These are young conservatives, and the guy is still sore after a break-up with the woman next to him so he tears into her, with a smile and forced wit calling her everything from soulless to sadistic. I have to say, she showed amazing restraint. Few would have blamed her if she had lived up to his description of her right then and there.
There’s a creepiness to the whole thing, but it’s riveting.

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October 19, 2010 at 4:22 am
Plain Jane
I would have liked to hear what she thought people shouldn’t be allowed to do to each other given her obvious sadism (to build character). It sounded like they were talking about a paper she wrote and he went personal. If half of what he said about her was true, he probably attacked her with cameras rolling so she couldn’t go all “fight club” on him, but without any context as to the purpose of this forum, it’s hard to judge either of them.
October 19, 2010 at 4:45 am
Plain Jane
I found the whole program. They were discussing Jonah Goldberg’s book “Proud to be Right.” Seavey and Rittelmeyer broke up 3 days before the forum.
link
Todd Seavey talking about the show after the clip went viral:
Welcome, New Readers! (About That C-SPAN2 Helen Rittelmeyer Thing…)
link
Helen Rittelmeyer’s revenge (posting Seavey’s personal ad) at the Daily Caller where she used to work, but no denials of his most vicious accusations:
link
ICK factor off the scale.
October 19, 2010 at 7:10 am
Eric Kirk
PJ, the first two links don’t work and the last one takes us to speculation that Beckel flipped Hannity off.
October 19, 2010 at 7:31 am
Plain Jane
Strange.
Whole video
http://www.booktv.org/Watch/11934/Proud+To+Be+Right+Voices+of+the+Next+Conservative+Generation.aspx
Seavey explains
http://www.toddseavey.com/
Helen’s revenge
http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/18/guy-gets-revenge-on-ex-girlfriend-on-cspan2/
These work.
October 19, 2010 at 7:42 am
Eric Kirk
Ummm. Was she initially attracted to him by that ad? I wonder if he got any other responses.
My favorite ad was read over KMUD a few years ago: “Single woman seeks a mammal with a day job.” But for her probably liberal politics (having posted it in the SF Bay Guardian), they might be a match.
October 19, 2010 at 7:50 am
Plain Jane
Maybe she thought a relationship with him would be character building. On the other hand, for a person looking for constant conflict he would be a dream guy.
October 19, 2010 at 8:05 am
suzy blah blah
Strange.
PJ, the links didn’t work cuz in each case you mistakenly included the quote mark and the end. Same thing has happened to me –arrgh.
October 19, 2010 at 8:29 am
Plain Jane
Thanks, Suzy. I’m new to using hyperlinks, sometimes they work and often they don’t.
October 19, 2010 at 7:51 pm
Newhere
Whats with all the evil loony ‘conservative right’ women?
Were they really all that jealous of people like
Hoover, Nixon, Reagan, Bush,Cheney, Rove, etal???