If you have one person saying that someone did a good job, one person saying that that same person did a bad job, and a third person saying that they did an OK job but that said person didn’t help them decide on something, how do you get this headline?
The view from Spokane: Palin’s not ready
Go ahead, read the editorial. I can’t figure out how DingDongDanny Westneat got to that position, unless he had it before the debate.
The Times publishes Dan Balz’s column from the WaPo and he said that Palin did well enough. So what is up Westneat’s ass on this?
Oh, probably something resembling this.
Btw, I don’t think she did all that great. She went out of her way to stuff talking points into the conversation. But with Ifill giving Biden the last word nearly 80% of the time and Biden’s 14 lies, she handily bested the old man.
The problem is, these aren’t “debates” in any sense of the word. Real debates have rules, and are scored. In a real debate, a talking point might be used, but only to lead into something that would score points as being not or poorly rebutted.
Of course, in a real debate, the moderator wouldn’t be a stealth shill for one of the participants, either. In a real debate, there is a “question”, and how the debaters talk on that question determines how they score.
Palin did okay, but this phony “debate” simply shows the stupidity of the entire format. “Commission on Presidential Debates”, my ass. This “Commission” couldn’t get a commission to wipe a whore’s ass.