When Is Lying O.K.?
Christine O’Donnell has been caught in a lot of whoppers this year. She’s had trouble being straight about her finances, her college degree, how many counties she won against and whether Castle operatives hide in her bushes. But O’Donnell thinks the truth is really, really important in at least one instance:
Comedian Eddie Izzard pressed her on just how far she would take her anti-lying beliefs. Izzard asked O’Donnell whether or not she would lie to Nazis who showed up at her door during WWII and demanded to know if she were hiding any Jewish people in her house. O’Donnell refused to even entertain the notion of concealing the truth from Nazis in that scenario because “you never have to practice deception”:
O’DONNELL: A lie, whether it be a lie or an exaggeration, is disrespect to whoever you’re exaggerating or lying to, because it’s not respecting reality.
MAHER: Quite the opposite, it can be respect.
IZZARD: What if someone comes to you in the middle of the Second World War and says, ‘do you have any Jewish people in your house?’ and you do have them. That would be a lie. That would be disrespectful to Hitler.
O’DONNELL: I believe if I were in that situation, God would provide a way to do the right thing righteously. I believe that!
MAHER: God is not there. Hitler’s there and you’re there.
O’DONNELL: You never have to practice deception. God always provides a way out.
O’Donnell thinks it’s important to tell the truth to Nazis who want to kill Jews, but it’s o.k. to lie about where you went to school. She sure has some screwed up priorities.
I detest seeing her face or hearing her voice. She gets uglier, inside and out, by the minute. In the beginning, she was entertaining but now she is like a bad date who keeps e-mailing you chain letters and leaving sappy messages on your answering machine. November 3d can’t come soon enough.
I like that Eddie Izzard was there. I hope he was wearing a dress and FABULOUS makeup.
but you KNOW the wingnuts are going to agree with her…. or at least “understand her position”
They hold in such high regard people who claim to be Born Again, or truly devout… no matter how dishonest, stupid, or inept they may be. If you claim to speak for the J-man, you are untouchable and infallible.
O’DONNELL: You never have to practice deception. God always provides a way out.
God provided 30,000 dumb voters this time.
Hey Christine – if you are hiding Jews from the SS – God is providing YOU as the way out. Don’t let Him down.
The video is must-watch. Christine also says lies are disrespectful to your audience. There are tons of her audio clips would make a great intro to an ad enumerating her lies to Delaware.
but…but, what if the SS officers are Christians?
I’m with you A1. O’Donnell does not get better with exposure.
The tea party made a big mistake by trying to go big in delaware, it won’t work right away. They should have picked 5-6 local races and won them. Instead, they latch on to a charlatan and fraud to go big.
All the defeats this year and there be many will be rightfully blamed on the tea party. What a delusional group of people.
The real crime? Corrupt Paul Clark moves up and the GOP will do nothing to fight for NCCC President.
Duh?
Mike Protack still doesn’t have an office. Perhaps he’ll run for NCCo President. I know this is really, really premature but wouldn’t the new NCCo president be chosen by special election? What would be the process for getting candidates?
“Mike Protack still doesn’t have an office. Perhaps he’ll run for NCCo President.” Maybe he’ll switch parties and you can get all of his junk mail and robo-calls. He has the office velcro’ed on his campaign signs, it shouldn’t be too difficult to velcro on a jack-ass.
No, you can keep him.
He should have specified whether he meant real Nazis or Jeffersonian Nazis, à la “urquhart gaffe.”