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Duh Bate Analysis:
I thought Gwen Ifill was pretty bad. She’s “fair and balanced”, but she just isn’t good at getting at the heart of an issue. This is a criticism I have of her show and her political coverage in general. A “Where’s the beef?” critique, if you will.
A lot of people called Hillary a bitch. Haven’t heard that word much in reference to Palin. But she’s pretty flippant about calling Biden a liar, calling Obama un-American and anti-troops and she makes some rather nasty, back-handed statements, ever-so thinly masked with this folksy veneer. Hillary could never get away with half of the shit Palin pulled tonight.
To boot, a lot of her answers sounded like the mildly awkward rephrasing of rehearsed talking points — yeah, I know, that’s what everyone does — with a lot of passive voice tossed in. No amazingly embarrassing gaffes, although I’m pretty sure General McClellan was a Civil War general (and a pretty bad one at that), and that General McKiernan is who Palin meant to refer to. And it’s clear she doesn’t know what the conservative position is even supposed to be on a number of issues.
I felt Biden’s answers varied from “meh” to better than I had expected.
I wanted to stab Palin with a moose antler a couple times, but a rather uneventful debate overall. If the Cubbies game had been close, I would have had a serious Sophie’s Choice on my hands. That is, if Sophie hadn’t been especially fond of either of her children. With Meryl Streep’s gift for understatement (like crying in every flipping movie she’s in), who can really tell what she thought of those buggers.
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