Does Lawrence O’Donnell matter?

He’s the guy the powers at MSNBC slid into the 8:00 pm slot to compete against The O’Reily Factor on FOX.

Did you stop laughing yet?

I guess Larry is a nice enough guy, pretty decent actor when he’s not yelling or making snarky remarks about Sarah Palin. But, after watching him try to act cool and intellectual with his I-used-to-be-a-congressional staffer credentials, there isn’t much there there.

A trait that O’Donnell shares with other MSNBC hosts like Chris Matthews, Ed Shultz, Rachael “The Karate Kid” Maddow, and the recently added Al Sharpton, is that a show doesn’t go by without them having a segment on Sarah Palin, Fox News, The Tea Party, or their big favorite--Rush Limbaugh. In fact, if they didn’t have a Rush Limbaugh segment on every one of their shows they wouldn’t have enough material to fill an hour. However, not one program on FOX rarely if ever mentions anything going on MSNBC.

So, there isn’t much that Lawrence O’Donnell brings to the table other than the usual FOX envy. Maybe that’s why their ratings are so bad?