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Video: Christine O'Donnell Is Master Of Her Domain
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Jen Chung
Published Sep 15, 2010
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Last night in Delaware, Tea Party upstate Christine O'Donnell defeated mainstream Republican candidate Mike Castle to win the Republican Senate primary. The victory for O'Donnell, a marketing consultant who got a boost from former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, is being called a "shocker" and "stunning" as well as a "GOP nightmare." But the most interesting thing that came out last night was when MSNBC's Rachel Maddow showed a clip of O'Donnell in a 1996 MTV "Sex in the '90s" segment: O'Donnell, looking like a dead ringer for Elaine Benes, explaining why even masturbation is a sin, "The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. You can't masturbate without lust! "
What's the over-under on a reporter asking if she's master of her domain (or queen of her castle)? Maybe Sway should inquire, since he's MTV and all. As for her chances in November...Hell, even Karl Rove thinks she says a lot of nutty things!
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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