quote Originally posted by cliffw: I am not even curious about what MSNBC has to say. They work for the democratic party.

You're passing up an opportunity to take some precision-guided "whacks" at MSNBC anchor Lawrence O'Donnell.

You could just swing blindly at him, as if you were at a Mexican-themed lawn party, and blindfolded, and wielding a baseball bat or a long-handled toilet brush or whatever else is favored for swatting at the proverbial Piñata, hanging from a tree limb or other overhead fixture.


"The pitfalls of swinging blindly"

But if you were to avail yourself of some of this online video content, you could swing at Lawrence O'Donnell with both eyes open (so to speak), as if you had him lined up dead center with the crosshairs in your scope (so to speak)... as if you were seeing Lawrence O'Donnell in SUPERFOCUS—like this:



You could take specific exception to anything specific that Lawrence O'Donnell specified when he spoke.

That's something you can't do without examining any of this online video evidence (so to speak). Not the SUPERFOCUS video, but the "Orange Jesus" video at the end of my "original" post.

In other words, you can't subject Lawrence O'Donnell to a rigorous cross examination without first having at least some of his testimony (so to speak.)

You can only subject him to a crass examination!

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quote Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]: There's a lot going on in that first post. Can you summarize?

Can I summarize? Absolutely!

Donald Trump used his Truth Social messaging platform to denounce MSNBC. You can see in that first post what Trump said. Trump called Brian Roberts a "slimeball." Brian Roberts is the CEO and chairman of Comcast. MSNBC is owned by Comcast.

Trump issued his "Truth" late on Tuesday night.

MSNBC anchor Lawrence O'Donnell has theorized that Trump was "set off" by MSNBC's programming on Tuesday, which highlighted the several federal and state court cases, civil and criminal, in which Trump is either the defendant or among the defendants. O'Donnell went so far as to speculate that when Trump issued his "Truth" at 11:13pm Eastern Time on Tuesday, Trump had just finished watching Tuesday's episode of "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell," which airs from 10 to 11pm Eastern Time.

This came out in the first two blocks of Wednesday's episode of "The Last Word" when O'Donnell used more than the first 20 minutes of his hour-long show to explore what O'Donnell believes are the reasonable interpretations of Trump's "Truth" about MSNBC.

O'Donnell covered a lot of ground, and so I would not want to try to summarize his remarks. There's no transcript of his remarks, so it's all in the "Orange Jesus" video at the end of the first post here. However, I can comment on some of his monologue.

O'Donnell does not think that the news media "in general" or "writ large" has been doing an adequate job of covering Trump through the years. He takes at least one "jab" at the New York Times. He stresses the importance of the three legacy networks that continue today (mostly on cable) from the era before cable: CBS, NBC and ABC. He reminds his viewers that more people by far get their news from CBS, NBC and ABC than from all the so-called "cable" news networks combined.

Anyone who wants to peruse the "Orange Jesus" video from start to finish would be weighing up some 18 minutes of online video content. It's an O'Donnell "monologue," as there are no guests that are conversing with him in this first block.

But—and this is obviously a big but—anyone could just look at how O'Donnell starts it off, as a quick way to come to grips with how O'Donnell starts it off. Ask yourself "How would Lawrence O'Donnell start a monologue about Trump, and specifically, about what Trump just said about MSNBC?" Then see how close you were. Or whether you were close at all.


O'Donnell did not agree with Trump's thinking about MSNBC and about Comcast CEO and chairman Brian Roberts.
SPOILER



Is this a great summary or what?

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