Away from her friends on Fox, Palin folds like a cheap suit

[Anonymous]

MEDIAWATCH: MIDWAY THROUGH her debate with Joe Biden, Sarah Palin began dropping her Gs and channelling Marge Gunderson, the plain-speakin', pistol-packin' pregnant police chief in Fargo.

Palin declared, in no uncertain terms, that she needn't answer questions put to her by the moderator, that Obama-lovin' Gwen Ifill, who works for the ultraliberal Public Broadcasting Service, or anybody else in the mainstream media. She was gonna talk straight to the American people.

It was great theatre, but in a Beckett-like absurdist way. It is a tried and true tactic of the American right to blame any and all their problems on the "mainstream media".


http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2008/1009/1223445617076.html

[Anonymous]

I must have missed that debate. I thought Gwen Ifill showed respect for both candidates, and they returned the courtesy.

And for an Irishman to be talking about her accent - absurd!