# Christine O'Donnell Walks Off Piers Morgan Set **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-walks-off-piers-morgan-set/593101 "2011-08-18T01:51:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-walks-off-piers-morgan-set/593101/61 "2011-08-18T23:46:26Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Btw, did anyone else see Anderson get the giggles talking about Gerard Depardue? That was pretty frikkin’ amusing. yes, i did. it was very amusing. him gasping out that it will haunt him on you tube. ah, yes, mr. cooper, it surely will. john king is giving him a bit of a poke on it right now. anderson may even show up on the rediculist. departwo. tee hee hee. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-walks-off-piers-morgan-set/593101/62 "2011-08-18T23:51:16Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > And he seemed to enjoy her discomfort. Oh, it was THAT Piers Morgan. The poor man’s Simon Cowell. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-walks-off-piers-morgan-set/593101/63 "2011-08-19T00:01:59Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > They don’t. There is no U.S. equivalent to the likes of of Jeremy Paxman or (the guy who really started the tradition in Britain) Robin Day. This, frankly, is one of the reasons for the awful state of American politics. In Britain the most powerful of politicians (of all major parties), are subjected regularly to aggressive, probing, extended interviewing on national TV, a situation where they cannot get away with just the sound bites and slogans that have become almost the entirety of American political campaigning. Because of this, I think Britain is relatively safe from having an intellectually vapid movements like the Tea Party gain the sort of real power that it now has in America. British Conservatives (and, indeed, lefties) actually have to be coherent. To be fair, their political system is different and doesn’t abide fools in government. Our standards for good governance isn’t the media’s responsibility. Watch Parliamentary debate one night on CSPAN, it’s crazy. The Prime Minister has to field questions as varied as terrorism, welfare and Aids research while getting heckled. He doesn’t have responses prepared, he doesn’t get to take a break to find out how best to spin his party’s position, he doesn’t get to storm off if he doesn’t like the question. I find it odd American public schools focus more on speech skills than our Limey cousins yet we ask so much less from our politicians. Is it because we’re a larger more diverse nation leading to misunderstanding and problems translating inclusiveness? Or are we still having flashbacks from the Style-over-Substance battle of Kennedy and Nixon. Has there been a silly ‘Flag Pin’ debacle lately in Britain? Gordon Brown’s ‘bigoted women’ was close, but that was a shitty thing to say and he deserved the heat for sounding insensitive. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-walks-off-piers-morgan-set/593101/64 "2011-08-19T00:21:04Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > Of course it was staged. > > Attention whores like Christine O’Donnell don’t willingly give up their moment(s) in the spotlight or 15 minutes of fame unless it’s part of a ploy to get even more publicity (or sell more books/rake in more donations/garner more TV appearance offers) in the long run by doing so. I think you’re giving O’Donnell too much credit. She’s not some evil-genius, plotting a Howard Stern like media take over. She’s a career … um … something. What the hell does she do for a living anyway? Now the guy who stood in front of the camera? Him. I’d bet he’s of Dr. No fiber. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-walks-off-piers-morgan-set/593101/65 "2011-08-19T01:40:56Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > Of course it was staged. > > Attention whores like Christine O’Donnell don’t willingly give up their moment(s) in the spotlight or 15 minutes of fame unless it’s part of a ploy to get even more publicity (or sell more books/rake in more donations/garner more TV appearance offers) in the long run by doing so. You are talking,here, about and woman who took out a political ad to say I am not a witch," and killed her electoral chances. O’Donnell is not a brilliant manipulator of the media. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-walks-off-piers-morgan-set/593101/66 "2011-08-19T01:50:01Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > To be fair, their political system is different and doesn’t abide fools in government. Are you saying that you are cool with the fact that the American system does abide fools in government? > [@Sitnam](#): > > Our standards for good governance isn’t the media’s responsibility. Bur why not? Maybe the media, as the major center of power that they are, _should_ take some responsibility. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-walks-off-piers-morgan-set/593101/67 "2011-08-19T02:06:27Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I think you’re giving O’Donnell too much credit. She’s not some evil-genius, plotting a Howard Stern like media take over. She’s a career … um … something. What the hell does she do for a living anyway? Why, she runs for office every couple of years and lives off the campaign donations, doesn’t she? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-walks-off-piers-morgan-set/593101/68 "2011-08-19T06:30:39Z")
Yup, she’s basically a very successful panhandler. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-walks-off-piers-morgan-set/593101/69 "2011-08-19T14:25:17Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > Are you saying that you are cool with the fact that the American system does abide fools in government? No, but to fix that the system needs to be changed. Require every Congressman to be present during speeches, limit their speaking time, allow cross, demand hard data and make it all available to the public. > [@njtt](#): > > Bur why not? Maybe the media, as the major center of power that they are, _should_ take some responsibility. I don’t recall media being mentioned in The Constitution. That they have the power to twist the message of our elected officials is not as relevant as the fact we seem to want that. It’s our collective fault we buy crap, don’t blame the crap salesman. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-walks-off-piers-morgan-set/593101/70 "2011-08-19T15:19:02Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > I don’t recall media being mentioned in The Constitution. Well, there is that mention in the First Amendment of “the press.” ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-walks-off-piers-morgan-set/593101/71 "2011-08-19T20:31:49Z")
Now the story is that Pier’s questions about her opinions in her book were “creepy” and “boarderline sexual harrassment”. Riiiight. [http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44202104/ns/today-entertainment/](http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44202104/ns/today-entertainment/) ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-walks-off-piers-morgan-set/593101/72 "2011-08-19T20:42:17Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Our standards for good governance isn’t the media’s responsibility. I’d argue, actually, that it is - ‘freedom of the press’ isn’t enshrined in the Constitution so that various corporations have it easier making money. America has a fine tradition of a muckraking press. Of course, now the muck they rake is celebrities instead of politicians. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-walks-off-piers-morgan-set/593101.md?page=3)