Lawrence O'Donnell Absolutely Snapped Tonight...
... and I'm here for every word of it.
This is powerful, meaningful oratory / rhetoric in the best of the American tradition.
A twenty-first century pamphleteer hurling words against a tyrant.
Do yourself a favor and watch his entire A block:
O’DONNELL’S EXPOSING OF THE MEDIA IS AS IMPORTANT AS HIS EXCORIATING OF TRUMP AND MUSK
If I were a member of the Washington / White House press corps—with one ounce of self-reflection, or a single scruple—and I listened to these eighteen minutes, I would spontaneously combust, and then, though reduced to a pile of ashes, somehow quit my job in shame.
O’Donnell’s critique DEVASTATES the mainstream D.C. media.
(Which he has actually been doing for a while. I’m super-curious about the extent to which any DC journos register his years-long withering analysis.)
“And the best estimates by the experts… who know exactly what USAID was doing in Africa, and around the world, now say that 300,000 people have died, or will soon die, because of what Elon Musk did to them by taking food away and taking medicine away. And the Washington news media does not care.
Not one reporter in or around the White House, or anywhere else, who has had a chance to question Elon Musk has asked him what it feels like to be the richest person in the world killing the world’s poorest children. They do not care. And because they don’t care—because that news media does not care—they have added to this sensation of unbelievability about the behavior of richest person in the world being far worse than the worst James Bond villain that has ever been imagined.
There is no way to get through [to] a Washington press corps more concerned today with last year’s presidential campaign than they are with Donald Trump and Elon Musk killing children in Africa. There’s no way to get through to them.”
ON ELON’S MUSK’S ADMINISTRATIVE MURDER OF 300,000 OF THE WORLD’S POOREST PEOPLE—WITHOUT REMORSE, BUT NOW APOLOGIZING FOR MEAN TWEETS ABOUT TRUMP:
“After killing hundreds of thousands of people, that’s what he regrets. He regrets his tweets.”
ON THE SHOWDOWN IN LOS ANGELES:
“California will defeat Trumpism in the streets of Los Angeles. In California, Donald Trump has gone too far.”
—Lawrence O’Donnell
Loving it!