MSNBC statement on Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell’s accident

[MADem]

23. No, I won't "relax" because I am not "upset." I can read without your help, but thanks anyway.

I know how things are perceived, I was born at night but most certainly not last night. Your "nothing to see here, move along" post doesn't cut it--you're making it worse still, not better.

If you think "while vacationing" helps, it doesn't. It has the OPPOSITE effect from helping.

While covering a story? Fine. That works and no one is wondering WTF? They still might want to know WHERE though.

While vacationing? With your brother, and not your girlfriend? Where was that taxi heading? Or leaving from? The Museum of Fine Arts, or a brothel?

When Rush Limbaugh goes on "vacation," he brings viagra prescribed for an alias and comes back with one or two missing from the bottle. When Justin Beiber takes a night off, pictures of him being smuggled out of a Brazilian house of ill repute hit the tabloids.

MSNBC should be a bit more specific if they can--to not so do invites, indeed PLEADS for, speculation. It's only a matter of time before TMZ or one of the other gossip outlets finds out where he was when the car crashed, what he was doing, if there was anyone else besides his sibling in the vehicle, and they report it.

I am a fan of "get it all out there" and get it over with. Otherwise, the drip, drip, drip of speculation will eat up news cycle after news cycle.