On O'Donnell and Secession

My take on Lawrence O'Donnell isn't a favorable one, as some of you might know. His performance on-air where he spat out an incessant and childish litany of "Liar! Liar!" directed at Swift Boat Vet John O'Neill ranks among my personal list of top 10 most disgusting displays on public TV has been well documented. His mail-in, non-apology apology read on-air by Pat Buchannan simply seals the image of an arrogant, condescending jackass who, in spite of his putting on the air of the elite media sophisticate, clearly can't stomach any dissenting opinion from his own personal "gospel-according-to-me." Now that his predictions (and, clearly, his hopes) of a Kerry victorious has been proven not in keeping with the feelings of the majority of his fellow citizens, he now says he shouldn't be fellows with those aforementioned citizens any longer.

Tony Blankley was an eyewitness to O'Donnell's latest pompous-ass statement on The McLaughlin Group last week. O'Donnell suggests that is would be proper and preferable to simply have the "blue" states withdraw from the Union. He's not alone. As an aside, I'd counter to Mr. O'Donnell that it's not a matter of "States" that were in favor of a Kerry Presidency, so if he's talking about having anything leave the United States, it should be counties that went for Kerry. As you can see in the linked map, there was considerably less in the way of whole states that went for Kerry rather than populous counties. But I digress.

Blankley has an editorial in the Washington Times on the matter today and his feelings echo my own:

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The opinion pages of the New York Times (that would be pages A-1- D 37 inclusive) have been running articles by prime cut liberals, the general themes of which have been that conservative Christians are the equivalent of Islamic terrorists and that the benighted provincials who voted for President Bush are simply hate-filled bigots who have no place in America. The apotheosis of this political dementia was put forward in my very presence on last week's McLaughlin Group by my friend and colleague Lawrence O'Donnell. Lawrence, in cool blood and in apparent full control of his senses, asserted that this election will give rise to a serious consideration of secession from the Union by the blue states. I should point out that, though Lawrence has been barking more than usual in this election season's TV commentary, he is a brilliant political analyst and a serious Democratic Party player. He was the late Sen. Moynihan's top Senate staffer. He comes from one of the great Democratic Party families. I believe it was his uncle who was President Kennedy's White House chief of staff. He is also the most gifted writer/producer on the NBC show, "West Wing." He is not one of those no-name nitwits who the cable shows pull from obscurity to recite Democratic Party talking points. I elaborate on his enviable pedigree and qualities of mind and experience, because if he says such a thing to a television audience of 6 million viewers, it must surely reflect some measurable body of senior Democratic Party sentiment. And although it is inconceivable that any senior elected Democratic Party officials would ever repeat or act on such a deranged notion, it is a measure of how deep is the Democratic Party elite's contempt for and estrangement from the American public.

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Agreed. The whole editorial is worth reading, most especially the final paragraph. I have family members who are Democrats, registered and everything, and this speaks particularly of them.

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Fortunately, most rank and file Democrats are not infected with such secular bigotry. Democrats don't need to secede. They just need to purge their party of such of their leaders and intellectual vanguard as spew forth such rubbish.

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