MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell might just be the worst person at the network, and given Joy Reid works there, that’s quite an accomplishment. However, his most recent comments about our military clearly give him an edge over the competition. During a segment of his program, O’Donnell made the claim that U.S. military personnel are a greater threat to our national security and instigate more acts of terrorism than illegal migrants. I can’t imagine mulling over this line and then actually thinking it was a good point to make in front of the three people who watch his show.
We’re talking about individuals who have volunteered to serve their country at great risk to their physical and mental health. Who are severely underpaid and underappreciated. What has O’Donnell ever done for this nation other than cause air pollution by flapping his gums?
via Fox News:
Early on New Year’s Day, chaos broke out on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. The suspect, later identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, is accused of ramming a truck into crowds in the city’s popular French Quarter, killing at least 15 and injuring dozens of others. Jabbar, who was armed with a Glock and a .308 rifle, was killed after opening fire on police. O’Donnell used examples of military veterans, including Timothy McVeigh, the domestic terrorist behind the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, to argue that American veterans have perpetuated more violence than immigrants have in U.S. history.
“Timothy McVeigh parked a truck outside that building loaded with explosives in an act of homegrown American terrorism,” O’Donnell said while on the air. “Timothy McVeigh’s hatred of the American government was not tamed in any way by his service in the American military. So, too, with America’s latest terrorist attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Eve, with an American military veteran driving a pickup truck through a crowd to murder 14 people.”
“But when Donald Trump sees the type of terrorist attack that occurred in New Orleans, he doesn’t remember Timothy McVeigh and, instead, he blames the criminals that he imagines are crossing the southern border,” the MSNBC host continued in his anti-military screed.
Meanwhile, millions upon millions of illegal immigrants have crossed over the border with more than a few having their names on the FBI terrorist watch list. What does O’Donnell think these individuals are doing? They aren’t here to become productive, contributing citizens, I can tell you that. I have a feeling we’re going to be seeing a slew of these kind of attacks in the future carried out by those who entered across the southern border.
“No one who has ever crossed the southern border, in the history of the existence of the southern border, has killed more people in this country than Timothy McVeigh, who was born in Lockport, New York, the northwest part of the state, into a White Roman Catholic American family with roots in this country that go back farther than Donald Trump’s roots in this country,” O’Donnell babbled on his show. “The New Orleans terrorist, like Timothy McVeigh, reached the rank of sergeant in the United States Army.”
I hear that MSNBC’s ratings have plummeted since the election and that means advertiser dollars have also dropped significantly. I have an idea of where they can make some cuts to save money and keep the network up and running. Fire O’Donnell.