WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — 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.
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.
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RICH NORRIS
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 7:57amI can’t help but vision the little creepy vile sidekick of Jubba The Hutt …Salacious Crumb…
Report Post »from Star Wars whenever I see Bill Maher. Man, you got it down DUDE!!! What a CREEP!
LSX
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 7:54amBill “the hater” Maher should do some investigating of Joe Biden.
Most of what Joe spouts make O’Donnell look like a Rhodes Scholar!
Why didn‘t MSM vet Biden as harsh they do O’Donnell?
Report Post »OneRepublic4us
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 12:25pmI‘m reading Michelle Malkin’s Culture of Corruption and I can‘t believe that Biden hasn’t ended up in jail for fraud. He is the perfect example of how the current administration believes the country should be run. Biden and his cronyism and nepotism is absolutely disgusting. He‘s filthy rich and he pretends to know what it’s like to work for a living.
Report Post »Cynic-clinic
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:04pmYeah, I too would like to hear Bill Maw-Her (he likes distortions–here’s one of his name) confront Joe Biden on his gaffs and everything he did and said from the time he was 18 years old and in school. After that, Bill Maw-Her can interview Obama about his high school activities, what classes he attended, what papers he wrote in college (let’s see them) which church doctrines he studied, and ask him to explain the difference between the Austrian School of economics as developed by Fredrick Von Misses and the economic model of John Maynard Keynes.
After that he can ask Obama why he believes that his bumper sticker slogans like, “Hope on a Rope” and “Yes we Can-Can” will save this country.
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 7:36amWho cares what was said on Bill’s show. This is a state contest, let the people of Delaware decide on their next senator. Hey Bill for your information….. it’s not a national race.
Report Post »Lonescrapper
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 7:32amIs it crazy that this makes me like her more?
Report Post »caitlynsdad
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 10:18amNot at all, Lonescrapper. What this clip actually reveals about O’Donnell is that in her youth she investigated a bunch of different religions, rejected some for one reason or another, and finally settled on one she could believe in. Is this supposed to make her some kind of monstrosity?
Report Post »MJ1025
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 7:25amIf the marxists, communists, maoists, eco-fascists, anti-colonials, black panthers, and the union leaders get their way, how will they decide which one of them is running the show? Maher is just an useful idiot for now. Which of these groups will be the one to rule? It will not be pretty when the ones who have been played figure it out.
Report Post »These anti-constitutional people have freedoms in this country to say all of the crap they want, complain about capitalism which allows hard-working taxpayers to support their ignorant souls, and complain about our Judeo-Christian foundation which they benefit from. They benefit from the fact that our rights are not given to us by big government but by a higher power I like to call God.
So if you are trying to figure out who you are in this country, as long as you do not want to kill or rule the world, you have the freedom to do so in America.
How much of that freedom will you have when the cold and calculating Soros is running the show? He only wants America to become a wasteland. He is a cancer.
Those of you that sympathisize with someone like Maher, what kind of future do you think you will really have after you have been used up.
Thank God for people who want to run for office who believe in God, individual rights, and the paper that our Prez swore to uphold.
jColes
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 7:11amMr. Maher represents a dysfunctional and defective philosophy: that of hate and elitism. Ms. O’Donnell represents that breed of American whose curiosity led them to explore the edges of their existence envelope … what emerged from her years of searching appears to be an emotionally healthy, well-balanced, functioning adult…not a great intellect, to be sure, but the great intellects of our time don’t stand for election…they punditize and criticize…
Ms. O’Donnell is plenty bright enough to be a US Senator…consider Al Franken…consider Harry Reid…consider Barbara Boxer…and on and on…
…and besides, liking meatballs is as good a reason as any for not becoming a Krishna loon…
Report Post »eddiee
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 7:11amBill Maher, did George Soros buy you a spot on HBO. Thanks George, that’s just what we needed another evolutionists that believes we slithered up out of the swamp and became human and when i look at Maher, i think maby we did. What a kook.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 6:25amI suppose that all the people that are against Christine O’Donnell would vote for a Marxist and big government guy (Coons), which is the only choice in this race. Everyone who hates big government and who is trying to take her down is acting like a turkey.
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 6:15amYou who say Palin and O’Donnell are stupid are just mean people with a “bully” complex. They are very intelligent. Your comments show you to be ignorant and stupid, and dare I say, sexist.
Report Post »GlennBeckIsADemagogue
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 10:10amSexist? There are lots of intelligent, competent women in politics. Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell just are not in their company. Media bias against women is what the spokespeople for these two dips claim when their candidate says something idiotic and the media calls them on it.
Report Post »Contrarianthinker
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:40pmGlenn: Is their any Conservative/Constitutionalist woman in the public eye who isn’t stupid?
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:51amAs an individual who is willing to live off the land, and an accused Zombie, I do believe “brains” are up for grabs. MMMMMMBRAINS! I guess demagogue and 2012 are safe.
Report Post »martnee777
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:49amIf Bill Maher is against her, I’m for her.
Report Post »Johnnyyuma
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:46amAnyone who listened to the hate filled Bill Maher on O‘Reilly and can’t figure out his intention is to smear Christine hasn’t paid Maher enough attention… He seriously thinks he’s the answer to all the worlds problems… Let him run and we’ll see how many votes he gets…
Report Post »wagon_master
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 1:52pmI don’t know johnnyyuma look how Al Frankin got to be Senator. but i agree with ya 100%.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:40amShe is still the best choice that has been seen in Delaware. VOTE MCDONNELL!!! She is far smarter than Joe Biden.
Report Post »GlennBeckIsADemagogue
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 10:19ammarylou, i hope you do vote for mcdonnell, just be sure to write that name in on the ballot
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:38amhttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0125_050125_chimeras.html
Again, O’Donnell was right…Page 2 of the link.
“Mice With Human Brains
Weissman has already created mice with brains that are about one percent human.
Later this year he may conduct another experiment where the mice have 100 percent human brains. This would be done, he said, by injecting human neurons into the brains of embryonic mice”
O’Donnell is smarter than all the retards that thought she was wrong.
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:35amFor the morons who think O’Donnell was crazy for saying scientists have created a human/rat brain, here is the Nat Geo article she was referring to.
Report Post »Page 2
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0125_050125_chimeras.html
Yes, she is smarter than you , far more informed and yes, the fact that you jumped to the conclusion she was nuts does make you an ignorant reactionary
Sunnyr
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:25pmThanks for the link. I remember watching the morons on MESSNBC sitting in a circle and laughing like crazy when this subject was brought up. If only I could have emailed this link to these jerks, they would have freaked out. Christine is smarter and more curious than any of these losers.
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:24amGlennBeckIsADemagogue
Jokes don’t make a differenence. She was right, and every idiot like you who said she wasn’t are wrong.
Report Post »O’Donnell is smarter than you .
DSTSS2010
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:42amHIPPONIPS, GLENNBECKISADEMAGOGUE was mistaken. The two humans with mouse brains are Joe Biden and Al Franken.
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 6:08amDST, good one! I was thinking Pelosi and Reid. Whose the idiot constructing all the libraries across the country to try and nab them? Obama? I guess that could account for some of the saved or created jobs, huh?
Report Post »Kilkman
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 11:26amThese liberals are the same ones who think embryonic stem cells, Which have never cured anything. Justify more funding while they do nothing but cause tumors in every test to date. While ignoring all the advances made with adult stem cells, over 30 potential cures already in human trials. Just to justify killing babies. These are not rational people, why waste your breath?
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:03amFor the morons who think O’Donnell was crazy for saying scientists have created a human/rat brain, here is the Nat Geo article she was referring to.
Report Post »Page 2
Yes, she is smarter than you , far more informed and yes, the fact that you jumped to the conclusion she was nuts does make you an ignorant reactionary.
GlennBeckIsADemagogue
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:17amThe FBI is currently investigating the escape of some research subjects from an american scientific company. It seems the scientists were cross breeding humans and mice, and they produced two humans with fully functioning mouse brains. One travels under the code name Kontrarian, while the other is known as Hipponips. The FBI is currently constructing numerous libraries across the country, in an attempt to redirect the escaped subjects toward the nearest tractor pull.
Report Post »kontrarian
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:15amI think she seems strikingly normal compared with most run-of-the-mill Regressives.
Report Post »Vegetarians are either remarkably unobservant or they don’t brush their teeth: they don’t seem to have noticed that they have the ripping/tearing teeth.
PostProgressiveAmerican
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:46amAgreed.
Also, since when are the things said on Maher’s shown taken seriously?
Trying to take my red meat away…or my pork…would make me avoid a religion.
Report Post »diesel71dan
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:01amI think Maher is probably a good thing for O‘Donnell’s campaign. Everyone knows Maher is an idiot. If the idiot is against her it must say something good about O’Donnell!!
Report Post »carol m
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 3:14amOH Mahr how pathetic are you? In trying to be relevant you are only showing yourself to be irelevant.
Report Post »You poor pathetic excuse for a man. If you are supposed to be the epitome of the educated elitist out there, I am so glad to be who I am. This poor girl was probably young dumb and innocent at the time and she obviously looked up to you at the time and this is what you do to her. You are a POS.
Deutscher
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:08amI’m pretty sure Bill Maher is not reading your comments addressed to him here.
You have to admit, she is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I can’t get past the “ mice with fully functioning human brains” thing myself.
Report Post »GlennBeckIsADemagogue
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:36amCarol, you are right. Christine was young dumb and innocent. Eleven years later, she is just dumb.
Report Post »Contrarianthinker
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:53amIF you idiots really read the BLAZE, you would have seen several post saying that mainline science is investigating this. Now, you can reject facts IF you wish in your smugness and condescension but to even hint that your intellectaully honest is a JOKE.
Report Post »AsianForTeaPartyConservative
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 3:08amTypical liberals tactic! Deceptive and Misleading! Put a little comedy in there to appear mainstream or normal. Only zombie feel good kids would succumb to this tactic.
Report Post »gbeck2012
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:29amAre you psychic or something? It’s really scary, i mean really really scary. The newspaper landed by the door a few minutes ago, and the headline read “ZOMBIE FEEL GOOD KIDS SUCCUMB TO TICTACS” and then i realized it was just a story about some feel good zombies who relaxed when given one of those wonderful little candies.
Report Post »cruisemates
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 8:06amO’Donnell gave a very impressive interview to Hannity. I was skepical at first, too, but after seeing the real candidate- not a contestent on a 1990s game show, I am proud to say I think she would be a great conservative (frankly, much more erudite than Palin).
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/index.html#/v/4347300/odonnell-no-more-national-media/?playlist_id=86924
She is very intelligent and aware of the issues of the day. She has grown up. When will people stop taking comedians seriously as newscasters (look what it did for Rick Sanchez) and start looking at how candidates will vote if elected. Isn’t that all that really matters???
WATCH THE INTERVIEW AND LEARN. Oh, and GBeck, the tictac joke? If you dont have anything that isn’t just purely disruptive nonsense to say please say nothing.
Report Post »gbeck2012
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 9:43amCruisemates- Dang it to haites! I was so pleased with myself on the zombie tactics/tictacs wordplay. You‘ve upset me so much i’m going to take my keyboard and go back to mom’s basement. Have a good day anyway.
Report Post »cruisemates
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 11:46amGbeck2012…
It just happens that I am a travel writer for FoxBusiness:
http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2010/10/01/port-canaveral-cruise-savings/
and that I know and have known many authors and columnists over the years. The ones that have been most successful are the ones who do not indulge private thoughts in publlic and focus on what is of interest to the reader. You remind of a rock critic I once worked with, John Mendelssohn, who screwed up every paying writing assignment he ever had by amusing himself instead of doing what he was paid to do.
This is O‘Reilly’s downfall – constantly interrupting guests to make his insipid, self-reference jokes. Sanchez succumbed to it. The REAL Glenn Beck (not you) is so good because he rarely interjects his own values into his show – he sticks to facts.
I also want to say to the people here who use terms like “lib-terds” and other derogatory names. That is what THEIR side does, not us. Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals: When you can’t win on logic switch to ridicule, it confuses the enemy and causes them to do things they will regret.
Don’t go there – hold your head high and stick to the principles of conservativism and the issues:
1. Restoring this economy through tax cuts, deficit reduction, right to work and fiscal responsibility
Report Post »2. Restoring free speech in the media and public discourse
3. Respect for free enterprise and entrepreneurship
4. Respect for the spiritual beliefs of our fellow Americans
american1st
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 3:31pmthanks for pointing that out asian4, we studied the rules for radicals to understand them, and make them well know enough that those that use them make fools of themselves, not so we can copy them! the conservative movement needs to move on and stop attacking the man, stick to logic, reason and conservative principals, let them be the ones taking cheep shots..
Report Post »american1st
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 3:36pmsorry i mis-attributed that, thank you cruisemates
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 3:07amhonestly though, is this the best tea party canidate delaware could come up with?
Report Post »LennyVasbinder.blogspot.com
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 3:13amShe ran while others thought Castle was impossible to beat and chose to sit on the sidelines. That means she has the fortitude to get involved when others didn’t. That makes her the best in my eyes.
Lenny Vasbinder
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GlennBeckIsADemagogue
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:33amLenny, i think she ran because she was financially broke, and like Sarah Palin, she can spot a cash cow a mile away. The woman is a maroon.
Report Post »Contrarianthinker
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:50amLenny; Exactly. I’ve run for NC Governor in 2000. How many people here on the laze have? Until you’ve walked the walk, your words are a lot of hot air.
Get off your asses and run. It takes great courage in today’s political environment.
Report Post »Caffeinated Texan
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 6:37amDemagogue: Since you think that anyone to the right of Lenin is a maroon, I would say that your opinion is rather worthless.
Don’t you have anything better to do? What a sad pathetic life you must have…
Report Post »TexasHillsPatriot
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 9:53amDemagogue … Please do us all a favor and look up the word “maroon”. I think that you‘ll find that it doesn’t mean anything close to the way you’re using it. You will find it means to be deserted on an island or it refers to a slave in the 17th & 18th century West Indies, or to a color. I’m thinking that you are closer to the word you are searching for … moron!
Report Post »GlennBeckIsADemagogue
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 10:02amTexasHillPatriot “What a maroon” Didn’t you ever watch bugs bunny as a kid?
Maybe you, me, and caffeinated texan should meet at starbucks and hang out for a while. It’s a beautiful day down here.
DANO509
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:52pmLets see the libocraps gave us a Marxist(Bamster himself) who supports infanticide and hangs around with commies who in the 60’s and 70’s didn’t think anything about killing 25 million Americans who wouldn’t submit to their new world government remember little Billy boy Ares and his buddies and the list goes on and on and on
Report Post »And you pimples on a prostitute’s ass have the gull to say anything about Christine O’Donnell really—— I mean REALLY!!!!!!!
Mithra
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 7:20pmI think the follow up by Bugs is “ Ah what a gull a bull”. Memories!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 3:01amSo the hatefilled moron who as an adult openly admires muslim killers of 9/11,
Report Post »finds it scandalous
that someone just out of high-school would choose a religion that allows her to enjoy delicious food ??
mintyfresh
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 3:29pm1. he’s not running for office.
2. if religion is so important, to the extent that you have such a relationship with god that he is instructing you to run for senate, i find it hard to believe you came to that choice out of elimination of other religions for dietary restrictions. hardly mirrors the piety that she attempts to portray.
Report Post »supercapo
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:51amWow… Good job there Maher. Nobody will want to vote for O‘Donnell now that we know she decided against joining a religion because she didn’t like one of it’s practices. *Nobody* does that!
Is this really the best they can do?
Report Post »AmericanPatriot01
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 6:25amYup thats it! They don’t have anything else. They can’t fault her on any policy stance (or they risk exposing themselves as communist sympathysers) so they attack her honesty in revealing her experiences from growing up. O.K. i get it, she is human like me, SO WHAT?
Report Post »GlennBeckIsADemagogue
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 9:57amAmericanPatriot So, exactly where indeed does Christine stand on any particular issue of the day? Did you hear or read her speech to the Values Voters? It‘s just the same i’m gonna wave the flag and everyone needs to get back to God and let’s respect the family and God Bless America speeches that Dan Quayle gave without actually ever saying anything. No one, well practically no one, is against the flag, or God, or the family, or America. Just like any good Tea Partier, Christine also inserts the word “Constitution” in every other paragraph. If you love her speeches like this, then you probably swell up with pride when Sarah Palin tells a crowd how nice it is to see a bunch of “America-loving” people. The translation of that is: If you don’t agree with me, Sarah Palin, then you must not love America. Why should I even bring SP into this conversation? Well aside from the fact that she endorsed O’Donnell and sent lots of money her way right befor the election, there is the fact that both of them are stupid and don’t really talk about what they would actually do in office.
Report Post »LennyVasbinder.blogspot.com
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 2:50amCome on “The Blaze”… you’re supposed to at least report things in context. She was in high school when she “dabbled” in these different religions/experiences and she was in her 20′s when she was appearing on Politically Incorrect… which is a completely B.S. name since Maher was anything but politically incorrect… he’s the epitome of political correctness.
Lenny Vasbinder
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gbeck2012
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 3:58amWhy in the world would you attempt to defend this total idiot? She is undoubtably more stupid than Sarah Palin.
Try this quote of Christine’s on for size: “American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.” (Christine O’Donnell Nov 15, 2007 on The O’Reilly Factor). Just as Sarah Palin was the worst candidate a major party ever put up for vice president, Christine O’Donnell is probably the worst candidate a major party ever put up for united states senator.
Contrarianthinker
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:48amBeck, why are you here? We all KNOW how you feel about Christine. What motivates you?
I will add one thing. It is HEALTHY to be willing to experiment like she did when you’re young. Why? Because when you do find the truth (Christianity in this case), you KNOW why its the best and you’re really committed.
It sickens me to see how you and other Progressives are so SMUG in your knowing all things and laugh at others. Mocfking is a sign of great fear of others. Look at yourself and weep.
That sais, no I’m NOT excited by her run but the alternative candidate is 100% unacceptable.
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 4:49amActually , GBeck2012 Her quote about human/rat brain fusion is referenece to a very real scientific accomplishment.
Report Post »Human cells were fused with rat’s brain cell.
YOU not knowing the current state of science makes O’Donnell far smarter than you.
GlennBeckIsADemagogue
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:09amHipponips. Somehow, don’t you think implanting a human stem cell into a mouse brain and having that cell differentiate as brain tissue…. somehow isn’t that just a TEENSIE TINY bit different than a mouse with a fully functioning human brain? My position is that Christine is too stupid to even begin to understand two widely different concepts, and apparently she is not alone.
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 5:32amgb2012 and demagogue. You are too stupid to understand both your monikers of Glenn reveal your TOTAL lack of knowledge of the man. So. Your opinion on anything else should be considered intellectual…why?
Report Post »AmericanPatriot01
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 6:18amHEY HEY HEY Don’t feed the trolls!!! It has become the tradition here to just ignore them until they say something, anything that resembles an intelligent thought, which doesn’t happen very often. We just pray for them.
Personally i think they are a poison to this planet and should be sterilized and eliminated. But until we can deport trolls we have to just ignore them.
Report Post »ZeitgeistBuster
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 7:22amHave you guys been on a national show without prepared comments? Do you know the pressure of stage fright making you screw up a comment?
I have to give Christine the benefit of the doubt on her human/rat brain comment. Or else you must concede that Obama seriously believes we have 57 states.
Are we willing to be reasonable? HMMMM?
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 9:17amMore proof that the Demoncrats and their supporters will exploit the irrelevant and create smoke screens to avoid a discussion of the issues. Demonizing the woman for her high school activities is almost criminal. Hillary Clinton was once a “Goldwater Girl” but no one accuses her of being a conservative.
http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »caitlynsdad
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 10:28am@ Demagogue
Report Post »You mean to tell me that O’Donnell may have misunderstood or misstated something off-the-cuff when she was in her twenties? Holy cow! What a scandal! Twenty-somethings NEVER do that!
XdemXrepub
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 11:03amhere’s an idea…
let’s put fully functioning mouse brains in liberals..
maybe then they could get a clue
Report Post »aeronut44
Posted on October 2, 2010 at 10:05pmIf Odonnell was trying to get a job as a biology professor I would probably not vote for her. But what in the HELL does that have to do with running for Senate???
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on October 3, 2010 at 8:28am@GBECK2012
Are you sure she didn’t mean scientists are putting partially functioning mouse brains in humans?
That would explain Obama’s support base…
Report Post »Eagle07
Posted on October 3, 2010 at 12:50pmYou progressives should read your own crap.You can say Sen.Byrd did what he did to get elected.Join the KKKand stuff like that.But hammer a woman who might have said some questionable stuff in her youth.You never cease to amaze me just when I think you cannot stoop any lower you progressives prove there is something lower than whale crap and its progressives
Report Post »Book of Eli
Posted on October 3, 2010 at 3:06pm@GBeck2012- If O’Donnell were your candidate, she would be celebrated for her Acceptance of Diversity as a young woman. You are only critical because she is a conservative
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