It takes some work being a dimmer bulb than the Wasilla Wingnut, but O’Donnell is up for the task:
Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell is asking voters to give her a second look. At a candidate forum sponsored by a group of local Republicans, O’Donnell blamed her campaign’s recent troubles on unfair coverage in the “liberal media.”
“I’ve put my name on the line. And I’ve taken a lot of hits … a lot of character assassination,” O’Donnell said.
All people are doing is showing videotapes of you talking.
Roger Moore
But that’s not fair. Republicans shouldn’t be held accountable for
things they saidanything; that’s only supposed to happen to Democrats.Brian S (formerly Incertus)
Being held to account for what you’ve said in the past is something that’s only done to Democrats, I thought. Did I miss a memo?
DonkeyKong
What do you call it when the character assassins accuse the character assassins?
Lolis
O’Donnell is still way smarter than Palin. At least she can appear on camera and answer questions unscripted without it being a word salad. O’Donnell has a dumb worldview like Palin, but at least she doesn’t need a palm-prompter.
Zifnab
At it is completely destroying any positive impressions people have of her. Ergo, character assassination.
arguingwithsignposts
I am beginning to suspect that the front pager over at GOS (Lewison?) has it right. GOPers still do not understand the concept of video archives.
stuckinred
Speaking of fucking idiots, wonder how this is gonna play wit Mitt?
Mark
To quote Chris Rock: “People saying Tupac was assassinated. Biggie was assassinated. No, no, no. Martin Luther King was assassinated. JFK was assassinated. Them ******s got shot.”
Davis X. Machina
Every pixel, every word published on this non-race makes it easier for Buck, for Johnson, for Toomey, for McMahon, to win. She dominates the coverage, they win their races.
O’Connell’s the Judas goat.
suzanne
@stuckinred: Considering what this motherfucker had to say this week, I’m pretty sure a lot of people (sane and otherwise) won’t disagree.
SpotWeld
Dredging though 3rd hand scuttlebutt about someone’s military career is character assassination.
Saying that someone is of foreign birth after *ample* proof of citizenship is available is character assassination.
I’ll even agree that speculating that someone’s daughter is in fact their granddaughter is possibly character assassination.
People playing (unedited) videos of your own words is not character assassination
slag
I’m pretty sure O’Donnell’s character was assassinated a long time ago. And she hid the body really, really well.
suzanne
Though this reminds me of Boobie Prejean pissing and crying about “being silenced”. I remember thinking to myself, “You’re not being silenced, you’re being DISCREDITED. Feel free to keep flapping your cockholster all you like.”
Nylund
@stuckinred:
Not only Mitt, but Glenn Beck is Mormon as well.
Nylund
With regard to O’Donnell its more like assisted suicide than an assassination.
El Cid
At least she hasn’t been attacked by “gotcha” journalism with harsh, base, attempted smear questions like “What newspapers do you read?”
danimal
At first we considered character assassination, but after awhile it became evident that this was a suicide.
Wile E. Quixote
@stuckinred:
It gets better. Here’s the full quote.
http://www.newsreview.com/reno/content?oid=1854545
Hey, do you know who else has made “secret promises” to the LDS church? No damnit, not Hitler, Glenn Beck. I wonder if we can get an LDS/Evangelical holy war going. That would be fun to watch.
stuckinred
@suzanne: Yea, fuck all of em with a dull deer antler.
Restrung
@slag:
I think you’re getting to the nut.
danimal
@Nylund – beat me to the punch, I see.
JGabriel
John Cole:
I don’t think O’Donnell actually is dumber than Palin. Instead, I think Palin is dumber, but in ways that keep her more electable. Palin would never be intellectually curious enough about anything outside her world of conforming, acceptable, behavior to even flirt with Wicca.
Palin is dumber. She’s just more closed minded and meaner than O’Donnell. Which is saying a lot, about both Palin and the right wing electorate.
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Ash Can
Sorta like Sharron Angle and Fox “News” soiling themselves over Democrats replaying their videos. “We know we’re fuckwits! You guys don’t have to rub it in!”
And speaking of Angle, @stuckinred: I wonder how many Mormons, and people who hold Mormons in high regard because of their solid
fucked upconservative American values, reside in Nevada. Seems to me another segment of her supporters just got cut loose with that poetry — unless, of course, said pastor gets Wrighted now.Ash Can
@Nylund: Mealy-mouthed “I’m sure Sharron doesn’t share those views” from Romney, and crickets from Beck. Take it to the bank.
batgirl
@stuckinred: Forget Mitt. Get this out in commercials. Nevada has a lot of Mormons!
fucen tarmal
i’m affraid the people who would otherwise vote against o’donnell will stay home and jerk off, or go straight home from work on election day, to jerk off, and that she might benefit from the jerk-offs in the electorate…
henceforth known as the o’donnell effect.
stuckinred
@batgirl: OK!
Brian S (formerly Incertus)
@Davis X. Machina: I worry about this a little, especially with Angle. She was the crazy one taking the heat off everyone else before O’Donnell came along. But I figure that at some point in the next few weeks, she’ll some up with some story about how the federal government is spreading syphilis via PBS broadcasts or C-SPAN or something like that and Reid will make it through.
John Bird
She just needs to move. Satanic Panic in 2010? Texas is DROOLING for that shit.
I am about as ambivalent about Maher as anyone else on Earth with an opinion of him, but I do love the strategy.
That’s a staggering threat.
slag
@Restrung:
Well, then the nut shouldn’t be so thin-skinned. Especially if she wants to be in politics. Besides, I’m not even in her district. I’m sure other people are getting to her a lot more than I am.
Omnes Omnibus
@Brian S (formerly Incertus): The crazy should still be out there in the local communities.
Ash Can
@John Bird: That’s awesome.
Boots Day
In a way, O’Donnell has dodged a bullet. All the stuff about witchcraft and jilling off has captured people’s imaginations, and as a result, no one talks about her inability to ever hold a job, the trail of debts she’s left behind her, her probably illegal use of campaign funds, the lies she’s had on her resume for years…. The serious stuff has hardly been hashed over at all.
stuckinred
@Boots Day: I dunno, Rachel was all over it the other night from the Tuna Burger joynt in NEW ARK!
Annie
Republican accountability — not. Just listen to what I say and not what I do.
O’Donnell. Don’t pay taxes and probably live illegally off of campaign funds. Oops. Never really attended the schools I claimed, but it is so low of the media to point this out. Never really held a job, but, seriously, who really cares.
Miller and Johnson and Bachmann. Hate government welfare except for me and my wife and my family. But, seriously, who doesn’t hate the government?
Angle. Have government sponsored health care (don’t really have to worry about pre-existing conditions or unemployment suckers), but that is me, not you. Seriously voters — part of being Christian is learning how to suffer.
Ailuridae
@Ash Can:
A fair number of mormons resides in NV – it is part of the Deseret
Ash Can
@Ailuridae: Whoops.
Madeline
Man pants. Wasn’t O’Donnell the one who told Castle to put his man pants on when he complained about her assassinating his character?
fucen tarmal
@Boots Day:
i get what you are saying, o’donnell’s problems are many, and they are great. in a long election season, each one could have at least a week in the spot light, but this is a compressed election in a small state(one hopes the only way a horrible idea with a gop label could get elected, wait let me turn off kindergarten terminator, that movie sucked)
anyway, every time we on the left insist that whatever flaw is being spotlighted isn’t the issue, its this that, the other or the other other thing, we create a white noise that makes any attack less resonate.
the gop wins because they hammer one or two flaws, even if they are invented, non-stop, they create the identity for the opposing candidate…
her views on masturbation may well be the most trivial aspects of her crazy, but its one that exploits easy, and its fun.
fucen tarmal
@Boots Day:
i get what you are saying, o’donnell’s problems are many, and they are great. in a long election season, each one could have at least a week in the spot light, but this is a compressed election in a small state(one hopes the only way a horrible idea with a gop label could get elected, wait let me turn off kindergarten terminator, that movie sucked)
anyway, every time we on the left insist that whatever flaw is being spotlighted isn’t the issue, its this that, the other or the other other thing, we create a white noise that makes any attack less resonate.
the gop wins because they hammer one or two flaws, even if they are invented, non-stop, they create the identity for the opposing candidate…
her views on masturbation may well be the most trivial aspects of her crazy, but its one that exploits easy, and its fun.
Bubblegum Tate
@Wile E. Quixote:
Wait…what?
Ron
Just saw another shining example of this on Rachel Maddow tonight. Some nutjob running against DeFazio in Oregon agreed to come on her show (why, I have no idea) and accused Rachel of lying when she was reading his words from his newsletter.
Seebach
@John Bird: God bless Bill Maher.
b-psycho
If she’s even remotely internet savvy, she, a person most well known for being anti-sex & anti masturbation, might want to look up what “Pearl necklace” means in Urban-Dictionary before wearing one.
+enough, though ess than I expected to hit that kamrj. GOODNIGHYTT!
Asshole
@fucen tarmal:
A small, deeply blue state that loves Castle and hates this nutter bitch.
Enjoy her while she lasts, you won’t have her to kick around for much longer. Unless she goes viral on the wingnut welfare circuit, of course.
BGinCHI
Let’s review.
This time, O’Donnell is Monica Lewinsky, only now instead of blowing the President, she’s blowing the voters.
But honestly, I don’t think she’s doing it right.
I think she’s actually blowing on it.
Bobby Thomson
Compared to the Republican running for the at large seat in Delaware, this is mild. In the debate against former Dem. Lt. Gov. John Carney, the Koch Party Republican literally made a “joke” about actual assassination:
MODERATOR: if one of you is elected this November…
URK: (interrupting) Of course one of us will be elected! Are you suggesting there will be an assassination attempt or something (chuckling weakly at own joke).
Thoughtcrime
Training film for Republican denial tactic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZmnXIN_Rb4
The Other Ian
Often in full context. This isn’t character assassination via quote mining. The longer she goes on talking the more ridiculous she sounds.
SRW1
@DonkeyKong:
“What do you call it when the character assassins accuse the character assassins? “
A futile cycle?
Mr Sketchy
While I’m willing to admit O’Donnell is a character… I’m not sure it’s the kind of character that can be ‘assassinated’. Unless you consider Bugs Bunny assassinated Donald Duck when he handed him the cartoon bomb!
Comrade Sock Puppet of the Great Satan
“But that’s not fair. Republicans shouldn’t be held accountable for things they said anything; that’s only supposed to happen to Democrats.”
Well, GOPers using their ninja mind-reading skillz, know that even if they have lifelong careers dedicated to their country, all Dems secretly want to turn America into an Islamic Socialist Swedish State and use the constitution to snort coke from and mop the remains of our Gay Abortions.
So making shit up about Democrats is a patriotic thing to do. Because.
Comrade Sock Puppet of the Great Satan
“Enjoy her while she lasts, you won’t have her to kick around for much longer. Unless she goes viral on the wingnut welfare circuit, of course.”
She’s already had a fair round with Maher, so has TV entertainment experience, is moderately attractive, and can be relied to say crazy shit that gets attention and is red meat for Wingnut. I see a Fox contract in the distance.
Malkin and Ingraham must be nervous with this oversupply of wingnut women, though.