Christine O'Donnell: Piers Morgan was sexually harassing me

[jpak]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/08/christine-odonnell-piers-morgan-was-sexually-harassing-me.html

Christine O'Donnell is defending her decision to walk off Piers Morgan's CNN show by saying he was asking sexually harassing questions -- including "sex questions that he would not ask of a man."

The former U.S. Senate candidate from Delaware has said that women in politics -- particularly Republican women -- are held to a double standard and suggested that that's precisely what happened Wednesday night when she and her staff put a halt to the interview. She said on the "Today Show Friday morning that the public was misled to believe that it was the questions Morgan was asking about her position on gay marriage and the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that drove her off the set.

"It was not about the questions of gay marriages, as the producer very dishonestly tried to portray it. It was ... the very inappropriate, creepy line of questioning leading up to that. And I think that I was a very good sport for the first 20 minutes," she said. But it was questions that he'd asked just moments before the gay rights issues -- including one about masturbation -- that unnerved her. "Do you still think masturbation is wrong?" he asked, followed by "Have you committed lust in your heart?"

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"When they're sitting there pressing you on personal intimate questions and you're saying, 'I don't want to go there,' he could have said, 'What's your mother's name?' and I would have been like, 'Come on, let's stop!' I wanted to stop that borderline sexual harassment that was going on. It was inappropriate and he wasn't stopping."

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[ljm2002]

1. Pathetic!!!

And it illustrates the mindset of the rabid right wing so-called "Christians": any question about gays is a "sex question".

What a load of horse crap.

[arbusto_baboso]

2. Sorry, but her public statements make Morgan's questions perfectly valid.

This is just another case of right-wingers crying "How dare you use my own actual words against me?!?!?!?"

[Rex]

3. Okay, so she is just really stupid.

That clears up that question.

[ET Awful]

4. Little tip for you Witchy-poo . . . if YOU made your positions public in mass media

such as television, asking you about those same beliefs later isn't harassment.

YOU campaigned against masturbation and said it WAS "lust in your heart". To ask you if you still believe what YOU stated isn't harassment, it's clarification of a position you personally promoted.

Frickin' loser.

[gratuitous]

5. I saw her on the Toady Show

Christine O'Donnell seems to be getting more polished, I'll give her that. Early on, there was some confusion as O'Donnell was answering a question, and then stumbled on her response. She put her hand up to her earpiece and muttered to the interviewer something about "Oh, I thought you were saying something." For myself, I thought, "Hearing voices in your head again, Christine?" Not my most charitable moment.

Anyway, O'Donnell was as self-serving and -justifying as you might expect, and had many things to say about the horrible Piers Morgan and his endless quest for ratings. When the interviewer (Savannah Guthrie?) mentioned that O'Donnell was making the talk show rounds in a similar quest to hawk her book, O'Donnell somehow distinguished her money-grubbing from Morgan's. She also expertly deflected the interviewer's observation that Morgan had simply been asking O'Donnell about topics she herself wrote about in her book. She was rather coy about whether she would run for office again.

I would have really liked to hear a question about what Ms. O'Donnell is doing to earn a living right now. What is she qualified to do? How does she pay her bills?

[sinkingfeeling]

6. She just forgot she wasn't on Fox where she tells them what to ask her.

[louis-t]

7. "Yer bein' inappropriate, Larry"