Palin Smiles, Winks – Pundit 'Mesmerized'
10/09/2008 by Gabriel VoilesAny lingering hope you may have harbored for corporate pundits to rise above their infatuation with John McCain running mate Sarah Palin will surely be dashed by Rich Lowry's titillated take (National Review Online, 10/3/08) on her debate performance--quoted in full:
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.
I think you'd have to say that Lowry's got it--and what he's got, you don't want.
Tags: election 2008, Sarah Palin
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October 10th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I'm surprised he didn't wax poetic about "hot hockey moms in designer specs."
Jesus, Mary and Joseph … you'd think Lowry'd be embarrassed to write drivel like this, wouldn't you?
But then, no one (at least no one in the corpress) is going to ridicule him for doing so … so what the hell, drivel to your heart's content.
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