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Pundit bashes Mitt, Mormons

Let the fool make a spectacle of himself. I hope this get's plenty of coverage and he gets fired.

I really feel sorry for Mr. O'Donnell. He is one miserable and pathetic human being. He is going to be surprized someday to find out he was off the mark several hundred yards. He is not only attacking LDS he is attacking a higher power.

You have to question McLaughlin's (and MSNBC's) judgment and sanity for allowing this "pitbull" to be a part of their show.

Interesting how members of one religion overlook their own tradition's particular absurdities while they heep scorn on the faith of others. How people live their lives in indicative of the value of their religion. Not the idioscyncracies of one scripture versus another. There are horrific messages in all scripture. Look at the people. How they live today. How they relate to others today. What they have accomplished. I'm not a member of the LDS Church, but I wouldn't hesitate to vote for Governor Rmoney merely because he is a Latter Day Saint.

Its insane that this moron will not get fired! Its okat to trash Mormons on TV because we are not " TRADITIONAL NICEAN CREED CHRISTIANS".

What a bigot and a hypocrite! Had he said this about any other faith, there would have been a firestorm. But liberals can say whatever they want with impunity. What is so sad is that this 'journalist' was wrong on every count about the church and its history, particularly on the slavery issue.
If you saw the episode, you saw an unabashed hater.

To be proactive how can we contact MSNBC and let them know we will not put up with the kind of behavior of O'Donnell Can someone post that on here and then we can e-mail that address to everyone in our address books. Who was it that was fired because they said something bad about black people. That was an offensive comment. I would be this bothered if he was attacking other peoples religion. We all have friends of other religions and this would bother me if someone said all that about their religion. You were right on when you said he was hysterical. I was absolutely shocked by his behavior. But I was thinking how many people will now check out the LDS Church because of this. How many people will come to understand our religion even more. It may just backfire on this guy.

It would be real easy (and natural) for Latter-day Saints to want to see O'Donnell fired, or worse, for his bigoted rant. He is obviously not a Christian himself, or so it seems, because of his hatred for his fellow man.

Jesus taught us to love one another as he has loved us. He also taught us to forgive one another of all trespasses, so I will strive to forgive O'Donnell for being an ignorant bigot.

I gather that O'Donnell wouldn't hesitate to confront Mormons who might work at MSNBC, The Washington Post, his local fire department,Harry Reid, etc, and accuse them of being racists as well.

O'Donnell is a coward and bully, plain and simple. He knows that Mormons would not retaliate against him in any violent way, or even stoop to his level.

I say what Yul Brynner's Rameses said in "The Ten Commandments"...

"Let him rave on, that men shall know him mad."

Are the readers of the Deseret News as quick to condemn their favorite conservative commentators when they make bigoted statements?

His comments confirm the saying �It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.�

I wrote in to the McLaughlin Group and told them that I was disappointed that they would allow this type of bigoted, uninformed rant without some sort of apology.

They wrote back and basically said that this is the type of exciting opinionated forum that they want in their show, and that it was just Mr. O'Donnell's opinion.

So basically they ignored what he said. A write-in probably wouldn't make a difference at MSNBC either, so don't waste your time.

Why is anyone surprised? I would say these words were a bit "excessive" for PBS and the main-stream media. But this is typical of what those people think of Conservatives. It has been this way for years. The real racists in this country are the politicians who want to keep blacks dependent on government rather than give them economic opportunity with real jobs from the free enterprise system.

In reply to Rob:

Steve Capus, President
NBC News
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112

I couldn't find his e-mail address, so I took the time to write a letter. I demanded that he take some action against O'Donnell, and I ended the letter with "Imus was fired for less."

Rob, I hope you and everyone who reads this will take a few minutes to fire off something to Mr. Capus.

What do LDS members expect at this point? Joseph Smith admitting in court to defrauding people by using seer stones to find buried treasures.

Four years later, Smith used seer stones to find Moroni's golden plates.

The claims by Smith are laughable, and as information about Smith is spread through the internet, the LDS church is sure to fade away (in my opinion).

To Mike: That's a very nice, Christian sentiment. However, I would like to point out that while I might forgive O'Donnell's bigoted outburst, I certainly won't forget.

I'm not LDS, but there is no room in our public discussion for this type of bigotry. Ever since Reagan did away with the Fairness Doctrine we have been besieged with one sided rants by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore.

Wow... the bigots are really starting to come out of the fray now!

It is no suprise they wanted him on this show. One, EVERY tv show is about entertainment, and this was entertaining at the lest.

Two, Romney could be a serious threat for the presidency, and the extremes (the Right, but particularly the Left) can't have a serious moderate candidate. They will do all in their power to win, including historically lying, defaming, slandering, what have you. When there is a candidate like Romney, with a ready-made attack point, they will attack relentlessly until his hopes for the presidency are shattered. They are not interested in debate around the actual issues, and will blow all the smoke available until the real strengths and weaknesses are so obscured that everyone is voting in the fog. Much better opportunity for the dems to steal another election without anyone ever actually critically thinking about the issues, because if they did then sure the Dems would never get voted in, and most of the Reps should not either.