This is just about the creepiest thing I’ve read re: the Palin-Biden debate:

A very wise TV executive once told me that the key to TV is projecting through the screen. It’s one of the keys to the success of, say, a Bill O’Reilly, who comes through the screen and grabs you by the throat. Palin too projects through the screen like crazy. I’m sure I’m not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, “Hey, I think she just winked at me.” And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America. This is a quality that can’t be learned; it’s either something you have or you don’t, and man, she’s got it.

Little starbursts? And unicorns and fairies and puffy little clouds, too?  Do I need to remind Rich Lowry that people on the TV aren’t talking directly at him?  Does he understand how television works?

This is actual commentary from a bastion of conservative thinking, National Review, albeit their online blog, The Corner.  I’m no conservative, but to see this sort of shameful writing for a formerly erudite publication is embarrassing.  He’s basically saying that she gives him a boner, right?  Is the McCain camp gonna call sexism on this one?

Posted by Lucas Jensen on 04 Oct 2008 at 12:11 pm