Unless I’ve missed my
guess, MSNBC will do anything for
laughs. Remember Ricky Madcow’s epic
buildup of President Trump’s two-page 2005 tax returns? The cable "news" company also has two smear
merchants on “The Morning Joe” show who daily insist President Trump is senile
or mentally unstable. Enter Lawrence O’Donnell
the host of The Last Word.
I never watch anything on MSNBC.
I learn of the über-liberal parade of self-beclowning stooges through
Twitter timelines and today was such a day.
O’Donnell, you may
recall, had an epic
profanity-laced meltdown of more than eight minutes three months ago. The video, according to Page
Six, was leaked by Andy Lack (the same guy who fired Matt Lauer)
because O’Donnell had angered him in May by tweeting to fans about his contract
negotiations.
He was forced to apologize on
Twitter saying, “A better anchorman and a better person would’ve had a
better reaction to technical difficulties.”
On Wednesday, President
Donald Trump said the United States recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital
and would move its embassy there, upending decades of a diplomatic consensus
over the status of the city pioneered by his predecessors. He kept a promise he made on the campaign
trail─the very same promise made and broken by Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and
Barack Obama.
The last few seconds of
his speech drew out the conspiracy theorists.
Were his dentures giving him trouble?
Did he have a mini-stroke? The
White House insisted it was nothing more than dry-mouth.
The following day O’Donnell
tweeted:
I am accepting this explanation for now because it has happened to me. But I would like denture experts and dementia experts to keep an eye on him. https://t.co/wXF8luvUn7— Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) December 7, 2017
Trump’s speech was
important for diplomacy in the region. Israel
captured that land from Jordan during the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it;
a move that has not been recognized internationally. In 1980, the Israelis passed a law declaring
Jerusalem the “complete and united” capital of their country. Trump’s actions corrected a historic
injustice.
The historic
injustice to which I refer is the egregious maligning by the United Nations of
the state of Israel. During a tense
emergency meeting of the UN Security Council today, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley
defended the president’s actions saying three presidents delayed the decision
in the hope that a peace process would produce results─results that never came. Haley reprimanded the UN for its negative
role in the peace process saying the world body has been “one of the world’s
foremost centers of hostility toward Israel.
We will not be a party to that.
The United States no longer stands by when Israel is attacked in the
United Nations.
.@USUN Ambassador Nikki Haley: We are more committed to the cause of Israeli-Palestinian peace today than we’ve ever been before. And we believe we might be closer to that goal than ever before. pic.twitter.com/X3zSJ0ZxnL— Department of State (@StateDept) December 8, 2017
I said all
that to say this: The President’s speech
was a bit mumbled at the end of his announcement, but nowhere near Nancy Pelosi
Palsi territory and I’m so tired of the pundit class pretending to be concerned
about the health of a president they clearly despise.
