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Who Was In The Right?

Who was in the right?


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I disagree. The typical O'Donnell fan is hardly the typical Piers Morgan fan. By bringing O'Donnell on he has a benefit in hopefully generating new viewers that would previously not have watched his show that may continue to watch it. I disagree entirely that there was no way for Morgan to have any benefit regarding the interview without being able to ask probing questions.

I think Piers Morgan's viewship numbers less than 4 million, not so good.
 
I think the typical Morgan fan is far more likely to be the typical O'Donnell hater. Who is most interested in reading and hearing about Palin, for example? I say it's liberals.

And I see very little chance of O'Donnell's fans ever becoming Piers Morgan fans. I'm sure he sees the same thing. Therefore, the people to target are those who do not like O'donnell, IMO, because I don't think that he has any chance to woo the peopel you are talking about.

Similarly then, what benefit does O'Donnell coming onto his show give her really? If Piers fans only care about attacking her, and O'Donnell fans have little chance of becoming Piers fans, what chance does Pier's fans have of really going out and buying a book that's positive about O'Donnell? I would say Liberals in general are more interested in reading negative things about Palin, but I would imagine Palin's book was bought far more by Conservatives than Liberals. Same for Palin's movie. Liberals were excited to read the articles trashing it, insulting it, pulling out juicy details they could spin out of it, but I didn't see a large rush of Liberals to actually purchase it. If its safe to assume O'Donnell fans wouldn't possibly get hooked on Morgan, I think its reasonable to suggest Pier's fans aren't likely to buy a positive book about O'Donnell.
 
Probably, but that's actually because someone is gaming the system not because of hypocricy.

25 votes for O'Donnell, but only one by an actual member of DP who was logged on at the time the vote was cast. It's a common occurrence whenever the issue relates in some way to gay rights that the poll gets abnormally skewed to the "right". Click the number of votes in the poll results in order to see if this is happening (Just count the number of names by each vote in order to see how many actual forum members voted).

Whoa, there's a way to rig the poll results?
 
O'Donnel is a petulant windbag with an overbearing voice only matched her girth.
A prime example of a 'I'm going to whine and cry to get my own way' brand of liberal.

What a brilliant demonstration of your complete ignorance of the topic! Do you ever actually try to post anything helpful (or relevant, even) to the threads you comment in? Or is trolling all you do?
 
I bet you anything that had this been a liberal politician who walked out, the poll numbers would have been reversed.

Who votes in these polls anyway???
 
O’Donnell walks out of CNN interview – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs



Basically, Piers Morgan was asking her about her stance on gay issues and abstinence, about stuff she had said during her campaign for senate, and in her new book. She got upset and walked off. Was Morgan in the right to ask those questions, was O'Donnal right to think she should be able to control the topic?

This proves she isn't a witch or else she would have cast magic missile.
 
Basically, Piers Morgan was asking her about her stance on gay issues and abstinence, about stuff she had said during her campaign for senate, and in her new book. She got upset and walked off. Was Morgan in the right to ask those questions, was O'Donnal right to think she should be able to control the topic?

If there was some pre-existing agreement to stay away from the controversial issues, she might have been justified in getting angry and walking off. However, I doubt that's the case, as she claimed she wanted to talk about the book (during the interview), and apparently gay rights issues are in her book. Whining that the interviewer should only ask the questions she wants him to ask was particularly stupid. Like a lot of other people in this thread have been saying, if you don't want to be asked tough questions, stay the hell out of the limelight.
 
It's quite weird, even by her own standards.

"...She refused to discuss the subject, even while conceding that it was covered in Troublemaker, the book O'Donnell was promoting on the show.

"You're borderline being a little bit rude," O'Donnell told Morgan when he pressed her on her refusal to address gay marriage. "I don't think it's relevant. It's not a topic I choose to embrace. It's not what I'm championing right now."

Morgan said he was "baffled" at her stance, explaining: "I'm just asking questions based on your own public statements, and now what you've written in your own book."...

...Morgan, meanwhile, remained apparently baffled, retweeting to his 1.1 million followers a journalist's tweet saying: "Christine O'Donnell is the first author in the history of publishing to walk out of a TV interview because the host apparently read her book."

Christine O'Donnell walks off Piers Morgan show | World news | The Guardian
 
Whoa, there's a way to rig the poll results?
It's non-member voters... they don't show up on list. Its possible some random anti-gay dude here logs out and goes on 20 different computers to just vote in this poll... that would be pretty ridiculous.
or there are a lot of O'donnal (sp?) fan's that have just tuned into DP b/c of this news.
 
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Psychic pew-pew destruction!

Hadoken!!

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I never achieved a high enough status to be invited to a national tv show to plug my novels... just a couple of small-town radio shows, lol!... but I had some big-name friends who did. Their publishers even hired PR coaches to teach them how to conduct themselves in live interviews, and how to handle "gotcha" moments, like when someone decides to read an X-rated, out of context sex scene on air then ask if you base your writings on personal experience! No, I'm seriously not kidding. It's the number one gotcha used on female writers of any genre, including mystery/suspense!

Anyway, if any of my big-named friends had behaved in such a petulant, entitled manner after having been awarded the plum opportunity of national coverage, their would have been hell to pay afterward. Publishers and literary agents would be furious, and no matter how much money you make for them, the next time a nationally-aired tv show wants an interview, I guaran-damn-tee they will say that you are not available... but that so-and-so (another big-name author in their stable) is!!

She just proved herself to be exactly what so many people believed she was... a narcissistic bubble-headed bimbo.
 
I never achieved a high enough status to be invited to a national tv show to plug my novels... just a couple of small-town radio shows, lol!... but I had some big-name friends who did. Their publishers even hired PR coaches to teach them how to conduct themselves in live interviews, and how to handle "gotcha" moments, like when someone decides to read an X-rated, out of context sex scene on air then ask if you base your writings on personal experience! No, I'm seriously not kidding. It's the number one gotcha used on female writers of any genre, including mystery/suspense!

Well what's the answer:2razz:
 
I bet you anything that had this been a liberal politician who walked out, the poll numbers would have been reversed.

Actually, it did happen to a liberal politician....Bill Clinton, but instead of walking out, he challenged Chris Wallace on the air.
 
Well what's the answer:2razz:

"Although I draw from personal experience in my writing, I am a storyteller and what I write is fiction. I don't have to kill someone to describe murder, and I don't have to have actual magical powers to write about wizards." *cue sweet smile* :)
 
What a brilliant demonstration of your complete ignorance of the topic! Do you ever actually try to post anything helpful (or relevant, even) to the threads you comment in? Or is trolling all you do?

If you had taken the time to read down a little farther, you would have seen that he realized his mistake and felt kind of silly for making it.

Context is your friend.
 
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