]

74. Cutting through the spin is not rude.

O'Donnell did the right thing by holding his feet to the fire. I'm sick of seeing guests filibuster their time away on talk shows without answering one damn question.

[jgraz]

75. It's long past time we stop being nice to these degenerates

O'Donnell went far easier on him than I would have.

[lolly]

76. Rude is sometimes required

When someone who is making an important decision that affects all of us--may mean life or death to someone--and he refuses to answer questions and outright lies when asked about his vote--polite doesn't work.

Polite should go both ways. Lying isn't polite, and you shouldn't expect interviewers to be polite to you when you lie to them (even though that's been the norm for the last 10 years or so, it shouldn't be).

Being polite to liars is what got us into the mess we're in. Wish someone had talked to one of the Bushies this way when they were screaming about WMD in Iraq.

[fascisthunter]

85. what was rude was how the GOPer spun when asked very simple questions

lying is rude... telling the truth when a person lies, twists, distorts is not rude. But nice try....

[DutchLiberal]

121. I agree, but apparently many DU'er like the screaming...

When it's done by one of 'our' guys. When O'Reilly or Hannity does the same thing (yelling over a guest so he/she can't answer) they cry foul.

[KakistocracyHater]

16. the Texan lies & said he is against waste & high costs-yet money making IS

the ONLY motivation of private medical corporations. He compalins that scooters for seniors isn't necessary http://www.thescooterstore.com/products/powerchair_jazzy_select6ultra.html

..."Manufacturer List Price $5,725.00
With Medicare Insurance Coverage Call for current price and availability
With Medicare and Secondary Insurance Coverage"...

Where is the outrage over private profiteers overcharging for their products?

..."Threshold Ramp - Screwdown
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If you don't have a storm door, you can place the ramp right onto the door threshold plate and screw it down with supplied hardware. If you do have a storm door, we suggest first securing a strip of treated wood to the outside of the door threshold...at the proper height so that the storm door won't run into the threshold ramp. Next, you can secure the ramp to the piece of treated wood.

Mfg's Model No. TH
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http://preview.tinyurl.com/r24ylc bikes vs.

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[depakid]

44. Texas Republican automatcally = liar

[bobshin]

97. What's your point? Ramps are overpriced? Or ramps negate the need for

scooters? People are stealing ramps? WTF?

[KakistocracyHater]

131. My point is YES PRIVATE MEDICAL IS OVERPRICED! Can you hear me now?

Why didn't you mention the cost of wheelchairs? & THAT is what the idiot from Texas says he's against-overpriced stuff charged to Medicare. Yet he sides with private profiteers EVERY TIME. (probably).

[SalviaBlue]

17. He called him the "L" word.

Culberson is a liar. Go Lawrence!!

[SemperEadem]

18. You're wrong, congressman... MSNBC's numbers are not dwindling

especially when thugs get taken to the woodshed and get that a$$ beat.

He is a liar; he is a tool... and if he doesn't like being called out on his shit, then he shouldn't agree to do interviews. Fuck. Him.

[bulloney]

57. The only card Culberson could play was that line that 'nobody listens to MSNBC.'

O'Donnell called him out. Culberson and a bunch like him will denounce 'socialized medicine' in one forum, then go to a group of senior citizens and tell them he's their biggest ally in protecting Social Security and Medicare.

We need a few more interviews like this to put these pandering phonies in their place.

[AlbertCat]

66. 'nobody listens to MSNBC.'

They keep saying that.... but offer no proof. And if that's true, why go on a show that airs on MSNBC?

I bet more people watch Rachel Maddow than go to town halls to disrupt them.

[SOS]

107. MSNBC doing well:

P2+ Prime Time

FNC – 3,036,000 viewers
CNN— 805,000 viewers

MSNBC –1,002,000 viewers

CNBC – 149,000 viewers

http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/ratings/top-news/cable-news

More viewers than CNN and CNBC combined!

Edit to add date of ratings: August 13, 2009

[JeffreyWilliamson]

19. Funny how Culberson doesn't want anyone coming in between doctor and patient...

Such as the government, Congress, or "this President". Lost in there somewhere were the insurance companies that are practically right there in the examination room making all the decisions by virtue of withholding payment for needed services.

Amazing how outraged he was that anyone should come between doctor and patient, and yet the huge elephant in the room, of course, is that the major problem is the fact that the insurance corporations have done just that.

I would have called his ass out on that one. "So let me get this straight Congressman, you don't want anyone coming in between doctor and patient--I assume that means insurance companies as well? What do you plan on doing about that?"

Awesome clip! Nice bookend to Abram earlier in the week.

[Bushknew]

21. EPIC beatdown. Is Medicare socialism?

[doc03]

23. Wow he riped him apart I have never

even seen O'Liely go after someone like he did. This guy is my new hero. The Repugs have no comeback other than MSNBCs ratings.

[Epiphany4z]

24. Culverson's face just keeps getting

redder and redder..it was priceless

[quantass]

26. WOW!!!

[quantass]

27. FINALLY, strong Journalism!!!

[mopinko]

30. so very beautiful.

wham.

[Berry Cool]

32. All he had at the end was his empty lying talking points.

Beautiful.

[NYC_SKP]

33. The Genius of this is that he calls Medicare what it is: Socialism, thus taking the bite out of it.

.
.
...and defanging the oldest distraction to an argument in the book:

"It's Socialism!!11!!" (OMG, I've got the vapors now)

So, older fussbudget retirees who have TVs permanently tuned to FOX...

Shall we repeal your socialist program?

No? Yes? No?

Use of "socialist" as a talking point has now effectively be rendered useless by that demographic.

O'Donnell used it on Katy last night and on Culberson tonight.

Way to go, Lawrence!

:applause:

[bc3000]

34. That was horrible.

As bad as Fox.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

36. Except for the fact that the host was telling the truth

Yeah. It was just like Fox.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

35. Dear Congressman Asshat...

Federal Grants are not the problem? My Aunt Tillie is dying from congestive heart failure because some town in Missouri got a new water treatment plant?

For those in the reality-based community

2008 Federal Grants to States = $250 billion
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid = $1.1 trillion

Jesus, what a dumb fuck...

[bulloney]

63. I'm working on a federal grant right now that will train people for work in chemical plants.

We expect this to save the affected companies more than the amount of the grant in less than three years with the time the companies save in on-the-job-training where they're training new workers on the most basic parts of the job while they're paying them their wages.

Congressmen like Culberson make me sick. They have a hissy fit over federal money that benefits the little guy, but when we're funneling billions and billions to war profiteers and the like--not a peep from them.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

136. He's using McCain's trick...

Bitch and moan about congressional earmarks, even thought they're only a small fraction of the total budget. Now it's grants.

And that strategy worked so well for McCain.

[BunkerHill24]

38. Well done, Mr. O'Donnell...Thank you.

K&R

[EarlG]

39. Pulling a Jeremy Paxman

That was great, although I think he could use some tips from the master. Watch this piece of genius:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwlsd8RAoqI

[Turborama]

42. LOL, that came to my mind too when watching this. Paxman is the master, he chewed him up and

used the bones to pick his teeth.

[Turborama]

41. K&R Thanks Tommy, that was awesome! A couple of things, though.

If that asshole wanted to talk about "efficiency", O'Donnell could have mentioned the health insurance death panels that already exist and whether that's the kind of "efficiency" he was talking about. Also, when they talk about the "Founding Fathers" etc etc they need to be reminded of http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html">Artcle 1 Section 8 of the Constitution (particluraly the part about http://www.usconstitution.net/glossary.html#WELFARE">welfare) as mentioned by the guy in http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x353291#353292">this clip. That'll soon shut them up!

[newmac]

43. O'Donnell wasn't nearly strong enough.....

but good job anyway. This is how you have to handle these disingenuous creeps.

[Seldona]

45. K&R

Good to see at least some real coverage of republican obstructionism in the msm.

[LiberalLovinLug]

46. un fucking believable

excuse my french, but its warranted in this case. I never thought I'd see the day.

Culberson's so flabergasted that a news program show host would actually do his job and confront the Republican representative with the lies and hypocrisy that they are spewing around health reform.

Yeah, thats why no one is going to watch your network, because you ask the hard questions to politicians and stop them when they go into spin mode to clear up contradictions. :eyes:

Granted it's what not what you see on most news talk shows. Gawd, Wolf Blitzer is the worst. He stares at the big studio screen like he's popped a few too many Valium, and just says "go ahead" to the political guest who just turns on the spin tap and doesn't get interrupted or called on any of his BS through his whole shpeal. Then a dull "but isn't it true that..." weak retort question that was probably written before the guest even got there. To which the guest is given another minute of uninterrupted spin time. "OK thanks for your time..." and its over and on to the next story on the docket. There's no real information learned, no digging for facts, no pre-research used to confront when facts are played loosely.

O'Donnall should get his own No Spin Zone show, put O'Lielly to shame.

[The Wizard]

52. So if no one is watching MSNBC

they must be watching the the Republican propaganda network.
Pox actually garners about 1 percent of the American population.
Nice try at changing the subject Congressman.

[GreenTea]

47. Wow...Impressive... Laurence O'Donnell nails the republicanasshole about

and his many lies, and this guy can only say, well that's why "no one watches MSNBC" Limbaugh type propaganda, and it's complete bullshit of course....This is just one of the so MANY lying republican corporate pigs folks! Who desperately tries to avoid the facts!

The slimy republican fuck tries to hide behind "I'm a Jeffersonian", what fucking crap will the republicans not use to lie & distort? This fuck is the all time republican slime...

O'Donnell gave him his chances yes, they were loaded, but this republican fuck tied to play both sides...What a fucking slimy liar!

Man, are republicans UGLY!

Cheers to the truly excellent Lawrence O'Donnell.....

O'Donnell should have his own show. Man the motherfucker is good!!

I've got to watch it again......

[mr_smith007]

135. O'Donnell should have reminded

Congressman asshat that Jefferson was the first to institute a broad socialist program in America. Jefferson fought to get publically funded, universal, guaranteed, public K-12 education and won....pure socialism. That would have made C's fat head pop in a nanosecond, no doubt.

[argyl]

48. Culbertson refers to a "Katy." I'm supposing this is Katy Abram and the repubs are grooming her to

become their next "just plain folks "straight shooter a la Joe the Plumber.Yet another of their cheap,shoddy little tactics. If you can't give a straight answer just gush about their latest astroturf hero and spout BS about MSNBC's supposedly falling numbers.

[meowomon]

49. Has O'Donnell lost his freakin' mind?!?

The MSM will blackball him for speaking truth to power! Good for Larry and good for us!! We need more of these CONservative asshats called out on their hypocrisy.

[lotus007vr]

50. YES... MSNBC HAS BALLS, thumbs up to Lawrence O'Donnell

These (R) assholes have been lying and setting the tone of conversation about so many issues and MSNBC staff to correct the issues are short.
Line up...

Morning Joe... Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Willie Geist are a big joke.
CHRIS MATTHEWS... Sometimes get loose... sometimes, HardBall should be changed to SoftBall.
The ED Show... Is ok, but he switches sides in order to keep the drama alive.
Keith Oberman and Rachael Maddoff.. Is the King and she's the Queen. They call a lied and lied and a horse a horse.. etc. Plus they uses their target's past position on a issue against them... the FACTS presents such beauty.
Lawrence O'Donnell: kicks them straight in the nuts, so give him a spot in MSNBC... because the people need "The Truth.. w/o The Spin"

[kag]

73. Wait a minute...

You got "Brzezinski" right, but can't spell OLBERMAN or MADDOW???

Sorry. Just thought that was funny.

[go west young man]

111. Schusters also quite good.

Scarborough is well past his firing date. That asshole's a joke as is his sidekick and that guy Will (friend of Tucker Carlson). Can that bunch and MSNBC can truly take over faux.

[indimuse]

53. BRAVO!!

...KNR!

[proud patriot]

54. ha ahahahaaha .. after spending a day on facebook I needed that

:rofl:

[Sienna86]

55. That's what I call good a good interview

He's needs his own show.

[TankLV]

56. Culbertson - you're a LIAR! a LIAR! Get used to the TRUTH...

Too bad if we won't put up with and let you spew your LIES anymore!!!

WE DO "KNOW" YOU - and you're a REPUKE LIAR!!!

sorry if you don't like what we're calling you...actually, not sorry - but TOO BAD...get USED TO IT!!!

[olegramps]

59. Culberson and every Republican are at best liars.

The Republicans have never supported anything that would benefit the working class. The really sad thing about the situation is that so many working class people actually believe these immoral bastards and gladly cooperate in their own self destruction. Culberson is just another example of an obnoxious Republican degenerate.

[go west young man]

60. Now that was fucking beautiful!

That was the most relentless balls to wall holding of a repukes feet to the fire I have ever seen from the American media. We need more of that. MSNBC's rating would be through the roof if they had more of that. Tweety isn't Hardball. O'Donnell just showed how it's really done.

[sledgehammer]

62. That's a great talking point to go with

Since republiklans are against govt healthcare, they support repealing Medicare and Social Security.

[theFrankFactor]

64. Fiscal Conservatives? Uh huh, when it comes to anything but WAR - FUCK HIM!

[fascisthunter]

65. he is a liar... thank you O'Donnel

oh.... and this is exactly why more and more folks watch MSNBC and less watch FOX, GOP propaganda.

[jimlup]

67. O'Donnell is so much smarter than Chris Mathews

I've come to tolerate Chris over the years but O'Donnell is excellent. He's a smart guy with a good reporter's instinct.

[Honeycombe8]

68. Crazy Larry went over the line. It was embarrassing and uncomfortable to watch.

He's not an experienced interviewer, and his frustration, passion, and anger got the better of him.

The interviewee was RIGHT that Larry just wouldn't let him answer the questions. Even Tweety, who interrupts a lot, isn't that bad.

The interview wasn't ALL bad. Parts were good, and Larry got some good points in. But overall it reflected badly on Lawrence, who appeared to be losing the argument so felt the need to not let the person answer the question. If Lawrence wants people from the other side as guests, well, he's not gonna get them now. Even Hannity isn't as rude as Lawrence was, and Hannity's pretty damn rude.

[Name removed]

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[Raineyb]

92. ...

[kag]

69. I tried to email the show after I saw this...

to give O'Donnell a big BRAVO!!! That was a thing of beauty. I watched it with my kids, and told them what a hero Lawrence O'Donnell is.

Unfortunately the email address they had on their website was broken.

Here's hoping he reads DU:toast: :toast:

[PatSeg]

116. Here ya go

[e-mail]

I've emailed them twice in the past few weeks to compliment O'Donnell.

[Bearheim]

70. Where in the Constitution does it say that ONLY

really rich guys in really wealthy companies get to sell health insurance.

Oh, wait, IT DOESN'T say that.

Abolish all insurance companies, as mandated by the Constitution!

Spin, spin, spin, spin, spin. Dizzy yet?

[City Lights]

71. Lawrence needs his own show!

:applause:

[Boudica the Lyoness]

77. O'Donnell was brilliant

I watched with my son and we were very impressed. It's about time someone called these people what they are. I want to see more of this!

[WhoIsNumberNone]

78. Now we see why MSNBC's ratings are in the tank?

Have you ever actually watched Fox "News" you Republican puke?
How's your own medicine taste?

[tomm2thumbs]

93. but the Fox Box tells him that is the truth, and therefore it is the truth

the Fox Box 'never' lies. never ever.

[ensho]

79. super!

nt

[Iwillnevergiveup]

81. Have you noticed

that when righties are being interviewed, it's o.k. for them to NOT answer the questions, but to spin, spin away. And then they get all blustery when the questioner attempts to get them to answer the question. Right wing hosts do it all the time AFTER they frame the question.

O'Donnel ain't havin' it.

K&R

[Robb]

82. Best television I've seen in years. nt

[DirtyDawg]

83. I thought O'Donnel could have...

...handled this a lot more deftly than he did...much as he did the lady the other day. His 'interview' with her basically exposed the shallowness of her thinking without resorting to badgering her into tears - which easily could have happened. This guy from Texas was in the process of tangling himself into his own web with the bit about allowing the states to deny Federal money as his first, and probably only, response to the question about taking us back to the Founding Father's intent. I mean does he really think that any of the states could exist without those grants - or would want to? Let him go there, then press on the 'what about the rest of this 'socialism' thing that he and his constituents seem so concerned about - repeal Social Security? Medicare? - and he really missed the opportunity to respond to the guy's comment about his dad saying that Social Security saved a lot of people that otherwise wouldn't have survived 'back then' with a 'What about the people that aren't able to survive right now without access to affordable health-care? Aren't they just as important to your Dad and his friends?'

I don't like it when either Liberal or Conservative show hosts resort to over-shouting, particularly when all it takes is to let them 'skin their ignorance' a bit then end it with 'the perfect squelch'. After, all the only folks watching the show are Liberals like us.

[wurzel]

98. That guy was a professional politician. He got what he deserved.

[PatSeg]

117. I understand what you're saying

and I was becoming concerned that he was going too far, but then he said to Culberson if he would just answer that one question, O'Donnell would let him speak, which he did.

If O'Donnell handled every interview this way, it would be too much, but I think he was determined to get one republican to get off the talking points and answer a simple question. Most republican politicians are very adept at filibustering liberal talk show hosts, who try to be civil and reasonable. Once and a while they need to be called on it.

[patrice]

86. O'Donnell is absolutel right to follow the Medicare line of reasonng. If it's Socialsim, we have to

get rid of it.

If it we aren't going to get rid of it, then it must be available to all, otherewise, why would we ask for people to pay for others, older folk, and have no assurance of coverage for themselves.

Medicare for All. That's the way to go, because it puts opposing Republicans in the position of either advocating an End to Medicare or requiring folk to subsidize the elderly at the expense of future generations and if they don't subsidize Elders, then it's "Euthanasia, America is thy name."

[blondeatlast]

96. Excellent. That's the kind of interviews I remember from the Watergate era.

"Just answer the question, dumbfuck," delivered with a touch more gentility.

[ptownbro]

99. The way you handle someone who uses the "Are you calling me a liar" line...

Tell them no. I don't know you well enoung to know if you lie aon a regular basis, but you are lying about this one particular item. Stops them in their trakcs. Also, I think interrupting him was fine to force him to answer the questions, but I think he did it too soon. He should have let him spin a few times first. Then, start interrupting him after. It looks better that way because he establishes cover for why he's interrupting. In sum... good work... just a few adjustments needed. =)

[PatSeg]

119. True

He didn't let Culberson dig himself deep enough. If he'd let him speak a bit longer, it might have been more effective, but it still was refreshing to finally hear a liberal use the "L" word.

[W T F]

100. OMG! REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO DISMANTLE SOCIAL SECURITY!

OMG! REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO DISMANTLE SOCIAL SECURITY!
I heard it on TV. It's true!
Spread the word!
Go to your republican town hall meetings and ask them why they are going take our money.
Let's give them a tase of their own bullshit

[Frisbee]

102. I just tried sending Culberson an email...

telling him that I do watch MSNBC and am curious as to why he would waste his time going on MSNBC if he really believes that no one watches it. Unfortunately, the jerks website will only accept email from people who live in his district, and requires a zip+4 zipcode to verify it.

[Cowpunk]

103. Sorry, O'Donnell is an idiot bully. I hate him.

Lawrence O'Donnell reminds me of Sean Hannity more than anyone. He got schooled by that kooky wingnut woman who said Obama was for single-payer before he was against it. He started yelling "He never said that!" She was right, he was wrong, as anyone who has been paying attention has seen the 2003 video of Obama saying he was for a single-payer system.

We are poorly represented by this knucklehead.

[JayMusgrove]

104. I'm sorry, I wish O'Donnell had given the Retuglican enough rope

to hang himself.

Disappointing, I turn off shows when they get to be like that.

[MarinCoUSA]

105. SO good to have someone call this repuke a LIAR.

thank you LO.

[hellsbeagle]

106. Wow....

I think that evil Harris Co. Nazi almost cried when he was called a liar.

[SpankMe]

108. We need to be careful...

I think Lawrence was being a dick. The congressman was trying to be responsive to Lawrence's questions, but Lawrence wouldn't have any of it. This particular Republican congressman was being nice and wasn't pushing all that ridiculous conservative mythology about the health care proposals - during the interview, at least.

It's easy to expose the rank hypocrisy of the Republican philosophy without constantly interrupting and being an asshole.

Now that our side of the political spectrum is in charge, we're starting to get too big for our britches. Let's stay modest, intellectual and fact-based and not resort to Bill O'Reilly's obnoxious interviewing methods.

[valerief]

112. Culbertson was trying to fuck over Americans. O'Donnell gave him a verbal suckerpunch. nt

[DWilliamsamh]

109. Why does O'Donnell need to "know him.?"

I have to say O'Donnell is over the top rude to this guy and other's but I like it anyway, because I am so sick of seeing Blitzer, and Brown, Gregory, Curic et al with their tongues up the collective anuses (ani??) of the politicians and power brokers. He is like an ice cold bucket of water to the face for these scumbags I am sure.

But.....

I don't need to "know you" or ever have met you to know that when you suggest that "the government wants to take over health care" or "the government is trying to insert itself between you and your doctor," that you are lying. There is no proposal to "take over the healthcare system" or to institute "socialized medicine." If you say there is you are lying. I wish Al Franken would put out another edition of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, and write in a new chapter for these health care reform fear mongers.

[McCamy Taylor]

110. Sorry, but I will never forgive what O'Donnell did to Edwards. I knew he was probably

put up to it by someone with promises of career advancement, though I did not know who was sponsoring him.


Looks like it was the folks at GE/NBC who were behind him.

[emsimon33]

118. Finally!!!!!! Someone called these liars out!

[lumpy]

122. I don't know beans about Culberson-have to find out his views.

However Culberson stated that he didn't want the government determining or interfering/coming between doctor and patient. The truth of the matter is that health insurance companies have been interfering/coming between doctor and patient; ultimately doctors/health facilities themselves have allowed Insurance Companies to determine/interfer with patient care. The medicos have lost control of their own profession.

[PatSeg]

125. I wish the Dems would throw that back at them

every time they try that ridiculous line. Insurance companies make life and death decisions for patients all the time.

[LiberalFighter]

123. Culberson considers himself a Jeffersonian Republican?

In what world?

I want to know what Jeffersonian values he believes in.

[PatSeg]

124. Was wondering the same thing

He managed to throw that out there more than once, as if that gave him some credibility.

[LiberalFighter]

127. I doubt he knows much about Jefferson.

[PatSeg]

129. Doubt it too

Appears he majored in "spin" and by his performance yesterday, he was probably a C student.

Love your tagline!

[LaPera]

128. Lawrence O'Donnell was fucking fabulous!!

I need to see and hear more of the hard questioning progressive O'Donnell on the tube (or LCD in my case).

[demigoddess]

130. I liked it but why does MSNBC keep giving air time to these republicans???

every day they give a platform to these guys. It stands to reason they should take them down a peg but still they give them the chance to say , You guys are unfair" to me.

[keitai]

133. I find the hypocrisy among some here...

who talk about Bill O'Reilly being a bully (which he is by the way) yet praise Lawrence O'Donnell rather breathtaking. O'Donnell is a little bit better informed and doesn't resorted to Billo's debate winner (the SHUT UP!) but tries to debate by roaring at his opponent.

[Douglas Carpenter]

134. kick and recommended

[FourScore]

138. Watch and learn MSM. n/t k/r

[mucifer]

140. funny at first but then it started to give me a headache and I had to stop watching