MSNBC’s O’Donnell to Steele: ‘Mr. Chairman, I Sincerely Apologize’

A comment made during a Tuesday evening broadcast has attracted some unhealthy attention to MSNBC’s newest prime time host, Lawrence O’Donnell.  In scripted comments about RNC Chairman Michael Steele “dancing as fast as he can” for his “master, the Republican National Committee,” O’Donnell straddled the line of political correctness and needlessly characterized Steele, an African-American, as a kind of slave.

In response, Steele reportedly phoned O’Donnell Wednesday, demanding an apology, which he received as the MSNBC retracted his remarks Wednesday evening:

At this rate, MSNBC should keep the “I’m sorry” reel at arm’s length.

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  • SilentReader
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 3:35am

    You have to wonder if MSNBC‘s Lawrence O’Donnell was looking for publicity here. Noone would even have known who he was until this extended apology. He could have just apologized in private and left it at that. Or, maybe he said it purposely knowing that later he would be called to apologize. Who knows?

    Hey, I don’t trust these news people on the alphabet channels anymore, and I’m certainly not watching them. I don’t care what they say. They could say they landed on Mars and I wouldn’t care. They could say they saw a green alien and I wouldn’t care. They could say that blue was green and I wouldn’t care. Got it?

    The only reason I watch TV anymore is because Glenn Beck has a conversation with us every night and cares about us enough that he tells us the truth. Then we do our own research. If it wasn’t for Glenn Beck I would have turned my TV off after the last election and cancelled my cable.

    Got it?

    So, this is for you Mr. Lawrence O’Donnell. You pathetic nincompoop. If you cared you wouldn’t have said it in the first place and if I was Mr. Steele I would neither ask you for your apology nor accept it. Because a man who cared would never have said it to begin with. Your flowery and elaborate apologizing was a farce and you are a buffoon.

    There’s never a day that goes by that someone is not apologizing for something. {big sigh}

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  • spendthrift
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 3:20am

    At least he apologized, now for the butt kicking in November.

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  • vote_right
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 2:34am

    i’m sure all 400 of his viewers were offended. does anyone care anymore what any libertard media says? the lefty’s have over-reached, just like carter, and will get slapped down, and hopefully this time for good. (oh, and a slap down has been laid at the feet of the RINO’s too, lest they get too cocky)

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  • jmach11
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 2:21am

    Why isn’t O’Donnell being pressured into resigning like Don Imus?

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  • Dddriver
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 2:13am

    All this pc ! Say what you mean, mean what you say and maybe think before you open your mouth
    We could all use a bit more honesty & integrity. These TV talking heads are for the most part uninformed idealoges with georgie’s hand up their butts and too uninvolved t notice

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  • *************************
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 2:03am

    MSNBC who?
    ;)

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  • racer1488
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:56am

    Even in his “rewrite” he said Steele was “Dancin”. If a Conservative used dancin’ to describe the “O” man or anyone else on the far right this clown would be tearing that person a new one.

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  • DaytonConserve
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:52am

    Even during his apology, Lawrence O‘Donnell couldn’t resist taking another swipe at Steele regarding his lack of comment about Paladino. Pathetic.

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    • LSX
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 7:28am

      Absolutely!

      His apology was completely HOLLOW when he used it as a spring board to go after Paladino. I almost fell for the sincerity of this apology but per usual, another PMSNBC punk uses every opportunity to lie and push the ‘bammy agenda.

      Comcast needs industrial strength Draino to flush these crapheads down the toilet.

      .

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    • dablooz
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 8:55am

      Exactly my thoughts. Simply shutting up after apologizing would have been much classier, but leave it to this clown to use it as a springboard to try and fry someone else.

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    • LasVegas Lady
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 3:23pm

      amen

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  • JoeinTX
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:39am

    Wow, most long winded crawfishin‘ I’ve heard in a while.

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  • MrButcher
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:38am

    ah, race….fish and whistle, whistle and fish

    eat everything they put on your dish

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdzdEQOHL_I

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  • diesel71dan
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:35am

    This guy is as dumb s a rock. I wonder if we will have the O’Donnell/Sanchez Hour on a local cable access channel soon.

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  • SaraGolden
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:33am

    MSNBC should close their doors. The only reason anyone watches or reads their garbage is to further confirm in their minds that MSNBC is the worst running news program this country has seen since Die Deutche Wochen Schau (WWII Nazi propaganda show).

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  • susi
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:32am

    O’Donnell forgot to take his meds again that day.

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  • BoilitDown
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:28am

    Where’s my apology Mr. O’Donnell. Just within the past week you’ve insulted the majority of Americans and called them names. Unprofessional does not begin to describe the vitriolic bias this non-journalist exhibits. Then again that makes him a perfect fit for MSNBC where maybe only one or two people have read the Journalist’s Ceed.

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  • Veritas
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:26am

    Who is this guy again? Lawrence of MSLSD? He took the time during his “apology” to take another stab at the republicans. How very assholian of him!

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  • Brock
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:14am

    So, are we to keep in mind that any word construable to the topic of slavery is not to be used in conversation with African-Americans? I am not a racist, by any means, I am far from it. I’m particularly tolerant, in fact, of all cultural diversities…I cannot imagine the hardships endured by African-Americans between the times of enslavement and the Civil Rights movement, but to proclaim that the use of the word “master” is any longer a racist statement is somewhat absurd. Please, do not misconstrue this as a racist thought, I’m just wondering what everyone else thinks…

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  • OSAY_CANUSEE
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:14am

    I actually have to tip my hat to O’Donnell!

    How often do you see a liberal pundit own up to their mistakes… and come across as genuine? And yes, I do realize that his “Cred” with the Left would be revoked if he is perceived as being openly racist.

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  • Taquoshi
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:11am

    Sure, you’re sorry, Mr. O’Donnell. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.

    You’re sorry you “misspoke” and could possibly lose your job over it like Sanchez did.

    Who will be the next one to verbally blunder into no man’s land?

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 6:49am

      Nah, MSNBC doesn’t have the character or integrity that CNN has (that’s a real stretch, isn’t it). Or, let’s see, MSNBC has no integrity or character – that’s better.

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  • RobertCA
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:09am

    When I‘m flipping channels I don’t even pass by MSNBC that‘s why I don’t even know who these people are .

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  • lucciocuz
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:07am

    On that same show, O’Donnell asked Steele a barrage of questions to which Steele had no answer other than an embarrassing laugh. One on those questions was: “What is the minimum wage?”.
    Michael Steele is the biggest embrassement to the Republican Party. He should have resigned long ago.

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    • smamere
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 3:11am

      There’s a federal minimum wage as well as individual state mandates on wage. Perhaps he was inquiring because the distinction was not clear as to which wage he was referring.

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    • M31Sailor
      Posted on October 8, 2010 at 7:22pm

      Lucc

      How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Why would some one have to answer this type of question from someone who probably didn’t know the answer before his assistant googled it for him?
      Sailor

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  • ...............R..U..Kidding...Me
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:06am

    I wish people would stop whinning about the slave thing. If you go far enough back into anyone’s race, you find they were slaves to Romans, Viciking, Greeks, Selt, Pursains, etc…. and today too many are slaves to Credit Card companies. Just about all are slaves to something.

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    • spikebu
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 5:33am

      AMEN! Credit cards, mortgages, car payments, Oh My! Slave here. Paid off the vehicles. At least I thought I did. Between registration and insurance? I’ve got a freaking car payment! It’s true. You really don’t know what you had until you pay it off and find out it will NEVER be paid off. If I paid my house off, I’d only have a 400$/mo payment.

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    • JGP
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 7:48am

      Slave to big gov’ment.

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  • Benjamin Linus
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:05am

    Mr. Steele, now how about an apology for all the progressive damage the Republicans have done to this country over the years? No? I didn‘t think so because you still don’t get it.

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 3:25am

      Bascially what Steele didn’t get was – the debate was on the minimum wage and Steele did not know what the minimum wage was. He is a poor excuse for the Chairman for the RNC. http://wp.me/pYLB7-bg

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    • mallsniper
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 9:04am

      You have hit the nail on the head.
      Keep flippin the switch for the same ol’ R and D America.
      And expect different results, (that is you tea party!!)
      Don’t worry
      When you find DC still creates monsters, just whine a little louder in 2012
      And vote again for the same ol’ R and D
      That will get the job done!!!

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  • cheezwhiz
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:02am

    Keep ranting your vitriol MSNBC please please please..we can’t get enough

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    • Alvin691
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 7:38am

      Yes, I fully support their first amendment right to completly out themselves in a public forum ;)

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  • ILOVEGLENNBECK
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 12:55am

    Well said.

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    • crossdraw
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 10:29am

      Glenn Beck is the master! He has,however, a significant amount of assistance in exposing these liberal entities. It is the liberal who fuels his exposure of same. alan grayson, al franken, lawrence o”donnel, chris matthews, on and on and on and on. (I don’t capitalize what I have no respect for). Keep running your mouths stupid liberals. It’s our best defense against you and, my oh my, there are many REAL Americans against you. Little government, no IRS and their insanity of laws, and NO LIBERALS. Utopia

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  • FreedomOfSpeech
    Posted on October 7, 2010 at 12:51am

    Mr. Steele was not offended. He replied to Christine, “It‘s a’ight snow white.. Wuzzup in da hizzle.”

    FreedomOfSpeech  
    • Butterfly2012
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 12:53am

      Wrong O’Donnell. Lawrence NOT Christine.

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    • FreedomOfSpeech
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 12:57am

      OK actually he replied to Lawrence, “It‘s a’ight snow white.. Wuzzup in da hizzle.” So used to hearing about Christine I can’t even get my inappropriate jokes straight. I hope Michael Steele doesn’t call this comment demanding an apology.

      FreedomOfSpeech  
    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:00am

      Dude, this story is only two paragraphs long and you couldn’t read that much or even look at the piture, or you would have realized that it‘s about TV pundit LAWRENCE O’Donnell, not political candidate Christine O’Donnell.

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    • NoMarxist
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:14am

      Chet, my fine feathered friend.. The picture in the video.. Is that Christine or Lawerence?? Your pubic education is showing!

      NoMarxist  
    • NoMarxist
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:16am

      Jeffy should have censored me/

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    • solaveritas
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 1:42am

      What is this….a chat room?

      Try to make each comment relevant to the article, so we don’t have to wade through your **** chat.

      Thanks

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    • BlueStrat
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 3:02am

      @ Chet Hempstead

      “Dude, this story is only two paragraphs long and you couldn’t read that much or even look at the piture, or you would have realized that it‘s about TV pundit LAWRENCE O’Donnell, not political candidate Christine O’Donnell.”

      Well, everyone knows all those O’Donnells look alike anyway, right?

      LOL!

      Sorry, *some*body had to be the one-

      Strat

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    • wingedwolf
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 7:45am

      SOLAVERITAS, why don’t you start your own page? It‘s more tiring to read your bleating about other people’s writing than to read what you seem to find so objectionable. If you need to make the rules, get your own. We like The Blaze just fine the way it is, allowing everyone to have their say whether or not it’s popular speech or whether or not you approve of what people say. YOU ARE A BULLY. Stop it.

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    • mmagruder
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 8:13am

      Definitely in contention for the most self-serving apology ever. Yeeeesh.

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    • Peters
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 8:25am

      Let’s not get too carried away and off in the wrong direction with this story . . .

      First, when liberals operate, their actions are usually always dictated by some level of narcissism. Therefore, when liberals apologize, you have to understand what “apology” means to the narcissist; they do not ever, not ever apologize without a promise to themselves of getting something larger in return.

      The apology is part of the art of the original insult . . . it’s like closing the door on the way out of a room or turning out the lights as you depart; it’s just something that you do; it’s akin to the notion of cleaning up your toys when you’re done playing. That’s really all that this is; he’s cleaning up his own mess, like a good boy. But you don‘t get invited into America’s living rooms to drop your drawers and leave a big steaming pile only to say I’m sorry and then leave . . . something is fundamentally wrong with that; but not to liberals, they do it all the time; it’s who they are. The apology is a simple formality and means nothing.

      And actually doing it doesn’t at all mean that they agree with having to do it either. The apology isn’t filled with any sentiment or sorrow; there is no real feeling of “sorry.” If there was, this idiot wouldn’t have said what he said in the first place; he is after all a professional communicator; is he not? It’s fair to say that he said exactly what he meant to say, when he said it.

      To beat liberalism back we have to come to understand these seemingly small things about it, and there’s many more. We have to come to realize that from the liberal’s perspective, getting insulted is Michael Steel’s fault, the Republican Party’s fault. He, we, ask for it because we are not liberal, we do not agree with liberals; as a result, we’re causing such intolerable delays in their getting all they desire as viewed through their arrested states of intellectual and emotional development. It is like dealing with large spoiled children that believe they are geniuses. They’ve simply figured out that the apology is a useful rhetorical tool.

      Second, Steele is a huge problem for liberals. They want to cast the net of racism over the entire Republican Party as a whole. They can‘t do it with Steel where he’s at; they need him to go away as did Colin Powell, and in the same ways. What Steele effectively does is prevent liberals from fully developing and creating the image of racism they want to create for the right; although they always try.

      However, if Steele were to be removed, or if he were to step down himself, the charges of racism would fly from every direction. Steel is like a cork in a bottle that’s ready to explode. There’s no winning here except to allow liberals to put themselves on display. If you give them enough time, they’ll hang themselves . . . contradictions work that way and is in part why liberals have perfected the apology and have given it such weight. The apology to narcissists, to liberals, is like hypocrites going to confession each week . . . it simply buys another week of sinning.

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    • timeisnow
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 8:48am

      Freedom

      You are a Whack Job, has anyone ever told you that before?

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    • Boldnfresh
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 11:07am

      That is brilliant

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    • mp66
      Posted on October 7, 2010 at 5:02pm

      O”Donnell’s a jerk. Only a jerk would say something like that , something that he would have to apologize for. Liberals seem to have cornered the market in this behavior.

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