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Lawrence O’Donnell’s Cross-Dressing, Goat-Wrestling, Helium-Huffing Ways
Adam Mill
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This leads me back to O’Donnell. Obviously, I have no evidence that he wears immodest ladies’ undergarments while wrestling poor goats in vats of Jello (again, please wipe those images from your mind!). On the other hand, I can’t prove he doesn’t do these things.
When the Non-Apology Is Worse Than the Offense
If you haven’t noticed, I’m offering O’Donnell the same measure of apology that he offered his viewers over the Russian co-signer story. His equivocating “apology” was almost as dishonest as the original smear. “Tonight, we are retracting the story. We don’t know whether the information is inaccurate,” he said. “But, the fact is, we do know it wasn’t ready for broadcast, and for that, I apologize.”
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Henceforward, I shall use the term “goat wrestler” to refer to journalists who report “if true” bombshells. Maybe if O’Donnell spent less time with goats and Victoria’s Secret catalogs, his reporting would measure up to a higher standard. This exercise was intended to illustrate the difference between satire and a joke. What I have written above is the former. Lawrence O’Donnell has proven himself to be the latter.
KEK!