Lawrence O'Donnell pretty upset about the GOP watching that Ben Affleck clip

O’Donnell left no doubt that he questioned Rep. McCarthy’s, “the most misguided House Majority Whip in history,” competence, though didn’t blame him for knowing “inspirational speaking is not his strong point.” What he did blame him for, however, was the anti-Christian message of the clip, which showed Affleck and his crew, “some distinctly unchristian Boston career criminals,” preparing to, as O’Donnell put it, “beat the living shit out of a guy.”

Calling McCarthy as “religiously illiterate as he is economically illiterate,” O’Donnell marveled at the fact that he played the video “exhorting every Republican in the House to go commit violent sin.” And some of those, he noted, are taking notice, though the example he used didn’t corroborate the persuasive power of the film by his own admission. “Florida Congressman Allen West, who seems frequently unhinged in general,” he joked, “reportedly said ‘I’m ready to drive the car’”– a continuation of the metaphor that the Republicans were the criminals in The Town, about to go violently assault someone.