Politics

O’Donnell Campaign Threatens Radio Station With Lawsuit, Quickly Apologizes

In another twist in the race for Vice President Joe Biden’s vacated Delaware Senate seat, the Christine O’Donnell campaign ran into another snag Wednesday with local radio station WDEL 1150AM.

After the Republican Senate candidate participated in an on-air interview, her campaign reportedly demanded the station turn over video of the interview, claiming they had never agreed for the interview to be taped and distributed.

Audio and video of interview segment had already been broadcast live and streamed on WDEL’s website when a campaign representative reportedly made the request. When the station declined to hand over the tape, both the campaign representative and O’Donnell threatened to sue the station if the video was released. From WDEL:

O‘Donnell’s campaign manager, Matt Moran, called WDEL and demanded that the video be immediately turned over to the campaign and destroyed. Moran threatened to “crush WDEL” with a lawsuit if the station didn’t comply.

An attorney representing the O‘Donnell campaign contacted WDEL’s law firm Hogan Lovells and initially asked that the video not be released. WDEL’s attorney asserted that the interview and video were in compliance with all applicable laws, was clearly protected free speech under the First Amendment, and that the campaign had no grounds to demand the station withhold it from the public.

By Wednesday afternoon, O‘Donnell’s attorney called the station to apologize, conceding that the campaign had no legal issue with the network’s actions.

To view the full interview, click here.

Comments (79)

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  • Beetle1971
    Posted on October 28, 2010 at 1:59am

    Some how I think theres more to this story.

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  • EL ZORRO
    Posted on October 28, 2010 at 1:57am

    By the reaction of the Obama herd of pigs cheerleader, the Cristine interview made them get out off the mud paddle in panic, she did a great job, now go back to mud paddle Obama cheeleaders.
    EL ZORRO

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  • Frostbyte
    Posted on October 28, 2010 at 1:19am

    No one can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like a Republican…unfortunately. When will someone teach our conservative campaigns to keep their feet out of their mouths so our candidates have a chance.

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  • Laslavic
    Posted on October 28, 2010 at 1:15am

    Her group handled this like armatures instead of professionally like the polished professional political machine she is going against. Her people probably panicked when they realized that without a copy of the video themselves the video could easily be edited and altered with it ending up on every news station and SNL to make her task even more impossible. It tough defeating these people being an experienced polished politician with money and a good team. I can’t imagine being a neophyte in the business having to deal with an in the tank media and a less than enthusiastic RNC….Her image has been constructed as much by the left wing media as it has been by herself and the media is much better at it to boot…

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  • 1776
    Posted on October 28, 2010 at 1:06am

    When O’Donnell scrubbed Atlas Shrugs Pamela Geller she lost me. This radio gig threat is just another thing she has done out of desperation.

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  • Rob_M
    Posted on October 28, 2010 at 1:05am

    Ooops, didn’t mean reid. But what I said is true anyway.

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  • Rob_M
    Posted on October 28, 2010 at 1:01am

    Come on, we’re so close to throwing Reid out, keep it together.

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  • Matty1631
    Posted on October 28, 2010 at 12:26am

    There they are again folks.

    Trying to discredit us and paint us as radicals by calling us trolls.

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on October 28, 2010 at 3:39pm

      Matty, blame it on us. You discreidt yourselves. You keep saying we balme everything on Bush. Semms like you’re dointhe same?

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  • mharry860
    Posted on October 28, 2010 at 12:23am

    Wow! I wonder if the trolls are paid or do they just not have a life.

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  • Matty1631
    Posted on October 28, 2010 at 12:13am

    Folks, I told you this would happen.

    These marxist socialist union kindergarten teachers have planted a chip inside of Ms Odonnell to control her. Of course she didn’t say these things of her own free will, they are controlling her mind to try and paint us all as radicals.

    But don’t take my word for it, do your own research.

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  • rdk
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 11:33pm

    Christine O’Donnell is the antidote for Coons, the Obama lapdog. Pray for her to win.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 11:29pm

    Did I miss something here??? I thought she did a great job and she had no reason to answer that question as it was NOT relevent to the Senate seat for which she is running. The guy was trying for an “I gotcha” moment and she didn’t fall into the trap. She should, however, have stuck by her own words and not worried about if they got their stupid ‘GOTCHA’ moment or not. She has become, and rightfully so, very defensive.

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    • IndianaUSA
      Posted on October 28, 2010 at 12:03am

      I watched the video and thought that she did a great job. She got frustrated when Rick kept asking her the same question over and over. I just think she panicked a little bit because she didn‘t have the budget information in front of her and couldn’t answer the question properly. I think she is the better candidate and will represent Deleware and the people of the United States with integrity.
      If you look at the comments on here and the comments on Yahoo, you can tell the libs are scared of conservative women.

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  • ReaganerThanThou
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 11:23pm

    So let me get this straight…

    Christine O’Donnell has a beef with a radio station over an interview and everyone loses their heads. But Alex Sink (D) cheating during a live debate and lying about it later elicits NO RESPONSE from our left-wing friends?

    Stay beautiful, Dems.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 11:22pm

    Did I miss something? I think she did a great job.

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    • ToddBall
      Posted on October 28, 2010 at 2:37am

      If she did such a great job then why did she not want them to use any of it? I mean just that move alone is not very smart,it just gives the Libs more fodder to throw when it didnt have to be.

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  • ToddBall
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 10:48pm

    I’m sorry but this Candidate has done Conservatives no good.Total stupidity to say the least..

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  • MiketheTrucker
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 10:44pm

    I thought she had run four times in the past. If so, she, or at least her “people” should know better than this.

    If she wins now it will be a miracle, OR because Coons is a much worse choice. I’d have to say, based on the “bearded Marxist comment, and the fact that he’s a democRAT, O’Donnell is still the best choice.

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  • Chet Hempstead
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 10:36pm

    Oh, now I get it. They’re not named after the Bostin Tea Party, they’re named after the one the Mad Hatter threw!

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    • boxofpens
      Posted on October 28, 2010 at 1:05am

      Where exactly is “Bostin”? l mean, I know where Boston is, however “Bostin” has me at quite a loss.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on October 28, 2010 at 2:37am

      I am filled with shame. I usually type my comments with a word processor, proofread them and then copy them into the little box with the tiny print. Every once in a while I dash off a couple of sentences directly into the comment box, and I almost always regret it if I read them again afterwards.

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  • 13thGenerationAmerican
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 10:35pm

    The frightening thins is if she were running in Alaska, she would win.

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  • the hawk
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 10:07pm

    She needs to move to Ky and run for senate

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  • OBAMAWORSHIOER
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 10:03pm

    We love Christine. She is the poster girl for you fanatics. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought she is one of our plants. She isn’t because checked with headquarters. She’s all yours. (grin)

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    • LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 10:21pm

      You mean one of your OLANTS???

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    • Blazergirl
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 11:04pm

      @Obama Jr. Have you ever heard the story of The Trojan Horse? How many “plants” do you think we have? How many decoys are there lurking around your political party? PARANOID YET? HAHAHAHAHHAHHA. Very naive on your part.

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    • LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 11:22pm

      Or as I like to say, You’ve been TEATAGGED! Hey Worshioer, look at us, we can discuss issues with each other, discredit you and your peeps, make fun of your spelling, and go on with our lives as if you never even existed in the first place. It’s called being a real live person, you should try it some time. You’re just a silly little diversion while we wait for our comments to each other to post.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on October 28, 2010 at 4:00am

      BO Lover And VP Biteme is working on a rocket engine as we speak? Imagine if something happened to the charlatan and Biteme was president. America would be like a 24hr comedy channel. But not to worry, Lucifer wont let that happen

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    • OBAMAWORSHIOER
      Posted on October 28, 2010 at 3:38pm

      Blazer, we don’t woor about the Blaze setting up plant. You’re too lazy, stupid, and do nothings. I give you great cerit for your neat attacks on me and 13th.

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  • benditlikebeck
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 9:51pm

    Post WWII started the boom of the ‘90’s!!!!! Hahahaha!!

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    • Jezreel
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 10:05pm

      I read the article of the Times about this. People seem to have a very huge lack of knowledge about the constitution. The separation of church and state has been so badly twisted and misused. The founding Fathers requested and wanted the bible to be read in schools and it was one of the most important texts. They just didn’t want students to be prosletyted with denominational doctrines. The word of God was just “simply” read. Back then, people were way more decent and had morals because of this. Of course today, that would be an embarassment now for the bible to be read in schools because the souls of the children of today are very starved and destitute of godly knowledge and wisdom. People like Benditlikebeck are just people who follow the crowd and do what they do because it comes natural to them. It is not hard for them to be evil or love to bully, or make in fun of others because their lives have been filled with that since the day they were born because of bad upbringing and bad parenting. Their parents just didn’t care for them or love them. They got rid of them with giving them money and getting them out of their hair. They were not wanted around so they have to go elsewhere for attention, even if it is negative attention, it is better than no attention at all.

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    • benditlikebeck
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 10:18pm

      I’m “following the crowd”? Haha, you’re the one who willfully follow the lord your “sheperd” and accept the title “sheep.”

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    • 13thGenerationAmerican
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 10:39pm

      Thomas Jefferson
      Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”, thus building a wall of separation between Church & State

      Treaty of Tripoli – John Adams
      Ratified unanimously by The Unite States Senate
      Article 11 reads:
      Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

      The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.
      -Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814

      Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
      -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814

      In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
      -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814

      If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? …Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
      -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Law, June 13, 1814

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    • Sanity
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 10:39pm

      Jezreel, you are an idiot. 1stly a number of the founders had severe problems with regulated religion, if not belief in a deity itself….[as Beck would say, do your own research]. 2ndly, “people had more morals then”? They barely had the rule of law back then, let alone a moral code…the Wild West wasnt so named because of the parties..

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    • 13thGenerationAmerican
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 10:47pm

      Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies. [Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason]
      .
      .but the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any… [Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason]

      ..we must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries. [The Life and Works of Thomas Paine, Vol. 9 p. 282]

      Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, t renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as ameans of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter. [Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason]

      Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.
      -Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782

      Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear.
      -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787

      I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.
      -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Hopkinson, March 13, 1789

      History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
      -Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.

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    • Jezreel
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 11:13pm

      I would rather be a fool for God than a fool for the devil.

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    • aeronut44
      Posted on October 27, 2010 at 11:27pm

      13thgen,
      I have asked u 2 times before about this. If Jefferson was SO for separation of church and state like u r talking about, then why did he and most of the founding fathers set up AND attend the many chapels in the capital building?
      Please tell me why!!!

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    • 13thGenerationAmerican
      Posted on October 28, 2010 at 12:02am

      aeronut44

      Those are his words not mine. You should read up on Jefferson, Adams, Paine, Franklin, Locke etc. They realized, as did my family that if any one religion dominates this country, then individual freedom and thought not aligned with it, would be persecuted and punished according to that religion or worse, someones misguided interpretation. It’s the very reason my family came here. To escape religious persecution.

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    • aeronut44
      Posted on October 28, 2010 at 6:42am

      The quotes that you posted from Jefferson never said that we should protect the govt from religion. He was saying we should protect religion from govt.
      He was also against ONE religion in the govt. But his talk of God is endless in his personal writings and letters and he also mentions him in the dec of ind.
      I am not for govt using religion to control man or to force religion on anyone.
      But the belief in God is a part of the foundation of this country as said by the very men that founded it. That is a fact that cannot be disputed by anyone that is willing to take the words and actions of the founding fathers at face value.

      btw, trust me I have read plenty about Jefferson and other founding fathers. Most were Godly men. The pilgrims didn’t come to America to get away from religion. They came here to worship freely. And I don’t know a single person that wants the govt to force religion on anyone. If God is not accepted by free will then it is all pointless anyway.
      Welcome to America.

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    • LeatherneckJon
      Posted on October 28, 2010 at 7:15am

      Congress themselves publishes the first Bible in the U.S. “for the use in schools”, with federal money. Anybody can verify this in the congressional record.

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    • Freelancer
      Posted on October 28, 2010 at 8:57am

      Hey 13th…. Is your REAL name Larry? I know of a Larry idiot who constantly quotes this treaty as proof. Ever read the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence? You might want to read them for reference.

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  • LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 9:51pm

    WHAAAAAH? Did she have a booger hangin’ or something? What’s the big deal? Get a grip and quit trying so hard to ruin it for yourself.

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  • paleoconservatarian
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 9:47pm

    Matt Moran is on my list of those I will never hire to run my Senate campaign.

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  • benditlikebeck
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 9:46pm

    Hahaha, when will she stop making such a fool of herself. I can’t wait to see what boneheaded statement was caught on camera this time.

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  • FreedomOfSpeech
    Posted on October 27, 2010 at 9:45pm

    Why do people do this stuff? I feel her frustration but you’re only helping libs when you try to do stuff like this.

    Obama is now burning books like the Nazis did.

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