Tea Party princess Christine O'Donnell walks off CNN interview

Slightly different scenario and I actually wonder if Fox should ever be directly interviewing Murdoch for any reason. Some weird corporate and journalistic conflicts of interest there.

 

Several of you have made the same point so please consider this response as the same.

I'm not saying she didn't do a terrible job answering or that Piers Morgan was being rude. I have no problem with reporters asking pointed questions and I think they should. My point is that after the second time asking the same question it was clear she wasn't going to respond to the that question. Now she probably should have and it just shows how flaky she is that she didn't. At that point though if the purpose of the interview was a general interview about her book Piers Morgan is wasting his time, O'Donnell's time and the viewers time by continuing to ask about an issue that O'Donnell isn't going to answer. There is no point to continuing to ask except to badger.

My point is that there is a limited time and likely lots of other issues in O'Donnell's book that he could've moved on to. Now maybe O'Donnell doesn't want to answer any of those then that completely falls on her for wasting everyone's time but if the point of this interview was a general piece about her book then it didn't help to get hung up on one issue.

O'Donnell clearly handled this poorly and I am not saying this because I feel sorry for her or that I want to defend her. I am saying that Piers Morgan also did a poor job interviewing. There was nothing wrong with asking her the tough question but as an interviewer he should've realized he wasn't going to get an answer and at that point moved on to other issues. If he wanted to make O'Donnell look bad the first moment she wouldn't answer the question already made her look bad.

 

eh...

She is immature obviously, but Morgan had already bothered her when he pushed her on the masturbation issue. This clip conveniently skips that part so you don't see why she was upset. You see her dodging as being bizarre, but Morgan has just harassed her about views she expressed as a child on masturbation and then basically asked her if she masturbates.

 

I didn't watch the interview (mostly because I find her uninteresting, and to be honest, I don't watch Morgan's show anyway). My two takeaways: she would have probably preferred be interviewed by the Fox "News" stable who would likely pamper her and focus on the anti-Obama, anti-Democrat talking points. And if I thought she was heady enough to do this, I think the "storming off" was staged, since it only would endear her to the Tea Party/Fox "News" crowd who would point to it as another example of "liberal bias" (I am sure they add in the "anti-women, especially anti-conservative woman").

Morgan's biggest fail was having someone on her staff book this interview.

 

because the tea party is trying to find a right wing hottie

 

i can see her point but at the same time, no when you do interviews you don't get to choose the questions. sarah palin has the same dumb ass logic. on the flip side, pierce could have just moved on. also, it depends on what's in the book to judge if the questions were relevant

 

Right before this he was harassing her about masturbation.

 

But he asked the question a few times and she made it clear she wasn't going to answer. This wasn't him following up something but trying to badger her to answer what she made clear she wasn't. At that point what reason is there to keep asking the question?

 

Just to add I personally think O'Donnell's 15 minutes should've been up a while ago. I don't think she or this interview is or should be much of an issue.

 

Her opinions are her own, but come on...
If you wanna write a book about your thoughts whatever they are, but are too scared to have someone call you out on it or question you on it, then you shouldn't be in the spotlight in the first place.

 

So basically then he just wanted to irk her to see how she would react. I guess that passes for journalism these days but maybe its just that I listen to NPR too much but I would actually prefer to try to get some more info than just seeing how an interviewee will act when they are being pestered.

She was given a lot of coverage during the election and was soundly defeated. I think anyone who follows politics has a good sense of what kind of person she is.

 

That is an interesting observation but its one that Piers Morgan already had as soon as she made it clear she wasn't going to answer the question.

Also I still don't see Christine O'Donnell as being that relevant. Someone like Bachmann who is running for President is much more relevant.

 

Isn't Piers supposed to push his guests?

He did a fine job.

 

by push I mean push the envelope