Christine O’Donnell has made her living by being the cute fundie on television. So there’s many years of lunacy to look through. Bill Maher’s latest Christine O’Donnell clip has the renown scientific mind of O’Donnell discussing evolution.
“Evolution is a myth,” O’Donnell said as the others piped up incredulously. She repeated herself, then added:
Well then why aren’t monkeys still evolving into humans?
At the time, O’Donnell was with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a conservative group she later sued for gender discrimination. The exchange, on Scarborough Country on November 13, 2003, is an argument between O’Donnell and Eric Nies, then with the Moment of Hope foundation, about whether to counsel kids to have safe sex:
NIES: I tell them to be careful. You have to wear a condom. You have to protect yourself when you’re going to have sex, because they’re having it anyway.
NIES: There’s nothing that you or me can do about it.
O’DONNELL: The sad reality is — yes, there is something you can do about it. And the sad reality, to tell them slap on a condom is not —
NIES: You’re going to stop the whole country from having sex?
O’DONNELL: Yeah. Yeah!
NIES: You’re living on a prayer if you think that’s going to happen.
O’DONNELL: That’s not true. I’m a young woman in my thirties and I remain chaste.
Yeah, every time a new video is released I can see why Mike Castle might want another shot at defeating her. It must rankle to have lost to this clown.