On Wednesday night, MSNBC’s The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell went low in blasting Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy as a “babbling” and “incompetent baffoon” lacking “a shred of embarrassment” but brimming with “revealed stupidity” and “white male privilege” but also used to be “the stupidest reporter in the White House press corps” until “the dregs of Trump-worshipping media” came along. What prompted O’Donnell to hurl this venom Doocy’s way? It turns out Doocy asked about a Justice Department probe into former Deep State denizens John Brennan and James Comey instead of colluding with White House correspondents at CNN and The New York Times in grilling President Trump Wednesday about the status of arms shipments to Ukraine.     O’Donnell led into the string of insults by decrying the revelation that the Trump administration was looking into those who gave oxygen to the Trump-Russia collusion fable, insisting this was done by “a cesspool of pathological liars” to distract from those upset about there being no Jeffrey Epstein client list. “[I]t was Fox’s White House reporter today who, operating as usual as an energetic collaborator in Donald Trump’s distraction games, did everything he could without a shred of embarrassment about his own revealed stupidity to help Donald Trump push his new distraction,” O’Donnell huffed. He then played the exchange between Doocy and Trump: DOOCY: Thank you, President Trump. James Comey and John Brennan now under criminal investigation related to the Trump Russia probe. Do you want to see these two guys behind bars? TRUMP: Well, I know nothing about it other than what I read today, but I will tell you, I think they’re very dishonest people. I think they’re crooked as hell and maybe they have to pay a price for that. I believe they are truly bad people and dishonest people, so whatever happens happens. The “stop the hammering” guy and former Hollywood writer went to immediate rage with the slew of insults: What a babbling buffoon. And I mean the reporter this time, the Fox so-called reporter. “Do you want to see these two guys behind bars?” That reporter used to be by far the stupidest reporter in the White House press corps, but he has now been outdone by the dregs of Trump-worshipping media that have been allowed to join the White House press corps.  So, if you work at Fox and your father got you the job because he’s the morning host there and you enjoy all of the white male privilege that comes from your father being a morning host at Fox for many years, you then become the Fox White House correspondent who thinks, “do you want to see these two guys behind bars?” is a good question for a president. O’Donnell then tagged Doocy as an “incompetent buffoon” for asking Trump that kind of question because an answer in the affirmative of wanting Brennan and Comey in jail would lead to a mistrial.  The insults continued, calling him “thinly educated in the law or presidential history” and possessing “stupidity every day with a kind of egotistical obliviousness that comes from the deep well of ignorance that you bring to your job every day.” Someone show O’Donnell questions Doocy has asked Karoline Leavitt this year (such as ones written about here) and tell me if they’re softballs. In his pivot to Ukraine and that CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and The New York Times’s Shawn McCreesh as having asked about the correct topics, O’Donnell cartoonishly claimed the Trump White House press corps have acted to assist, not challenge or berate, him: Usually, White House reporters want to go their own way when questioning Donald Trump, which is a huge mistake. They would be better off if they repeatedly followed up the unanswered question that Donald Trump just tried to evade with the previous reporter. That is the kind of illuminating teamwork that the White House press corps could do, but usually doesn’t do. It’s as if they have some kind of pride of authorship in changing the subject for Donald Trump to help, in effect, Donald Trump evade with a cloud of meaningless words a response to the previous reporter. As the full-time beat writer for all White House press briefings since 2017, that’s a certifiable farce. To see the relevant MSNBC transcript from July 9, click here. (h/t: Mediaite)