Posted on 09/29/2010 9:25:40 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Lawrence O’Donnell proved to be quite the trickster on Tuesday night, when the second episode “The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell” featured tabloid favorite Levi Johnston as a guest.
After introducing Johnston, describing him as “a young man seething with political ambition,” O’Donnell threw the wannabe mayor of Wasilla a few softball questions before pitching him a curveball: O’Donnell would ask Johnston the same questions Katie Couric posed to Sarah Palin in 2008, when Palin was the Republican VP nominee.
Johnston – sporting neatly trimmed two-day facial scruff, a white shirt opened a little too far, and a gray blazer (more Marc Jacobs than Brooks Brothers) – answered the questions with candid honesty. Meaning, “I don’t know how to answer that” was sort of a mantra. How did O’Donnell handle all the uncertainty? By taking the highroad and saluting Johnston’s candor. “Maybe Alaskans will start to turn your way with that kind of honesty,” he told the candidate. Johnston is currently filming a reality show called “Loving Levi: The Road to the Mayor’s Office” about his quest to become mayor of Wasilla.
To the question about the magazines and newspapers he reads to shape his worldview (you know the one Palin got so much flak for) Johnston answered: “I read the Frontiersman every once in a while…I’m not going to sit here and tell you I read a lot of newspapers, I don’t get the New York Times, I don’t watch a whole lot of news, I don’t watch TV that often.”
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Child abuse!!!!
Did Lawrence and Levi spend the night together afterwards?
I guess this is how arrogant media bullies like O’Donnell make themselves feel smart—invite a red neck kid from Alaska onto their little-watch show, someone with no claim to political ambition or expertise on current issues and ask them a bunch of questions they can’t answer to embarrass them. Good job Lawrence. You probably went home last night just bursting with a sense of your own elitism and intellectual superiority. Here’s an idea—go head-to-head with Charles Krauthammer, Bill Kristol or George Will on these issues. Let’s see if you aren’t brought back to down to earth then you insufferable prick. But then Levi Johnson making himself a media whore probably deserved this.
It has to be bad at MSNBC when they give a maniac like O’Donnell a shot. This guy belongs in a straightjacket.
They continue to make themselves more and more of a joke every day....
Levi Johnston? Are you kidding me? Shouldn’t they be looking down their noses at him? After all, he is a stupid, backwards, illiterate moron - clearly unqualified to do perform any job, much less the mayor of a city even the size of Wasilla.... Wait, he is a PERFECT Democrat candidate!
Nomination for Post Of The Day.
Does Levi give Lawrence a thrill up his leg?
Stupid bastard!!!
I suspect Paladino would be more than willing to talk to O’Donnell.
Thank you, other than my jumbled syntax. Proofreading is my friend.
What did he prove by this interview? That if Levi Johnston is not qualified to run for Public Office, then neither is Sara Palin?
He is and continues to be a calamity on TV( I was talking about O'Donnell). Johnston is just the latest side show subject for his amusement.
The way he acted 'off the wall' with John O'Neill 6 years ago proved to me that O'Donnell is what I called him in the first sentence.
They're hedging their bets that he's a homo.
Larry O’Donnell and Levi Johnson would make a cute couple
Firstly, O'Donnell does not have the guts to interview Paladino.
Secondly, O'Donnell is as qualified to conduct that interview, even for a make believe network like MSNBC, as he is qualified to get a shot at the Heavyweight Boxing Title(unless it is the women's division).
I don't hate him. I would just like to say these things to him personally to make him cry.
Moron that he is, I predict the boy’s got a brilliant future ahead of him in the Democrat Party.
Who did the giving and up which leg?
Does Levi even have a high school diploma?
He sure comes across as a spoiled snot of a kid.
Well he’s got one thing going for him. He doesn’t read the New York Times.
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