This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features the gushing of MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell over the brain of former President Barack Obama.
In his new book, The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House, the deputy national security adviser for the Obama administration, quoted Barack Obama as wondering if he may have become president “10 or 20 years too early.”
Reacting to that, MSNBC prime time host Lawrence O’Donnell was in awe: “I cannot possibly fill in the paragraph that that is the first sentence of, if it is spoken by Barack Obama because his mind is too supple, too complex, too rich compared to my own to fill out what the rest of that thought is.”
O’Donnell, on Saturday’s AM Joy on MSNBC:
“When I hear a statement like that — or read a statement like that from Barack Obama — who is, as we’ve said, an introspective and thoughtful and very wise man — and a brilliant writer. And he says something like ‘maybe I came along 20 years too soon,’ my reaction to that is: What do you mean? Which is to say, I cannot possibly fill in the paragraph that that is the first sentence of, if it is spoken by Barack Obama because his mind is too supple, too complex, too rich compared to my own to fill out what the rest of that thought is.”
“And I think he’s got a really interesting thought there and when you hear him, in an extended interview like he most recently did with David Letterman, you understand that wherever that first line began is not — did not tell you where that answer was going to go 75 or 200 words later.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: “You can’t make this stuff up. Liberal pontificators like O’Donnell still have so much reverence for Barack Obama that they become so overwhelmed – what journalist have you ever heard describe anyone as ‘supple’? – that they cannot even offer a comment about what he said. A brief rekindling of a love suppressed under their equally passionate hatred of the man who succeeded Obama.”
Rating: Four out of five screams.
