Deadblogging the Debates
1. For my birthday, I’d like to punch Mike Murphy in the face.
2. Palin seems to have a "Message: I Care" problem. She gets too meta with her answers, wanting to explain – "I’m going to talk straight to the American people and show them my etc."; "I’m the new energy" – the symbolism of herself. For the apotheosis of Republican anti-intellectualism she’s determinedly postmodern, embedding the essay about her novel into the story as she tells it.
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Comment by matthew hogan —
October 3, 2008 @ 12:09 am
maybe.
Comment by bill —
October 3, 2008 @ 12:21 am
You’re too postmodern Jim, I didn’t understand that at all.
Comment by bdr —
October 3, 2008 @ 8:58 am
Palin is the love child of Stuart Smalley and Sue Ann Niven. Brechtian, yo.
Comment by Tom Scudder —
October 3, 2008 @ 10:46 am
I’m glad to know that I wasn’t the only one who thought that maybe saying “I’m a massively mavericky ordinary regular plain gal” was not the best way to get across the message that she was a MMORPG.
Comment by Michael —
October 3, 2008 @ 10:59 am
Too “on the nose”, you think? Is it a “show, don’t tell” failure?
Comment by Thomas —
October 3, 2008 @ 1:01 pm
She’s lost in the funhouse.
Comment by ran —
October 4, 2008 @ 11:31 pm
I didn’t watch the debate (anger management issues), so who the f*ck is Mike Murphy, and why does Jim wanna go quasi-Cheney on him?
Comment by Tyler Sid —
October 5, 2008 @ 1:06 pm
you’ve got it exactly…
Comment by Idi Amin's Last Meal —
October 5, 2008 @ 6:55 pm
Mike Murphy did cut that rat’s nest off his skull, so he’s not all bad. Now, the problem is what is contained within that skull.