Left-wing professor knocks Joe Manchin over filibuster: He has 'to get off his symbolic crackpipe’

Left-wing professor Cornel West berated Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Thursday to change his stance on the Senate filibuster rule, continuing a weeks-long barrage against the moderate Democrat over his support for keeping it.

Manchin wrote in a June op-ed that he would "not to vote to weaken or eliminate the filibuster," igniting a backlash from the left and continued hounding from the media, who called him "worse than a Republican," and a "democracy killer."  "I must say that he’s going to have to get off his symbolic crackpipe," West said after Lemon played a video clip of Manchin stressing bipartisanship to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. "You’re going have to do away with the filibuster in order to get any work done because you’ve got a right-wing party that’s authoritarian, with deep neo-fascist sensibilities, that has no commitment to democratic processes, no commitment to democratic values."