Lawrence O'Donnell vs Marc Thiessen: Obama's Terror Policies

During today's heated discussion ("Crossfire") on "Morning Joe" Liberal Political Contributor Lawrence O'Donnell commented about Marc Thiessen's wealthy background and his lack of Military experience.

Wait a minute!

Which U.S. Military branch did Pres. Barack Obama serve in?

Didn't Pres. Obama graduate from both Columbia and Harvard??

O'Donnell's behavior further proves that Liberal Political Contributors who appear on MSNBC are in fact extremely biased towards GOP, Right Wing and Tea Party Leaders.

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Morning Joe Goes "Crossfire"


Former Bush speechwriter Mark Thiessen went on "Morning Joe" Friday morning to talk about national security. But the Bushie wound up on the receiving end of a yelling tirade from Lawrence O'Donnell, who was on the New York set.

The liberal O'Donnell - who's hosting "The Ed Show" Friday night on MSNBC - wound up yelling at Thiessen, saying he was "lying." As the show's hosts tried to get him to stop, O'Donnell grew more irate, talking over everyone. Thiessen had to ask, "Can I get a word in?"

Finally, "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough put an end to it, saying: "Stop. Let's stop. We're going to break right now. We're going to break right now. We'll be right back and I'm going to be interviewing Mark by myself. We'll be right back."

When the show came back from the unscripted break, the show was announced as: "Thiessen Interview Take 2."

O'Donnell was still on set, Scarborough noted, "because we don't yell on this show. ... By the way, Lawrence, if you wanted some psycho talk, you just run the clip of yourself tonight, you got psycho talk."

Then Scarborough threw out new rules. "We're going to let you talk," he told Thiessen, adding that "Lawrence will get 30 seconds at the end and you'll have a 30-second response."

When O'Donnell was given his 30 seconds, he was far calmer, but his first question was: "I want to know your own personal experience with torture. I know you grew up in the richest zip code in America on the Upper East Side. You went to the only boarding school in Connecticut that I know of that has a golf course ... and then you went to Vassar. And, of course, like all the tortured mongers in the White House, that Cheney family included, you never served a day in the military, never considered that. I'm wondering with that background, what is it that gives you an expertise on torture? What makes you love it so much?"

Thiessen defended himself by saying "One, it's not torture ... I had a security clearance ... I met with the actual interrogators."

Scarborough finally concluded, "We don't usually do the Crossfire thing here, but what can I say."


Sources: MSNBC, Morning Joe, Politico, Perseus Distribution Services