NBC's O'Donnell Insists Obama's 'the Same Centrist He's Always Been,' Not Even Maher Buys It
President Barack Obama is “a pragmatic centrist,” Norah O’Donnell, NBC News reporter/MSNBC chief Washington correspondent, insisted Friday night on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, though not even Maher bought the claim Obama is a centrist. O’Donnell noted “they’re trying to make inroads” into the business community with outreach to it as evidenced by hiring Bill Daley and speaking to the Chamber of Commerce, but she contended “other than that tonal switch, hes still the same centrist he’s always been.”
Maher countered: “But hes not really. If you woke him up in the middle of the night, of if you gave him sodium pentothal, I think he’s a centrist the way he’s a Christian – not really.” O’Donnell pleaded: “Don’t you think its a pragmatist?” To which, Maher recognized: “Yes, that’s different, he’s pretending to be a centrist.”
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