“Remember this about the CBS lawyers: they are the weakest, most cowardly corporate lawyers in America. [Lawyers do what’s in their clients’ best interests. The network isn’t going to risk a fine and a fight with the FCC over a dying late night show’s host with weak ratings interviewing a Texas politician that nobody ever heard of.] They are actually in a tie with ABC’s lawyers, who we will get to in a moment. The CBS lawyers who are now trying to tell Stephen Colbert, who can be a guest on his show [Fact: the lawyers told Colbert that he could have his guest, but that it would require him to interview that guest’s opponents in the upcoming Texas primary. O’Donnell knows this, and was deliberately misleading his audience, who are, by definition, gullible morons.] work for a parent company that agreed to pay Donald Trump $16 million to settle a frivolous lawsuit by Donald Trump against “60 Minutes,” which Donald Trump had no chance of winning. Absolutely zero chance of winning. [O’Donnell doesn’t know what he’s talking about, as is often the case. The evidence proved that CBS altered the Harris interview to help her in the election. The law suit was a long shot, but that didn’t make it frivolous. It was not frivolous under the definition of the term, which allows suits that argue for new interpretations of the law. CBS settled because they knew discovery would produce damning emails and other documents proving that the “60 minutes” team was engaged in election interference. A win for Trump (and the U.S.) would be smoking gun proof of just how biased and corrupt the news media is. CBS got off easy.] 

But those cowardly corporate lawyers agreed to pay Donald Trump $16 million in what Stephen Colbert correctly called, quote, “a big, fat bribe.” [A settlement isn’t a bribe, could not be, can’t be, and it is straight up misrepresentation for O’Donnell to say it is. Citing a comedian as a legal authority is desperate even for O’Donnell.]Those lawyers should be witnesses in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump in the United States Senate right now, for that bribe. [Like so many Democrats, O’Donnell doesn’t know what the Constitutional grounds for impeachment are. True, his favorite party’s House members will, and they have already, try to impeach Trump for having the audacity to exist, but a legal settlement of a lawsuit against a misbehaving corporation won’t sustain even Democrats’ desperation to overturn the 2024 election.] That is their filthy spot that they now occupy in American political and corporate legal history, right beside the ABC lawyers for their corporate parent, Disney, that agreed to pay Donald Trump $15 million in a frivolous lawsuit against ABC News, a lawsuit that Donald Trump would not have won. [The ABC defamation suit was also not frivolous, and had a much better chance of winning than the “60 Minutes” case. Disney/ABC also had reason to fear discovery, and the case  risked giving the Supreme Court an opportunity to overturn Times v. Sullivan, the landmark case that lets the news media defame public figures “by mistake” or over-enthusiasm, as long as it isn’t “with malice.”]

The entire legal team at ABC and Disney disgraced themselves, along with the corporate chieftains of Disney’s Magic Kingdom, in their acquiescence to Donald Trump in their settling a lawsuit that Donald Trump would not have won. [Pssst! Larry! Repeating an ignorant assertion doesn’t make it any more true or persuasive.]

The lawyers did not have the courage to use their legal skills to fight Donald Trump’s attempt to get money from this company. Donald Trump’s illegal interference in their business. And so they paid them off. [ All lawsuits against a company are attempts to get money from the company: that’s how the system works. The FCC’s enforcement of its regulations isn’t illegal. There is no evidence or even a logical surmise that Trump had any interest in a Texas Democratic primary.]

America has three legacy networks: NBC, ABC, and CBS. They are our oldest networks, and two of them have handed over big, fat bribes to Donald Trump with the approval of the most cowardly corporate lawyers known to be currently working in America. [Yes, Larry, we heard you the first two times.]Not one of those lawyers offered a principled resignation over the big fat bribe.Not one of them. [Lawyers, unlike MSNOW talking heads, understand that there is nothing “principled’ about opposing a client’s desire to settle a law suit rather than engage in risky and embarrassing litigation.]  We have seen lawyers publicly resigning from the Trump Justice Department on principle, from Washington to Minneapolis, but not one CBS lawyer, not one ABC lawyer.” [This would be because the lawyers are different, they have different principles, the issues involved were different, and there is a big difference between having the government as a client and a private company. If Larry could think clearly, he’d realize that by his analysis it was Trump’s lawyers who should have resigned.]

In short, O’Donnell misrepresented the issues, passed along ignorant assertions and biased analysis, expressed little of substance but the usual MSNOW Trump hatred, and was legally, factually, and logically wrong without passing along anything of value to his audience. O’Donnell adopted Colbert’s already disproved claims about the matter because Colbert hates Trump, so he must be supported.

O’Donnell is flamingly unprofessional, and for any news organization to not only tolerate him but feature him is signature significance. If O’Donnell were the only disgraceful journalist deceiving the public on the channel it would condemn MSNOW, but he is one of many. he’s not even the worst.

Think about that for a bit…