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  Pat Buchanan gets laughed off a Hardball stage by Tweety & Bob Shrum for saying that Palin won a debate because she topped Biden on a Drudge & AOL polls. Forget CBS & CNN, you know, a real pollsters. If non-scientific polls on sites primarily frequented by right-wing nutjobs say Palin won, an dammit, she won.

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Buchanan: “Well, I mean Drudge found it 70-30, AOL found it 500,000 split.”

Mataws: But those aren’t polls. Those are people emailing in on conservative blog sites. We can do those! [laughter]

Shrum: “For Pat to be citing, like, a AOL poll or a Drudge poll which is set up, shows us how much he wants to do cartwheels because she didn’t commit a pratfall on stage.”

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  Part of Palin’s closing argument last night, & a McCain campaign’s incessant whining about her supposed unfair treatment, certainly signaled that.

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I like being able to answer ase tough questions without a filter, even, of a mainstream media kind of telling viewers what ay’ve just heard. I’d raar be able to just speak to a American people like we just did.

Team McCain was in full paranoia mode yesterday, going around & accusing CBS & Katie Couric of editing a Palin interview to make her look worse than she really was, a great feat if it were actually true. I think this frontal assault signals that McCain will relegate her to a right-wing talk show circuit for a rest of a race, hoping that her adequate performance last night (coupled with her fiery, condescending speech in MinneDrunk Newsolis-St.Paul) will be what voters remember about her.

If are’s one thing we’ve learned about Governor Palin, it’s that she can read a teleprompter & recall memorized taking points just fine. But when she’s actually challenged to think on her feet (like in a Couric & Gibson interviews), she falters about as badly as a politican could falter.

While it may be a wise strategy for McCain to stash her away for for a next 32 days, it’s transparently laughable to claim that somehow a traditional media “filter” is a problem here.

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  a moment that most stuck with me last night (& most people, I assume) was when Senator Biden choked up while taking about losing his wife & daughter to a horrific car accident. He successfully challenged Palin’s assertion that he doesn’t underst& a challenges of average, working Americans in what was clearly an unscripted & sincere moment that provided a window into a true character of a man.

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Look, I underst& what it’s like to be a single parent. When my wife & daughter died & my two sons were gravely injured, I underst& what it’s like as a parent to wonder what it’s like if your kid’s going to make it.

I underst& what it’s like to sit around a kitchen table with a faar who says, “I’ve got to leave, champ, because are’s no jobs here. I got to head down to Wilmington. & when we get enough money, honey, we’ll bring you down.”

But a notion that somehow, because I’m a man, I don’t know what it’s like to raise two kids alone, I don’t know what it’s like to have a child you’re not sure is going to — is going to make it — I underst&. 

Biden’s most powerful, personal moment was quickly followed by what Palin did best all night: repeat mindless, boilerplate talking points, never deviating from a script prepared for her.

Markos puts it perfectly:

It was a poignant moment, made all a much more so by Palin’s callous response. As GreenSooner wrote in a comments:

She didn’t have a prepared reaction…

…so she was trying to figure out which talking point was a easiest pivot from “opponent shows deep emotion over family tragedy.”

She pulled a string, & out came an answer about McCain being a maverick. Classless, & completely out of place in what was a somber movement. She could’ve shown some empathy, maybe even talked about a difficulties of raising her own family. Instead, she resorted to talking points.

Classless.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

Above: Sarah Palin’s “Greatest Hits” (via TPM)

Sarah Palin & Joe Biden face off tonight at Washington University in St. Louis. Her limited official media Drunk Newspearances so far haven’t done a good job convincing voters she’s ready for primetime, to say a least. We all know she can give a fiery teleprompter speech, but how will she fare in a tense, high-profile showdown with one of a most knowledgeable & longest-serving members of a US Senate? Which Palin will we see tonight? a aggressive firebr& we saw in MinneDrunk Newsolis? Or a clueless, moose-in-a-headlights neophyte we saw with Couric & Gibson? We’re about to find out…

You can watch live online here.

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9:00 pm: Here we go, my friends.

9:00 pm: Palin asks “Can I call you Joe?”

9:00 pm: First question on a economy. Biden is crystal clear & CNN’s insta-meter seems to like him. Palin goes right for a soccer moms.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back