The O'Donnell Factor: A Hill Hack Goes Prime-Time Wacko | The New York Observer

The O'Donnell Factor: A Hill Hack Goes Prime-Time Wacko | The New York Observer


What bothers me the most about this story isn’t Ms. Tkacik’s obvious suggestion that Lawrence O’Donnell is another hack hired by the Peacock to spew anti-right rhetoric. That is, after all, his job and what people who are used to tuning in for Keith Olbermann are looking for. Rather my problem is comparing this raving maniac to a legend like Edward R. Morrow.
You know, the guy who took on McCarthyism.
“No guest is too benign or inconsequential to serve as Joe McCarthy to Mr. O'Donnell's eager inner Edward R. Murrow, and, more important, no argument is too sound if Mr. O'Donnell is in the mood for a bout of self-righteous condemnation.”
While she gets it right that O’Donnell is eager to badger his guests to death with pointless questioning, she smears the reputation of a legend in our industry.
A more apt comparison statement might have been that no guest is too benign or inconsequential to serve as The Kurds to Mr. O'Donnell's eager inner Sadam Hussein. - RF