New Christine O'Donnell Clip Released: 'I Would Have Become A Hare Krishna But... I Love Meatballs' (VIDEO)

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.

Bill 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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[Michele Gwynn]

06:33 PM on 10/29/2010

I just bet she LOVES meatballs! Just because she doesn't touch herself doesn't mean she doesn't indulge in a little buffet of hotdog and meatballs on dark nights at bars! lol..

[brighton21]

09:29 AM on 10/07/2010

Please read (funny) "A Vegetarian's Farewell to Mustard" here: http://brighton-towne.blogspot.com/2010/10/farewell-to-mustard.html

[DaveRhodeIsland]

11:59 AM on 10/06/2010

What kind of person tries every other religion? It's like an all-you-can-pray buffet or something! Either you have some idea of what religion appeals to you or you don't. Trying them all is like trying all the clothes in the store to see which looks best on you. Weird.

[jaborine]

07:36 PM on 10/04/2010

I am looking for a publisher for my new book:

The Rise of Tea Party Darling Christine O'Donnell from Witchcraft and Buddhism, to Christian Hare Krishna and Republican Hopeful-Complete with Satanic Ritual Prayers for Virgins.

[NickySmiles]

02:58 PM on 10/04/2010

Jon Stewart said it best on NPR this week:

"The last thing that I would suggest is that her witchcraft or masturbation stance should be what we should be thinking about or focusing on, and I think that's an enormous mistake that the Democrats will make. We like to sit around the office and we have a little game called 'How will the Democrats blow it?' And that's the way they'll do it. They'll think somehow that that will resonate with voters, that 20 years ago Christine O'Donnell on MTV said 'Masturbation is a sin.' And they'll play it, and they'll ridicule it, and the voters will be like, 'Yeah, I don't have a job.' That's how they'll blow it."

[Drew Barwick]

09:21 AM on 10/04/2010

Ha! I've never found politics so funny before! I wander what impression the story of her spiritual journey has or will have on her kids. It made me want some meatballs! I shared this in a bledit at http://bleditor.com/bledit.php?bleditID=14784.

[diak0n0s]

11:13 PM on 10/03/2010

Hey. . . . anyone seen the videos of yesterday's Mall Rally?

You should she the trash left behind.

[Brane]

01:25 AM on 10/04/2010

Off topic, and off your meds.

[ie]

08:59 PM on 10/04/2010

And, apparently, he's been drinking: "you should she the..."

[goodmarina]

11:12 PM on 10/03/2010

Did any of you think that we would be talking about:

Masturbation
Witchcraft
Bloody alters
Meatballs
Hare Krishnas
Co-ed rooms leading to "Orgy rooms"
ACLU is "trying to institute a communist country"
Rat's have human brains


all of this from ONE CANDIDATE!

[mowgo]

11:44 PM on 10/03/2010

And Bill Maher says he has a lot more clips of her. What will be the topic next week? Will she say she used to date Bigfoot? Or that she once got in a bar fight with Desmond Tutu? The possibilities are endless.

[goodmarina]

12:35 AM on 10/04/2010

thank you for the enthusiastic response

bar fight with desmond tutu ... or perhaps a bra-fight?

no wonder i'd fanned u some time ago : )

[lazercat2008]

10:33 PM on 10/03/2010

Everybody should base their choice of religion on food.

[4more]

10:26 PM on 10/03/2010

More of the lamestream media attacking a conservative woman with her own words! SO unfair.

[diak0n0s]

11:14 PM on 10/03/2010

Right on.

I think we should go back even further, maybe into her elementary school years to find something.

[Grumpy Old Dude]

08:48 AM on 10/04/2010

OK, O'Doodle said this stuff ten years ago. If you do not think that the media or the people should be examining her statements, perhaps you should contemplate a run for the senate, dude!!

[Redemption Song]

10:16 PM on 10/03/2010

Freudian dip.

[ReservoirDog]

09:47 PM on 10/03/2010

How can someone be FOR meatballs...

and AGAINST masterbation ?

[ReservoirDog]

09:52 PM on 10/03/2010

my bad, "mastUrbation"

[zelda777]

09:30 PM on 10/03/2010

Who IS this nutty chick, and how did she get on national TV over 10 years ago?

[solid]

09:46 PM on 10/03/2010

That's what I'm wondering...

[realitybriar]

10:40 PM on 10/03/2010

I think you answered your own question. She's so nutty she's entertaining on a panel show. She just doesn't realize how nutty she sounds. And that makes her keep talking and saying more nutty things, and then having to explain them later.

[Sol76]

08:57 PM on 10/03/2010

Yo, Huffington Post; why did you post my comment and then delete it?

From memory, I wrote the following:

"At this point, Bill Maher is the reason why Christine O'Donnell is in the US national media every week..."

Then I explained that attempts to ridicule her only strengthen her base who see her as a victim of "media elites" like "Bill Maher and his comrades."

I then tried to post a reply to my own comment just to clarify that I did not seriously think Maher was a media elite or a communist but my original comment was deleted. What gives? Did I touch a nerve of a Christine O'Donnel supporter who is moderating these comments?

[chicagoprogressive]

09:14 PM on 10/03/2010

No...no one supports that waste of life known as O'DONE-ell

[Brane]

01:28 AM on 10/04/2010

No one has to "attempt" to ridicule her, either. In fact, it's almost too easy.

[BannedInBoston]

08:57 PM on 10/03/2010

Some of my best friends are meatballs....