Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Asked About Her Opposition To Gay Equality Political Sideshow Christine O’Donnell Walks Off Piers Morgan Tonight

Christine O’Donnell, former Delaware GOP Senate candidate, and political sideshow, walked off the set of CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight Wednesday when asked about her views on witchcraft and same sex marriage. “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.” O’Donnell made national headlines in 2010 when she denied in a TV ad that she was not a witch, responding to comments she made a decade earlier on a TV show saying she had “dabbled in witchcraft.” During her Senate campaign, O’Donnell ran as a tea party darling and social conservative. She’s set to soon to release a book that she hopes to be an inspirational tool to the grassroots conservative movement. But when asked about issues from her book and her campaign Wednesday, O’Donnell walked away from the interview, upset that Morgan was not talking about the things she wished to address. “Don’t you think as a host, if I say this is what I want to talk about, that’s what we should address?” she asked Morgan. When Morgan said “no,” O’Donnell began to take off her microphone and said she had turned down another interview for this appearance. “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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