This is just crazy
When last we heard from NBC "news analyst" and "The West Wing" writer Lawrence O'Donnell he was going ape during an appearance on MSNBC with John O'Neill of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth fame. Today O'Donnell appeared on Hugh Hewitt's radio show to defend his silly article on the Huffington Post that Dick Cheney was drunk at the time of the Saturday's hunting accident. I encourage you to read the transcript, because it's apparent that O'Donnell should be on Air America and not participating in serious journalism.
HH: Good to have you on. Lawrence O'Donnell, yesterday you posted at the Huffington Post about Dick Cheney, Was Cheney Drunk? Did you come up with the headline by the way?
LO: Yes, I did. That's the first time I've come up with my own headline. I think it was a very simple question that needed to be asked, that now has been asked, and the Vice President's answer is that I had one beer at lunch. When I raised this question, many people thought it was absolutely outrageous to even consider the possibility that Dick Cheney would have any trace of alchohol in his system. We now know that he did, and we have his word that it was one beer. I don't know what his word is worth on this subject. It isn't worth much to me, because he did everything he possibly could to avoid us being able to know the truth about that.
HH: Let me read the two paragraphs from yesterday's post at the Huffington Post. "How do we know there was no alcohol? Cheney refused to talk to local authorities until the next day. No point in giving him a breathalyzer then. Every lawyer I've talked to assumes Cheney was too drunk to talk to the cops after the shooting. The next question for the White House should be, was Cheney drunk? I have never gone hunting with ultra-rich Republicans on a Saturday afternoon, but I have seen them tailgating at Ivy League football games, so it's hard for me to believe that any of their Saturday lunches are alcohol free." Now first off, Larry, did you...what lawyers did you talk to that assumed Cheney was drunk?
LO: Oh, my brothers are all lawyers. I must have talked to a dozen lawyers yesterday, including a former U.S. attorney...
HH: Who would that be?
LO: I'm not going to tell you who I talked to, Hugh. Of course I talked to a bunch of lawyers. It doesn't matter.
HH: Wait. Why should I believe you, Larry, if you don't believe the Vice President?
LO: I'll tell you. Let me make it clear to you. The person who suggested this question to me was not a lawyer. The person who suggested this question to me was an alcoholic, okay? That's who suggested the question to me. And then I raised the question with other lawyers, and they said oh, yeah. That's why you avoid the police after an accident.
An alcoholic suggested that Cheney might've been drunk and O'Donnell ran with it?
I can picture O'Donnell now, standing in the alley behind the NBC building muttering to himself about Republicans when some whino comes up to him and says, "Hey, buddy. Can you spare a couple of bucks so I can get a drink?" O'Donnell looks at him and says: "A drink? Sure! Here's a ten. Do you think Cheney might've been drinking?" And the whino replies: "Well...I...uh...I don't know any Charley, but all my friends are drinking."
I've consulted a lot of my journalist colleagues and the question that O'Donnell's behavior presents us with is this: "Is Lawrence O'Donnell on crack?" Because people don't behave the way O'Donnell does unless they're on some sort of mind-altering substance, maybe not crack...maybe it's Prozac. So, the question that we need answered from O'Donnell is: "Please list all drugs you're currently taking." Who knows, maybe he could just be having a bad reaction to some of the chemicals.
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