Painful or funny? MSNBC stump interview

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Painful or funny? MSNBC stump interview

This has to be one of the most excruciating--or hilarious--stump interviews I have ever witnessed.

MSNBC's Olbermann wannabe, Lawrence O'Donnell, tried and tried and tried to spin events and objections to make Democrat candidate for Senate in South Carolina, Alvin Greene, look at least presentable. But all the dude could do--in a humongous galloping case of stage fright--was repeat his mantra, "Jim DeMint started the recession."

I don't know who was funnier. The dumbass spin doctor or the dumbass dizzy dude.

After I wiped the laugh-tears away, I actually started feeling pity for both...

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Michael

[Mike Hansen]

HAH! The last "he started it" almost killed me! Right out of left field. Literally.

[George H. Smith]

We may have another Chauncey Gardner on our hands. A clip from "Being There," with Peter Sellers:

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Ghs

[kiaer.ts]

Compare the media's treatment of this guy to Christine O'Donnell. Where are the SNL skits portraying him as Buckwheat?

[Rich Engle]

Ghastly.

It's one of my main utility quotes; it works almost anywhere. But, to date, never as well as it will here:

"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge." --Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

OK, that's all I got and all I need.

rde

[9thdoctor]

What’s so wrong with him, he’s just doing the Howard Dean thing, what was it called? The wedgie, the bank shot, the hat trick, hell I forget. There was a thread for it.

Olbermann suggests that he’s a Republican plant. I’m not sure what kind of plant, maybe a fern.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxnTYPZOmK0

[Selene]

All you Objectivist racists had just better back off this clearly qualified, articulate and clean black man...oops, sorry I did not mean to plagiarize plagiarizer Joseph Biden.

I think this fine specimen of a well spoken Democratic candidate should be considered for the 2012 Presidential race.

A veteran who served his country and did not get asked and did not tell. During his time in the service, not one single A-rab terrorist flew one single plane into any buildings.

Additionally, as anyone can see, he has a Greene agenda. He is a man of few words, some of them were actually understandable.

Why can't Objectivists stop the hate. Why can't Objectivists treat Senator-elect Greene as an equal to other great Senators like Robert "Grand Kleagle" Byrd, Ted [What body in my back seat?] Kennedy, Senator Hillary [$100,000 was just luck, ahh there are those disappearing Rose law firm billing records]Rodham Rodham, Frank [was I asleep for that vote] Lautenberg and many many more upstanding Senators that have served this nation.

I have so much more to say about Senator elect Greene, but I have to go to an anti DeMint fundraiser.

Adam

[Rich Engle]

I'd go with the zombie, just to see what happens next. The other one is like an evil Pat Boone knockoff--way, way up on the creepiness factor. He grew up on Jim and Tammy Faye and never snapped out of it. He's got that look in his eye. Pat Robertson's Disease.

Definitely would throw in with Undercover Brother. Idea: Black Manchurian Candidate? What does it mean? Who is in back of this? Is it . . . NANO TECHNOLOGY?

rde

Right On.

Edited October 14, 2010 by Rich Engle