Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
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I saw that earlier. Maybe next time Schiff could just send a cardboard cutout, or an 8X10 glossy to put in the chair. Why ANYONE would agree to be on MSNBC is beyond me.
The art of listening his a millenial low with the “Ed Show”. Interrupting his way toward being the worst TV interviewer ever, Ed his new lows with his one-sided approach and rudenss! Your name for him nails it, Lex.
No kidding. I was wondering when Lawrence O’Donnell would let Schiff complete a sentence without interrupting.
Prick indeed.
He pictures himself the MSNBC equivalent O’Reilly. But those that watch MSNBC are thinking “right on!” It is what it is and their ratings show it.
Rude. Fire the jerk. Oh wait, I already did – I refuse to watch his trash.
Four ladies in bikinis, two each to bookend the host and guest. Mute button. Okay, now I’ll watch. At least until my wife comes in the room.
Initially, I shrugged at your choice of “P” words. After seeing the video, yep, he’s an effing prick. Stupid prick, too.
Schiff is too polite to handle a jerk like O’Donnell. Next time he should send Ann Coulter to stand-in for him. She could hand O’Donnell his head.
I think all the screens with randomly rising and falling bars in the background are actually recording the probability Larry will start interviewing himself by cutting off the guest and putting words in his mouth for the remainder of the show. Better than a cardboard cutout of the guest would be allowing Larry to put lipstick, googly-eyes and a streak of black shoe polish on one hand and letting him speak in a squeaky voice whenever the “guest” is responding to his badgering.
I would have given anything to be the guy being interviewed. He’d have found out what the words “volume” and “enraged redneck” are all about.
We’ve been here before with O’Donnell. A few years back (2005IIRC) he went bezerk on a local LA outlet in a debate with Virginia Postrel over the quality of instruction in LA’s public schools v. Pvt schools–guess which ones O’Donnell was defending. The veins in his neck visibly bulged and he turned beet red–thought he was going to stroke out. It’s probably still around You Tube somewhere. Was a sight to behold. (I caught it on Virginia’s web-site at the time.)
Remember, sportsfans, this is the guy who not only was a key Dem Congressional staffer under a couple of Democratic Administrations, but the producer and head writer of TV’s “West Wing.” Gee, I wonder where his sentiments lie……
You think O’Donnell was rude? So you would grind up lazy red-haired left-handers and use them for home heating oil to boost the market?
Let me tell you what you think, then I can tell you why you are stupid and evil.
I reached the P-word conclusion about 2 minutes in, then shut it off. Interviewer (name irrelevant) sounds like a lap dog attempting to be an attack dog.
Schiff, A graduate of the Joseph Goebbels school of journalism.
Pixelkiller – You have the name wrong, no?? Schiff was the person “to be interviewed” as he has written books and might run against Sen. Chris Dodd.
Correction, I meant Lawrence O’Donnell. Getting dyslexic in my old age.
Have they no shame?…….Apparently (obviously) not.
I made it for 90 seconds. What a tool.
Just thinking out loud, if guests are treated this way and refuse to show up during the next election cycle, isn’t that going to drop the ratings of MSNBC even more?
To get your message out wouldn’t it be more cost-effective (in a local or state election) to interview in local radio and TV markets and just leave the national media out?
So why put up with this?
– Max
Max — certainly what you talk about is in effect, to some extent, on Fox. Part of why I like watching Morning Joe is that they have people on there, that while I certainly don’t agree with them, I’d like to hear what they think. Now, that doesn’t go as far as watching MSNBC after 6… But there are people on the left, national figures, that have obviously made a decision that they won’t go on Fox, and especially on O’Reilly’s show.
Obviously, MSNBC has made a business decision to stake out the territory to the left of Fox. I don’t think they, or the audience they attract, cares if conservatives show up. In fact, I bet they are entertained by their hosts savaging conservatives. I don’t see a financial downside for them to berating folks their audience dislikes.
I’ve never undestood MSNBC’s stand on the issues…nor Bill Gates, and his buddies…rich liberals all…i want a divorce from the liberals…
DIVORCE AGREEMENT
THIS IS SO INCREDIBLY WELL PUT AND I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT’S BY A YOUNG PERSON, A STUDENT!!! I hope he got an “A,” and extra credit in Political Science!
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al:
We have stuck together since the late 1950’s, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce.
I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right so let’s just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is a model 20 separation agreement:
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After
that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
We don’t like redistributive taxes so you can keep them.
You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
Since you hate guns and war, we’ll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military.
You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnell (You are; however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them).
We’ll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street.
You can have your beloved homeless, homeboys, hippies and illegal aliens.
We’ll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO’s and rednecks. We’ll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.
You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we’ll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.
You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our Allies or our way of life are under assault, we’ll help provide them security.
We’ll keep our Judeo-Christian values.. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism and Shirley McClain.
You can also have the U.N.. but we will no longer be paying the bill.
We’ll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.
You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors. We’ll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right.
We’ll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. I’m sure you’ll be happy to substitute Imagine, I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing, Kum Ba Ya or We Are the World.
We’ll practice trickledown economics and you can give trickle up poverty your best shot.
Since it often so offends you, we’ll keep our history, our name and our flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other likeminded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting,
I’ll bet you ANWAR which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American