You may have seen the video of un-witch Christine O'Donnell walking off Piers Morgan's CNN show tonight. If not, here's the 3-minute version:
Morgan says at the end after O'Donnell's handlers tried to block the camera and then whisked her away, "I had the audacity to ask questions based on stuff that's in the book." Oh, Piers, you obviously didn't take "Interviewing the Tea Party 101" last semester, but to keep you in line, Christine O'Donnell spelled it out for you:
O'DONNELL: Well, don't you think as a host if I say, "This is what I want to talk about," that's what we should address?
MORGAN: Uh, not really, no.
I'm no Piers Morgan fan by any stretch of the imagination, but for O'Donnell to call him rude more than a few times because he asked her to talk about GLBT issues, which she does address in her new book, Troublemaker, is absurd.
MORGAN: I'm baffled as to why you think I'm being rude. I think I'm being rather charming and respectful. I'm just asking you questions based on your own public statements and, now, what you've written in your own book. It's hardly rude to ask you that, surely.
Well, O'Donnell did think it was rude because "It's not a topic that I choose to embrace," whatever the heck that means. She said she wanted to talk about how to "bring America back to the second American revolution," and we know what that means for wingers in terms of gay rights. Anti-GLBT garbage is red meat for the far-right, evangelical base, but don't ask them to discuss their warped views outside of a Tea Party gabfest because that's just rude. Hell, she writes about that "topic" in her friggin' book, she railed against gay rights during her Senate campaign, for years she's talked about how gays and lesbians can be "cured," yet tonight she chooses not to "embrace" the issue? Huh?
O'Donnell said she doesn't think the topic is "relevant." Excuse me? The repeal of DADT remains in the news, as does the Defense of Marriage Act; Bachmann and her husband are praying away the gay with their business, and nearly every GOP presidential candidate has signed a pledge to seek a Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage. Yet O'Donnell doesn't think Morgan's questions about her views on gays are relevant. Well, they're not relevant to her goal this evening: "What I'm trying to do is promote a book" (and if I talk about how crazy I am some people might not buy it). Two or three times shit like this rolls out of her mouth:
I obviously want to talk about the questions I want to talk about.
See, Christine, that's why it's called an "interview"; it's not a "commercial" for your stupid book. The interview process is not: guest tells host what questions to ask. O'Donnell is clearly taking lessons from Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Sharron Angle, and other wingers who, when they aren't lobbed softball questions (yikes "gotcha" questions!), they either answer a different question or ignore it altogether. Still, O'Donnell isn't in the same league with Bachmann, who can be asked twice about her husband's faith-based gay healings, and never come close to answering:
The voters in Delaware have to be feeling pretty good tonight about not sending O'Donnell's leaking brainpan to the US Senate, and I can't imagine after this CNN meltdown that she'll be going on too many network shows other than Fox. I bet she has a standing invitation from Rachel Maddow, an interview I'd pay to see.