Christine O’Donnell Knocked By Hosts For Backing Out Of Sunday Shows (VIDEO)

09/20/2010 9:35 am 0 comments

Source: Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post

Delaware GOP Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell was scheduled to appear on two national Sunday morning talk shows today but canceled at the last minute after a video of her saying in 1999 that she once “dabbled in witchcraft” began making the rounds.

Spurned hosts Chris Wallace of “Fox News Sunday” and Bob Schieffer of CBS’s “Face the Nation” both called O’Donnell out for not coming on their shows. Wallace noted with suspicion the fact that her campaign gave the show conflicting answers for canceling:

WALLACE: This is not the program we were planning to bring you. Christine O’Donnell, the surprise winner of the Republican Senate primary in Delaware, agreed to come here live in Washington today to take our questions. However, late Friday night ,her campaign canceled, saying O’Donnell was “exhausted” and had to return to Delaware. Saturday morning, O’Donnell called me and said this: “I got-triple booked. I had been invited to go to church and then a picnic. I have to keep my priorities to Delaware voters.”

On CBS, Schieffer said O’Donnell’s campaign denied that the reason they backed out was because of the witchcraft video, which aired on Bill Maher’s HBO show on Friday night and was first posted by Faiz Shakir of ThinkProgress.

To read this article in its entirety visit The Huffington Post.

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