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Today in Campaign Detritus [Horse Race]
Gawker —
Vice Presidnetial debate moderator broke her ankle at home last night, TVNewers has learned. She says she tripped, at home, by herself, down the stairs. Suspicious! Especially because CBS keeps slowly leaking more clips of Sarah Palin babbling nonsense while Katie just stares coldly (but warmly! it's weird) (see attached). Meanwhile, the AP says John McCain has a 1 in 4 chance of dying before the end of his second term (or, to put it another way, "McCain has a health expectancy of 8.4 years). They asked some actuaries. This went out on the wires to everyone, it will probably upset the GOP. ...
Palin on Biden: "Well obvs, he's like old, and been in Senate, like, forever!"
Cajun Boy in the City —
According to this clip released by CBS today, Sarah Palin claims, in a thinly veiled attempt to imply that Joe Biden is an old man, that she's been listening to Biden give speeches since 1972, the year he was first elected to the House of Representatives from Delaware. She would have been eight years old at the time. I doubt that many American eight year olds alive today in the age of CSPAN and 24 hour cable news networks have ever listened to any of Joe Biden's speeches, much less an eight year old Alaskan kid in 1972 who would go on to display a profound lack of curiosity about the world later in her life. God I wish Couric would have followed up on ...
You Can Put Polish on Your Toenails But It Won't Stop You Sticking Your Foot in Your Mouth
World of Wonder Productions —
Sarah Palin gobbledigooks herself into a hole.
