Lawrence O'Donnell Humiliates Pat Buchanan
By SilentPatriot Wednesday May 28, 2008 9:10pm
This was hysterical. While discussing Scott McClellan's bombshell book last night on "Verdict," Lawrence O'Donnell blasted Pat Buchanan for whining about disloyalty when it comes to Presidents. Watch Pat hide behind his coffee mug as O'Donnell berates him.
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"It‘s great to hear Pat Buchanan complaining about the lack of courage in a White House, where White House staff did not come out and try to expose that White House. Pat was part of the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States, the Nixon administration, luckily, Pat wasn‘t one who went to jail.
But to this day, you can‘t get Pat Buchanan to say one negative word about the criminal operation called the Nixon administration that he worked inside of. That‘s what I call loyalty."
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HAHAHAHA!!! WHAT A MAROON!
I watched this last night and kept thinking how he would feel if it was Clinton on the other end.
Blow jobs 24/7.
You were there Pat. Shut the fuck up!
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Touche' Lawrence!! I saw it and damn near fell outta my chair. ;)
Glad you put the video of it up Silent Patriot.thank you very much!
Yeah, thanks for the flashback -
Annnnnnd everything just starts to unravel.
do we hear of an upcoming book by pat robertson
and his insider take on the nixon administration.....
he must not be writing for the money.......lol lol
Pat Buchanan reminds me of an old wrinkly penis with a combover.
daaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmnnnnnn. now that was a good one.
Laugh it up Mr. Funny Patriot. Who and what are you laughing about. Are you laughing at all the soldiers who died in Vietnam while you were 'serving' this nation in the Nixon administration? You laughing at all the Americans who you fooled.
Laugh it up you jackoff Republican.
Yea Bush gave an Ass Hat a great job he did not deserve and the thanks he gets is being ratted out.
Great video. I know a little something about humiliating people.
Odonnell rocks. Go get em'
Bush flat out refused to answer the cocaine allegation in 2000, and American journalists played ball. They (all but) ignored it all together. They gave him a pass. He did not say "I don't remember". Had he, he would have been defeated by Al Gore. So much for an inconsequential betrayal of a personal nature.
Glad you got the memo...
Notice Buchanan's use of the "tactical chuckle."
He starts laughing while being hammered by O'Donnell, suggesting to viewers: "I think it's all a joke, and you should, too." That's what they do when caught flat-footed and with no comeback material.
HRC's forced cackle is much the same.
Just too funny!
katie @ 7:
Well, the guy certainly has brass balls.
Notice that when he admitted the Watergate break-in was wrong(chuckle chuckle), he failed to mention the cover-up.
So, this O'Donnell guy, isn't he part of the corporate media that hammered the public into believing Sadam had WMD? Did he ever risk his job, his lifestyle, by asking pertinent questions about the run-up to the Iraq war/occupation? Although I detest Buchanan, he at least was against the war.
Neither one is innocent enough to belittle the other side.
Really? Was that so embarrassing?
One of the most well known pundits in this country gets called out for shameless blatant demagoguery and everybody laughs.
He'll be on another show or ten by the end of the week and in complete seriousness peddle some other mindless stupid media scripted bullshit. And all these smirkers will stroke their chins and seriously consider this most serious new point of interest from Pat Buchanan.
The Republic is in grave danger. We are approaching the edge, wildly and without braking.
"Pat was part of the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States, the Nixon administration,"
Well..that was true up until 2001.
Thank you Lawrence O'Donnell for that. I was watching it and I could just see the uneasiness especially with Pat Buchanan and his snickering and drinking and snickering and drinking out of pure embarrassment. It was great. You can hear Abrams breathing heavy and trying to butt in over and over again, but O'Donnell never lets up. Priceless!
um, can I super-size that cup fer ya, Pat ? Great deals on buckets over on aisle 8 ....
McClellan's book compares favorably to Albert Speer's book "Inside the Third Reich" in spirit, intent, subject matter and self-serving selective revelation. I'm sure, given Pat Buchanan's sympathy for the NAZIs, he would have the same criticism for Speer as he does McClellan.
Pat "Every Woman's Ex-husband" Buchanan would not have a problem if it were a Clinton insider turning against Bill Clinton.
Oh, and here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_the_Third_Reich
OH man. That's what I call a Beeotch slap.
There are somethings that are unique to republicans. Buchanan, like Scarborough, Carlson, Matilan, Blakeman, Hannity, Gallagher, and a whole slew of others will defend ANYTHING NEOCON. Just like every republican talker I have heard will never let any progressive voice an opinion different from theirs.
Must be a genetic flaw
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Andy K Jong Il @ 17:
Perhaps, but I always thought the "balls" part of his appearance were those saggy jowls of his. GAWD DAMN he needs to be put out to pasture!!! He's even got the wheezy-geezer voice that points to "way to old to matter anymore." Somebody at MSNBC must owe him something...
Jimbo @ 19:
Deserves repeating!
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Wow. See? that's all it takes. republicans are SUCH a house of cards that all you have to do is stand up just a little and they collapse. Glad to see that they are finally starting to get hammered of late. MUCH MUCH MUCH more of that to come. =)
pinkobait @ 20:
My problem with the portion highlighted is that would be true if the US was founded in 1924. But both the Grant and Harding administrations were extremely corrupt, just not corrupt in the same ways that Nixon's was.
Not that I'm disagreeing with your comment, Jimbo. Bushco has managed to roll the Grant/Harding bribery scandals and the Nixon spying and warmongering all into one eight-year-long perpetual scandal.
Same old same old.
When Mark Felt outed himself as 'Deep Throat' more than 30 years after Watergate, Pat Buchanan was one of the old Nixonians who sneered and bloviated about what a disloyal, traitourous coward, etc, he was. Along with such pillars of virtue as G. Gordon Liddy, Al Haig, Henry Kissinger and all the pundits.
Nothing new here. The only sin is disloyalty. Ever thus.
Now Now. The President honored Scotty with the position of meat puppet. He should, like Colin Powell, be forever grateful for having every ounce of credibility sucked out of himself before being thrown under the bus.
Scott McClellan is a patriot for coming forward. I think he's a decent guy whose conscious got the best of him. And why weren't there more questions about Bush's alcohol addiction. He was drinking heavily until age 40, and as far as anyone knows, never had treatment or even went to AA. That's significant information. It was just accepted that since he was "born again", God had fixed everything and he was good to go. Anyone who's ever dealt with alcoholism knows it doesn't work that way, and our country is paying the price for it. Yes, Pat Buchanan, the ultimate defender of corrupt Republican presidents. I love the way Lawrence O'Donnell put him in his place.
I'm surprised Buchanon didn't spew coffee(if it's coffee) all over the camera man.
boooooyahhhh!!!!
katie @ 28:
He's not going away soon. He's been the most consistently conservative Conservative voice out there dating back decades. This is the guy who wrote Agnew's "Nattering Nabobs of Negativism" speech. He's media savvy. Progressives watch shows he's on so they can hate on him, and conservatives watch because he voices their opinions eloquently(interpret this word with a relative spin).
MsJoanne @ 2:
re: Bush Officials Charged with War Crimes
Guardian UK: Bolton dodges attempted 'war crimes' arrest
Arresting John Bolton - The Charge Sheet
Pat needs a bigger cup to hide behind you can still see his stupid lying face. I will never figure out how this x Nixon speech writers opinion became so fucking sought after and important to anybody today.
MountainMan23 @ 38:
WoW! That charge sheet was some pretty heavy reading.
BIGBONEDED @ 39:
I know exactly what you are saying...
BIGBONEDED @ 39:
He wasn't hiding. He was taking a sip when the director went from a shot of O'Donnel to a split-screen shot of their big old Irish heads (why do these two make me feel like I'm at a Catholic Central HS football game?) and caught sipping his scotch and soda. They cut away from Buchanan for about 2 or 3 seconds, and when he reappears he's set the cup down. I think SilentPat has overstated the case for hiding.
It's about time someone began taking these shills for the Republican Party down a notch or two. Expose them for the hypocrites that they are. They fear truth the way vampires fear the light.
"The breakin was a mistake..." Yuk, Yuk!
It was a mistake because we got caught, Yuk, Yuk!
But the real hilarity of it all, I'm paid millions to give "credible" political advice! Yuk, Yuk, Yuk!
And Americans continue to take it up the ass! (Loud bursts of laughter)
And watch the likes of gordan libby, oliver north and karl rove everynight! (Now uncontrolable spasms of guffaws by all the pundits)
Pat Buchanan is not a conservative any longer . Lawrence O'Donnell is a bloody fool and loves to humiliate anyone and everyone he so desires.
Gotugye @ 43:
I don't see the hypocrisy in anything we're discussing here. I see O'Donnel pointing out that the loyal-to-a-fault Buchanan is toeing his own personal line and holding McClellan to Buchanan's personal standards.
Now if you want to argue that Buchanan is on morally shaky ground by prioritizing loyalty to leadership above loyalty to the nation and its laws, you'll get no argument from me. Buchanan's loyalties are, imo, misplaced. But that's not news. That's ancient history.
jules @ 45:
Really? How is that?
jules @ 45:
And jules enjoys seeing the worst in everything.
Thanks jules, thank you for reminding me of joy... One more thoughtful reason for be an optimistic liberal.
This is just what it's going to take to expose this whole system of mis-truths, lies and mis-information that has gotten us where we are. When we speak the truth, or rather, find the gumption to "face off" with these idiots can this Country return to some state of normalcy. Why we allow these "propaganda BS'ers" to have the forum is a huge failure of the Public.
Spicegal Says: Scott McClellan is a patriot for coming forward. I think he’s a decent guy whose conscious got the best of him
yeah, some patriot. Ask all the families of soldiers who've died while he lied.
I am an optimistic liberal and have always been one, especially this year. Just my opinion of Lawrence is not so great and usually Buchanan (lately) has been very critical of Bush & Co. (and all republicans)for quite a while. Listen to Morning Joe !!
All of them, theyre the kind of people who would yell and scream about penises and blowjobs if it got them big paychecks on national TV.
Oh wait.
phil @ 49:
This is what it's going to take? Outing Pat Buchanan when he's been an out-in-the-open conservative Republican for many decades? Why is this information going to change anything now?
jules @ 51:
Yeah, yeah, but that doesn't mean that Buchanan isn't as conservative now as he was in 1972. He's exactly the same asshole today. It just means that Bushco aren't stalwart conservatives. Buchanan defines conservatism as much as Buckley ever did.
Andy K Jong Il @ 47:
Neo-cons have been in power for so long, it's easy to understand how some folks no longer recognize a paleo-con like Buchanan as a conservative at all.
Didn't you know? Pat Buchanan and Robert Novak are the same person! I though everybody knew that.
This was fun to watch, but I think it it's up for debate whether the Nixon administration is the most corrupt in our lifetime (of all time there's room for additional discussion)...I think a solid case could be made that the Dubya administration is the more corrupt, Watergate notwithstanding.
Jaboookindoggins @ 40:
John Bolton original PNAC "America rules the world by aggression" always had great disdain for the UN which is why he had to be recessed into the position. (Thanks for the link!)
I hope that when the indictments come down he and the rest of the PNAC ilk are named defendants.
Bush is more corrupt.
So, as Pat admitted, he believes loyalty to your boss is more important than loyalty to your country and the soldiers that fight for it .
As November approaches, the neo-con meltdown is like a car wreck that you can't take your eyes off of .
harvey kormen passed away!
WOOPAH! Yes Pat, Scott has bigger balls than you.
sorry korman
[1] The Nixon Administration was NOT the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States;
[2] I've never seen any other conservative try harder always to be truthful than Pat Buchanan;
[3] he's civil and decent to his opposition, often despite heavy pressure to lose control; and
[4] his point would be well taken if it were not these particular outright criminals in question.
Pat's a old soldier, and we're lucky these guys and gals are becoming fewer and fewer each election. If this was 1968 and not 2008, he'd put on a wig and pay Clinton protesters $100 each to start a riot on Saturday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_O'Donnell
O'Donnell for president!
Wait, wait, you're missing the best part!
At the very end of the clip O'Donnell tells Pat "the president acknowledged he had a big drinking problem throughout a lot of his life. That's one way you don't remember whether you did cocaine."
I fell off my chair!
jules @ 45:
Buchanan is very much a conservative. He's definitely not a Neocon, though. The Neocons hate him, and he returns the favour.
That conservative agenda is something. Populate the media with disgraced repugs from past corrupt admins and foist them as "pundits" so they can mindfuck the the stupid into supporting present and future corrupt repugs. Media Scum like Buchanan and Ollie, etc. should be staring at prison bars instead of cameras.
It is unfair to castrate Mc Clellan for coming out. He deserve more credit than that. We have been waiting for some insider to have the courage to uncover the insider crimes of the Bush Administration. Now we have it; people is still criticize (GOP and DEM alike).
Unlike "deepthroat of the Nixon Watergate", Mc Clellan was and is in his book....was forthright....and had documented and accumulated and gathered all the misgivings, deceptions, falsifications, manufactured NIE, manipulations, and the unseen threats being secretly done behind close doors of the White House.
Sure he should have been loyal up to a certain point. But how can anyone in his position do that when he knows that his life as well as his family may be at risk of perhaps assination?
By coming out publicly; he accomplished several goals. He outed the crimes behind White House doors; Outed Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Bush Administration and Media complicities. Doing it publicly in essence gave him some security that if there is any attempt to assinate him for disloyalty; the public will know who would be prime suspect. It would be crazy for anyone make such an attempt........
The more he remains in the public circle and in the media; the more he remain SAFE.
He is very well advice to accept Congress call for him to testify. This would give him more SECURITY......since he will be seen as KEY WITNESS.
Jews, Jews, Jews. Do any of those idiots know that more than 25 million people were exterminated during WWII, including the mentally handicapped, Ukrainians, Polish and gypsies? What makes Jews so special that they are ALWAYS mentioned as if they were the only victims of the Nazis. What about the others? Don't THEY deserve to be mentioned?
Notice Buchanan said the break-in was a mistake, he did not say it was wrong.
I'm sure someone's said it already...
second-most corrupt administration.
"Pat Buchanan will always rise in opposition to the revelation of truth when it comes to presidents" says O'Donnell. That is the most notable assertion of the exchange. Pat snickers behind his coffee cup.
When George Bush was asked recently whether or not he had ever snorted cocaine he said, "Yes, I did snort cocaine once but I didn't inhale."
Snowball @ 23:
Touche`!
Or, in Buchannan's case, "Douche`..."
Back during the Republican primaries before it was clear McCain would be the nominee, Buchanan said something I'll never forget. With regard to making and continuing war, attacking Iran, using the military to impose our will in the world, etc., he warned, "McCain is Bush on steroids."
Now his support of McCain is nearly maniacal, and he desperately spews profoundly absurd scenarios under which McCain will inevitably win the election. It's sickening.
If you think Buchanan is a shill for the Republicans, you don't know what you're talking about.
Gotugye @ 43:
Tarro @ 10:
WTF are you talking about??????????????
lorelei23 @ 67:
O'Donnell nailed Pat to the wall!! What is with this " The President deserves 100% loyalty just because he is the President". Crap!! He needs to deserve it, not giving it to him blindly. There are certain personal things we need not know about a president, but going to war on a whim is one we need to know about !!!!
tyree @ 63:
R.I.P Harvey. He was one of my favs. Loved him in everything, especially the Carol Burnett Show!
Snowball @ 23:
This is unfair to the Nazi's and Germany. They were effective bureaucrats and not everyone in the German gov't was beholden to Hitler; their loyalty was to Germany. That's certainly the case for Albert Speer.
W'S gov't is not like the NAZI'S,
It's like STALIN'S.
W's appointees first loyalty is to him and their second is to the ideology of the Right. We, the United States, are third. That's how it was in the Soviet Union -- personal loyalty to Stalin first, to the Communist Party second, to the Soviet peoples -- third.
Also, the Nazi's did not fire effective bureaucrats for being ideologically impure. W does that all the time, just like Stalin.
abarts @ 50:
It's true that it would have been better for McClellan to have stepped up sooner - but let us not forget that he was being LIED TO. And, how many millions of Americans have listened to all the blather spewed by Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld et al and believed it, too?!!
Our soldiers have not died because Scott repeated lies - they have died because a corrupt cabal of fascist sociapaths were installed in high office through corrupt means - they, and they alone bear responsibility. And, my friend, wait until you see what happens next - it won't be just those "volunteer" soldiers who are dying by the thousands.
Way to go Lawrence! Kick these lying fuckers in the teeth and keep kicking. It's the only thing bullies understand. Love it!
it was hilarious and right on. but, kudos to Pat for keeping his cool and accepting the bash as a proper cop. He didn't protest or whine. I suspect, he believes this type of slap as part of the game of politics, and is in scope. So, no hard feelings.
....looks like Pat's taking another hit of Nitrous
It comes down to one simple question. Which is more important, loyalty to a friend or boss, or loyalty to your country. If you even have to think about the answer, you are no patriot.
Andy K Jong Il @ 46:
I am not even sure Buchanan is that loyal to the repubs anymore. If you are fortunate/unfortunate enough to see him enough, you will see he goes against the republican grain quite often. The problem with O'Donnell is that he will do anything to make him appear relevant again. After his crack-up awhile back. he has not been paid much attention to, which is okay by me. He is another pundit/political analyst who has lost his way. I guess the cancellation of The West Wing must have been more than he could take.
OliverDreams @ 87:
Yep.
And everyone who is coming out defending Bush against McLellan is making their decision too.
If Buchanan had any integrity at all, he would be humiliated. Fortunately, he's protected from that kind of thing.
PssttCmere @ 88:
What?
That's what you saw there? O'Donnell trying to make himself relevant?
By the way, O'Donnell was way off the mark when he described the Nixon administration as the most corrupt in history. Reagan took that title before Bush II made them both look like amateurs.
Spicegal @ 34:
No. Scott McClellan is an asswipe who can tell which direction the wind is blowing. I knew he was lying from the first day, and I didn't need any "behind the scenes" information.
jules @ 45:
It seems jules, that truth annoys you. I guess you will keep
your head up your ass forever. I wonder if you keep a photo
of Pat up there?
Old Billy Hussein @ 91:
You don't need information, period.
PssttCmere @ 88:
It's the merit of the argument genius. O'Donnell was correct and funny....period. Amazing. The truth doesn't mean shit to people like you. You come to a progressive site with your limp dick right wing spin. Now go back to FOX....and take that disease sounding moniker of yours with you.
Good for you O'Donnell! Buchanan is hypocritical. He has to make a living by patronizing the corrupt leaders.
Left&Left @ 94:
To shut Buchanan up - priceless!!
"Pat was part of the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States, the Nixon administration"
you mean, the most corrupt administration at the time.. I think every Administration since has trumped the previous one in terms of corruption, right up until present day... of course, nixon was sensible enough to resign.. those other scumbags aren't so easily flushed out...
I have been waiting 20 years for someone to finally give that ratfucker Buchanan the putdown he deserves, and Lawrence O'Donnell finally did it! Buchanan used to use that blowhard style of his to steamroller anyone he was debating, and you can see where O'Rielly got it from. O'Donnell once again demonstrated that the best defense is offense.
Rachel Maddow has also done a nice job of messing with Buchanan, and I remember an interview recently where Buchanan told another female panel member to shut up, and Rachel lit right into him.
Using the words of Admiral William F. Halsey in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, "Attack....repeat...Attack!"
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