Thomas Phippen – Reporter on 10/20/2017
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell said he was “stunned” by White House chief of staff John Kelly’s remarks about Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson of Florida, suggesting that the former general was a product of a racist upbringing.
“They have more in common then John Kelly realizes,” O’Donnell said at the beginning of his show on MSNBC Thursday. “They were both born in segregated cities. They both went to segregated schools.”
Wilson went to school during forced, legal segregation in Florida, and Kelly grew up in Boston, where his school was segregated “by custom and practice” during the 1950s, O’Donnell said.
“John Kelly never sat next to Frederica Wilson in his elementary school,” he added.
Kelly called Wilson an “empty barrel” after her attacks on President Donald Trump for his words to the family of Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed last week during military operations in Niger. By calling Wilson an “empty barrel,” Kelly attempted to dehumanize Wilson, O’Donnell said.
O’Donnell delivered an impassioned speech about the fight for desegregation of Boston schools. Like Kelly, O’Donnell also grew up in Boston, though a few years later, in “an identical neighborhood” to Kelly’s. “It was a neighborhood in which calling someone who looked like Frederica Wilson an ’empty barrel’ was the kindest thing someone said about her,” he said.
“I didn’t mind hearing John Kelly disagree with Congresswoman Wilson today,” O’Donnell said. “I understand the disagreement nature and some of it is deeply personal for him as a gold star father. But I was stunned, stunned when I watched him demonize her and very deliberately continue to dehumanize her and refuse to give her the dignity of a name and call her an empty barrel. he went out of his way to do it.”
During an emotional press conference Thursday, Kelly said he was stunned that a member of Congress would use a conversation of a gold-star mother to attack the president.
“It stuns me that a member of Congress would have listened in on that conversation,” Kelly said. “Absolutely stuns me. And I thought at least that was sacred. You know when I was a kid growing up a lot of things were sacred in our country.”
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“Lawrence O’Donnell Says Kelly ‘Demonized’ Wilson Because Of His Racist Past”
Hey, Larry, have another hissy fit.
Wilson demonized herself.
so when trump fired back at gengis khan who rabidly attacked him trump was the horrible person but the liberal media can say anything they want about a gold star father because he is from the other side of the political isle? its time to put these liberal terrorist down, it is time to boycott their advertisers, and hurt them in the wallet. its time to let them know that true americans will not bow down to their terrorist attacks and we will fight back and remove their cancerous agenda from the united states!
*YO, WAKE UP!! THIS *O’DONELL* IS A DEVIOUS DECEPTIVE DEMENTED DIRTBAG, PERIOD!! THIS IS Y WE NEED 2 BOYCOTT & ATTACK THE *CNN ADVERTISERS* BIG TIME, PERIOD!! THESE DERANGED FALSE ATTACKS ON *TRUMP* HAV 2 STOP, PERIOD!! THE SWAMP RAT DEMS & THE BIAS FAKE LEFT WING MEDIA, HAV DECLARED A WAR ON *WE THE PEOPLE* PERIOD!! & WE NEED 2 MASSIVELY FIGHT BACK, AGAINST THESE RADICAL FASCISTS, PERIOD!! *BOTTOM LINE* DONT JUST SIT BACK & ONLY COMPLAIN!! AL& THE BIKER VETS
Did anyone hear him ranting after he thought the microphone speaker was turned off. He sounded like a maniac. I think he has severe mental problems. Listen and you will be shocked at what he was saying. The man is frightening.
This sob should be arrested.
Consider the source is all that needs to be said about the idiot from MSNBC. Douglas, whose pic are you using as your avatar because I am damn sure that a member of the military would not be knocking Gen. Kelly or supporting that racist clown cowboy. I doubt that anyone ever got to be a 4 Star General if they had racist tendencies. That woman isn’t even bright enough to know how completely ridiculous she looks. And no, I’m not racist.
Lawrence O’Donnell – another empty barrel..
The military is the least racist institution in our society today. To imply that man who rose from the ranks to 4 stars is a a racist is beyond stupid.
O’Donnell is a trash mouthed idiot…that will never change…
Lawrence O’Donnell ,this person is an idiot,saw a video of him yelling at people about hammers and being a total ass.
I heard some of this at the gym last night as I was surfing channels to get away from Don Lemon’s show on CNN. I was disgusted with O’Donnel and after a minute and a half of this, I finally settled on Thursday Night Football where hometown refs did all they could to give the game to Oakland.
Awwwww, Lawrence has a crush on Freddie Wilson! How sweet. Maxine (Waters) and Sheila (Jackson Lee) are going to be jealous. Go for it, Larry. You’re all peas in a pod, liars,mental midgets, sick, racist and corrupt to the core.
That is shelia (Andrew ) jackson (Robert E ) lee. Get the name right, Just like it is al brawley sharpton.
Whenever I unavoidably happen on that smirky face of O’Donnell and feel slightly nauseous, I harken back to the expression on his face on election night when he an others of his ilk like Chris Mathews were grimacing in pain as it appeared Trump was pulling ahead of Hillary, and that memory makes me feel much better.
As to the piece above about Gen. Kelly, and the reasoning, without discernible evidence, that he has a racist past, implying that he is a prisoner of that racism, a reader like myself can only experience disgust and contempt.
This liberal twat should check himself into a secure mental facility for a frontal lobotomy to cure his racist stupidity.
Lawrence O’Dumbo you don’t have the brains of a two year old & every time you open your mouth you make yourself look more ignorant!
At least Mr. Kelly did have the intestinal fortitude to “Grow-up”. That’s an accomplishment that Mr. O’Donnell has somehow failed to achieve.
Lawrence O’Donnell’s very racial comments about John Kelly were no music to my ears. That’s what I see liberals are like!
The Moron has insulted two Gold Star parents, which is two more than all the Presidents in history combined. It’s not just a coincidence that both are not white. Kelly lied about the non-white Congresswoman raising money for FBI building BEFORE she was in Congress. He called her the racist term “empty barrel”. Kelly heard the phone call but couldn’t deny what the Moron said.
Douglas;
YOU shame the marine uniform every time you spew your left winger liberal stupidity; Did you ever advance beyond E-1 KP and Latrine cleaner? I bet they had to inspect the toilet bowls to make sure you did your job.
You are so gullible I bet you would eat a cow pie sprinkled with dust if told it was a sweet roll.
The LEAST racist President we ever had IS Trump who has employed many blacks and women in management positions;
The ONLY persons lying are YOU and the moronic left winger RACIST black pig.
LMAO! Good one Pamela!
Douglas, were you dishonorably discharged or are you just posting a fake photo. No true Marine (or American, for that matter) would post such filthy mistruths as you have. You’re just as sick as everyone on the left, and I really do pity you “foos”…
Your crap is only entertaining your butt plug…
why do liberal socialists think everyone thinks like them!!!
Mr. O’Donnell may not be able to recognize a true recast even after staring at one in a mirror for a while.
The only racism and bigotry we have seen in full blown Monty, is the blacks and Hispanics in this country, since Obama and during the elections, then before the inauguration, up to today. The only ones rioting, perpetrating violence and preaching hatred is blacks and Hispanics along with the dupes that are white who love Hillary.
Actions speak louder than words and this General couldn’t be prejudiced or bigoted and attained his rank.
Mr. O’Donnell probably would not be able to recognize a true recast even after staring at one in a mirror for a while.
Lawrence O’Donnell, you are not qualified to shine the general’s shoes. STFU.
John Kelly is a racist and always has been one. There were many incidents early in his career as a young Marine officer that indicates that – check out these documented incidents. It stands to reason a racist would want to work for another racist, Drumpf.
Hey Pauly….when was your brain removed…before or after birth..??..
It’s a shame Paul that your parents had that lobotomy performed on you! If you HAD a brain you’d be dangerous but since you don’t no worries there!