O'Donnell's father was a former Bozo the Clown

[LynneSin]

I'm really not kidding with this one although it was a very short-lived gig.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/104553259.html?cmpid=15585797

Christine O'Donnell's dad: A local Bozo

America may still be searching for solutions for high unemployment, the outsourcing of jobs to Asia and our addiction to foreign oil.

But we're finally getting to the bottom of "Bozogate" - one of the more bizarre political kerfuffles of a bizarre 2010 midterm election.

No joke - the TV clown "scandal" loomed as a new controversy flaring this week over whether GOP Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, under fire for past statements on everything from her college resume to witchcraft, was at it again.

The issue: Whether her dad, now 70 and living in South Jersey, really played "Bozo the Clown" on Philadelphia TV in the 1960s, as claimed in a profile of the candidate.

Yesterday, in a telephone interview from his home in Moorestown, a bemused Daniel O'Donnell filled in the blanks about his very brief stint as a substitute "Bozo the Clown" on the small Jenkintown UHF station that eventually became Fox 29.

The father of the 41-year-old Senate candidate - who raced from Delaware obscurity to national obsession in a few weeks - said he was only a short-timer in the late 1960s when the regular actor who played Bozo on WIBF-TV was called away to a gig on Broadway

[wtmusic]

1. Witches, clowns, masturbation...what's next?

Who knew politics would be this entertaining? :shrug:

[arbusto_baboso]

3. O'Donnell really is the perfect Republican, isn't she?

She manages to actually live pretty much every stereotype we have of Republicans.

[rocktivity]

2. Entertaining children is legal, upright, respectable work

And now I know where Christine gets her comedic flair.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[BigAnth]

4. Faux-Zo

I almost fell off the couch laughing at Keith Olberman the other night when he was reporting on this story. He commented that while Mr. O'Donnel did play Bozo the Clown, he wasn't an official Bozo, and thus could perhaps be referred to as a "Faux-Zo". Funniest thing that I've heard in a long, long time.

I moved to Wisconsin from Wilmignton DE a couple of years ago and wish that I were back in Delaware for this election. Of course, I'm glad to be able to support Russ Feingold here in Wisconsin. Had a blast watching Rachel Madow from the Deer Park the other night.

Go Chris Coons!

[BlueIdaho]

5. Part time Bozo...

Kinda like she's a part time human.

[jobycom]

6. Dang. She's actually pretty cool, once you get past the pandering, ignorant political views.

I former witch, kinda cute, with an entertainment background... I dated someone like her once. Come to think of it, I've dated a couple of women like her.

[CLANG]

7. Damn, was she involved with those Killer Klowns from outerspace?

[joeybee12]

8. Former? n/t

[Brother Buzz]

9. Christine O'Donnell padded her father's résumé too

You have to credit her for one thing, she's consistent.

:rofl:

[Zephie]

10. Just further justification of my coulrophobia

Not only are clowns themselves terrifying, but their offspring are insane!

[flakey_foont]

11. this just keeps getting better and better

as we go deeper down the rabbit hole

how long until we see an ad from her beginning 'I am not a clown" ?

[catbyte]

12. Actually, he wasn't even a real Bozo

He was a substitute Bozo when the real Bozo had a gig away from the studio. In order to be a real Bozo you had to go someplace for training, which her dad didn't do. So, he wasn't a real Bozo, only a partial Bozo, unlike his daughter who's one through and through!

Diane
Anishnabe in MI

[catbyte]

13. True, real Bozos were mad at O'Donnell because dad wasn't one

[spanone]

14. cirque du o'donnell