Lawrence O'Donnell To Obama: Ignore Scolding Media, Go After Romney On FEMA

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MSNBC's host of The Last Word, Lawrence O'Donnell, advised President Barack Obama's campaign to cut and air ads in swing states featuring Mitt Romney during the primary debates advocating for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to shift some of its responsibilities to the states. O'Donnell worried, though, that the media would accuse the president of exploiting the tragedy of Hurricane Sandy, even though that is the type of message that he feels voters need to hear ahead of next week's presidential election.

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Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead said that, in the Republican primary debate in which Romney advocated for FEMA's responsibilities to be shifted to the states, that Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) argued that disaster relief should be the responsibility of local churches.

Winstead said that this clip would make a good pro-Obama argument as well, 'because we're not just talking about Romney, we're talking about the party that Romney would have to come in and wrangle in a Congress that is saying, 'the churches should be helping when all the power's down and the trees are down.''

'Is there enough time left for the Obama campaign to do a commercial with that video that you just showed,' said O'Donnell. 'The problem is there's this whole, kind of, dignity aftermath that you have to maintain so that you don't get accused of exploiting this kind of an event.'

'There is this video gold of Romney saying, if I was president now, my hope is that I'd be supplying you with nothing,' O'Donnell added. 'The idea that we would construct some kind of media notion of what is right that says, 'no, you must not remind people of that. You, the Obama team, must not do a commercial that goes into Virginia and reminds people of that.''

'The fact that he's couching it as a moral argument is perhaps the most distasteful aspect to all of it,' Alex Wagner noted.

'It's exactly the kind of thing that voters should know,' O'Donnell concluded.

Watch the clip below via MSNBC:

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• MSNBC is no longer an actual news network but instead a 24-hour outlet for promoting liberal causes

• The GOP always thinks that government is bad, until they need it (e.g., Paul Ryan asking for stimulus money). For most people that would cause your head to explode, but for the GOP who lie about everything and have created a complete alternative universe to manage these dichotomies its just another day in the office.

• The media will likely rip Obama for whatever he does with Sandy. However if Romney and his many friends in the media are over the top trying to nail Obama on Sandy, then perhaps that is a good response.

  Not sure if that is a good offensive move though. I think both candidates better tread carefully on this.

• For a nation such as America to be without an agency like FEMA would be criminally negligent .

• The investigation of the facts and the dissemination of the truth promotes liberal causes.

• Noah has again chosen to lie.

  What Romney said was that it was 'immoral' to help disaster victims and that FEMA should be privatized so that corporations can profit off of natural disasters.

• True that 24/7 ALL OBAMA,ALL the TIME!
  @MSNBC has an AUDIENCE,but they are all sucking the CORRUPT OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S TEEt,
  everyone ELSE turns off their PRO-OBAMA PROPAGANDA.
  I am amazed how SHAMELESSLY they ADVISE the BLOODY Administration.
  aka

  'MSNLSD' aka 'MSNassKISSIN aka @MSNBC Obama's MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA''-DISGUSTING, they will be a footnote in HISTORY related 2 the CORRUPTION of the SAUDI SUNNI ROYAL puppet Barry Obama the MT head.

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