Why Didn't Nancy Pelosi Just Walk Out?

The Democrats keep trying to claim that they aren't really the party of sexual depravity--so why did Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi stick around after this start?

Sure, politicians always appreciate a warm welcome when they appear on daytime TV talk shows. But the welcome House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got today on ABC's chick TV show "The View" was more than warm - it was downright steamy.
Even before Pelosi walked on stage to take her seat at the round table, the show's moderator, Whoopi Goldberg, and its co-hosts - with former news anchor Barbara Walters leading the pack - started flirting with the speaker's husband, Paul, who was seated in the front row.
"You wanna take a look at Nancy Pelosi's handsome husband?" Walters asked the audience. Yes, came the answer in the form of whooping and hollering.
Poor guy was actually blushing. Then the show's hosts asked him how long he and Madame Speaker have been married.
"Forty-four years," Mr. Pelosi managed between pained glances in the direction of a blanket, a paper bag, anything to hide under.
Whoopi got the pleasure of introducing Speaker Pelosi, who she noted is the first woman speaker of the House who, somewhere along the way, managed to raise five children.
But Walters was still stuck on Mr. Pelosi, unfortunately for Mr. Pelosi. And this is where a little blushing turned to a Code Red alert, four-alarm fire.
Trying to shout over Whoopi and her other gabbing co-hosts and excited audience members, Barbara turned to Guest Pelosi and said she has heard Whoopi say before that she'd "do Paul Newman."
"And I think she'd like to do your husband as well," Walters deadpanned in that quintessential accent that made her the subject of late-night lampooning over the decades.
Of course, Whoopi being Whoopi, she couldn't let that one go, which is where the speaker begins blushing.
Yes, Whoopi implicitly acknowledged, she'd like to do Mr. Pelosi - but she might take his wife while she's at it. "I would do her as well. But we should wait on that because you're still in office, I don't want to cause a problem."
Oh dear, would this were not live TV.
As you might expect, Speaker Pelosi remained silent underneath her signature permanent smile. And her press office later remained predictably mum on the specter of Whoopi-on-Speaker action.
"She enjoyed being on the show," Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly told us via email. "It was a fun chance to talk to (primarily) women around the country about what Democrats are doing in Congress."

One of the comments on the article quoted above exaggerates the reason that Islamofascists hate us--but there's a little truth to this, and it is part of why the Democratic Party is never going to get much support from people with some self-discipline:

Islamic fundamentalists don't hate America because of George W Bush. They hate America because of celebrities such as Britney Spears, 50-cent, Madonna and Whoopi Goldberg.
In the eyes of religious Muslims, Western culture is the height of decadence. They do not refer to the USA as "the Great Satan" because of our military power, but rather because they find Western popular culture to be a disgraceful affront to nearly every value that they hold sacred.
They see their culture threatened by the West's great pursuit of the false gods of wealth and celebrity status, sexual liberation and hedonism.
The curious paradox is that the Hollywood idiots who rail the loudest against GWB are in fact a large part of the problem. They will also be the first to get beheaded when the Taliban takes over.

There was a time, not that many years ago, when this kind of banter on live television would have been the end of someone's contract--and perhaps the end of that person's career. There was also a time when a politician would have at least pretended disgust, and walked off the show. American culture is in serious decline.