Lawrence O'Donnell jumps the shark? He is comparing Huntsman coming out supporting

[madinmaryland]

Mitt Romney to a gay person coming out.



He kept saying that Huntsman is having his gay moment.

[Swamp Lover]

1. In the GOP, it may be an apt comparison.

Both are hard for a conservative to forgive.

[DJ13]

4. Both are hard for a conservative

[Swamp Lover]

7. Both are hard for a conservative to spell.

[Motown_Johnny]

2. he was quoting someone else

rewind your DVR and watch it again

[madinmaryland]

5. I will. Thx.

[jberryhill]

3. He was quoting the editor of a paper which endorsed Huntsman

It was a bizarre thing, and he quoted the editor.

Saying that O'donnell made the comparison, instead of the editor in question, is dishonest.

[madinmaryland]

6. It was a very bizarre thing to say. And then to quote it ad nauseum.

Still, I was upset that he continued to use that analogy. It just seemed lame to me to rely on an endorsement for a puke.

[jberryhill]

9. So you knew your OP was dishonest?

[madinmaryland]

10. No. Where do you infer that from?

I acknowledged that there may have been a quote that was missed, but that does not absolve LO from beating a dead horse.

[jberryhill]

11. What does he need absolution from?

He often leads with a quote and uses it as a theme. And this was not a mundane quote.

The paper was going to endorse Huntsman, and Huntsman went an endorsed Romney. The paper really doesn't like Romney. In other words, the person they liked expressed a preference the paper doesn't share.

I am certain it is disappointing to find that the object of one's attraction does not share the preference one had assumed. This works for both gay people and straight people. A straight person is disappointed to find out they are attracted to a gay person, and a gay person is disappointed to find out they are attracted to a straight person. It is the disappointment of finding that the relationship is not going to go as far as one hoped, because your preferences are incompatible, and you had made a mistaken assumption about the object of one's attraction.

I'm sure it happens to people of all orientations. It's like being left at the altar in one's imagination.

[ashling]

8. No, but the phrase "jumped the shark"

has.