Lawrence O'Donnell

Keith Olbermann’s show ,Countdown with Keith Olbermann, tends to lean to Obama’s side. In the episode embedded along this post Lawrence O’Donnell (who is filling in for Keith) says that the people at these tea parties are confused. He says that “they are older, they are whiter than America, and they earn more money and are better educated.” He also states that “ thirty-nine percent of the real America correctly blame Bush for most of the deficit.” He also goes on to say that the tea partiers are arguing for the wrong point. He states tea partiers are fighting the passing of the health care income tax on people who make over two hundred thousand a year. Lawrence uses many figures and percentages to back up his statements.

"Tea party is confused." Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Web. 15 Apr 2010. .

What Lawrence is not taking into consideration is the fact that the “fancy” degrees, as he states, that most of the tea partiers hold are what allows them to earn more than average. He sounds as if he is trying belittle their success, which they put in effort and time into achieving. We live in a country that allows someone to have a dream and achieve it however they like. Lawrence is making people with dreams and success sound like a terrible people. What he needs to realize is, these people were born with freedom and rights. If they choose to go to school for four plus years and graduate with a degree so they can make more money, than more power to them. Someone who did not do the same or succeed at it should not put those people down or better yet tax them for it. By taxing those who succeed and putting that money into health care for the other Americans is just a variation of "spreading the wealth". I think Lawrence is the one confused. He used a bunch of percentages, but they never seemed to help him. I think they is a happy medium to the issues at hand, but Lawrence is not it and people should not turn to him for politics.

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