Former Deleware Senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell abruptly ended not one, but two media interviews yesterday. Expecting to get a free ride as she plugged a new book, she found even the media spotlight of Piers Morgan a little too hot and got out of the kitchen.
Morgan approached the topic of marriage equality, addressed in her book, and she said,
“I’m not talking about policies. I’m not running for office. Ask Michele Bachmann what she thinks. Ask the candidates running for office what they think."
How hilarious she threw her friend Bachmann under the bus in that exchange. We'd love to ask her, but
Bachmann won't answer questions about the gays either.
O'Donnell ended the interview by telling Morgan, "You're borderline being a little bit rude."
Stomping off a set when a hosts asks you about your public position is a rather bizarre tactic for conservatives to now be taking. I can't imagine what's "rude" about asking a public figure to explain their public position. Used to be they wouldn't shut up about the gays.
Still, in their own religious right echo chambers these people champion the radical notion of rewriting the Constitution to disenfranchise LGBT Americans. But Bachmann, and now O'Donnell believe they should be exempt from answering questions outside the bubble of their tent revivals on why all Americans should live under the rules they set up?
Also, from Amanda Terkel at Huffington Post comes this account O'Donnell abruptly hanging up while doing a phone interview with a local Utah radio show. (It is podcasted on Sirius and audio is posted at HuffPo.) O'Donnell, again interested only in shilling her new book, didn't appreciate it when one of the hosts summarized her loss last November as thus:
"The voters of Delaware trusted their guts and thought that you were crazy."
I'm not sure Ms. O'Donnell should have been surprised by this exchanged, the radio show is, after all, called,
"Radio from Hell." Apparently it was for her.
Show co-host Bill Allred went on to press O'Donnell on hyperbole associated with "what she achieved" and her detrimental effect on the Republican primary process. Denying that voters thought she was crazy, the exchange begins:
O'DONNELL: That's not quite true. We beat Mike Castle, the establishment Republican, in a historic primary, where we had 3 times the amount of turnout that they ever had.
Q: So there were Republicans eating their own --
O'DONNELL: Yeah, no. There were some really ground-breaking records that we accomplished, and I'm very proud of what we did in Delaware.
Q: How much did you beat Mike Castle by?
O'DONNELL: Gosh. I have the exact figure in the book --
Q: Was it a lot?
O'DONNELL: It was about 5 or 6 percent. It was a very, very respectable margin, especially when you consider how outspent we were.
Q: But you didn't trounce him. So you could just as easily say --
She's gone. Yeah, gone. She's gone! She didn't hang up. I bet her publicist hung up. Yeah.
Wow,
Sarah Palin, you really can pick a winner.