Best moments of the debate included Palin winking, Palin telling Biden that his wife's reward was in heaven (4:15 into the clip), and everyone agreeing on gay rights.
But what did the guys who are paid to analyze the debates think? A pundit round-up, after the jump:
When Don Imus made that unfortunate remark on the quality of hair on Rutger's College female basketball team, it had one beneficial side-effect: A window opened for one of the largest discussions about race politics to go down as a proxy to the race issues going on in politics (if no one has noticed yet, Barack Obama has dark skin). But Imus got fired for performing this public service, so you would think Pat Buchanan would be a little smarter than to appear on a morning radio show helmed by the same sort of crazy right-wing bigotry that Imus so frequently spewed.
But Pat Buchanan has it covered, people — right after e makes some comments about the Jews on this White Power radio station. CONTINUED »
Mike Huckabee cannot, deep down, think he will be elected president of these United States anytime soon, or even some day. Smartly, Mr. Huckabee will not let that fact keep him from profiting from the remote, infinitesimal possibility. He's just signed a one-year contributor deal with Fox News, which will give him another pulpit to preach from, while the cable network locks him up from appearing on competitors, who are all said to have courted him. As Howie Kurtz notes, "the deal keeps Huckabee in the spotlight as he contemplates a second run in 2012, a tactic perfected by Pat Buchanan, who hosted CNN's Crossfire between presidential campaigns." Buchanan, of course, lost both campaigns. And he's on MSNBC now.
What's worse: Pat Buchanan's race rants, or Chris Matthew's self-righteousness? Transcript of last night's Hardball below. CONTINUED »
Pat Buchanan is just sick and tired of black people, from Barack Obama’s infamous Rev. Wright to Barack Obama himself, talking about why they harbor a very specific sort of resentment for whites and are often generally displeased with the United States government. According to Pat Buchanan’s syndicated column titled “A Brief for Whitey”, we should be thanking white people. On our knees, no less. Because as bad as things might have been here, it could be worse. We could still live in Africa.
Although we can’t seem to shake the nasty habit of writing in the royal we, occasionally one of our editors decides to shake off the cloak of anonymity to write a short, pithy statement long, rambling diatribe about a topic of their choice. Today, Debbie Newman is that editor.
While curmudgeonly gossip Cindy Adams typically uses her column as a mouthpiece for lavishing praise on her yappy Yorkshire terriers, she occasionally likes to switch things up by delivering an impassioned old-person rant about the degeneration of society.
Take, for instance, Sunday's column, in which Granny Adams (bless her heart!) seemingly lumps foreigners, immigrants, diplomats and terrorists into the single all-encompassing category of "Them." She then criticizes them for failing to possess "Social Security cards…subscriptions to Reader's Digest and CDs of Kate Smith singing 'God Bless America'" (we're listening to it now, on repeat!) and launches into a perspicacious discourse xenophobic tirade on the indignities of waiting in line behind "some jerk in an ill-fitting suit…from some fourth-rate country so small it's standing in line to dare shake its fist at the United States."
And it turns out ol' Cindy's just getting warmed up.
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