The 5 worst media disasters in August
From Christine O’Donnell to Joe Biden and Rick Perry, here are the gaffes that made the airwaves (and YouTube channels) light up.
Here, without any further ado, are the five worst media disasters of August:
5. Christine O’Donnell walks off Piers Morgan
She’s not a witch, but she sure is fiery. Christine O’Donnell, the failed 2010 Delaware Republican Senate candidate, sat down with CNN’s Piers Morgan earlier this month to discuss her new book. But she objected to some of his (totally predictable) questions, and walked off the set in middle of the interview.
Click here for the full story, “Christine O’Donnell’s bizarre CNN walk off.”
4. Charlie Rangel’s “pretty girl”
When Laura Ingraham sat in for Bill O’Reilly on the Fox News Channel, she asked Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) a series of aggressive questions without allowing him to respond. But Rangel protested in the wrong way, resorting to an ad hominem attack better suited to 1957.
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