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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLawrence O'Donnell jumps the shark? He is comparing Huntsman coming out supporting
Mitt Romney to a gay person coming out.
He kept saying that Huntsman is having his gay moment.
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Lawrence O'Donnell jumps the shark? He is comparing Huntsman coming out supporting (Original Post)
madinmaryland
Jan 2012
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Swamp Lover
(431 posts)1. In the GOP, it may be an apt comparison.
Both are hard for a conservative to forgive.
DJ13
(23,671 posts)4. Both are hard for a conservative
Swamp Lover
(431 posts)7. Both are hard for a conservative to spell.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)2. he was quoting someone else
rewind your DVR and watch it again
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)5. I will. Thx.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)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
(64,931 posts)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
(62,444 posts)9. So you knew your OP was dishonest?
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)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
(62,444 posts)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
(25,771 posts)8. No, but the phrase "jumped the shark"
has.