Noted television actor and sometime-political analyst Lawrence O’Donnell turned in a minor masterpiece of melodrama on Morning Joe today, losing his mind berating our Marc Thiessen on the subject of — a book title? Well, that’s all I could really make out, anyway. The rest of it is sort of lost in a chorus of “Lawrence! Lawrence!” from the other members of the panel.
A quickly exasperated Joe Scarborough cuts to break before O’Donnell can get to his triumphant “deep down, in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall!”
Oh, and lest you think O’Donnell’s outburst rose up from some deeply-seated conviction, witness this tweet from Scarborough:
The best part of Lawrence O’ Donnell’s. rant is that when we went to break, Lawrence broke out in a huge smile. “It’s what I do best.”