As it was Palin was bad enough that her shittyness still shone through

The rats are starting to bail from the crazy train [Randy Rhoads fill].

she’ll probably say that Mexico is a land of contrasts where the locals grow corn – which they call “maize“.

I believe I’ve already made my comments on this.

Which whinging wingnut will be next to admit that even he/she can’t keep pretending anymore? I wonder how much schadenfreude I can stand? I can’t wait to find out!

And those of us who argued that the job was about more than asking questions will be painted as hysterions

Well, duh. After all a hysterion is a two quark particle made up of a right and an anti-left.

Then again, the whole process as designed is pretty superficial.

Make the fuckers actually debate each other, with opportunities to call bullshit and a requirement that claims must be substantiated.

But, yeah, that would be too hard to watch.

So, let’s just toss ‘em naked in a ring. Punching, kicking, biting, hair-pulling – anything goes.

The other option – Gwen Stephani, not Gwen Ifill.

Will you be there when the book comes out on inauguration day, commenting, as Ifill rakes it in, that maybe she didn’t do such a great job?

Gwen Ifill’s getting rich off propaganda!

Sure. There in the pressure on Iran and we need to pursue those and we must do whatever it takes and we should second guess their efforts. Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I believe that Americans are going to be produced. 2, 000 Acres out of 20 million acres. That footprint, it’s about 20% of the earth. That’s not a part of, I guess, that culture. The way that I send my first born, my son, my teenage son overseas with his Stryker brigade, 4, 000 other wonderful American men and women, to fight for our freedoms.

Ifill made sure there was no risk of that happening tonight.

Not sure she had a choice. The McCain camp wanted no followups and got that when deciding the rules and formats for the debate. If she’d gone off and done any followups, the Malkin Hordes would be screeching so loud Martians would be hearing them. No win situation for Ifill.

When Palin looked liked a moose in the headlights last week was whenever Couric followed up on the mooseshit responses with a gentle request for specifics or examples. Ifill made sure there was no risk of that happening tonight.

All Couric did, btw, was follow up Palin’s mooseshit answers with a modest request for any specifics or examples. It’s at that the point when the moose-in-the-headlights look appeared. Gwen Ifill made sure there was no risk of any follow-up or requests for specifics happening tonight.

Bible Spice’s platitudes + Word Salad + insincere smile = couldn’t take another minute of it.

I don’t know what constraints were placed on her, but the informal and nonspecific way her comments and questions were framed made it sound like she had scanned the cable news channels about an hour before the debate and scribbled down some questions based on utterly superficial knowledge of the topics.

I’m just glad the initial CNN and CBS polls reflect a solid win for Biden; I was worried that Bible Spice had cast her glamor on Red State America.