That quickly went from mildly humorous (as humorous as a C-Span book forum can get) to a rather public personal trainwreck of Todd Seavey. Gentlemen do not attack ex girlfriends at C-Span book forums. Jonah’s laughing added a strange touch to a very strange event.

I am just glad I was not there…taking acid*. Becuase that scene would have freaked me out.

Helen Rittelmeyer handled it pretty well. She came off as kind of sexy in a conservative wonkette sort of way.

Seavey on the other hand should have a meeting with Rittelmeyer’s brothers (and since she is a Conservative Catholic, I am hoping their are about a dozen of them, although given Seavey demeanor, an aggrived ten year old boy should be able to handle matters sufficiently).

I second Bob’s motion.

* not that I am in the habit of taking acid. I am just channelling some fear and loathing on the C-Span circuit.

By the way, I’m with Bob on storming the ramparts and dumping Rich Lowry. I would also throw on the pyre Jonah Goldberg and pretty much all of the Nancy Boys at National Review. As we head towards the November elections, the whole group has become tedious and intolerably elitist.

That was two things:

1.) The longest I have ever watched any C-span feed
2.) The most entertaining and lively C-span feed I have ever seen.

Men are stupid. Many of us require a civilizing influence, and sometimes it doesn’t take.

I also DVRed this and watched it later. Seavey came off as a classless jerk.

I never NEVER again want to see ANY Headline that ends in the word:

“Evah!”

It’s beyond annoying!

I think the way she handled it proves she is, as you say, ‘a class act’, a lady. Also, she showed that she is shrewd by letting Seedy Seavey’s behavior stand alone as naked proof of his immaturity and jerkiness.

I really enjoyed this episode.I admit I was drawn by the “Teapot
Tempest” of Mr. Seavey’s dating history statements. I can understand his chagrin. Ms.Rittelmeyer is Hot! It’s high time that
Conservatives admit that we can be sexy too. Aside from that, I
got some very interesting arguements and info from all the panelists and questioners. Come on for too long we have allowed ourselves to be characterized as dry and sexless. Ideas are sexy too. The woman that said,”..show me your checkbook and{ I’ll know your beliefs(paraphrased)}…” was on the money and very attractive too. We want “hearts and minds” people-gotta get real.

-Present your evidence, Mr. Seavey.

-Also, the forum, at which you were a guest, was neither the time nor the place to air your grievances. You were there to promote the book. It especially was unfair to do that to Jonah Goldberg.