Meat made O'Donnell avoid being Hare Krishna (AP) (VIDEO)

[jefferson_dem]

Clip: Meat made O'Donnell avoid being Hare Krishna

WILMINGTON, Del. — Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell says with a laugh that she tried several religions but skipped becoming a Hare Krishna because she didn't want to be vegetarian in a 1999 interview.

Bill Maher aired the clip of O'Donnell Friday night on his show "Real Time with Bill Maher." The short clip was from an interview on the comedian's former show "Politically Incorrect" from July 9, 1999.

O'Donnell tells Maher that she had dabbled in "every other kind of religion," including witchcraft and Buddhism, before becoming a Christian.

With a laugh, she said: "I would have become a Hare Krishna, but I didn't want to become a vegetarian. And that is honestly the reason why, because I'm Italian and I love meatballs."

It's the third clip of O'Donnell that Maher has shown since she won her state's GOP primary last month.

Reached by phone, O'Donnell campaign spokesman Chris Merola had no immediate comment.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h0M_oNc5C5tKwVoz5hTPddoJ9jBAD9IJC9RO0?docId=D9IJC9RO0

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vohTmhPL7us

[Kookaburra]

1. Since when is O'Donnell an Italian name?

I know she could mean she has some Italian heritage, but given her history of lies, it just makes me wonder.

Or maybe she really does not know the difference between Italian and Irish? I can see how a dumb-bunny could get confused. They both start with "I" afterall.

[rug]

2. Her mother's Italian.

Here's an interesting article on her background.

"On the campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University, O'Donnell — then an openly promiscuous partier with theater aspirations — rediscovered her faith and chose to live a life of chastity. O'Donnell was drinking too much and having sex with guys with whom there wasn't a strong emotional connection when she had an epiphany and chose to live a life of chastity, she said in a 2004 interview."

http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20100916/UPDATES01/100916020/Tea-Party-s-newest-darling-turned-her-life-around-in-Morris-County-NJ

[Kookaburra]

3. I figured it out, but still like to think she's too dumb

to know the difference.

Epiphanies are fine. Everyone is entitled to believe and live his/her life as he/she sees fit. It's when they try to legislate their religion that I start to take offense.

Plus, I was responding to her history of lies, and how incongruent is sounded for a person named O'Donnell to proclaim "I'm Italian". If it had been anyone else, I probably wouldn't even have noticed.

:silly:

[Teaser]

6. "drinking too much and having sex with guys with whom there wasn't a strong emotional connection"

my problem is that my college days were decidedly the opposite.

[Xipe Totec]

4. ...

[saltpoint]

5. When meatballs are the prohibitive variable in a life

decision about the world's major faith traditions, you know the seeker in question is quite possibly an idiot.

[theothersnippywshrub]

7. Maybe her love of meatballs led her to becoming a Tea Bagger.

She appears to have some major Tea Bagging abilities.

[tanyev]

8. A follower in search of something to tell her what she should do.

[treestar]

9. So if she felt like eating meat on Fridays, she wouldn't be a Catholic?

Or if she felt like having sex without marriage, she wouldn't be a Christian?

She is so stupid she doesn't even know how stupid she is.

[Onlooker]

10. If wine is the blood, wafers are the flesh, what do you think meatballs are? n/t