According to the Huffington Post on Sunday, liberal MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell’s future at the network is “unclear” and a renewal of his contract “doesn’t appear to be on the horizon.” Writer Yashar Ali explained that O’Donnell “has just four weeks left in his contract, and the cable network does not appear to be interested in renewing his deal.”
He added, “Four well-placed sources tell HuffPost that MSNBC has not been in contact with O’Donnell’s team of representatives to negotiate a new deal.” If true, perhaps NBC News Chairman Andy Lack is tiring of O’Donnell’s lunatic conspiracies and just plain wrong predictions.
In April of 2017, the MSNBC host actually wondered if Vladimir Putin “might have orchestrated” the United States’ strike on Syria in order to help “his friend in the White House,” Donald Trump.
O’Donnell speculated, “Wouldn't it be nice if it was just completely, totally, absolutely impossible to suspect that Vladimir Putin orchestrated what happened in Syria this week?” This even baffled liberal colleague Dana Milbank. The columnist chided, “Maybe we should muzzle the wag-the-dog talk.”
Days before the 2016 presidential election, O’Donnell featured a Princeton professor to predict there is a “greater than 99 precent chance” Hillary Clinton would win.
The day after the election, O’Donnell suffered a meltdown, lamenting America as a now “declining civilization.”
“For 240 years, American government and American civilization has been steadily moving up, slowly but surely improving, rising higher and higher and higher and then last night, we turned down. That’s what you’re feeling. That’s what the decline of a civilization feels like....Millions of people, men, women, and children who are feeling this decline of the civilization have been crying over these last 24 hours..But millions of people love that [Trump’s] voice. Millions of American women love that voice. Voted for that voice....That’s the way it is in the decline of the civilization....Every declining civilization has had their cheerleaders on their way down.”
— MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on The Last Word, November 9.
If the Huffington Post report comes to pass, what will America do without the cool, calm voice of Lawrence O’Donnell?
