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the extent to which palin and biden were so differently framed as to almost not be in the same event from the points of view particular to the nitwits who populate the 24/7 cable news universe--you know, the people who perform that vital service of chewing your food before you get to it so as to save you the time of chewing for yourself---is kinda amazing. biden was positioned as being in the debate-event and so it is relevant how he did certain debate-related things, like answer questions. palin is positioned as being in some separate space, locked into a boxing match with her own image. so the consensus is that in the Epic Battle which pitched sarah palin against "sarah palin" sarah palin did reasonably well. that way, the trainwreck that was palin's dissociative interactions with biden are factored out.
so i guess that it's possible for folk who allow themselves to be hoovered into the system of pre-chewing can watch what to us vulgar beings appears to be a single event and see in it numerous parallel events which have, being parallel, no particular contact with each other.
and no, it makes no difference to me. it's just strange.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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