Jen and I watched the debate on Thursday and it was stunning. She kept pausing our TV, turning to me and saying, "Did she really just say that?"; then we'd back it up and watch it again and, sure enough, she really did say "Joe Six Pack" and that "Say it ain't so, Joe" line and the winking.
God help us, all the winking.
Now, I didn't like the woman going into the debate but I can't, for the life of me, see how a thinking person could call her performance anything less than completely embarrassing. She finally just said that she wasn't going to answer the questions ( I thought this was the most honest part of her entire delivery ).
SHE SAID SHE WASN'T GOING TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.
IN.
A.
DEBATE.
The actual quote is:
"I may not answer the questions the way that either the moderator or you want to hear."
This sounds like a defense of her own "style" of speaking but what she actually did was not answer the questions. She'd either say "I'd like to talk about ( insert something from her note cards, probably something about energy policy )" and just talk about that instead.
There is a long list of journalists, pundits and newspeople who defended, even praised, her "performance". This alone puts a nail in the coffin of the idea that there is a "liberal bias" in the media. If ever there was an infinitely easy opportunity for someone with "liberal bias" to tear Palin a brand new asshole, this was it.
And guess what?
No one did.
I didn't hear a single person say what everyone MUST have been thinking, which is, "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?"
They're really, really, REALLY fucking lucky that Gwen Ifill had this huge controversy about her moderating, because it completely neutered her ability to, you know, actually MODERATE.
Hands down, my favorite part of the whole debate was at the end, when both the candidate's families were mingling on stage, Jen turned to me and said, "Oh Christ, is she gonna hold that kid up like the Lion King?"
I really, really Love my wife.
Sunday Night Bath!
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Thirty seconds of her is about all I can take.
My wife and I were also pausing our DVR during the debate to discuss our complete astonishment of what that idiot was saying. For me, she completely lost the debate when she refused to answer the questions correctly (or at all). It was as if she was playing football and running to the other team's end zone and insisting she scored a touchdown...and EVERYONE AGREED!
I can't fucking stand her. There's really no other way to say it. She irks me. In every way imaginable. Grody.
You know how I feel. Need I say it again?
No?
Well, I'm going to anyway -- she's a twit. Or a twat. Whichever word will start the most controversy on your blog as it did on mine.
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