Time Mag's Halperin thinks Palin's debate performance provided no late nite comedy fodder. HEE!

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/368319/biden_s_morning_after_ad

Meanwhile, Time magazine's Mark Halperin found his veep debate soundbite and wouldn't let it go. Palin had improved enough, he repeated all over TV, that she'll no longer be within reach of the late-night comedy shows.

But surely, I'm not the only one who still looks at the governor and, smoother performance or not, sees Tina Fey. Does Halperin really think Palin provided Fey no fodder? Hmmm, there were the winks and white flags of surrender, the betcha's and make-believe voting records; there's even Palin's certainty that she can speak directly to the people by flying over the "filter," i.e., the press, which the Gov said could ask her anything it wanted, but she would no longer be "censored" into responding. (This kind of inside-out, third-grade logic permeates many of her public utterances.) Better to just wing it with answers to questions the McCain campaign would like to hear.

But the post-debate principal who really needs to salvage her rep is Gwen Ifill. She may have just forfeited humankind's last chance to force Palin to explain why she's the first vice-presidential nominee in recent history to poop out on press conferences altogether. But maybe Queen Latifah, who'll be playing the PBS moderator on tomorrow's Saturday Night Live, will backfill for Ifill.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. We will just see how SNL goes this week...

[2Design]

2. tina fey actually may help the woman -

when you look at miss alaska, you think of Tina Fey, an intelligent, talented person - and it can be confusing for some - I mean look at the european newspapers carried the picture of Tina an Amy

[Warpy]

3. Letterman is having a great deal of fun with it

She really is the gift that keeps on giving.