Palin's Winks Unlikely to Nudge Undecided

... for labeling her horrible debate performance success

(NEWSER) - Sarah Palin doesn’t like the mainstream media, and after watching its reaction to her debate performance, neither does Richard Cohen of the Washington Post. Palin ignored questions, lied, and invented new powers for the vice president, but somehow the media wound up praising her anyway. “I could quote the hosannas of some of my colleagues,” writes Cohen, “but I spare them the infamy that will surely follow them to their graves.” More»

Running mate tells Kristol she found debate 'liberating'

(NEWSER) - John McCain faces Barack Obama in their second debate tomorrow night, and the Arizona senator's running mate has some advice: "Take the gloves off." In an interview with New York Times columnist William Kristol, Sarah Palin says that she found it "liberating" to be able to "speak directly to the folks." More»

Palin's 'pompom patois' obscures a big lack of substance

(NEWSER) - From the party whose leader infamously asked "Is our children learning?," we now have the baffling homespun language of Sarah Palin, for whom Maureen Dowd isn't thrilled to have to translate. The vice presidential candidate's "sing-songy jingoism" conceals a mass of contradictions and often a lack of real meaning, Dowd writes in the New York Times. More»

(NEWSER) - Sarah Palin is a “genuine heir” to feminism’s tenet that women can compete with men at any level: She “clawed her way to the top” in Alaska using all the same cutthroat tactics men do, writes Gail Collins in the New York Times. In the debate, she proved she can mimic another tactic of the boys: She won cheers not for her knowledge, but for her ability to cover up her lack of it on issues relevant to the presidency. More»

Shatters the 56.9M for Ferraro-Bush in 1984, and well above McCain-Obama I

(NEWSER) - Last night’s vice presidential debate drew 69.9 million viewers, shattering the record for such an event, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The 1984 encounter between VP candidates Geraldine Ferraro and George H.W. Bush drew 56.9 million; the record for a campaign debate is 80.6 million for the 1980 showdown between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. More»