Editing Real Time with Bill Maher (section)

==== Christine O'Donnell ====
On September 17, 2010, Maher aired a clip of Delaware Republican Senatorial candidate [[Christine O'Donnell]] from the October 29, 1999, episode of his prior TV series ''[[Politically Incorrect]]'',<ref name="McGreal2010-09-20">{{Cite news |last=McGreal |first=Chris |date=September 20, 2010 |title=Christine O'Donnell: I dabbled in witchcraft |work=The Guardian |publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/20/christine-o-donnell-dabbled-witchcraft |access-date=September 20, 2010}}</ref> where she discussed that she had "dabbled in witchcraft".  This was perhaps the most notable of numerous controversial statements by O'Donnell that made her the most covered candidate in the 2010 mid-term election cycle.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Midterms' Media Mainstays |url=http://www.journalism.org/numbers_report/midterms%E2%80%99_media_mainstays |access-date=August 3, 2011 |website=Project for Excellence in Journalism |archive-date=September 10, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130910044248/http://www.journalism.org/numbers_report/midterms%E2%80%99_media_mainstays |url-status=dead }}</ref>  O'Donnell went on to film a rebuttal commercial claiming "I'm not a witch, I'm you." This ad inspired many video parodies<ref>{{Cite web |last=McGlynn |first=Katia |date=October 10, 2010 |title='SNL' Does The Best Parody Of Christine O'Donnell's 'Not A Witch' Ad Yet |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/09/kristen-wiig-parodies-chr_n_757116.html |access-date=December 3, 2010 |website=Huffington Post}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=October 20, 2010 |title=Elvira Spoofs Christine O'Donnell's 'I'm Not A Witch' Ad |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/20/elvira-christine-odonnell_n_770527.html |access-date=December 3, 2010 |website=Huffington Post}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Parker |first=Ashley |date=October 26, 2010 |title="I'm Not A Witch" — The Remix |work=The Ca10-2626-10 |url=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/im-not-a-witch-the-remix/ |access-date=December 3, 2010}}</ref> and O'Donnell later said that the ad backfired and focused attention on her decade-old statement.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tom Diemer |date=October 21, 2010 |title=Christine O'Donnell Regrets 'I'm Not a Witch' Ad |work=Politics Daily |url=http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/10/21/christine-odonnell-regrets-im-not-a-witch-ad/ |access-date=December 22, 2011 |archive-date=August 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120804144316/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/10/21/christine-odonnell-regrets-im-not-a-witch-ad/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> O'Donnell lost to her Democratic opponent, [[Chris Coons]], in the general election. On the September 7, 2012, episode of ''Real Time with Bill Maher'', O'Donnell appeared on the show for the first time and resolved the issue with Maher, who apologized for the amount of publicity that the clip garnered. Maher said that he would not have aired the clip if he knew that it would have taken away from the message of her campaign.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bill Maher says sorry to 'witch' Christine O'Donnell – Kevin Cirilli | date=September 8, 2012 |url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/80941.html?hp=l7 |access-date=April 5, 2014 |publisher=Politico.Com}}</ref>