Washington Post TORCHES disgraced MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O’Donnell was just torched by Erik Wemple of the Washington Post, who questioned if he’s even fit at this point to host a show on MSNBC:

FOX NEWS – Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple slammed MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Thursday for presenting “uncorroborated, wish-fulfillment garbage” to viewers and questioned if the far-left pundit is “fit” to continue hosting his show after a now-infamous retraction.

O’Donnell bypassed NBC’s standards when he claimed Tuesday night that President Trump possibly had loans cosigned by Russian oligarchs. O’Donnell has since apologized and retracted the singled-sourced, unverified report after Trump’s legal team sent a fiery letter threatening legal action. However, Wemple pondered if “such a fellow fit to host an MSNBC program” after the “catastrophe.”

O’Donnell repeatedly attempted to cushion his report by saying “if true,” which Wemple wrote could stick to him for the duration of his broadcasting career.

“He invoked it over and over on his Tuesday night program in reference to Donald Trump’s dealings with Deutsche Bank,” Wemple wrote. “O’Donnell’s actions are clearly reckless in layman’s terms.”

Wemple wrote that with “repeated ‘if true’ caveats, O’Donnell was mocking the core idea of journalism,” which the media critic explains as “the verification of stray tips and rumors.”

“The catastrophe appears to flow from one man’s conclusion that having Russian oligarchs on Trump loan documents is a story that’s too good to check,” Wemple wrote. “Is such a fellow fit to host an MSNBC program?”

We’ve written about Lawrence O’Donnell many times over the years and quite honestly I’m surprised he still has a show. He’s an embarrassment to the network.

O’Donnell completely bought into the ‘hands up don’t shoot’ lie. He claimed once that the Catholic church was the most murderous force on the face of the earth for centuries. He completely lost his temper when interviewing Marc Thiessen about Bush and the enhanced interrogation program, so much so that Morning Joe had to stop the interview and go to break. Seriously, just watch that. It’s hilarious:

And this is just to name a few. Now he’s smearing Trump based on anonymous rumors that he doesn’t even care to validate and thus has to completely retract it, pointing out in said retraction that if he did vet them, he wouldn’t have been allowed to use them.

So yes, Erik Wemple is absolutely right to question whether LarryO, as I used to call him, is fit to host a show. And I think the answer is no.


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