'Shindig'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Re: the SNL skit referenced above -- what REALLY gets me are the parts that are word-for-word from Palin's actual answers.
I know! I was howling-- when they were talking about the bailout plan and Fey's answer started out exactly like Palin's and then ventured into the "dollar meal menus for everyone" territory, it took me a minute to realize what she'd said. Because it sounded SO perfectly in line with something Palin would say.
No Dutch baby, but I still have pie!
Off to watch the SNL clips.
I've been looking at BU.
Whoooo!
Pie!
I just watched the SNL clps.
Even assuming exaggeration -- that woman isn't really going to debate,is she?
More than a few people have noticed that Biden was on hand to offer a lot of post-debate analysis and reaction on the news shows, whereas Palin is incommunicado, as per usual.
More than a few people have noticed that Biden was on hand to offer a lot of post-debate analysis and reaction on the news shows, whereas Palin is incommunicado, as per usual.
Wasn't that why Giuliani was in Mississippi. Because he can actually string together a coherent sentence? Which, I have to think, must have chapped McCain's ass because he doesn't really like Rudy, does he?
For my math Ph. D., I had to pass one foreign language exam, with the language being my choice of French, German, or Russian. That's pretty standard for math programs -- some require two languages. But the exam is pretty easy -- they just give you a few pages of an article in the language to translate into English, with the help of a dictionary. Two of my friends passed the French exam without ever having taken a French course. (And one of them had Japanese as his first language, and his English isn't all that great.) What they're looking for isn't so much "proficiency" as "if you really must figure out what someone's saying, you can."
I wonder how low the bar is set at this point for pundits to declare "Palin did what she needed to do in this debate", when it ends? Is not speaking in tongues sufficient? Will she declared to have debated successfully in the debate if her sentences flow into coherent paragraphs?
Will she declared to have debated successfully in the debate if her sentences flow into coherent paragraphs?
Given that she didn't even manage that in her Couric interview....
A part of me wishes it would turn out that she's sort of a pool hustler who has been throwing her early interviews so that she by comparison wins the debate when she finally cuts loose.
But it's not the way I'm betting.