The Great Exasperator

I didn't see Christine O'Donnell's first U.S. Senate debate with her Democratic rival Chris Coons, but people say he seemed exasperated with her, and they probably feel sorry for him. I'm sure some pundits, though, say Coons lost the debate because of his exasperation, just like when Albert Gore condescendingly sighed during a presidential debate with George Walker Bush. But, as Bill Maher proved with a montage clip of O'Donnell's appearances on his 1990s show "Politically Incorrect," which he showed on his current program on HBO, she has exasperated a lot of people.

Among the panelists on various installments of "Politically Incorrect" were Ben Affleck, Dana Carvey, Al Franken (can you imagine him and O'Donnell in the Senate together?), author Clive Barker, Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller, screenwriter Larry Gelbart, television actress Edie McClurg, comedian Steven Wright, "Dallas" actor Patrick Duffy, British comedienne Patricia Routledge, and "Partridge Family" alumnus Danny Bonaduce.

Okay, Patricia Routledge was never on "Politically Incorrect" with Christine O'Donnell, and I'm sure she was never on that show at all. I just wanted to see if you were paying attention. But every other person I mentioned did have to deal with O'Donnell. Imagine someone so thickheaded she exasperated Danny Bonaduce. She is that bad. Plus, like Claudia Zimmer from Alan Alda's movie The Four Seasons (played by Rita Moreno), she always kept playing up the fact that she's Italian, at least on her mother's side. Patrick Duffy - who, as his name suggests, was probably happy she didn't play up her Irish side - was so fed up with her saying she's Italian, he said to her, "So eat something and shut up!"

All of these "Politically Incorrect" episodes had their moments, with friends and guests that Bill Maher can recall. Some are dead and some are living. In their lives, Christine O'Donnell annoyed them all. :-D