I had switched back over from The Daily Show because my curiosity got the better of me. What would the talking heads say at the end of Sarah Palin's speech? The speech I had just heard (or the 2/3 of it: the DVR had force switched channels at 11:00 on the nose, and I gratefully accepted this mechanical decision) was bellicose, sloppy, and, at best, competently delivered. Admittedly, I have my biases, but I kept thinking that the bar had been set so low, and that she was barely crawling over it.
At the same time I had agreed completely with the multiple diaries yesterday morning that had predicted that no matter what happened, the cable news folks would declare it the best thing since the invention of sliced theocratic fundamentalist bread.
Wolfie came on (paraphrasing):
Well there you have it. A homerun. Maybe even a Grand Slam.
And Anderson Cooper agreed wholeheartedly, though due to the blood already gushing from my ears I can't recall precisely what he said.
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