“TV Disaster or Marketing Genius?”

Merry Miller, the viral-video hostess whose train-wreck interview with Holly Hunter transformed her into an overnight laughingstock, is, as she puts it, trying to make lemonade from that lemon of a TV appearance.

It must be a first – a 10-minute interview about a four-minute interview, with the onscreen graphic asking, “TV Disaster or Marketing Genius?” – but Miller sits gamely through it all, even as her interrogator somewhat sadistically forces her to watch clips from the debacle, then shares with her comments from viewers, such as this one:

“HAHAHA Pick up your stuff at the end of the week lady. Don’t make a scene when security escorts you out. Worst Host EVER!”

Somewhat defensively, Merry insists that the most comment reaction she has received has been queries as to what shade of lipstick she was wearing during the interview.

Miller calls the phenomenon “a living case study” of the power of YouTube, notes, “I don’t think I belong on camera,” but admits, “I can see why people want to watch it.”

Sadly, in her mea culpa, Merry doesn’t come off seeming much more intelligent than she did in the original interview. Before the Hunter episode, “I interviewed hundreds and countless people,” she declares.

“It’s hurtful, the outcome,” she adds. “It’s extremely embarrassing. … The power of the Internet is so great. My gut had told me that it was the future of the world. … I’m going to take this phenomenon that I created and drive it somewhere.” (What, now she’s going all Al Gore and claiming she invented the Internets?)

To fully capitalize on this thing, ABC News Now is holding an online contest seeking a more competent guest host to anchor its trivial “What’s the Buzz” segment. Weakly, Miller suggests she might enter the contest.

“I clearly need a lot of training,” she says.

“That goes without saying,” her interviewer – who gets crueler by the moment! – replies.