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Title: Lawrence O'Donnell Criticized for Offensive Interview With Herman Cain
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URL Source: http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00044322.html
Published: Oct 8, 2011
Author: aceshowbiz
Post Date: 2011-10-08 09:21:48 by no gnu taxes
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Lawrence O'Donnell has landed on hot water after being disrespectful to Herman Cain during an interview for "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell". The host started out by reading an excerpt from the 65-year-old businessman's book which read, "I was too young to participate when they first started the freedom rides [of the civil rights movement] and sit-ins... I just kept going to school doing what I was supposed to do, and stayed out of trouble [as my father told me to]." "Where do you think black people would be sitting on the bus today if Rosa Parks had followed your father's advise?" O'Donnell then asked Cain, who replied, "My father was not given Rosa Parks' advice. Here again, Lawrence, you are distorting the intent of what I said. I was a high school student. The college students were going the sit-ins. If I had been a college student, I probably would have been participating but if you're a high school student in the 10th or 11th grade, you're under 18 years of age, you didn't need to get arrested and be in the middle that." O'Donnell continued to point out that Cain was a college student from 1963 to 1967 at the height of the civil rights movement. "Do you regret sitting on those sidelines at that time?" he continued pressing the Republican presidential hopeful. "Did you expect every black student and every black college in America to be out there in the middle of every fight? The answer is no. So for you to say why was I sitting on the sidelines, I think that that is an inaccurate deduction that you are trying to make," Cain said. Seemingly upset, Cain added, "You didn't know, Lawrence, what I was doing with the rest of my life. You didn't know what my family situation may have been. Maybe, just maybe I had a sick relative, which is why I might not have been sitting in or doing the freedom rides. So what I'm saying, Lawrence, is with all due respect, you deduction is incorrect and it's not logical." Fellow journalists apparently did not support the way O'Donnell interviewed Cain. Conor Friedersdorf from The Atlantic called the interview "offensive" and thought that O'Donnell "repeatedly hectored candidate Herman Cain in a disrespectful way." CNN's John King, meanwhile, labeled the interview a "character assassination". "Perhaps the most detestable media character assassination I have seen in a very long time happened on MSNBC with Lawrence O'Donnell attacking Herman Cain. What an outrage," he said. Either O'Donnell or MSNBC which airs the program has not responded to the backlash.
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#1. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs
Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs
msnbc show host makes offensive comments that would get anyone on the Right let alone on Fox News fired, publicly humiliated, and career ended forever, keeps job. Dog bites man. Sun Rises in East. Film at eleven.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
If somebody from CNN is complaining about it,it must have been truly viscous. And if it was that bad,it may have even backfired for the crowd that hates Cain because they think he can beat their Chocolate Messiah that is going to pay their house and car payments for them. It might even backfire so badly a lot of blacks might be tempted to vote for Cain. Nah,cancel that. It won't be happening unless the various Rev-Runs start preaching about it in church because we all know the typical black pays no more attention to politics at this stage of a race than the typical white does. It would take time away from watching and discussing NFL games and Oprah re-runs.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
I don't know who Barry Soetoro is...
Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs
Of course not. You are a Dim,and don't know anything.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
You don't know who he is either...
Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs
Sure I do. Barry Soetoro is the poser living in the White House.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
He lives with the Obama's?
Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs
Believe him. War really IS ignorant. It's not an act.
"It's not surprising, then, they [White Pennsylvanians] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." ~ Comrade-in-Chief Barry Hussein 0bama
#2. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
#3. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
#4. To: no gnu taxes (#0)
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CNN's John King, meanwhile, labeled the interview a "character assassination". "Perhaps the most detestable media character assassination I have seen in a very long time happened on MSNBC with Lawrence O'Donnell attacking Herman Cain. What an outrage," he said.
#5. To: war (#2)
Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs
#6. To: sneakypete (#5)
#7. To: war (#6)
I don't know who Barry Soetoro is...
#8. To: sneakypete (#7)
#9. To: war (#8)
You don't know who he is either...
#10. To: sneakypete (#9)
#11. To: war, sneakypete (#6)
war: "I don't know who Barry Soetoro is..."
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