Lovelorn libertarian lashes out at wonk ex-girlfriend at panel discussion while C-SPAN cameras roll (VIDEO)



When right goes wrong: Conservative/Libertarian blogger Todd Seavey and National Review editor Helen Rittelmeyer aired some very personal laundry during a panel discussion that aired on C-SPAN2's BookTV Saturday night. The two were clashing over political ideology until Seavey unexpectedly veered off-course: Rittelmeyer, he announced, was his girlfriend for a tumultuous two years and ..... by the way, an expert at brutal gamesmanship. Like, say, juggling multiple men or coldly playing matchmaker for one couple so she could seduce the man and hurt the woman. Or so he claimed. "When you think about, it is pretty creepy," he told the audience. "What sort of evils are beyond the pale?"

"What do I think is off-bounds? I don't know? Spilling your heart out on C-SPAN?" she shot back.



Suffice to say the room got very quiet. Really, really awkward.

Seavey appears unapologetic about the exchange, which was taped two weeks ago at Georgetown University. "Her often brutal-sounding philosophy really is, when you dig through the layers, a brutal philosophy, genuinely aimed at hurting people," he blogged Saturday. "But who thinks people are being serious when they praise cruelty, especially if people are about 5'4" and look like harmless librarians?"

Rittelmeyer, for the moment, isn't hitting back. "I'm afraid I don't have anything more to say on the topic," she told us.

