Just a bit more on the “why” of Lawrence O’Donnell
A little over four years ago, just days after an earlier infamous Lawrence O’Donnell rant against Mormonism (eye-popping video here), Hugh Hewitt interviewed O’Donnell on Hugh’s show. The full transcript is here. This exchange is priceless:
HH: Would you say the same things about Mohammed as you just said about Joseph Smith?
LO’D: Oh, well, I’m afraid of what the…that’s where I’m really afraid. I would like to criticize Islam much more than I do publicly, but I’m afraid for my life if I do.
HH: Well, that’s candid.
LO’D: Mormons are the nicest people in the world. They’re not going to ever…
HH: So you can be bigoted towards Mormons, because they’ll just send you a strudel.
LO’D: They’ll never take a shot at me. Those other people, I’m not going to say a word about them.
HH: They’ll send you a strudel. The Mormons will bake you a cake and be nice to you.
LO’D: I agree.
HH: Lawrence O’Donnell, I appreciate your candor.
This tells all of us a lot about Mr. O’Donnell and perhaps about his fellows among the left-of-center MSM. I am sure we haven’t seen the last of this — far from it — but maybe the denunciations will be sufficiently swift and significant that we can at least keep such vile attacks down at a dull roar.
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JLF9999 on 05 Apr 2012 at 9:10 am #
Is O’Donnell admitting he is a coward or acknowledging Mormons are true Christians? Both I think.
lstokes on 05 Apr 2012 at 11:38 am #
Mr. O’donnell appears to be drinking from the shallow, murky, and slime-filled waters of anti-mormon literature rather than relying on carefully researched and documented material. Footnotes in anti-mormon tracts almost always cite individuals who pad resumes with self-assumed titles and diploma-mill credentials. No original research, just endlessly repeated innuendo, rumor, and bigotry. For whatever reason, the authors don’t like Mormons and are willing to say or write anything–even outright lies–to support their bigotry. All the above should disqualify such “research” from serious consideration by anyone other than the credulous. But the credulous always seem to provide professional anti-mormons such as Mr. O’Donnell with a very good living. His historian’s credentials are probably pretty thin–perhaps a high school history class or a 100-level community college introductory course. I grew up in what was then a small, isolated, rural LDS community of 5,000 to 10,000 people. Every farmer and rancher I’ve known, regardless of religion, knows livestock only respond to certain tones of voice and language. Sorry for use of that language, but Lawrence O’Donnell is a Jack@$#. That hybrid beast is incapable of producing any offspring. Any braying to attract a mate is false advertising. The noise simply hides an inability to perform.
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mchampneys on 07 Apr 2012 at 12:46 am #
As a Mormon myself, I think it is important for me to be thick skinned and also to take a broader view of these kind of attacks. While I certainly don’t like them, I am actually pleased that they present the opportunity for us to explain some of our misunderstood beliefs to the world. Fair minded people are going to be skeptical of the outrageous things being said and wonder what the truth is. I’ll take a stab at this one:
Joseph Smith was a rural farmer with hardly a penny to his name when he organized The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. At the time, he certanly wasn’t wealthy enough to have a maid nor do I think he even knew anyone with a maid. I do know that he only had one wife, Emma Hale Smith, for most of his adult life and he married her several years before the Church was organized. Polygamy was not introduced as a doctrine of the Church until many years after the Church was organized, in fact, just a few years before Joseph’s tragic death. The idea that Joseph set up the Church just so he could have lots of sex with multiple wives is a joke. If that was his plan, it was very poorly executed indeed!
Polygamy is difficult for anyone in our society to understand, even for many Mormons. It has been well over a hundred years since any Mormons practiced polygamy and our society is very different now. Just as most Christians struggle to understand how Abraham and other Bible Prophets could have multiple wives that were sanctioned by God, it is the same for Mormons looking back on that period in our Church history.
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