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Christine O’Donnell, the former Tea Party–backed Senate candidate from Delaware, was interviewed on Sean Hannity’s radio program today about the renewed investigation into whether she was targeted by the IRS during her 2010 campaign. She alleges that the IRS “set up a back door for people working in partisan offices to get into the IRS database” and use confidential tax information to influence elections. On the day she announced her 2010 Senate bid, O’Donnell said, the IRS erroneously issued a tax lien against her on a home she didn’t own anymore, which held that she owed the government $12,000. While

More than two years after her upstart Senate campaign rocked the Delaware political world, Christine O'Donnell got an unexpected contact from a U.S. Treasury Department agent warning that her private tax records may have been breached. The phone message earlier this year shocked the battled-scarred candidate, a tea party favorite who knocked off Republican mainstay Michael Castle in the primary before losing in a bid to win Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s former seat. “Ms. O'Donnell, this is Dennis Martel, special agent with the U.S. Department of Treasury in Baltimore, Md. … We received information that your personal federal tax...

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Angry Liberals in America Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is staring at me with the uncontrolled intensity usually reserved for serial killers and time-share salesmen. "We know how to get the country back to work. The government needs to lead the way." He folds a napkin in what looks like some expensive oyster bar, but is probably just a television studio backdrop. "The government has to get us back to work." O'Donnell already has a job. His job is to yell angry things on MSNBC. Most of his listeners...

Despite its best efforts, the American Conservative Union might not have anyone from MSNBC at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, as Lawrence O’Donnell was forced to decline his invitation due to a scheduling conflict. The host of ‘The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell‘ announced on his show Wednesday night that he would not be able to attend CPAC 2013, despite his desire to do so. “My schedule is not as flexible as the unemployed Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, so I had to send my regrets,” he said. O’Donnell did express surprise at receiving an invitation to the...

Did you hear about the tea party that Big Guy held yesterday afternoon? Oddly enough, only Kool-Aid drinkers were invited for tea: Arianna Huffington, Eddie Schultz, Al Sharpton, Rachael Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell. (snip)Chris Matthews was invited butt he and Howard Fineman were apparently off slaying vampires, or hunting Nazis, or something. This is all very confusing because I still remember when “the Bush tax-cuts” were characterized by Big Guy and Big Media as simply “tax cuts for the rich.” ...In other words, if the Bush cuts actually were just “tax cuts for the rich,” then their expiration couldn’t hurt...

In response to an innocuous joke Tagg Romney made on a radio show in North Carolina, Lawrence O'Donnell used the platform that is his late night talk show on MSNBC to taunt and threaten the oldest son of a presidential hopeful. Seemingly as serious as a heart attack, the nearly 57 year-old O'Donnell challenged the 42 year-old to a fist fight "any time, any where". [ video and transcript below ]

The Romney campaign has been accused of deliberately getting the Republican presidential candidate booed by black people during his NAACP speech to attract votes 'in certain racist precincts', by MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell. Romney was booed for 15 seconds at the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People conference in Houston on Wednesday when he stated he would 'eliminate' unnecessary programmes like the Obamacare health reform. Democrats united in saying that Romney planned to get booed to appeal to his conservative base. But O'Donnell and his guests went a step further by saying that Romney was making a play...

OWN has pulled the plug on Rosie O’Donnell's five-month old talk show. The daily show will tape its final episode on Tuesday, March 20 to air on Friday, March 30 in its 7 p.m. time slot. The news of its demise comes two months after the ailing network announced it had hired Shane Farley (Rachel Ray, Rosie O’Donnell Show) to replace Page Hurwitz as the show’s executive producer and would move Rosie into a significantly smaller 70-seat studio. The latter was a bid to inspire a sense of intimacy and lower costs on a series that is averaging 190,000 viewers....

Former Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell told The Daily Caller that former Sen. Rick Santorum’s “fiscal record is more liberal” than Gov. Mitt Romney’s “social record.” TheDC asked O’Donnell if tea party members should support Santorum’s rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, in the Republican presidential primary. “Absolutely. I think that if the tea party members took a closer look — a second look — at Gov. Romney’s record, they would realize that he’s with us. He was one of the first ones in in [Massachusetts Sen.] Scott Brown’s race,” she said during an interview at CPAC in Washington....

The ratings-challenged “Rosie Show” has let go of as many as 30 employees and contract workers in recent weeks, Crain’s Chicago Business reported Friday. [Snip] Last month, the program moved out of Oprah’s spacious former studio and started taping in a smaller, more intimate space reminiscent of a living room. Parts of “The Rosie Show” have been axed, such as the game show segment and having a band perform on the set. [Snip] “The Rosie Show” has struggled to capture a sizeable audience. Shortly after the program’s October debut, viewer numbers have hovered around 200,000.

Three months ago, a late invitation to former U.S. Senate candidate and former Tea Party darling Christine O’Donnell almost caused Sarah Palin to cancel her a heavily publicized speech at a Tea Party rally in Iowa. O’Donnell was invited and uninvited to that event twice over a span of two days. Now, Tea Party groups from around Iowa are rejecting O’Donnell again. O’Donnell scheduled a “private meeting” set for this Saturday with Tea Party groups around the state to come up with a consensus candidate to support in the Iowa Caucus. TheIowaRepublican.com obtained the information exclusively. Here is the Tea...

That's right. The "Republican take" was none other than uber-ditz Meghan McCain. TOTALLY! Among her pearls of wisdom: "Mitt Romney is, like, the most experienced candidate. He will be the nominee, and it's time that people learned to just deal with it." "We are going through each nominee one at a time like when you're...speed dating". "Herman Cain has never held public office before, and I find that, like, so disturbing". "Romney...Mitt..Romney...the best...Romney...." (ok I skipped the rest because I couldn't take it)

It’s not quite an endorsement in the literal sense, but when someone donates out of her own pocket to a candidate’s campaign and then defends him in the media, there’s not much nuance in that position. Christine O’Donnell lashed out at conservative critics of Mitt Romney after making a $250 donation to his campaign, and told ABC News that she might decide to max out her personal contribution. As for her endorsement, O’Donnell says she’s “70 percent” behind Romney at the moment: Christine O’Donnell, the former Republican Senate candidate and a Tea Party favorite during the 2010 election, said in...

So, Rosie O'Donnell must've packed 'em in for the rollout of her new, Oprah Winfrey-approved talk show, right? Well, er, no. Monday's 7 p.m. premiere of "The Rosie Show" on OWN, with first guest Russell Brand, drew a very modest 497,000 total viewers, according to Nielsen. It's O'Donnell's first talk show since she left ABC's "The View" in 2007. At 8 p.m., "Oprah's Lifeclass" -- with OWN boss Winfrey discussing insights learned over her years as a talk host -- opened even worse, with just 333,000 viewers. [Snip] What did you think of "The Rosie Show"? Will you watch...

This is the most offensive interview I have ever witnessed. I cannot believe that MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell lectures Presidential Candidate Herman Cain about Civil Rights and then chastises Cain for not being a more active participant in the movement. Herman handled himself very well although you can tell he is clearly aggitated by the accusations and idiocy of this buffoon. Where is Al Sharpton on this? Jesse Jackson where are you hiding? Why isn't the NAACP standing up and screaming? I'll tell you why: Herman is a Republican. This clown O'Donnell is a hack who thinks he is God's gift...

I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard a more offensive interview on MSNBC than the one I just heard from Lawrence O’Donnell with Herman Cain. In one interview O’Donnell managed to accuse Herman Cain of not only sitting on the sidelines during the civil rights movement, but also of dodging the Vietnam war. His contempt for a black Republican has never been more clear. At one point in the interview, O’Donnell asked Cain where America would be right now if Rosa Parks took his dad’s advice to stay out of trouble and just sit in the back of the bus....

On his nightly television show recently, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell said that Texas governor Rick Perry is not suitable to be president of the United States because of his connection to one man — Pastor John Hagee of San Antonio, Texas. “Because Rick Perry has invited Hagee to his prayer event, the idiotic governor of Texas now owns that Hagee quote,” O’Donnell said in reference to a sermon Hagee delivered more than a decade ago in which he explored the connection between the evils of the Holocaust and the notion that God is loving and omnipotent. “Rick Perry owns the...

O'Donnell tries to lecture Cain on "being black", among other things; Cain smacks him down again...and again...and again: [VIDEO AT SITE] Rather than substantive questions regarding the state of the economy and other policy issues, O'Donnell wants to play "gotcha" media journalism, hoping to do to Citizen Cain what liberals in MSM (O'Donnell describes himself as a "practical European socialist") have been doing to other Republican presidential candidates. Good! Herman Cain is substantive on character. O'Donnell did Cain a favor here. Who comes across as the one looking foolish and stupid on national TV? Hint: It wasn't the GOP and...

“Warning: You’re going to want to strangle Lawrence O’Donnell after watching this, if you don’t already.” Posted October 6th, 2011 Herman Cain versus demigod Lawrence O’ Donnell. Annoying Liberal Larry met his match with Cain. Highlights of LO’D got-ya questions (teasers to watch video) to Cain since no transcript out yet. LO’D : ‘ Has the Democrat Party managed to brainwash 81% of the American people into supporting that idea? (more taxes on the rich) LO’D Reads Twitter question : “Ask him how he would ever expect to get the African American vote when all he has done is insult...

Rosie O'Donnell, U.S. comedian and TV personality, she is in love with a 40-year-old woman she met at a coffee shop a few months ago. O'Donnell, 49, told People.com she is happily dating IT headhunter Michelle Rounds. "I did not expect it when I met her at Starbucks," O'Donnell said. "She didn't look like any lesbian I'd ever met," she added. "But it's fun and very exciting."