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August 17, 2011

Christine O'Donnell Walks Off Piers Morgan
— Ace

We don't have the full context, which probably includes a series of questions before this, and O'Donnell's increasing frustration that she was being asked about stuff that isn't really central to the book.

It should also be noted that the media treats the people it doesn't like contemptuously, such as when Piers Morgan here tells O'Donnell she's being "weird" about refusing to answer questions. With someone like Obama, Morgan would have changed the subject per request, rather than deciding this was now a Battle of Wills he had to win.

That said, I don't really get it. If there's a great deal more impertinence from Morgan before this (and I imagine there is some more), O'Donnell might appear more justified.

But... There really is no rule that hosts only ask about your current project. There never has been. They ask about that politely for a minute then talk about other things, because no one really wants to hear from most people plugging their new book.

Posted by: Ace at 05:06 PM | Comments (63)
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1 his show is on the verge of being cancelled, maybe upsetting people will get him more ratings.

Posted by: Village Idiot at August 17, 2011 05:08 PM (utXSy)

2 He needs to stick to America's Got Talent.

Posted by: mpurinTexas, Evil Conservanatrix, supports Rick Perry, bitch at August 17, 2011 05:09 PM (J4Pnx)

3 Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at August 17, 2011 05:09 PM (vldsC)

4 Who cares about COD now anyway?Let's not open THAT can of worms.

Posted by: steevy at August 17, 2011 05:10 PM (vldsC)

5 Why did she walk on to begin with? He gets lower ratings than Al Sharpton for pete's sake.

Posted by: Rocks at August 17, 2011 05:10 PM (19AIg)

6
Heh Piers Morgan is a tool.

This video here is pretty awesome: Adam Carolla going nuclear on Piers Morgan on a LA local news show.

Pretty damn funny.

Oh, and I wish Christine O'Donnell would go away already.

Posted by: dan-O at August 17, 2011 05:10 PM (BAjNF)

7 It should also be noted that the media treats the people it doesn't like contemptuously

Shocked, shocked etc.

Posted by: your winnings, sir at August 17, 2011 05:10 PM (GTbGH)

8 4 Who cares about COD now anyway?Let's not open THAT can of worms.

She was absolutely the right choice, I tells ya.

Posted by: Wild-Eyed Palinistas at August 17, 2011 05:12 PM (0F3ej)

Why did she walk on to begin with?

I'm cereal.

Posted by: Count Chocula at August 17, 2011 05:12 PM (O6q63)

10 4 Who cares about COD now anyway?Let's not open THAT can of worms. Posted by: steevy at August 17, 2011 09:10 PM (vldsC) Exactly. She's in the 'where are they now' file. CNN thinks they're gonna get ratings with her?

Posted by: Joejm65 at August 17, 2011 05:12 PM (2ZOuc)

11 Limey sucker of cock!

Posted by: BHO at August 17, 2011 05:13 PM (ESUUY)

12 Next up: COD on QVC

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure at August 17, 2011 05:13 PM (k8WvF)

13 But see she's crazy! And she's a conservative! Do you know who else is a conservative? Rick Perry! Why, it's almost as if Rick Perry walked out on Dan Rather.

Posted by: Libby Logic at August 17, 2011 05:14 PM (cVIY5)

14
And the answer for the gay marriage thing is so easy:

I agree with President Obama on the issue.

This is why Christine O'Donnell is not made for politics and needs to go away.

Politicians require 2 major attributes: wit, and shamelessness.

O'Donnell only has the latter.

Posted by: dan-O at August 17, 2011 05:15 PM (BAjNF)

15 Man... she just missed a chance to sell a book to his viewer.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at August 17, 2011 05:16 PM (5I0Yr)

16 Ah, the ol 'invite them on the show to plug their book then ask them to comment on what's in their book' trick, huh?

Posted by: Maxwell Smart at August 17, 2011 05:20 PM (qzhcw)

17 Double, double toil and trouble
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Eye of Newt,
Leg of Palin
Let's try out
Perry Nation.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 17, 2011 05:21 PM (ENKCw)

18 Christine O'Donnel is really hot. I'd read her book alllllll niiiight.

Posted by: Joffen at August 17, 2011 05:21 PM (EPcuy)

19 OK, the cell card is pissing me off, I'm offa this moron blog! Later roonz and roonettez!

Posted by: GGE Of The Banned at August 17, 2011 05:22 PM (yGCHD)

20 I'd love to have a midnight picnic on a Satanic altar with Christine O'Donnell and not fuck. Because nothing pleases The Dark Lord more than chastity and PB&J with the crusts cut off.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 17, 2011 05:25 PM (lGFXF)

21 Can I ask something? Why does it seem that people get banned from this blog when they ought not to be? Or is it a joke I'm not getting?

Posted by: Joffen at August 17, 2011 05:26 PM (EPcuy)

22 Plus Piers Morgan sucked as James Bond.

Posted by: USS Diversity at August 17, 2011 05:27 PM (KbEJl)

23 Queers Piers had Ted Nugent on his show one night. I watched a bit of it. Ted came out ahead.

Posted by: Ronster at August 17, 2011 05:30 PM (2BRaG)

24 Why does it seem that people get banned from this blog when they ought not to be? Or is it a joke I'm not getting?

Pixy has code that tries, obviously unsuccessfully, to ban spammers. Morons get caught in the web and you have to get Pixy to manually remove them from the ban list.

Posted by: toby928™ at August 17, 2011 05:33 PM (GTbGH)

25 @ 21 Because ace's hosting provider, Pixy Misa, uses equipment and software that would melt down under the strain of running a copy of ZORK. People's IP ranges get scooped up in the spam filter, which is actually powered by a server built from an actual SPAM can. Since Pixy Misa is usually sleeping off a 3-day Japanese hentai tentacle pr0n fap-fest, it takes a while before the message to unban someone gets to him.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 17, 2011 05:33 PM (lGFXF)

CNN thinks they're gonna get ratings with her?

Posted by: Joejm65 at August 17, 2011 09:12 PM (2ZOuc)

More likely they couldn't get anyone else. Who would to have an interview with that British tabloid fuck?

Posted by: buzzion at August 17, 2011 05:34 PM (GULKT)

27 Heh. Y'all ought to see the O'Donnell thread on Hot Air. Still some serious butthurt over those nasty Tea Party people over there.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at August 17, 2011 05:35 PM (9CM5J)

28 "Christine O'Donnel is really hot. I'd read her book alllllll niiiight." My sacred honor compels me to confess that yes, I did read her book allll niiiight.

Posted by: Will Folks at August 17, 2011 05:45 PM (s/vFz)

Gay, gay, gay. Fuck you. Here's a few mintues of dead air you bastards.

Posted by: kansas at August 17, 2011 05:45 PM (A+g5T)

30 Empire is cracking me up.

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Something we all could have a bit of fun with.

Posted by: Mister Money at August 17, 2011 05:51 PM (wN82N)

32 If a dude wants to "marry" a dude, or a chick wants to "marry" a chick. Go the fuck ahead. It does not mean anything in my eye. Just as I am sure the gays could give a fuck about hetros that are "married". With marriage comes legal obligations that I am not sure the gays are going to embrace or abide by. Most gays are flaming libs and that hate laws and legal contracts. I am sure most gays are shacking up with multiple partners anyway.

Posted by: izoneguy at August 17, 2011 05:51 PM (i6Neb)

33 Mike Castle would not have walked off. He would have answered the question. Because that's what RINOs do. They answer the question. This proves that we do not have enough RINOs and ................. too many corporate jets.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at August 17, 2011 05:54 PM (hZqYp)

34 Can't she just eat her waffle? Shees, the women makes Oblama look like a guy with leather for skin.

Posted by: taylork at August 17, 2011 05:58 PM (ZyGcp)

35 It's always nice when you can not only be informed, but also entertained! I'm sure you had fun writing this article.

Posted by: Jimmy Choo at August 17, 2011 05:58 PM (Wa1a/)

36 >>>I suppose this "witch" is too stupid to realize that more people will see her and hear about her book if she walks off the show than if she stays and answers questions on a show no-one watches. That or she won't get any interviews anymore outside of Sean Hannity or Mark Levin.

Posted by: taylork at August 17, 2011 05:59 PM (ZyGcp)

That or she won't get any interviews anymore outside of Sean Hannity or Mark Levin.

Posted by: taylork at August 17, 2011 09:59 PM (ZyGcp)

Was she really getting many beyond that before?

Posted by: buzzion at August 17, 2011 06:02 PM (GULKT)

38 I was originally scheduled to do an interview with Norah O'Donnell. It was promoted as "O'Donnell on O'Donnell" for a week, but I called it off because Norah is SUCH a witch.

Posted by: Christine O'Donnell at August 17, 2011 06:05 PM (MRlIU)

39 Was she really getting many beyond that before?

Well, she was on Michael Medved today, and I think he even devoted an entire hour.

Somehow both Morgan and O'Donnell manage to come off as petty and obnoxious. Not sure why O'Donnell couldn't just answer the question, but Morgan should have shut the hell up instead of harping on it.

Posted by: Paul Zummo at August 17, 2011 06:14 PM (DScmV)

Eh, O'Donnell always came off as a little odd. Now, I think she was better than the slow slide into Socialism that the GOP offered with Mike Castle, but only because I think electing damp rags is a better alternative to that.

She's obviously thin-skinned about being a national laughingstock AND still being single. And I wish that was just me being sexist, but I really do feel this whole affair has knocked a bolt lose.

Posted by: William at August 17, 2011 06:23 PM (77TeU)

41 She's a weirdo. But I'd do her

Posted by: MAJHAM at August 17, 2011 06:24 PM (cqpkV)

42 "I think I'm being rather charming and respectful." Someone's a little high on himself, given the reception he always seems to get from others is quite the opposite.

Posted by: Leftist Mantra at August 17, 2011 06:26 PM (txb2n)

43 Begone, sock!

Posted by: JoeInMD at August 17, 2011 06:26 PM (txb2n)

44 Because Morgan is a creep who trawled cell phones and slandered British troops in Basra, those are the qualifications to work at CNN. Really you haven't learned anything from last fall,

Posted by: Captain Smith at August 17, 2011 06:28 PM (Pjih7)

45 Anyone who walks out on this British tool is okay in my book. I don't care if they were provoked or not. Maybe, if enough people walk out on him CNN will have to ship him back to England?

Posted by: progressoverpeace at August 17, 2011 06:29 PM (N49h9)

46 Good to see all the RINOs braying give me "Castle." He was so gay. She had every right to get up and leave. She has more guts than all the RINOs here.

Posted by: Molon Labe at August 17, 2011 06:34 PM (JyCYK)

47 Maybe all this hype will help her sell an extra 3 books.

Posted by: Suzy at August 17, 2011 06:38 PM (v8R4r)

48 Because nothing pleases The Dark Lord more than chastity and PB&J with the crusts cut off.

Hardly.

Posted by: AoSHQ's DarkLord© sez F--- Nevada! at August 17, 2011 06:57 PM (Fs7RJ)

49 The O'Donnellistas are just never gonna get over it.

Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at August 17, 2011 07:03 PM (MRlIU)

50 Christine O'Donnell flew off the set? Oh, sorry...

Posted by: CoolCzech at August 17, 2011 07:04 PM (kUaEF)

51 Christine O'Donnell is a pathetic attention-whore who should be nowhere near a position of public responsibility. She probably intended to do this (like Newt at the debate, in my opinion). And good on her. Piers had a snarky tweet about witches before this. Piers' show is light fare and conservatives don't have to sit and be abused as "guests" to feed their ratings.

Posted by: AmishDude at August 17, 2011 07:05 PM (z9E4F)

The only good thing Piers Moron has ever done is get punched in the face by the host of Top Gear.

Posted by: Cheeseheadette, Stig Reject #24 at August 17, 2011 07:33 PM (6ljyH)

53 The network that lied for Saddam should be appalled about anything under the sun is the definition of chutzpah. Pluck the rape room from thine own eye, then we burn the witch.

Posted by: Dhinger McGee at August 17, 2011 07:58 PM (svwGR)

54 The only good thing Piers Moron has ever done is get punched in the face by the host of Top Gear.

Ohhhh, so that's who he is.... I wondered. He has a TV show on CNN?

Posted by: Lokki at August 17, 2011 07:59 PM (a5F9g)

55 Not commenting on Christine per se, but I feel for her publisher. Hubby used to do book promotions back in the day and it was always a scary thing if you had an author who was unpredictable about scheduling, interviews, etc.

Posted by: Y-not at August 17, 2011 08:09 PM (5H6zj)

56 Plus Piers Morgan sucked as James Bond. His Xanth novels were pretty good, though.

Posted by: Brendan at August 17, 2011 08:25 PM (2jQGY)

57 As I mentioned before, he was an anti American moonbat, at the Mirror, who was either too incompetent or too mendacious to let phony pictures of British soldiers torturing Iraqis in Basra,

Posted by: Captain Smith at August 17, 2011 08:46 PM (Pjih7)

58 Here's the deal about there being a "rule" to an interview.

Negotiation.

There's a reason Limbaugh isn't on TV more often. It's because the newsers don't want to accept his terms: Uncut and Live.

That's your "rule," right there.

Posted by: K~Bob at August 17, 2011 09:49 PM (9b6FB)

59 It seemed to me she was following direction from someone off camera, probably whoever blocked the shot near the end.

Surely O'Donnell hasn't run through the over $1 million she had left in the campaign account from 2010? She can legally use the money to pay all "political" expenses AND pay herself a salary, maybe she overspent?

Why doesn't she just ask all the suckers who sent her money before to do it again? Does she think they are any smarter now?

Posted by: Adjoran at August 18, 2011 01:18 AM (VfmLu)

60 You do recall she was exonerated from all off those bogus FEC charges,

Posted by: Captain Smith at August 18, 2011 04:33 AM (Pjih7)

61 whats with CNN's latest obsession with all things British?...they've got Piers and this haughty little black winch speaking the King's English on Anderson Poofer...are Americans not good enough for them?

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