this is just too good:

“But watching Palin’s speech I had no doubt that I was witnessing a historic, iconic performance. The candidate sauntered to the lectern with the assurance of a sleepwalker – And immediately launched into a symphony of snorting and sneering remarks, taking time out in between the superior invective to present herself as just a humble gal with a beefcake husband and a brood of healthy, combat-ready spawn who just happened to be innocent targets of a communist and probably also homosexual media conspiracy. She appeared to be completely without shame and utterly full of shit, awing a room full of hardened reporters with her sickly sweet line about the high-school-flame-turned-hubby who “Five children later” is “Still my guy.” It was like watching Gidget address the Reichstag.”

– Matt Taibbi, discussing the most disgraceful VP pick in history.

cyrena,
Interesting bit about the poster. Thanks.

If you look at the photos at:
http://palinglasses.googlepages.com/home
it makes a convincing case that the lenses in her eyeglasses have no corrective
power (it is possible to deduce this from photographs), so it’s clear that she is
wearing them for purely cosmetic reasons. As you say, to “look smarter”.

bassbam,

A poster from Alaska mentioned the thing with the glasses just after Palin was unveiled. He said that they had the same eye doctor, and that he knew she didn’t need glasses, and that she only wore them to ‘look smarter’.

Then some other poster (not Alaskan, and as unknown as palin) came along to say that he’d seen photos of her as a child, and she had them then. That would apppear to be a lie, or maybe this poster was just ‘special’ because none of the photos of her as a college student show her with glasses.

So, let’s just admit it. She thought they would make her ‘look smarter’ and it doesn’t work, because she is NOT smart, and that’s that. She could put on 10 pairs, and it isn’t going to raise her IQ.

How image versus substance is there in Palin? Here’s one more date point, her eyeglasses appear to be purely cosmetic! She seems to be wearing eyeglasses only to look more serious.
http://palinglasses.googlepages.com/home

EXCELLENT WORK!

Carefully exposing
a Professional Sociopath
whose puppetmaster
is the very voice of the reptilian brain
is Hard, exacting, and exhausting Work…..

Strive On!

this is interesting. and i can actually remember the second half of the timeline chronologically. who says you loose all short term memory smoking that stuff.
you all should put the other three guys up asap.

the tooltips need more caption room.

You guys should put up that clip of Jack Cafferty calling her interviews pathetic.  There’s been a lot of good clips on the Daily Show lately, too, but maybe those don’t really belong in a news report.

Including a cut from the killer bunny, in Monty Python’s search for the holy grail would be something to include.