Future US Senator(!?) Christine O'Donnell on EVOLUTION: 'Politically Incorrect', 1998

[ProgressiveEconomist]

This is my transcript of the abbreviated O'Donnell clip Bill Maher aired tonight, as he promised last week:

WHAT'S YOUR OPINION?

"O'DONNELL: Evolution is a myth, and even Darwin ...

MAHER: Have you ever looked at a monkey?

O'DONNELL: Then why aren't monkeys STILL evolving into humans?"

[brewens]

1. Now that you mention it, I've never seen a fish grow legs and

walk out of a stream. They'd be a heck of a lot easier to catch if they did that.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

7. Can you imagine COD as a US Senator, voting on science and education initiatives?

[gratuitous]

2. If you think O'Donnell wins her race

I will sell you my interest in the Brooklyn Bridge. Got the deed right here.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

4. The "(!?)" in the thread title was meant to express doubt and disbelief. But an O'Donnell

win still is a possibility, isn't it? IMO just about anything is possible politically in this nutty country this year.

[Crazy Dave]

3. You think Tina Fey can also do a good O'Donnell?

I'd love to see it!

[ProgressiveEconomist]

5. Wouldn't they have to bring Tina back every week to do it? I think this may be an opportunity

to one of the less-tested newer cast members. Is Nasim Pedraz's nose too big for her to do a convincing COD?

[Motown_Johnny]

11. How about Megan Mullally for this one?

Megan is far more attractive, but then so is Tina Fey when compared to Sarah Palin. I think she would be perfect.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

13. She'd be perfect! I forgot about her. Is she even still part of the cast?

[BolivarianHero]

6. Good for a few laughs...

It's not anything new for people familiar with the GOPeons and the Religious Reich.

[sakabatou]

8. *facepalm*

[dimbear]

9. When you assume the earth is 6000 years old, it's natural that

evolution would have to run a little faster than 'scientists' think it did.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

10. Is that part of 'creationist' doctrine? The earth is 6000 years old?

Does that come from totaling up all the "begats" in the book of Genesis?

[The Magistrate]

12. Pretty Much, Sir: One Bishop Usher Did The Calculations A Few Centuries Back

Narrowed it down to a date in October, if recollection serves; it has been a while....

[Warren DeMontague]

15. It was probably Halloween.

Boy, that would mess with their heads, wouldn't it.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

16. Thanks for that google keyword. October 23, 4004 BC, according to

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/ussher.html .

Live and learn!

[The Magistrate]

17. Thank You For Checking, Sir: Good To Know The Pudding In The Skull Still Works

"The body remembers what the mind forgets."

[ProgressiveEconomist]

18. We all must have heard the 6000-yr estimate when we saw 'Inhert the Wind'.

That law school link I posted is quite erudite, isn't it?

[The Magistrate]

19. It Is An Interesting Read, Sir

By the fellow's own lights, he did good work.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

20. Kick!

[sakabatou]

23. CDK007 did a video on that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mPPnN1c0jk

[Warren DeMontague]

14. How dare you mock her deeply held, completely batshit insane, stupid clusterfuck set of beliefs.

It's this religious intolerance that alienates values voters, makes us lose elections, and causes toast imprinted with pictures of Jesus riding a dinosaur to get moldy before its time.

[LeftishBrit]

21. Why don't right-wingers ever seem to evolve into humans?

[Skip_In_Boulder]

22. Christine, monkeys are still evolving into humans

And right now, you're the half-way point.