The Last Word   |  February 05, 2013

Rewriting political pundit Dick Morris

After a slew of horrible predictions, FOX News has finally let go political pundit Dick Morris after dropping Sarah Palin last month. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell takes a Last Word look back at some of Morris's worst predictions in the latest Rewrite.

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>>> first sarah palin , now big dick morris. "fox news" is rewriting the roster of pundits, and in the process getting rid of the most ridiculous players. politico has reported that fox news has decided not to renew his contract. dick morris who first achieved fame as an adviser to bill clinton and then desperately clung to fame as an attacker of bill clinton and hillary clinton , and all democrats. and he will surely resurface somewhere, somehow. in the meantime, we'll always have our memories of dick.

>> this was an unbelievable win for sarah palin . in fact, i think that it unveils a level of skill in communication that i really have not seen since ronald reagan . she is a superstar. her ability to bypass the conventional wisdom of washington, her ability to speak in a tone, and a genre, a style that was so authentic and so outside of the mainstream was just unbelievable, barack obama may be the first anti- american president we have had. i guarantee you, sean, based on what i have heard from third parties that i have spoken to that wailliam jefferson clinton will cast his ballot for mitt romney , i can't account the two differences because there are so many differences that go into it. they under state the romney vote and overstate the obama vote because they're using a 2008 model of turnout.

>> are you still confident that mitt romney will win the election?

>> absolutely, by a good bet.

>> all right, dick morris everybody.

>> i believe if the election were held today, romney would win by four or five points. i believe he would carry florida, ohio, virginia, i believe he would carry nevada. i believe he would carry pennsylvania.

>> oh, come on.

>> pennsylvania, and i believe he would be competitive in michigan.

>> we believe that romney will win by a wide margin, a land slide, if you will, i believe he will win by more than five points in the popular vote .

>> all right, dick, what do you think?

>> we're going to win by a landslide, it will be the biggest surprise in recent american political history.

>> hi, i thought obama would be buried in a landslide, instead, i've been in a bit of a mud slide