Why Is This Man On Television?

[kolipoki09]

Lawrence has quite a history with his anti-mormon rants.

http://www.google.com/search?q=romney+o'donnell&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&rlz=1I7ADRA_enUS468&prmd=imvnsu&source=univ&tbm=vid&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=2BSCT7uFIYWC2AXe9fDuBg&ved=0CG0QqwQ

I've seen quite a few reporters get canned for much less.

(eg. Imus - "nappy-headed hos")

Unless Lawrence goes after MSNBC executives, it's unlikely that he'll face any sort of reprimand. I've learned from years of watching Lawrence that he rarely apologizes for anything, even when his fellow comrades have been forced to do so publicly:

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[Jeff K.]

The pressing question is whether or not anyone has baked him a strudel yet.

Like his ideas, my streudel will be half baked

[Jeff K.]

calmoriah:

MSNBC is a entertainment enterprize with political content(Think Joe Scarborough). Faux News is a political organization of very limited entertainment content.

That is an intersting perspective. MSNBC takes its views as "hard new" not entertainment, so I believe your association is a bit off. In fact they are almost exactly like fox news, except they aren't popular, well organized, or profitable. Other than that, I am sure they are an idealogically fine news organization. It begs the question as to whether liberalism or the overwrought presentation of liberalism is what ensures their relatively small audience.

[Avatar4321]

Two questions:

1) Does he have a problem with Harry Reid?

2) Does Harry Reid have a problem with him?

[cdowis]

Unless Lawrence goes after MSNBC executives, it's unlikely that he'll face any sort of reprimand.

He is doing the church an enormous favor.

The worst thing is to be ignored, so we can appreciate that he is contributing to the buzz. We can only wish that Rev. Wright would say something about the church.

[Jeff K.]

Well, Lawrences over the top behavior certainly does expose the bigotry of the critics. In that sense he is doing all of us an enormous favor.

[CQUIRK]

BTW, did anybody see this?

http://nation.foxnews.com/mormon/2012/04/09/mormon-congressman-rips-nbc-right-gregory-s-face

[kolipoki09]

BTW, did anybody see this?

http://nation.foxnew...-gregory-s-face

I watched the latter portion, but didn't see his specific comment about O'Donnell until now. The entire discussion was remarkably well done, with co-panelists including Anne Graham Lotz, the daughter of Rev. Billy Graham, and Bishop William Lori, archbishop designate of Baltimore. Lotz, probably more than anyone else, is receiving flak from the discussion, particularly when she said that she wouldn't vote for an atheist.

Gregory asked Rep. Labrador if he thought the president was a Christian, to which he responded in the affirmative with this "that was a really dumb question" look on his face. Labrador also talked about his missionary service and that he has a son currently serving in South America somewhere. Lotz and Lori articulated the conservative position pretty well. There wasn't a lot of disagreement between the panelists, whether they were on the left or on the right, but there was a lot of tension between Gregory and Labrador especially.

Labrador also mentioned that he thought Romney should talk about his church service as a Bishop and Stake President a little more, though he declined to endorse him on air.

[thesometimesaint]

After prominent Texas megachurch pastor Rev. Robert Jeffress told audiences on Friday that Mormonism is a "cult" and conservative Christian activist Bryan Fischer took the stage the next day to echo similar views, a new survey released Saturday afternoon says that three out of four pastors agree, at the least, that Mormons are not Christians.

[BCSpace]

“… the mainstream media and the left – whoops, I repeat myself – see no difference between what many evangelicals regard as the Bible’s truth and the teachings of Mormonism. If we support the idea that you can paint some ‘conservative’ faith communities as simply beyond the pale, they’ll do the same to us before we even get out the first five words of our explanation of submission or sin offerings. That’s what they’re trying to do right now to Rep. Bachmann, and when we attack Mormons as too kooky to be president, we aid and abet them–not because there really is no difference between our beliefs and theirs, but because the soundbite war in the midst of a presidential campaign isn’t the right place to have that conversation.”

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This is unquestionably true. Secular leftists are often quite religious in their zeal to attack traditional values, and I’d say that they have Mormons in their crosshairs in large part because they’re quite effective in defending our culture. After all, there’s only 6 million Mormons in America, yet the media Left — from HBO to PBS to Broadway — has spent much of the last two election cycles flailing away at the LDS church.

In other words, the secular Left hates Mormons because they see the LDS church as a part of the same Judeo-Christian tradition we belong to; the same Judeo-Christian tradition they so despise. Noah rightly suggests on NRO not holding your breath for MSNBC’s O’Donnell to condemn any Democrats who profess Mormonism (like Harry Reid).

http://www.patheos.c...s/#comment-6719

[thesometimesaint]

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2012/04/09-7

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

I invite Lawrence O'DonnellI to go on Al Jazeera television and make a similar comment about Muhammed.

Here i thought it started when he was 14 with a vision.

[Zakuska]

Here i thought it started when he was 14 with a vision.

Yeah but that vision was made up 10 years after the fact. Dont-cha know! Sheez!

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

Yeah but that vision was made up 10 years after the fact. Dont-cha know! Sheez!

Apparently so...I hate when that happens.

[altersteve]

O'Donnell has apologized for his recent comments:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865553930/Lawrence-ODonnell-apologizes-for-offending-a-great-many-Mormons.html

[thesometimesaint]

altersteve:

I can't read other peoples minds, so I accept his apology. But I still won't be watching his show anytime soon. Besides it on at our dinner time, and I refuse to have the TV on during dinner time.

[Mark Beesley]

O'Donnell has apologized for his recent comments:

http://www.deseretne...ny-Mormons.html

I guess that email I sent to MSNBC worked.

[gmormon]

...to deliver strudel.

...don't forget the funeral potatoes!

[Bill “Papa” Lee]

I invite Lawrence O'DonnellI to go on Al Jazeera television and make a similar comment about Muhammed.

He is allowed on TV because in America everyone has the right to be stupid. I should know.

[thesometimesaint]

I think we all say and do stupid things every now and then. I sure hope that all the stupid things I've done won't appear on televison, or be shouted from the rooftops. as per the Scriptures.