Palin on deck, and...
.... KNOCKS IT OUT OF THE PARK!!!!!!!!
... or so the press is absolutely going to say. Absolutely no need to watch the speech, as Timothy Noah writing at Slate is calling beforehand.
This post is not exactly important--i.e. probably even less important than my average post. But I am linking above and joining Noah's bandwagon so that, in my own small way, I will be on the record before she speaks tonight. It is 100% likely that it will be billed as a great success, exactly as Tim Noah predicts.
This is not to say anything one way or the other about what Palin's qualifications are (or are not). Just that the speech will yield absolutely no additional information on that question, or any other question that really matters. It is being billed as "critical", "important", blah, blah, blah, and that is all bullshit. She is perfectly competent at reading from a teleprompter, looks good on camera, is not stupid, is comfortable in the spotlight, and will perform without incident. Hooray! Cue the flags...
This crap is exactly why I (pretty much) stopped watching conventions. Nothing of any actual significance will transpire (just as nothing really happened in Denver last week), but the media, having drunk the Kool-Aid (made and ladled up by the two major parties... grape or cherry? blue or red?) are compelled to pretend that important things actually do happen at the conventions, otherwise they are wasting our time and a whole lot of money.
And the debates? Don't get me started....
... or so the press is absolutely going to say. Absolutely no need to watch the speech, as Timothy Noah writing at Slate is calling beforehand.
This post is not exactly important--i.e. probably even less important than my average post. But I am linking above and joining Noah's bandwagon so that, in my own small way, I will be on the record before she speaks tonight. It is 100% likely that it will be billed as a great success, exactly as Tim Noah predicts.
This is not to say anything one way or the other about what Palin's qualifications are (or are not). Just that the speech will yield absolutely no additional information on that question, or any other question that really matters. It is being billed as "critical", "important", blah, blah, blah, and that is all bullshit. She is perfectly competent at reading from a teleprompter, looks good on camera, is not stupid, is comfortable in the spotlight, and will perform without incident. Hooray! Cue the flags...
This crap is exactly why I (pretty much) stopped watching conventions. Nothing of any actual significance will transpire (just as nothing really happened in Denver last week), but the media, having drunk the Kool-Aid (made and ladled up by the two major parties... grape or cherry? blue or red?) are compelled to pretend that important things actually do happen at the conventions, otherwise they are wasting our time and a whole lot of money.
And the debates? Don't get me started....
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