Unreason of the Witch

The interesting thing about this "dramatic" walk-off by Christine O'Donnell during an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan tonight is that, to her credit, she doesn't come off at all like some kind of blithering idiot. She does, however, come off as somebody who has no idea how an interview with a news outlet that isn't Fox generally works -- to wit, no, you don't get to dictate what you're asked and you're not guaranteed to be pitched only softballs.

That said, as Oliver Willis intimated on Twitter this evening, in the end this was nothing more than somebody who didn't do anything worth being interviewed for getting pissed at a guy very few people care about on a show hardly anyone's watching.

The Despair Witch Project

This could easily count as an extended Quote of the Day; one way or the other it deserves to be posted almost in its entirety to truly appreciate the magnitude of the absurdity we're talking about here.

"Dear Supporter,

Your incredible contribution of time and money allowed us to send the establishment a powerful message last year. Our fight is not over as so many patriots like you have sacrificed over the years to keep America great!

You've probably heard about the latest smear on me. The establishment is going to keep attacking and keep trying to destroy those they think might be a threat.

They won't let up.

The Left keeps after me because they consider strong, Republican women a danger to their status quo. Larry Kudlow recently said "the hope of the Tea Party rests with you because this is going to be used to discredit the Tea Party in its entirety."

Bill O'Reilly recognizes the viciousness of the Left's attacks on me. Recently on his program he said "...the press relished attacking you. They relished it. They loved it... they didn't go after Carly Fiorina the way they went after you. It was all personal... They just want to demean you... The old boys don't want to give up their power."

I'm determined not to let them destroy our movement. If I stand alone, though, I'm no match for the liberal media and the political establishment. But, with us standing together to fight, they don't have a chance!

That's why I'm starting ChristinePAC.

ChristinePAC can investigate and counter attack leftwing groups, many funded with one million dollars or more from billionaire leftist George Soros.

A strong ChristinePAC will enable me to counter the liberal-controlled GOP establishment in upcoming Congressional Primaries...

Your donation also enables me to speak out in many venues from Coast to Coast, thereby helping support a nationwide effort. This is a way that will help me counter attack our opponents and bring the battle to them.

You have helped me come this far. You have been a true friend. Please help me again with your donation. These are battles that will be won or lost based on how much support and organization our side can put forward right now.

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My friend, what you helped me do at the six week long Battle of Delaware 2010, sent shock waves throughout the nation. We can build on what we have accomplished if you will help me again in supporting ChristinePAC.

Sincerely,

Christine O'Donnell"

Help me, Ben and Myrna Kenobi of Lubbock, Texas -- you're my only hope.

This won't come as a surprise to anybody, but if all of this sounds familiar it should: O'Donnell is taking a page directly out of the ghostwritten playbook of her idol, another certain narcissistic politi-celebrity who's been roundly ridiculed not because of her beliefs but because she's a blithering idiot.* It's unfortunate, really, because Christine O'Donnell always struck me as likable if not a little misguided. It was a mistake, though, to assume she'd do the classy thing and just quietly go away after the drubbing she took, rather than play the victim card in an effort to extend her 15 minutes; that's just not the way things are done anymore, not when there's a Q Score to be maintained and money to be made.

*For the record, I think this nation turned a bit of a corner with the shooting of Gabby Giffords and so with that in mind, and with high hopes, I silently signed on to Dana Milbank's moratorium on bringing up the name of that aforementioned blight on the national consciousness for the entire month of February. Hope you've noticed how shameless-publicity-stunt-free things have been around here lately.

Dancing Fool

The least surprising item ever: the prospect of Christine O'Donnell fulfilling her destiny and taking her rightful place at Mama Grizzly's side.

And that Mobius Strip just get more and more loopy.

Gawker: Christine O'Donnell May Dance with the Stars/11.23.10

Screw the Messenger

I haven't turned on the TV yet this morning or scanned the newspapers, but I'm going to make an assumption that I wish weren't true but I just know damn well is: Every major news outlet in the country is running with the Christine O'Donnell one-night-stand story.

Only they're not focusing on the supposed drunken and unsuccessful sex act, since that would be beneath them; instead they're pegging their coverage off of the controversy and outrage that Gawker has spawned by posting the allegation. In other words, they're pulling an end-run and doing a story based on a specious and prurient claim -- one paid for by a media outlet with zero journalistic standards -- while piously pretending that they're simply doing a story about the story. As if somehow when they ask the question "Did Gawker Go Too Far in Smearing Christine O'Donnell?" they're not wallowing in the same pig sty Nick Denton and Co. did by running with the damn thing in the first place.

The anonymous O'Donnell sex story -- something which would never in a million years have been touched by a reputable entity like NBC, CNN or the New York Times -- will now be on NBC and CNN and in the New York Times under the guise of the necessity of covering the piece's fallout. Once again, as if you can do the story without mentioning "the story."

Remember a couple of weeks back when I linked to a terrific David Carr column dissecting what I called "ethical rendition" on the part of the mainstream media? Well I have a feeling you're about to witness it in it's purest, most repugnant form.

Lust Tea Lady

To everyone who's sent this little item to me since this afternoon (and by the way, this thing may hold the record for being spread virally faster than just about anything that's ever hit the net; it was everywhere in a matter of a couple of hours): Yes, I've seen it and no I don't have too much to say about it.

Gawker: I Had a One-Night-Stand with Christine O'Donnell/10.28.10

Gawker's officially the lowest rung on the yellow internet journalism ladder after going ahead and posting such prurient, relatively unreliable crap (which Denton could care less about because he and his unholy creation are now the center of a media feeding frenzy). And who really gives a damn if it's true anyway? So Christine O'Donnell may have gotten drunk and tried unsuccessfully to get laid three years ago? Jesus, I do that every Saturday night. I couldn't care less what O'Donnell or anybody else does in his or her -- or someone else's -- bedroom. She's an attractive woman; let her slap a hand over Jesus's mouth once in awhile so he can't complain and just have a little fun. It's not like there's even any schadenfreude to be mined from this because you had to figure that someone repressed enough to decry masturbation would be a goddamned sexual time-bomb.

Look, if it didn't happen, Christine O'Donnell should just shrug off the pictures and the story because, as Hitchens says, what can be asserted without evidence can be disproved without evidence. If it did happen -- hey, good for her. Either way, so what.

Besides, who's to say the story wasn't planted by her anyway? It's the perfect ploy to simultaneously humanize, martyrize and sexualize a candidate who for the most part has been portrayed as nothing but a prudish laughingstock.

Denton and Gawker just handed her the kind of sympathy she'd normally have to contract cancer to get -- five days before election day.

I mean, hell, even I can't help liking her a little bit right now. Although it could just be the ladybug costume. I'm into that sort of thing.

Party Poopers

With just 13 days left until November 2nd, Joan Walsh in Salon points out just the three most recent examples of hilarious-if-it-weren't-so-sad Tea Party candidate extremism, befuddlement or general ineptitude.

Salon: Three Tea Party Videos All Voters Should See/10.19.10

And she doesn't even bother to get into G.I. Joe Miller's comment that America needs to build a fence along its border because, "If East Germany could, we could."

Remember, these clowns are the new heart and soul of the Republican party -- the candidates that her highness Sarah Palin taunts the GOP about, saying that it needs to nut-up and invest more "political capital" in them, or risk having a new splinter party emerge, completely separate from the GOP that exists now.

Because Palin has a proven track record of winning national elections and isn't just a reality TV star high on fame and willing to sabotage the Republicans over and over again as long as it feeds her insatiable narcissism. She's someone sane people in the party should definitely be listening to.

Quote of the Day

"Nancy Karibjanian: What opinions, of late, that have come from our high court, do you most object to?

Christine O'Donnell: Oh, gosh. Um, give me a specific one. I'm sorry.

Karibjanian: Actually, I can't, because I need you to tell me which ones you object to.

O'Donnell: Um, I'm very sorry, right off the top of my head, I know that there are a lot, but I'll put it up on my website, I promise you.

Wolf Biltzer: We know that you disagree with Roe v. Wade.

O'Donnell: Yeah, but she said a recent one.

Blitzer: That's relatively recent.

O'Donnell: She said 'of late.' But yeah. Well, Roe v. Wade would not put the power -- It's not recent, it's 30-something years old --

Blitzer: But since then, have there been any other Supreme Court decisions?

O'Donnell: Well, let me say about Roe v. Wade -- If that were overturned, would not make abortion illegal in the United States, it would put the power back to the states.

Blitzer: But besides that decision, anything else you disagree with?

O'Donnell: Oh, there are several when it comes to pornography, when it comes to court decisions -- not to Supreme Court, but federal court decisions to give terrorists Mirandize rights. There are a lot of things I believe -- This California decision to overturn Don't Ask, Don't Tell. I believe there are a lot of federal judges legislating from the bench.

Blitzer: That wasn't the Supreme Court. That was a lower --

O'Donnell: That was a federal judge. That's what I said. In California."

-- From last night's televised debate on CNN between Delaware Senate candidates Christine O'Donnell and Chris Coons

You know that scene in The Lost World where the tyrannosaurus comes bursting out of the cargo hold of the ship after tearing apart the crew, then proceeds to stomp off toward downtown San Diego while people scream and panic all around it -- and Ian Malcolm leans in to Peter Ludlow and says, "Now you're John Hammond"?

Well, that nationally televised moment last night when Christine O'Donnell completely melted down and you could practically see the gears inside her pea brain crunch to a halt, all I wanted to say was, "Now you're Sarah Palin."

That being said, I was thinking yesterday that even though it really does look like -- as with her mentor -- she doesn't stand a chance of making it to Washington through the usual channels, it probably doesn't matter anymore. Christine O'Donnell -- once again, like her mentor before her -- is now a celebrity, which means that if she wants it that way, we'll likely be saddled with her in one form or another for months if not years to come.

I will give O'Donnell one thing, though: I get the impression that she's a genuinely nice person and not half the mindless machine of naked ambition and opportunism that her personal Svengali is, so maybe if we're lucky she won't really know how to milk her new reality TV star status and will fade away into the annals of pop culture ephemera -- a mere object lesson to future generations, reminding them of a time when the political landscape was suddenly ruled by people with a whole lot of ideologic rhetoric and unfocused outrage, but not a lot of smarts.

Quote of the Day

"Andrew's prowess is legendary."

-- Republican/Tea Party candidate for governor of New York and comedic gift-that-keeps-on-giving Carl Paladino on his opponent, Andrew Cuomo

I swear, if politics didn't actually have very real and potentially detrimental consequences, I'd personally fly back to New York and vote for Paladino. For sheer entertainment value, this guy bests Christine "I Am Not a Witch" O'Donnell by the length of a Quidditch field.

Picture of the Week

The witchcraft, the lack of willingness to have sex, the uncanny ability to still function without so much as a brain cell in her head -- suddenly it all makes sense.

And no, that's not photoshopped; that really is Christine O'Donnell and Ozzy, side by side, circa 2002.

Witch Hunt

You gotta love the folks on the right.

They'll totally twist themselves into knots over Christine O'Donnell admitting that she was once an emo kid while ignoring the fact she's still a moron.

The Huffington Post: Mike Pence Says Christine O'Donnell Has "An Obligation To Explain" Witchcraft Comments/9.20.10

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Credit as always to Greg, master of the Kobra Kai Photoshop Dojo, San Fernando Valley, CA.

Sunday Sacrilege

"Sex is a covenant between a man and a woman and God."

-- Christine O'Donnell

Really?

Wouldn't a threesome with God be a little, I don't know, intimidating? I mean, there you are with your insignificant man-parts while God's pulling a Dr. Manhattan on her, making her come from halfway across the room -- all while she's calling out his name over and over.

Plus, I have to imagine that God semen is powerful stuff. Probably burns right through you like Alien blood. You'd have to make sure you're out of the line of fire.

Quote of the Day

"(It's a) misconception that you, quote unquote, can't legislate morality."

-- Newly christened Senate candidate and Master of Her Domain Christine O'Donnell, in an interview from 1996

I'm already in love with this woman.

Like Palin before her, she's gonna become the wind beneath my blogging wings.

Quote of the Day

"Here's my question: if she's so against masturbation, what's up with this doomed run for the Senate? No matter how much they claim the tea party is all about lower taxes, it's obvious the tea party is a dry erase board for all of the crazy shit the far-right has wanted to mainstream for decades."

-- Bob Cesca, reacting to Christine O'Donnell's victory over Ben Franklin descendent Mike Castle in yesterday's Republican primary (which effectively torched the GOP's chances of taking Delaware in the general election) and riffing on this revealing little jewel: