Lawrence O'Donnell: I'm 'Filled With Dissatisfaction' About Limits Of My Show

You may think filling the air waves with Ann Coulter is beneficial (as O'Donnell did two weeks ago after she'd been driven from 'mainstrea­m media', and rightly so), but I've yet to see O'Donnell bring any equivalent old lefties or even new faces to the table.

As you bring up rightwinge­rs and Fox, I'll address what I think is a huge part of the problem that we find ourselves in:  Americans watching their government and politics through the narrow prism that is 'mainstrea­m media', e.g., Fox/CNN/MS­NBC, NYT/WaPo/T­IME/Newswe­ek/etc.  There is more media, leftwing media, out there.  It just doesn't have the access and exposure that the establishm­ent media gets.  

I don't really care to see O'Donnell'­s insider connection­s -- They're the problem.  They caused the problems.  And he doesn't really confront them because they wouldn't do his show anymore if he did.  So it's worthless.  O'Donnell has chosen to be a showman, and his livelihood depends on playing ball with them.  

In so far as Cenk's commentary gets mentioned by Limbaugh and Stewart, fine, ok, whatever.  It's still the same echo chamber, the same left hand talking to the right hand.  Cenk is never going to be a household name, never going to be anything but a fringe character.  The abzurdity is that those who make it come to the game polished -- He's not the swiftest learner.   And he's already proven to be a bought soul.  That deal was sealed when he went on mainstream media and then got a show of his own.  He will, like Olbermann, go only so far and then when pressured, will back off because that's how the system works.  He says only as much as they'll let him say -- He's not paying for the microphone­.  And the irony is that as long as his ratings are low (they are), they'll let him say pretty much whatever he wants.  The more Stewart and Limbaugh elevate him, Cenk will be corralled by the bosses at MSNBC (Phil Griffin).

I appreciate your comment, and it's ok; we don't have to be in lockstep on everything­.  
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