Finally! Someone from MSM Admits it: They Need Sarah
May 11, 2011
Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC tells Playboy: “She’s been good for us, and we’ve been good for her. We are doing everything we can to feed her moneymaking capacity by keeping her alive.”
Full interview here.
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Tags: dan quayle, lawrence o'donnell, MSNBC, palin, playboy, prostitution
17 Responses to “Finally! Someone from MSM Admits it: They Need Sarah”
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Joe, I got a warning about malware from Google when I went to the Playboy site. In what context was O’Donnell saying that? Was he being snarky? Or just being honest?
Lawrence is on of my favs. He seems as honest as the day is long — sometimes he can be brutally honest.
Your second link should include a *NSFW* warning. (Full interview here.)
The GOP does NOT want her so if the media pushes her into a third party run, then my dreams come true.
If the major media outlets were aware of the problem with Palin’s pregnancy tale and unalaterally decided to not touch it, then they should get into another line of business because they did a disservice to this country!
i can’t read the interview, but the phrases you quoted him as saying are exactly what i’ve tried to tell folks around me. palin is NOTHING, but the media is making money, so she is something they sold us; an Anna Nicole Smith; a trainwreck we can’t stop watching. If Palin goes, so do a LOT of people. Regular news just doesn’t make people rich or famous does it???? Nor does it fill the days in the lives of bored citizens.
So, it’s a collusion of media and media-ized. Palin is just enjoying the ride we’re all providing.
Does the word “schadenfreude” ring a bell? Nasty human condition, isn’t it?
America’s God is the almighty dollar. Our MSM is for the most part, peddling junk and carnival (freak) side shows. Thank goodness we have alternatives.
My security software raised a red flag and disconnected me from the Playboy site.
OMG, the guy that O’Donnell interviewed certainly didn’t do his homework AT ALL!!! what a maroon. I hope O’Donnell will get Frank Bailey, Mike Wooten, Geoffery Dunn, and yourself on his show to “refudiate” this revisionist history!!
I dont buy this idea that the media keeps palin alive because she is “good” for them.
and I never have.
if that was really the case why didnt they persue the fake pregnacy?
that certainly would be good for them!
the truth is the media supports palin like they suppot ALL RIGHT WING CRAZIES while they reject ALL Progressive voices.
when was the last time you saw Chomsky on the maddow show?
never! and you never will.
palin with her sociopathic personality and her racism and her belief that seeing Russia gives her experiance and her beliving Africa was a country and her not knowing there is a north and south Korea etc etc, should have been laughed out of the media.
instead we get silly stories about how she can redeem herself after having spent the last 2 years in total controll of her image and accomplished a 75%
do not like” from the public.
something else is going on and i have yet to see anyone explain it.
I don’t know about the Playboy link. I copied it from Politico. Maybe Playboy is now a pay site? Maybe a reader/commenter can find a working link.
Beyond my job description.
–Joe
You are so right–except Anna Nicole wasn’t pretending to add to the political discourse; nor was
she threatening to run for President and being taken seriously by the easily led and racists among us.
Palin would be nothing if not for flagging media empires. She truly hates and loves the media. She hates them when they portray her as she truly is, but loves that they portray her at all, so the$ keeps pouring in.
I agree what you say about conservative crazies getting the airtime. The tea baggers are mainly astroturf and will always be, but corporate media boosts their small numbers and airs demonstrations of fifty tea baggers. But they fail to broadcast twenty thousand protesters against Walker in Wisconsin. Rachel did a wonderful segment on this, actually.
But I do believe that the media needs Palin. If they actually let horrible truths out about her–she’d
be over, then where would they be? There’d be a week or two of selling millions of papers, blog hits, ratings
would soar. Then nothing. ALL OVER.
Well, he’s right. I’ve pretty much suspected all along that it was a complicit relationship based on profitable ratings for the media, and profitable free PR for Sarah Palin. Hate apparently sells well. She spews it, the media regurgitates it, and we all roll around in it.
It’s basically gross.
Joe, as with Older_Wiser above, I got a security warning – e.g. virus, trojan – when I clicked on the Playboy link. I imagine Playboy would be a prime site for young men implanting nasties. If you’re indicating you didn’t read the interview I hope it’s because Playboy doesn’t interest you …
There’s an old entertainment rule, “never be boring.” It’s the only sin , all else is forgivable as long as it works. And that goes right from vaudeville through the modern era. But since we’re in post-modern times, and family life, entertainment, politics, business, and media have converged as never before, we need to add one more rule: “Never be poor.” Anna Nicole’s shallowness, excess, dullness and erratic behavior did not prevent her from, in Charlie Sheen’s famous words, “winning.” (The fact that she is dead is besides the point). Authenticity, generosity, humility, are all so yesterday.
I was able to access both the politico and playboy links fine. I got the same security warning after I scrolled down the page on the playboy article. It was some weight-loss thing. My virus protection blocked it, so it’s ok, but I clicked off the page just to be safe.
The “something else” is corporate interests. The MSM is conservative because of who and what owns it. The unions didn’t get press in Wisconsin, but they also didn’t get it when AFLCIO members marched in an anti-globalization demonstration a few years ago. A handful of teabaggers do get press because they advocate for things that benefit the wealthy, such as slashing social programs, siphoning money from public schools, keeping the salaries of progressives (like teachers and union workers) very low, and protecting the church. War is another huge profitable enterprise, which is why 100 percent of every new organization during the Bush years was on board and on message.