Lawerence O'Donnell

MSNBC Panel Slams 'Reprehensible' GOP Behavior and 'Ignorant' Rick Perry on Abortion
By Brad Wilmouth | June 28, 2013 | 7:13 PM EDT

On Thursday's The Last Word, MSNBC's Lawerence O'Donnell hosted an all liberal panel to complain about Republican efforts to curtail abortion in Texas and Ohio, with O'Donnell trumpeting that Texas State Senator Wendy Davis "rocketed to political stardom" via her famous 11-hour filibuster.

Guest Ana Marie Cox of the Guardian mocked the GOP's "re-branding" effort and observed that the Texas legislature was "dominated by white men" who were "trying to put down the women in front of them." She went on call Republican behavior "reprehensible" and Texas Governor Rick Perry "ignorant." Cox:

Huffington Post’s Stein Suggests GOP Budget ‘Would Actually Hinder the Recovery Effort’
By Brad Wilmouth | July 29, 2011 | 2:30 AM EDT

 Appearing as a guest on Thursday’s Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC, the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein suggested that the budget plan that the House Republican leadership is trying to pass would harm the economy, and, as if the government did not take in lots of tax revenue already, referred to the absence of a tax increase as "no revenues." Stein: