As Jonah mentioned, I went Current last night — something I Tweeted too much about (but did you know that Jennifer Granholm is a “rock star”?!) — so I inevitably missed some strange words on MSNBC.
While I was on Al Kresta’s radio show today, he caught me up, mentioning what I hope was the most cynical comment of the night. Lawrence O’Donnell, commenting on Rick Santorum’s discussion of his grandfather, said:
When he was talking about his grandfather, he wasn’t just talking about his grandfather. Every carefully crafted political speech is about the candidate and the opponent. Rick Santorum is hoping there is a discussion of grandfathers here. O’Donnell believes that Santorum wanted to “get under Romney’s skin” and force a conversation about his grandfather’s father being a polygamist.
Am I crazy to think that had nothing to do with Santorum’s moving speech about what motivates him, about an American story, the American story? And that Romney didn’t look irked, but that he looked happy for the guy?
You can watch it here — clip includes how Santorum started to woo Al Sharpton. That is, until he scared him.
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Can anyone tell me what "I went current" means?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI think it refers to either viewing a new network that features Al Gore as a talking head, or sticking your tongue into an electrical outlet, or perhaps doing both.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseShe watched Current TV, which I take it is like MSNBC without restraint and journalistic integrity. Sorry, sorry. I meant without the PRETENSE of restraint and journalistic integrity.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOne thing you missed, Ms. Lopez, was Chris Matthews experiencing a negative tingle down his leg, as he roped Newt into some sort of twisted admission that Citizens United was wrongly decided.
In Newt's defense, he expressed desire to see the end of the entire current campaign finance system, to allow unlimited donations and total disclosure.
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThere is no defense for anyone, including "Newt", expressinga desire to change current campaign finance laws and in the same breath saying they want "unlimited donations" with disclosure. Disclosure doesn't matter if money can still influence elected officials. Same with Ron Paul...unlimited donations. This is no way to have a true democracy. Citizens United may have been decided with the best of intentions - but the resulting corruption of our election process by those that have wealth and power is inexcusable - and the JOTSC knew what would happen.
The Founding Fathers knew that corporate power must be restrained by government or it would corrupt government and they would be rolling over in their graves at the mere mention of "corporate personhood".
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseFunniest.
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The Founding Fathers were worried about corporate power over being worried about governmental power. That's a good one. They were so worried about [strikethrough]governmental[/strikethrough], I mean corporate, power that they first crafted a union that left the [strikethrough]federal government{/strikethrough] corporations so inept that they had to come up with a new stronger governement.
Oh, wait... you weren't joking, were you?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseGranholm was such a "rock star" that when she left office, Republicans won her seat, regained control of the State House of Representatives, retained the State Senate and conservatives justices now are a majority on the State Supreme Court. Oh, and Republicans won all the university trustee positions, too.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThere is no defense for anyone, including "Newt", expressinga desire to change current campaign finance laws and in the same breath saying they want "unlimited donations" with disclosure. Disclosure doesn't matter if money can still influence elected officials. Same with Ron Paul...unlimited donations. This is no way to have a true democracy. Citizens United may have been decided with the best of intentions - but the resulting corruption of our election process by those that have wealth and power is inexcusable - and the JOTSC knew what would happen.
The Founding Fathers knew that corporate power must be restrained by government or it would corrupt government and they would be rolling over in their graves at the mere mention of "corporate personhood".
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRomneys grandfather was a polygamist??? Holy moley
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseO'Donnell's comments herald the coming "conversation" the media is eager to conduct regarding the Mormon church and its beliefs, and, more particularly, the church's sexism and racism which extended into the modern era.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWasn't Obama's father expelled from his job as a professor for being a bigamist?
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Do Democrats really want to go down that road?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt's becoming increasing obvious that Lawrence O’Donnell has turned into a bit of a kook, isn't it?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBit?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYears ago, McDonnel was a regular on the Mclaughlin show. He was getting a bit...off...then.
Earlier this year I had the....opportunity...to catch his act on MSNBC. It was absolutely and totally hilarious! I was, almost literally, ROTFL. He's become a total loon.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYou don't want to miss this! Rick Santorum dodged a bullet!
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