From the "Lawrence O'Donnell is a walking boil on the ass of humanity" file.

O'Donnell blames Guliani for deaths on 9/11.

Twitchy, among others noticed this odious tweet from Lawrence O’Donnell last night: “Giuliani attacked POTUS last night for Benghazi so I am forced to remind Giuliani how many firefighters were killed on 9/11 because of him.” Fox host Eric Bolling demanded O'Donnell be fired.

But O’Donnell performed a longer version on his Last Word show on MSNBC last night: “And the urban legend, Rudy Giuliani is in the rewrite tonight. He has once again provoked me to remind you how much damage that man did to New York on 9/11.” After he slammed Rudy as an “unwitting accomplice of al-Qaeda’s,” O’Donnell borrowed heavily from a firefighter’s-union TV ad that FactCheck.org flagged for exaggeration back in 2007.

O’DONNELL: Here is urban legend, Rudy Giuliani pretending last night that back in his days as mayor of New York, he was a successful terrorism fighter.

CLIP OF RUDY  GIULIANI: I truly believe that if competent decisions were made, the four people in Benghazi who are now dead would now be alive, and I`m not just talking about that t. I`m talking about in the six months before that. I believe that political necessities trumped sensible security decisions. There is no possible way, if I had found out for six months that one of my police precincts was being attacked I would deprive of it security. And if I did, there is no possible way the New York press corps would let me get away with it.

O`DONNELL: No possible way. No. No. You know, the fact that Rudy Giuliani was an unwitting accomplice of Al-Qaeda`s has mostly escaped attention outside of New York which is why Giuliani was in Boston today campaigning with Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez at the location of the Boston marathon bombing.

For the moment, never mind the depravity of Giuliani and Gomez using the Boston marathon location as a political campaign stop. Let`s, tonight, focus on the decisions Rudy Giuliani made that killed fighters on 9/11. Here`s what happened when Giuliani tried to play his superhero role while testifying to the 9/11 commission in New York City. [video clip]

O`DONNELL: That was the mother of a New York city firefighter who was telling Giuliani that her son was murdered because of Giuliani`s incompetence. The World Trade Center was attacked by al-Qaeda in 1993. The bombing killed six people and injured more than a thousand. A report issued later showed that the firefighters` radios did not work when they responded to that first attack on the world trade center eight years would have 9/11. Giuliani took seven years to replace those radios. And he did it through a sweetheart deal w a no-bid contract. Six months before 9/11, Giuliani replaced the defective radios with a new set of radios that also did not work.

More from the burgeoning "LOIAWBOTAOH" file here.

Obama must be in trouble...

...Larry O'Donnell apparently apologized to Mormons.

Mr. O’Donnell has issued what sounds for all the world like a very good approximation of a sincere apology, and in the spirit of charity should be taken at his word. But you can keep the Golden Ass, Larry.

With Obama down in the polls, O'Donnell's current strategic position is described by Swampland Times:

In his apology Wednesday, O’Donnell admitted this mistake as well, saying he regretted that his description of Mormonism detracted from his underlying point. “Religious intolerance is wrong,” he said Wednesday. “Refusing to vote for a Mormon is wrong.”

Someone must have threatened him pretty badly to make this walking toothache fake an concern about bigotry against people he doesn't like.

Will Harry Reid give the O'Donnell insult a pass?

In light of the tendency of Leftists to put party allegiance above anything else - such as "feminists" supporting serial harasser Bill Clinton or ignoring the chauvinist attacks on conservative women - I'm inclined to think the answer is obvious.

Here is Moe Lane's Diary:

It’s a valid question, I think, given the way that Lawrence O’Donnell viciously and insultingly went after Mormonism last night on that network. Goodness knows that I have my problems with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. And I have no intention of converting to the LDS faith any time soon, or indeed at all. But to say “Mormonism was created by a guy in upstate New York in 1830 when he got caught having sex with the maid and explained to his wife that God told him to do it” in the pursuit of crude partisan purposes is an insult that splatters far beyond its designated target (in this case, Mitt Romney).

I understand that Harry Reid was a boxer, when younger. If the Senator takes this punch without hitting back, then those days are long gone for him, indeed.

And:

PPS: Sorry, but there is a certain point beyond which you cannot and should not accept taking one for your political team. You would not ask a Jew to tamely accept that someone on national TV repeated the blood libel; a Catholic is not expected to remain silent at a network anchor’s suggestion that the Pope is actually the Antichrist; and going on the air and telling a Muslim that – God, take your pick, but the point is that even members of that particularly prickly religion have a legitimate right to be offended when someone says something that’s legitimately offensive. If Reid is a better Lefty than Mormon… well, we’re about to see whether that’s true.

Lawrence O'Donnell, All Purpose Idiot.

Staying classy, Lawrence O'Donnell - well known for melting down on television when a Vietnam vet spoke the truth about a Democrat, acting like an ass to a woman dying of cancer and professing his commitment for socialism from his perch of wealth while predicting a "red state secession" - now trots out his Anti-Mormon bigotry to attack Mitt Romney.

And, of course, this pimple has a permanent slot on MSNBC.

On the left, the more of a jerk you are, the more likely you are to get a network gig. See Sharpton, the Rev. Al.

More great moments in O'Donnell's spiteful ouvre.

John Nolte at Big Hollywood gives a thumbs up to Jennifer Gray for her grace in refusing to baited by Lawrence O'Donnell into insulting Bristole Palin.

As for O'Donnell, Nolte writes some classic snark:

As far as O’Donnell, in this interview (and in his life) he typifies the hateful cruelty we see becoming more and more mainstreamed on the left (mostly through MSNBC). Bristol isn’t Sarah and yet he absolutely refuses to do anything other than to degrade and insult her — he refuses to let loose even a single kind word for a young woman who showed moxie, stamina, and a willingness to tough it out with an impressive display of poise and class throughout what must have been quite an ordeal that included death threats and envelopes filled with white powder addressed to her.

O’Donnell’s always been a rancid-souled bastard, but his unwillingness to check his bitter partisanship at the door even for the young daughter of a politician he disagrees with is a new low in a career of lows.

He also makes a bit of a fool of himself here trying to be cute and flirty. The whole interview reminded me of the scenes between Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lectre in “Silence of the Lambs.”