Context for Bill Maher video referencing a teen-age experience of Christine O'Donnell's now a pr stunt to get her back on his show

9/18/10, "Bill Maher's witch hunt, and the missing context for O'Donnell's remarks, including O'Donnell's response," by Michelle Malkin

"Yes, it’s tired old liberal “comedian” Bill Maher trying to get Senate GOP primary candidate Christine O’Donnell to come on his show by baiting her with a brief video clip in which she mentions having “dabbled” in “witchcraft” and hung around people who practiced it.

• The left-wing blogs (and a few short-sighted rightie ones) are having a field day. What they all seem to have missed is the context for the discussion. The AP says the “context of what led to the comment is not clear.”

But it is if you paid close attention to the clip:

At 1:03 in the video, one of the panelists on the show

• criticizes O’Donnell for criticizing Halloween —
  

“Wait a minute, I love this, you’re a witch, you go ‘Halloween is bad,’ I’m not the witch, I mean wait a minute.” She responds by explaining that

she opposes witchcraft because she has had first-hand experience with what they do.

• So, she tried it. She rejected it. And she learned from it.

Somehow, this Maher-edited clip warrants a declaration from my friend John Hinderaker at Power Line that O’Donnell’s career is “RIP.”

• Nonsense. She has nothing to be ashamed of — except, perhaps, for going on Maher’s show so many times.
  

He promises to release 22 more clips until she sits down with him in front of the cameras and brags, in typical TV chauvinist fashion,

• that he “created her” and that she “owe[s]” him.

Ignore the Hollywood attention troll. Focus on the campaign, the voters of Delaware, and the bearded Marxist opponent who’s

• the real out-of-touch extremist in the race.

Update: Excellent comeback…

Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell responded to old clips that surfaced over the weekend where she said she had once “dabbled in witchcraft,” clarifying at a GOP picnic in Delaware Sunday,

“I was in high school, how many of you didn’t hang out with questionable folks in high school? But no, There’s been no witchcraft since, if there was,

• Karl Rove would be a supporter.”"

An entrenched Beltway professional politician is gone. The job was never meant to be a lifetime appointment, but congress won't enact term limits for themselves. Castle had to go for other reasons, one of which was his support of cap and trade. This is not an ideological or philosophical issue. If you read about it, you'll find it's the greatest scam perpetrated in history by crooked politicians. Someone new was needed. ed.
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