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O'DONNELL: Well, just like Reverend Wright, some people confuse passion for rage.

And some people confuse crazy with ridiculous.

O'DONNELL: But Kathie Lee, you know what it's like for someone to pull one quote out of context for you.

He was comparing it to when the government did give syphilis to black Americans for 40 years. What he was saying is in his history, in his genetic memory, he knows what it's like for the government to infect his own people because he lived through those Tuskegee experiments. And that's what he was talking about.

You can't sort of pull the quote. He didn't just say, you know, "the government made AIDS." It's the same when I said, you know, you can support the men and not the man who sent them there. You can support every single Marine and Army man and Navy man in this war ...

I'm trying to be open minded here, but I do wish she would just drop it. Not doing anyone a favor.