O'DONNELL TROUBLE – AT 5:54 P.M. ET:  More trouble for controversial GOP Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell.  Apparently some old video of her on Bill Maher's show has surfaced, courtesy of Maher, in which she talks about participation in witchcraft.  It's not clear from news reports when this participation occurred, but it certainly wasn't recent, and the descriptions sound more like adolescent pranks.

However, O'Donnell's reaction to the disclosure was amateurish.  She was scheduled to appear on Face the Nation and Fox News Sunday, and cancelled both appearance.  That is dead wrong.  The first thing you do as a candidate when confronted with something embarrassing is to fight back, and publicly.  If the witchcraft occurred three weeks ago, it would spell big trouble.  If it occurred when she was young, people will be tolerant.  It doesn't sound like much.

However, Maher says there's more where this came from, and promises to show more clips of O'Donnell until she agrees to appear on his show.  "It's like a hostage crisis," Maher said, showing his usual class. 

My own sense is that O'Donnell should make a well-prepared appearance on Maher's show, and hit it out of the ball park.  You stand up to a bully, you win.  By canceling appearances, you lose.

Oh, by the way, have you ever noticed how only conservative women are investigated and probed?  If you're a woman on the left, you get an Obama-style pass from the media.  I recall how, many years ago, the media looked the other way when Bella Abzug was in Congress.  This "feminist icon" was known in political circles to abuse women on her staff, as did Betty Friedan, but it was never reported.

I'd love to know more about Nancy Pelosi, and where all the cash comes from.

September 18, 2010