Please make her go away!!!!
She indicates that she discusses her views on gay marriage in her book, she says she wants to discuss the content of her book, she refuses to talk about her stance on gay marriage...weak. I don’t think he was being rude—obstinate, maybe, but not rude or disrespectful.
1968-Georgia Governor Lester Maddox walks off of the Joe Pyne show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRStbnZ1-u4
On the upside, no one saw that happen.
What is the profile of someone who buys her book? Seriously. She is a publicity-seeker, nothing more and nothing less. Running for office is just the latest phase of her publicity seeking. Before that, it was going on Maher’s show and making outrageous statements about witch craft. The whole “I’m not a witch” line misses the point. The real point is she went on Maher’s show and said it to gain attention. Now she writes a book. Then walks off the stage in an interview. Publicity-seeking is the thread that runs through all of this. She wants to be important and to get attention. Her time is up and she needs to get off the stage.
All that being said, I do think she WAS weird in this interview and the questions asked of her were not off limits, especially if she states her opinions in her book. She just did her book sales a real negative and perhaps any future hopes for political office were also damaged with this poor interview handling.
What a pathetic joke she is. I said it all along.
The DE tea party embarrassed themselves and the rest of us by nominating this ditz. I caught hell from the morons here who put their faith in her. Vindicated.
Uh, I watched the clip. I think COD was giving Piers a lot of leash...and he insisted on continuing to bait her.
He asked about Michele Bachmann’s stance on DOMA. COD said she wasn’t there to talk about MB’s stand on DOMA.
COD said she was there to talk about her book and the fiscal policies it promoted...but Piers continued to ask about the gay marriage issue.
COD said she wasn’t running for office, it wasn’t an issue she was interested in discussing.
I guaran-damn-tee you if there were an entertainer there who insisted on rules for an interview, CNN would sure as hell abide by them.
Piers insisted that he WAS talking about things in the book...but COD said she referred to her religious beliefs and NOT the gay marriage stuff.
COD hung in there for a while, and finally told Piers she wasn’t going to be treated rudely.
I don’t think she came off as nasty or stupid at all—she was trying to say, with a smiling face, that she wasn’t going to be drawn into an issue unrelated to her purpose.
She came out the winner—Piers came off as a snot.
She’s like your buddy’s impossible to have fun around girl friend.
So long Buddy.
The media will trot her out to make Tea Party people look like idiots.
Weird. I don’t remember hearing about her walking off Bill Maher’s show ...
Just saw it.
Hoo boy!
I want my $150 back.
She is weak, dumd and just a little bit manipulative.
then again, she should have known better than to go on Piers “The Limey” Morgan.
Unfortunately, Christine forgot the number one key to being interviewed: get your points in regardless of what the interviewer asks. Instead of criticizing him for being off point, she should have tried to be on-point herself.
Make this Limey go away!!!!
“I’m not talking about policies. I’m not running for office,” O’Donnell said. “Ask Michele Bachmann what she thinks.”
When Morgan asked her why she was being “weird” about answering questions on her own statements, as well as issues she addresses in her new book, “Troublemaker,” O’Donnell fired back, saying she only wanted to talk about tea party principles she said she outlines in her book.
“That’s why I agreed to come on your show. That’s what I want to talk about,” O’Donnell said. “I’m not being weird. You’re being a little rude.”
“I was supposed to be speaking at the Republican Women’s Club at 6, and I chose to be a little late for that,” she said. “Not to endure a rude talk show host, but to talk to you about my book and the issues I address in my book.”
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Article at:
O’Donnell walks out of CNN interview
By: CNN’s Ashley Killough
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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/17/odonnell-walks-out-of-cnn-interview/
ugh... forced to endure a 60 second ad before viewing the video!
She was on the show to talk about fiscal policies and the Tea Party and her book, not gay marriage. She did not write a book on “Whither, Gay Marriage?”
Why do talk show hosts always want to talk about gay marriage?
Piers would never do this to a liberal.
Christine could see, in fact Ray Charles could see where this interview was heading.
She, nor any conservative, does not have to sit through hosts goign off on rabbit trails, as topics were probably already defined beforehand.
Good for her. She’s on there to sell books. Her handler probably saw that only ten people nationwide were watching this show, including the people in the control room.
Piers just doesn’t like getting the tables turned on him.
Libs and Dems can be obnoxious, but somehow conservatives are just supposed to sit and take it. She told Piers the topic was not one she wanted to spend time on, as it was not important. He would not “move on”, so she left.
If Ann Coulter did that, people would be standing up and applauding.
Besides, to the CODS crowd, she’s just a “Troublemaker”.
Having watched it, I’m surprised at all the praise I recall hearing about Piers being a great interviewer. Maybe he’s still settling into the job. Any, I don’t think he was being rude to ask about something he read about in her book- if in fact he did read it and she did write about it. He was kind enough to say that it was a good book and told viewers were they could purchase it.
Unwatchable.
She should have postponed the interview.