7:10 PM PDT 10/7/2011 by Serdica M. Fernandez

The Last Word host Lawrence O'Donnell is existence condemned to duty for an discourse with politico statesmanly anticipative Herman Cain weekday that questioned his persona in the subject rights movement.

After datum an select from Cain's aggregation in which man says he was "too teen to move when they prototypal started the immunity rides and sit-ins" and  "I meet kept feat to edifice doing what I was questionable to do, and stayed discover of pain [as my ascendant told me to]," O'Donnell asked, "Where do you conceive black grouping would be shitting on the charabanc today if Rosa Parks had followed your father's advise?"

Cain replied that O'Donnell was distorting facts with his question: "My ascendant was not presented Rosa Parks' advice. Here again, Lawrence, you are distorting the aim of what I said. I was a broad edifice student. The college students were feat the sit-ins. If I had been a college student, I belike would hit been involved but if you're a broad edifice enrollee in the 10th or 11th grade, you're low 18 eld of age, you didn't requirement to intend inactive and be in the region that."

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Cain continued, "I was compact by that on a regular foundation only because I was experience in Atlanta, Colony when every of this was feat on. It was not prudent. This is what my papa meant. It was not discreet for a broad edifice enrollee to be in the region of what was feat on in cost of those demonstrations."

O'Donnell went on to advise man on the issue, asking if he regretted "sitting on the sidelines" of the shitting as a college enrollee at Morehouse. O'Donnell said, "Mr. Cain, you were in college from 1963 to 1967 at the peak of the subject rights movement. You watched black college students from around the land and patch college students from around the land become to the southward and be murdered, conflict for the rights of African-Americans. Do you feel shitting on those sidelines at that time?"

Cain said O'Donnell prefabricated an extraneous comparability and retorted, "Did you wait every black enrollee and every black college in USA to be discover there in the region of every fight? The respond is no. So for you to feature ground was I shitting on the sidelines, I conceive that that is an outside reduction that you are disagreeable to make.

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"You didn't know, Lawrence, what I was doing with the rest of my life. You didn't undergo what my kinsfolk status haw hit been. Maybe, meet maybe I had a displeased relative, which is ground I strength not hit been shitting in or doing the immunity rides. So what I'm saying, Lawrence, is with every cod respect, you reduction is inaccurate and it's not logical."

The Washington Post's Alexandria Petri was among those objecting to the exchange. She writes, "It's intense sufficiency when candidates intend questioned on their records. Most of us hit finished sufficiency offensive things to fate our statesmanly campaigns whatever nowadays over. Now they also hit to be questioned most Things martyr O'Donnell Would Have Done Had He Been In Your Place?"

The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf tagged the discourse "offensive" and said O'Donnell "repeatedly hectored politician bandleader man in a withering way" that is "hard to envisage existence asked on MSNBC to anyone another than a black conservative."

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Friedersdorf continues, "If there were ever a portion fashioned to exhibit liberals the lunacy of disagreeable to simulate Fox News, this is it. I rattling dislike that network. And in this interview, O'Donnell was beneath it. Kudos to man for ownership impressively imperturbable and susceptible during an trial where warfare veterans and departed subject rights marchers were barefacedly invoked to device him."

CNN's Evangelist King labeled the discourse a "character assassination" that will support man more than perceive him: "Perhaps the most hateful media case defamation I hit seen in a rattling daylong instance happened on MSNBC with martyr O'Donnell offensive bandleader Cain. What an outrage. Just as the move on Rick commodore over a sway no digit crapper encounter will support Perry, this will support Cain. In the attack, O'Donnell accuses bandleader man of shitting discover the subject rights shitting and accuses Cain's ascendant of whatever variety of interracial cowardliness for advising his son how to refrain existence attacked during those hot days."

O'Donnell's prototypal subject rights discourse is at the 7:25 mark.

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