Lawrence O’Donnell is a mean, smug, evil bastard who thinks he is smarter than the rest of us. How NBC allows him to continue proves they are as crazy and demented as O’Donnell.
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The media watchdog website NewsBusters reported that on Tuesday night O’Donnell said, “Now part of Romney’s religion problem is that he’s a part of a new religion. Established religions like Judaism, which is about 4,000 years old, and Christianity, which is about 2,000 years old, don’t easily warm up to new religions like Romney’s, which is only 182 years old. Mormonism was created by a guy in upstate New York in 1830 when he got caught having sex with the maid and explained to his wife that God told him to do it. Forty-eight wives later, Joseph Smith’s lifestyle was completely sanctified in the religion he invented to go with it. Which Mitt Romney says he believes.”
At the conservative National Review Online, Kevin Williamson dropped the hammer on O’Donnell in a piece titled, simply, “Lawrence O’Donnell, Bigot.”
“Thanks for the Muppet News Flash, Larry,” Williamson wrote. “The exact nature of Smith’s polygamy is contested (his only children were from his first wife, leading some to believe that his polygamy was of a non-sexual nature), but, yes, he was a polygamist. So was Solomon. So was Abraham. … Mormons gave up polygamy a long time ago. It’s not the 19th century any more. But anti-Mormonism is this season’s fashionable bigotry.”
This is not the first time O’Donnell has used intolerant speech against Mormons on television, Williamson noted. In 2007, before he got his gig on MSNBC, O’Donnell didn’t bother feigning objectivity during a televised appearance on the political talk show “The McLaughlin Group.” On that occasion O’Donnell described Mormonism with adjectives like demented, crazy and ridiculous; he also called Smith a “lying, fraudulent criminal.”
Not long after the McLaughlin Group imbroglio, O’Donnell attempted to clarify his positions about Mitt Romney and the Mormon faith by penning a blog post for the Huffington Post.
“The more you know about Romney’s religion, the more you want to ask him questions about it,” O’Donnell wrote. “Your religion was founded by an alcoholic criminal named Joseph Smith who committed bank fraud and claimed God told him polygamy was cool after his first wife caught him having an affair with the maid and who then went on to have 33 wives, and you really believe every word that he said and wrote? Do you really believe that the American Indian is genetically descended from Israelites? Would it shake your belief if DNA testing showed no such relationship between Indian tribes and Jews? Do you really believe that Jesus Christ came to America?”
O’Donnell described Mormonism with adjectives like demented, crazy and ridiculous; he also called Smith a “lying, fraudulent criminal.”
So what we have here is a wannabe tough guy who calls out people who he knows he will never have to answer to, either because they don’t know he exists or because they died nearly two centuries ago. Maybe this guy should stop worrying about what everyone else is doing and try and do a couple of decent segments on that show of his that nobody watches. Then he can put a nice audition tape together and maybe trick someone into hiring him at a better network... which would be any network.