Rich Lowry is a pantywaist.

You're a media professional
Assumes facts not in evidence.

I imagine the Black Widow spider elicits such responses. I hope she ingests his paralyzed body feet first.

This illustrates The First Law of Political Stupid: that stupid can neither be created nor destroyed, but only transferred from politicians to the media or vice versa.

In this case, because Gov. Palin was 30% less stupid than she was in her interviews with Katie Couric, that lost stupid transferred to the pundits, in this case various right-wingers; and because each had to absorb an enormous quantity of it... well, you can see the results here.

Sounds like Mr Lowry may be, ahem, suffering through a drought as they say.

I can just see her now, smoothing over international relations with Russia by giving Putin a wink and a smile.

The post so nice, I made it twice.

If anyone can pas this message along to Rich Lowry, I think it would benefit him immensely.

Rich,

when people are on the TV, even if it looks like they're specifically talking to you, or smiling at you, or winking at you, they're not. They're just talking directly to the camera pointed at them, which transmits the image to your TV. So if a woman on the TV winks at you, try not to get a boner.

My 8 year old nephew might be able to make the point more clearly, if you prefer. Be prepared to play a lot of hide and seek first, though.

Presidential politics on a curve - w/ horny teen hormones.

The republican standard is so low.

I guess with a President at 22% it makes sense.

I actually had a similar reaction, in that I said "Holy fuck, did she really just WINK?"

Palin got that wink from McCain whose left eye doesn't know what his right eye is doing. She was singing a foreign-language song that she learned phonetically.

That's Just What I Said

Hell, let's nominate Angelina Jolie next time. She'll win 52 states (Puerto Rico and Guam will join up just so they can vote for her).

"Hey, I think she just winked at me."

Lol! That's usually what 5 groupies think when the singer points out into the audience and says, 'This one's for you!'

Media professional? I thought he worked for National Review?

What y'all don't know is that Lowry has a "freebie from the veep" coupon, and he does not plan to redeem it from Cheney or Biden. His slobbering over Palin isn't just some pathetic celebrity leg-humping.

Right slappy magoo. And tell Lowry the people in the box are not 8 inches tall and neither is his boner.

Interesting to hear the male response, but my wife saw the same conduct and was repulsed. It will be interesting to see how women react to the perma-grin and flirty winks.

Jesus. And they accuse us of romanticizing Obama? ROFLMAO.

"[her smile] sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America."

I'm sure PBS will now quit asking the stupid douchebag Lowry to fill in for David Brooks.

Or not.

Rich, if you're listening... no, we are never going to let you forget how stupid you showed yourself to be when you wrote "Hey, I think she just winked at me."

Ever.

Look, when a complete loon like Krauthammer thinks Obama's going to win, what Rich Lowry has to say about Palin is, just like everything Lowry ever says, meaningless except to the kool aid drinkers.

A simple story:

She winked. He straightened up and sucked in his tummy. His wife came by, with a 2x4. He saw the stars burst.

I wonder if "thrills ran up his leg?" Tweety could give him some lessons in thrill-legging!

Most people by a substantial margin came away from the debate with a diminished view of Palin. What's a right-wing blogger going to say? "My honesty has been shredded by my partisan support of a discredited world view?" Don't think that's going to happen.

Say it ain't so, Steve, there you go again, gosh darn it, underestimating the lonely pervert vote..

Some have said that Palin's debate performance presents a challenge for Tina Fey, who is scheduled to once again appear as Palin on "Saturday Night Live" this weekend.

How can Tina Fey possibly come up with a parody of a performance that was a parody of itself?

I wouldn't underestimate Tina Fey or the other SNL writers, though. I anticipate an opening skit on the debate that will be outrageously over the top and will zero in on Palin's phony, sleazy, cringe-inducingly inappropriate, sex-kittenish winking and smirking antics.

Of course if all else fails, the SNL writers can always use Palin's actual words from the debate and that will be hilarious enough.

EEWWWWWW!!!!

Yeah, she's apparently feeling her oats - she says that she'll be more accessible and "my life is certainly an open book."

Really? Well, here's a news item about "Open Book" Barbie that passed a bit under the radar amidst all the flurry today.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-10-03-palin-troopergate-friday_N.htm?csp=34

I bet he gets "Morning Wood" dreaming of her.

Maybe Lowry saw Palin but was dreaming of Dick "Dick" Cheney? I mean, he is a Republican, right?

Erp, I just threw up in my mouth a little.

I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, "Hey, I think she just winked at me."

Personally I think Knuckles has the right response

Is this Lowry person for real..? Sounds more like what a gushy little girl would say about a male teen idol.

Breezeblock wrote: "I just threw up in my mouth a little."

That's OK. While listening to Palin talk about global warming last night, I projectile vomited steaming chunks across the room.

I recall the right going apoplectic when Hillary dared show a HINT of cleavage during a debate! I mean they went nuts.

We all knew this was going to happen today. Her faithful followers can breathe a sigh of relief and fall back in love with her. That's fine. But all the extra folks that were knocked over by her introduction? They ain't coming back, no matter how many Starbursts or Skittles [or Viagras] fly around the room.

OMG! I thought she was winking at me!

I figured she had just been closeted through those five children, and that her break with McCain on civil unions was the clincher....

Two words: commander codpiece

This ain't new

Every time Sarah glanced down at the podium I knew she was thinking of me and her strolling down some anonymous boulveard of yesteryear, holding hands and looking deeply into one another's eyes with a passion and love that will last forever.

Either that, or she was checking out her cheatsheets. I never have been very good at picking up signals from girls; hence the restraining orders.

I mean Palin is a nice looking woman, but a 44 year old mother winking when running for VP? Is she going to wink while looking into Putins eyes and sensing his soul?

Quite frankly, I think it says more about the writer and how that's really all these right-wing pundits have left. And frankly, it didn't really work.

Biden won. Palin lost. And Biden demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that he's ready to take on the VP role.

His performance mirrored that of Obama's in the McCain debate - be respectful of your oppponent, but be calm and direct when pointing why they are wrong, and why you are right.

The question is; will anyone point out how sexist his quote is?

What a total hypocrite!

The odd thing about the wink is that both Palin and McCain do it fairly regularly in appearances. Its odd and disturbing, IMO, from either of them.

Of course if all else fails, the SNL writers can always use Palin's actual words from the debate and that will be hilarious enough.

They already did this last weekend- Fey's portrayal of Palin mostly used the real Palin's responses to Amy Pohler's questions.

It would be funny, were it not for the fact that several tens of millions of people are perfectly willing to have Caribou Valley Girl as Vice President.

-Z

Either that, or she was checking out her cheatsheets. I never have been very good at picking up signals from girls; hence the restraining orders.
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It is a shame Palin's performance is being parsed along party lines. It really should be judged differently. I think Carney lingo is the proper nuance: Chumps, pitch, flash, fakirs, flatties, and grifters. In other words: The players and the played.

Lowry captures the perfect response of the classic rube. Poor thing. A little bit a shine, a little bit of grease, a wink from a hawker, and the townie is marked.

Palin was pure flimflam.
Anybody unable to see that is a third class sucker.

No Rich she was winking at me!

It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America.

This is the kind of nonsense Republicans have been hearing from Peggy Noonan for years. It sounds creepy coming from a man. Especially from the party of moralistic warmongers. OK, now I'm starting to see leather and whips. An oil exec's gala with Interior Department employees....need to change the subject...kittens with bows, kittens with bows. Aaaaah!

Would someone please tell him she was auditioning to be VP not a host on Good Morning America?

The standards are different.

This really proves the point that the right wing, at least in terms of emotional maturity, are still in grade school. They fight like that -- calling people names and blaming other people for their mistakes -- and they turn their candidates into crushes. The National Review is Tiger Beat for wingers.

Maybe we should send Rich a case of Clearasil.

Interesting to hear the male response, but my wife saw the same conduct and was repulsed.

I'm a straight guy, and I was repulsed, too. Everything she does that's supposed to be sexy strikes me as chain-yankingly manipulative. All I see is the calculation and the need to gain advantage.

That Levi kid saw the same effect about 10 minutes before Bristol conceived.

I didn't see a debate. I saw Biden answer questions and Palin make campaign speeches. Little reason for Ifill to even be there. I was very disappointed.

Palin worked very hard to keep from answering any questions or display any knowledge of the issues. Doing so earlier in the week went badly for her.

Funny. Every time Palin winked at me, I felt a sharp, stabbing pain in my right eye that went all the way through to the back of my skull.

Rich Lowry channels Beavis and Butthead...

Uh huh huh huh...she's hot...yea, huh huh huh

I guessed that, after she was unable to rattle off a hated-by-the-right Supreme Court case or two (Lawrence v. Texas, anyone?), after she told Couric that she believes there is a Constitutional Right to Privacy, and after Ifill last night had her admit to supporting same-sex-couple benefits in Alaska, Palin would be through with the right. "She's not really one of us," I thought they would think, "she's just putting us on with all the 'aw, shucks' and 'Jesus saves."

And, perhaps they have thought as much--let's just see if'n McCain can maintain "excitment" over the next several weeks--and what we're seeing today is one (or both) of two things: 1., establishment convervatives just so relieved that her performance (I use that word advisedly) included actual sentences--devoid of meaning and relevance though they may have been; and 2., the continued outpouring of a whole lotta men who really, really, want to get it on with the Governor of Alaska.

It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America.

Is Lowry quoting David Letterman's stalker there?

All I see is the calculation and the need to gain advantage.

From the perky and audible pre-debate "Can I call you 'Joe'?" everything was pose and tactics.

Fortunately too much: she repulsed more than she convinced.

For grimly comic relief read today's David Brooks in the NYTimes and hear the sound of someone who has had his paycheck threatened.

And I always thought Rich Lowry was gay!

Then again, maybe he was just doing 'shrooms?

It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America.

Lowry's having an acid flashback. He shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard until he comes down.

Professional women despise Palin for her runway winks and nose scrinches, as if this were enough to distract us from her irritating, "folksly" incoherence. Apparently it's enough for Rich Lowry.

I hope someone wiped up the little starbursts spattering Rich's TV screen and ricocheting around his living room.

I am not making this comment to be snarky.
I actually believe Sarah Palin exhibits some signs of mild brain damage. Mild aphasia results in the type of difficulties with language expression that she seems to show whenever she is not reading directly from a prompter or a card. She cannot complete a sentence; she interjects irrelevant words and terms; she strings together non sequiturs; she assigns agency to inanimate objects and abstractions; she is incapable of conveying meaningful ideas or concepts. It is textbook.
I would add that her charm and looks may be a very successful coping tool for her. She may not be unintelligent, but she may have a damaged language center in her brain.
I am not kidding about this. It took her 5 years at 6 different low tier schools to obtain an undergraduate degree. Why?

I truly can NOT wait until Jon Stuart, Keith Oldbermann, Rachel Maddow, and Saturday Night Live get hold of this Rich Lowry deserves to eat this column every day until he dies.

I mean, c'mon, starbusts zinging around the room? Lowry is clearly in some bizzaro Disney movie where Cruella DeVil picks off all the little animals with her thirty-ought, then does a happy dance while singing "A Wink and a Smile" Sorry Thumper. Too bad, puppies. She'll give you something to be gloomy about, Eeyore.

When a Rethug winks and generally behaves like a sex-kitten in heat little starbursts go off in America's living rooms, and Rethug males no longer need Viagra. When a Democrat shows a little cleavage the pillars of civilization begin to crumble, and Rethug males are repulsed, disgusted and turned off.

I suppose that all makes perfect sense in a world of selective reality.

In related news, Rich Lowry is convinced his Hooters waitress really REALLY likes him. "It's in her body language, the way she tells me how awesome their hot wings are, and where the bathroom is, it just sends little streams of love bursting from my...heart. That settles it, I'm doubling her tip, then she'll know I'm a worthy mate and will accept when I proffer my invitation for antiquing and a Rock Hudson-Doris Day double feature at the revival house. Oh, happy day!"

Doubt Rich has the cash to eat out much after shelling out for the lap dancers.

Would someone please tell him she was auditioning to be VP not a host on Good Morning America?

I thought she was running for mayor again. I mean, in what other context does the line about how here executive experience will be put to good use as a mayor make sense?

You mean that Sarah Palin didn't wink at me?

I feel so - betrayed, bewildered! (Sniff!) And to think that I told my partner that I'd leave him and change for her ...

Finally someone gets it! The only qualification I look for in a VP is whether they can send starbursts ricocheting around my living room.

Lowry was watching the debate with his pants around his ankles...

I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, "Hey, I think she just winked at me." And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America.

OK, who's the joker who spiked Rich's ginger ale with Ecstasy last night?

I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, "Hey, I think she just winked at me."

I knew this reminded me of something, but I couldn't think of it at first. Then I remembered.

I admit she's a looker. Probably the best political looker out there; though I can just feel the hair behind the necks of genuinely knowledgeable political woman rise when they are compared to this adorable piranha. She may not be worldly in economics, or foreign policy; but, I dare say from reports out there, she knows her way around the political game. Suffice it to say that no one is interested in trashing this lady to the point of reality. We all know the facts now (except the Joe six pack lock step types) and insofar as laboring further in addressing her misgivings, the facts are evident to all; even the pundits. This lady is probably going to have to face legal issues back in her state (unless she is part of the sure to come sweeping Bush pardons).
I like many Americans are fond of her foibles (actually I am fond of Tina Fey's character more; but, why quibble), and have genuine concern for the corner she has placed herself in. The GOP should show some real decency and slowly and methodically ease her public persona off the minds of Americans; instead of what appears to be a men manipulated use and abuse of a misguided and mismatched human being, mother and yes, female.
There is no need to punctuate her lack of abilities and engendered cute quirks onto this campaign any further. What little effect she has had on McCain's base is in place. There is no more need to use her. For her sake and the sake of her family; please GOP, LEAVE SARAH PALIN ALONE..........

Let's make one thing clear: my baby-mama's not dead, she's still alive, named Bristol; I don't have herpes, my dick's just itchin'; & as for being AIDS infested, I don't know, I'm too scared to get tested.* & having sex with Bri's ma? I wouldn't touch that shrivelling old bag with Pam Ward's Strap-on. Let's just say, after five kids with the F. Dude, & fling on the side with the car-wash co-owner, & Wasilla knows who else, it's like putting a hot-dog in a hallway.

Levi Johnston approves this message.

Idi Amin's Last Meal seconds it. He adds: no way would Sarah Palin even be on his long-list for Real Milves 33.

*First coupla lines from Eminem's Slim Shady LP.

I sometimes begin to despair at how fawning everyone is over Sarah... but then I zip over here:

http://www.electoral-vote.com/icon.html

And, I realize, everthing is still okay.

Did any of those starbursts end up hanging from Lowry's earlobe?

A smile is going NOT going to stop the Iranians from Getting Da Bomb, nor is it going to dazzle the GOP cronies that McCain will be forced to accept into his administration, who will grimly give her something harmless to do and set her aside for photo ops and state dinners and tours of the world to meet heads of state...kinda like Bush.

Palin's 'escort' level flirtations obviously make her a dream date for passive submissive emotional midgets like Lowry, and modern conservatives in general. 'Oooh, Mistress Sarah, fill me up with your oh-so-confident self.' A cheap simulacrum of Reagan, who was a cheap copy of Goldwater. Psychic cripples and emotional retards, one and all.

Technically, I suppose I right wing media crack hack is a professional - in the oldest sense of the word.

Technically, I suppose a right wing media crack hack is a professional - in the oldest sense of the word.

The local daily published a review of the debate today, complete with a cropped version of this AP photo showing only Ms. Palin...giving it the quality of a leering, tabloidesque gaze at her shapely gams and tushie.

Yep, whether by accident or by design she's very much in tune with the whole Madonna/whore thing so beloved by the Right.

I wonder is the Palin wink is supposed to have the same erotic effect on lesbian voters.

I wonder is the Palin wink is supposed to have the same erotic effect on lesbian voters.

Shut up Beavis!

They're wankers wagging their wanks at the winking of the witchy, wasilly woman we want whomped.