Lawrence O'Donnell: Joe Wilson Needs a Breathalyzer Test

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MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Friday said Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) -- he of "You lied" fame -- should be required to take a breathalyzer test before he goes into Congressional sessions where the President is speaking.

Such occurred as O'Donnell was filling in for Keith Olbermann on "Countdown," and discussing with the Nation's Chris Hayes how poorly Wilson represents a GOP that "used to be an image of country club Republicans, well-bred, WASPY, dignified people who just didn't like taxation."

According to O'Donnell, that's all changed, and for the worse (video embedded below the fold with partial transcript, h/t NBer Jon, file photo):

Now how did it come to it that one Party is represented by a learned, former president of the Harvard Law Review who is a scholar and is poised and is graceful, elegant, well-spoken, and the other Party is represented by someone who you wonder if he needs a breathalyzer before he goes into Congressional sessions where the President is speaking? How did it come to this that Republicans, used to be an image of country club Republicans, well-bred, WASPY, dignified people who just didn't like taxation. What's happened here?

I'll answer, Lawrence: you now have a platform from which to spew your hatred for Republicans. Before MSNBC took this hard turn to the left, you might have kept such disgusting opinions to yourself.

Any other questions, Lawrence?


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How does this blowhard loser

How does this blowhard loser end up in so many commercials?

Ok

Ok Larry....he takes a breathalyzer,  and you take a psychiatric examination to see if youre sane.  Id like to see that one.

To forbin: I could not agree more!

How many of these deranged blowhearts are there at MSBC......   I've lost track since we gave up watching them.

It is amusing and so sad at the same time!  

MSNBC seems to be doing a

MSNBC seems to be doing a public service by gathering all the extreme looms onto on e channel.

Pretty soon we can just put a fence up around MSNBC HQ and rename it the Edison Asylum.  (with apologies to Thomas A. Edison) 

 

"President Obama is learning on the job and it shows."  --Boris Epshteyn

Using his logic and criteria

then most MSM commentators should be required to give a urine test for some of the completely asinine statements they make on a nightly basis. Wilson made one, they make hundreds if not thousands of equal or worse comments routinely.
Including this one.

Truth be known, Joe

Truth be known, Joe Wilson's statement of "You lie!" was not an asinine statement, but a statement of truth. Obamao had just got through making several statements that were not true, and called many of the legislators present liars.  Was Wilson's statement rude?  Well, the timing may have been, but the statement itself was not.  Ear Leader had spouted several lies in his speech.  But, the Democrats getting their panties in a bunch about the rudeness of Wilson's outburst did not seem to have a problem with their side booing President Bush during his State of the Union address.  This incident is just one more example of the Democrat Left's (redundant) double standard. 

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

Mike

Point taken. In my haste to post my comments may have indicated I felt Wilson's outburst was asinine. I did not then nor do not now believe that it was. I agree 100% with his assessement of the President's speech. It was chuck full of lies. Rep. Wilson was the only one with the huevos to say so out loud. Was it rude, yes, but Wilson was only saying what all the rest of us were screaming in our living rooms. Perhaps the collective thoughts of millions of patriotic Americans channelled into Mr Wilson's mind and explains the outburst. Kind of like when someone is blowing smoke and you hear people yelling bulls**t under their breath. Inaudible but still very much understood.

Are the really

still on this Joe Wilson thing?  When conservatives take exception to ACORN scandals or Obama school hymns, we are told by the lefties "don't we have bigger problems like health care and climate change?".  Yet they will drag this out ad infinitium.

HE APOLOGIZED ALREADY!!!  Get over it MSNBC!!!!

"You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt." Daniel Hannan

VENGEANCEISMINE...

 Hey, they are still exercised over the OTHER Joe Wilson, & his idiot wife Valerie Plame. So we now have the Congressional version of Joe Wilson, they will be nuts over this for a long time as well. The "you lie" will pop in numerous campaign ads in the next couple of election cycles.

 

"...How blind can you be, don't you see...

...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."  

Nightwish

Does O'Donnell even have a job?

Does this snide little twit even have a job except as a "commentator?" I think he is a consultant-do politicians consult him? Wilson has a job, at least--and people had to decide on an individual basis to let him have it.

Breathalyzer

Ted Kennedy's Senate career would have been short and sweet....

Joe Wilson clearly passed

Joe Wilson clearly passed the sobriety test when he called the One (term wonder) a lier.

TEDDY couldn't have passed one ever.

 I am waiting for the all-liberal SUICIDE PROTEST!!!

O'Donnell, Olbermann, what's

O'Donnell, Olbermann, what's the difference?  Yawn.

If O'Donnell maintains Joe

If O'Donnell maintains Joe Wilson leads the Republicans, then it's fair for us to point out that the Democrats are led by such dignified figures like Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, and Joe Biden. I'll take Wilson anyday.

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

Don't forget...

Charlie Rangel,John Murtha and John Conyers.

 

" if Republicans are able to stop Barack Obama on health care, 'it will be his Waterloo, it will break him....-Sen. Jim DeMint

Yeah, The Democrats are

Yeah,

The Democrats are led by some towering intellects, aren't they? And they have the pretense of being our superiors... 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

CobraMan: Lawrence O'Donnell needs an Intelligence Test

Now how did it come to it that one Conservative News Network is represented by a learned, former legal commentator of CNN, who is a scholar and is poised and is graceful, elegant, well-spoken, and another Liberal News Network is represented by someone who you wonder if he needs a breathalyzer before he goes on camera where his viewers can see him rant and rave about Republicans?

How did it come to this that News Anchors used to be an image of objectivity, well-bred, intelligent, dignified people who just didn't interject their own biases and personal opinions into the news they report. What's happened here?

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution

Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court

Mike Barnicle should be

^%$#! - I always get O'Donnell mixed up with Barnicle - aren't they the same person? 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

Seperated at birth

They're not the same person, but they were separated at birth.  It seems that their parents couldn't afford to pay for their health care, which is why they sold the twins to a couple of the local hippie communes for an ounce of Maui Wowee .

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution

Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court

i think

rick sanchez should take a breathalyzer test  before he goes on the air

BTW. Larry

BTW, Larry (or should I say Lawrence, you arrogant slug), what do you mean by "well-bred?"  That's something of an ELITIST attitude you're displaying there, don't you think?  Oh, I forgot, you DON'T THINK!

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution

Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court

O'Donnell said,

"Now how did it come to it that one Party is represented by a learned,
former president of the Harvard Law Review who is a scholar and is
poised and is graceful, elegant, well-spoken,"

Like any other black man couldn't be poised, graceful, elegant and well-spoken?  What a racist!  (he left out enchanting, though)

Gun Control - The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.

It just is what it is

I would not be sure what well-bred even meant in the Obama context. Child of a single mother, who married then divorced the father, carried a stepfather's name for a while, raised in large part by his grandmother. Nothing wrong with this--but it's hardly the norm.

I contend Obama is not

I contend Obama is not "well-spoken".  He is rarely a clear speaker.  He prefers to use large words or common words in a new way ex, "I am not able to answer that question with specificity."  Obama uses many words and often says nothing.  No, he is not well spoken, he simply speaks a lot.  An awful lot.

"poised, graceful, elegant"

Except when he accuses people of "gettin' all wee-wee'd up".

Classy stuff there Larry.

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

If they have to resort to

If they have to resort to repackaging Alinsky, Jr. and comparing him favorably to a guy who blurted out two words several weeks ago, they're desperate...completely out of ideas.  But if two can play at that game, perhaps we can frame the Republican Party around a young, intelligent, educated up-and-comer (Bobby Jindal, for example) and compare him favorably with those who have come to represent the Democrats...Cynthia McKinney, Nancy Pelosi, Pete Stark, Barney Frank, "Dollar Bill" Jefferson, Van Jones, Harry Reid, Henry Waxman, Ed Markey, Jim McGreevey, Elliot Spitzer, Jack Murtha...

The only differences being that Jindal actually has successful executive experience to speak of unlike the Alinskyite-in-Chief and that Joe Wilson is a respectable man unlike the parade of thieves and kooks on their side of the aisle.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

I Have a Better Idea

How about we permanently attach a lie detector monitor to each politician and see what happens when they speak in public?

Now that would be fun!

Almost as Big a Fraud as Obermann

BW222

With O'Donnell, MCNBC found a lefty who is almost as big a fraud as Olbermann. The nut jobs who watch the show should be happy.

Jealousy, and fear.

Jealousy, and fear.

The GOP has started using the tactics of the left, to as great, or greater, an affect as the loony-left has, and, knowing how well those tactics work, they're scared, and a wee bit jealous.

Keep it up folks, it's the only way we'll get our country back!

WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare,

like obama said...

the best way to get on TV is to be rude.

It's working for O'Donnell. That troll is rude every day, and sure enough, he is on msnbc every day.  

De-Evolution

And what used to be Walter Cronkite and Huntley & Brinkley has decomposed into MSNBC? C'mon "Lawrence", admit it. You suck.

Rep Pete Stark needed a breathalyzer test, not Joe Wilson

Back when hate speech on the floor of the Congress was just fine with the MSM.

Stark Raving Mad: Congressman Accuses President [Bush] of Deriving ‘Amusement’ from American War Dead

(;~/

Thanks Gary

I'd forgotten about that one. Wow, what a nice guy. <sarc>

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

Right after MSNBC blow-drys get IQ tests...

Sigh!

fear me

Anger and vitriol are natural human responses to fear. Ok, then,

FEAR ME, I VOTE!!!

O'Donell's idiocy

I think O'Donell needs a brainalyzer.

Who can do it?

Let's face it, there aren't many people who can take over for Olbermann, but O'Donnell must want his name at the top of the list.  I'm sure, in liberal communities, that's quite a resume enhancement.   

Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.  

To quote Fritz Hollings

Larry you need an IQ test.

Jack

"If at age 20 you are a conservative then you have no heart.  If at age 30 you are a liberal then you have no brains."   Sir Winston Churchill

always attack the messenger

Let's not talk about the fact that the President lied and lied but instead do an Alinsky and attack the messenger.

The Euro-Socialist concept is not well liked by working America, just by 'victims' and other rent seekers and social pick pockets. It becomes totally obvious when you see they have no desire to debate on ideas, but rather to attack the messengers. I admit that shouting out "Liar" in a joint session is not good manners, no one on the left is pointing out that he was right and the President did lie.

Lawrence!

And Lawrence O'Donnell needs a head examination.

Head examination

Which would first require a colonoscopy to find his head...

Kat

LOL!  Good one!

 

"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error.  To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson

So Did He Lie?

Which reminds me folks, I've been following the controversy regarding Joe Wilson since it happened, and I do not recall a single article over whether Wilson was correct about the Bamster when he blurted out "you lie." All the discussion simply points out that he was perhaps indecorous in his declaration, and whether it deserved censure.

Isn't that interesting.

How about Larry's EEG?

I could read Larry's EEG very easily.  Flat lines going across a paper would indicate no brain activity.

wait just a second..

Since when did the fringe media ever see Republicans as wealthy intellctuals who didn't like taxation? For as long as I've been alive, the right has always been portrayed as angry rednecks who beat women and shoot minorities.

 

Test

Lawrence O'Donnell needs to have a brain scan run before he goes on air just to see if he has a brain.

At least

they are giving Sara Palin a break, thanks Joe!

Let them all take Breathalyzers

If Ted Kennedy was still here his would be above the allowed average for driving.  and I bet most of them would prove positive to Alcoholism.

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effect of folly is to fill the world with fools."

Herbert Spencer's "State Tamperings with Money Banks"

Patrick Kennedy?

Wonder if Captain Squareface would demand Patrick Kennedy take a breathalyzer before a vote?

No.  He'd tell him to tell

No.  He'd tell him to tell the cops that he was on his way to a vote, so they'd have to let him go.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

How about Obama?

Should he be required to take a drug test? After all, he admitted using drugs during his youth.

I wouldn't mind seeing...

How come he never gets a physical like other presidents have--with the results disclosed? Oh, I am sorry--am I medicaler now? (Yes, we had a note from his doctor saying he'd be a neat president, but nothing else.)

            I

            I agree. Wilson should have to take the test. But, first, the whole govt. should be required to take drug tests. If they don't pass it, they loose their job, just like the people in the real world have to do. I'll put money on the fact that at least half have a drug problem. It's the only way they could come up with the B.S. they spout every single day.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Maybe Lawrence has a point

Maybe Lawrence has a point (two points if you count the one between his ears, but I digress). But, don't confine the breathalyzer test to just Joe Wilson.  Make a breathalyzer test mandatory for each legislator: in the morning as they arrive for duty, and in the afternoon just after lunch.  If they show up with a BAC of 0.08 or greater, they are immediately sent home.  If they show up with a BAC of 0.08 three times within a 30 calendar day period, they are kicked out of the Senate or the House.

Also, make legislators subject to madatory, random drug tests, just like us peons out here.  And, if they test postitive, they are kicked out of the Senate or the House.

If that rule had been in place, we would not have been subjected to 50+ years of Ted Kennedy...which is an argument in favor right there. 

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan