The Official Fox News/Google Debate Discussion Thread

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 True.  Maybe she'll address him by his full name.

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That blonde, I'll have you know, is Fox News anchorwoman Megyn Marie Kelly, attorney at law.  She's a Syracuse political science graduate, a J.D. from Albany Law School, the Editor of the Albany Law Journal, successful litigator, and all-around girl Friday.  She's smart, she's incisive and aggressive with her interviews, and she's also totally hot.  She's one of my favorite newschicks.

She's a modern woman.  Powerful yet ticklish.  She can bring home the bacon, and fry it up in a pan.  She likes to be taken seriously as a journalist, but she doesn't mind posing in an alluring way for fanzines, just for fun.  She looks as soft as a rose petal yearning to be plucked, but she's been known to kill adversaries with only a well-sharpened Number 2 pencil.  

This may be one of the best debates ever.  

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Still, too many X chromosomes for ol' boy Rick.

are we still on that?

Okay, then, maybe they should let that young, muscular Bill Hemmer co-moderate.

Something for everybody!

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Every anchor on FOX News looks like they belong in a Don Henley song.

Dirty Laundry, it's called.  Yes, they all look the part.  Even old Geraldo still looks buff with his porn-star moustache.  But they do go out of their way to avoid the bubble-headedness.  Fox sort of invented the motif of the generally attractive yet well-versed anchor.    They specialize in sensationalistic, agenda-driven reporting, where you can get your news and editorializing all in one fell swoop, without even having to turn the page, so it's important to have that edge.  Actually, that's the one thing about Fox that I really like.


Here's what the news reporters used to look like when I was a child:




But thanks to Fox, here's what they look like now:




And other news channels have started following suit:




Apparently that channel wants you to notice it from all angles:




And it isn't just in the US.  Here's a hot newsie from France:




Even the Arabs are catching on:



Peace be upon you, baby.


Anyway, back to topic.  I'm hoping that there'll be some serious foreign policy questions tonight.  And I seriously hope Megyn holds their feet to the fire.  Make 'em answer the questions when they try to delve into campaign speeches. 

Not to digress again, but speaking of feet--actually, this isn't off-topic since it contains references to both the moderator of the debate and one of the debate sponsors--but sometime when you're bored, type in "Megyn Kelly Feet" in the Google Video Search.  Check it out. 

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ModernBourbonDemocrat,
yes, I think you're right about the nature of the foreign policy questions.  There will be opportunities galore for both Perry and Romney to put down the President as "dangerously arrogant when it comes to Israel's right to defend herself."  And FNC is pretty Israel-friendly.  Not that any US news channel isn't, but FNC is pretty much a cheerleading outfit for even the most scorched-earth Likudi hitman.  In fact, I'm thinking that the phrase "indefensible borders" will be my drinking word for tonight.  And I'll take two shots if Michelle Bachman makes a reference to those "indefensible" borders in the same breath as she references the fact that Israel successfully defended those borders in 1967.  She did that in the last debate, you know.  Surprisingly, the paradox went unnoticed in this forum.  At least unremarked.  I was busy posting about something else when it happened, and forgot to follow up.  Not sure what everyone else was doing.

And, no doubt Paul and the Paultards aren't known for sensitivity when it comes to the mid-East.  (If I don't show up tomorrow you may assume that I've been kidnapped and beheaded for that last tasteless image.)  And it'll be entertaining to see how he handles himself.  

But I'm also hoping for some frank discussions of the policy with regard to the Chinese and to Pakistan and of our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.  These issues really haven't been brought to the fore in the debates.

Neither, for that matter, have a number of "social" issues.  And this will be the first debate since the Don't Ask policy has been suspended.  That's gonna be good for a few laughs.  

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Goodness, Johnson looks so dweeby.

I thought he looked like he burned a fat one just before the debate.  Probably calms his nerves.  

Actually, I like this format.  They go on, one at a time, with equal time, roughly in order of polling numbers.  Then we have a commercial.  (So Johnson and Paul can go out back and take a hit.)  

Also, apparently Romney doesn't inhale.

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I may be the only other Republican who agrees with him, but good for Perry.  No fence.  I've posted here before many, many reasons why we shouldn't have one.

I also like that he has defended his position on the instate tuition.

It's refreshing to hear a republican who's not gaga for torching all mexicans.  

I don't know how it helps him with the average Republican, but I find it refreshing that a candidate for president realizes that it's the internal situation in Mexico that drives illegal immigration, and we're beating our head against the wall, throwing money down the drain, pick your favorite cliche, if we don't try to deal with that first.  

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Even Fox News watchers want marijuana law reform. That's gotta tell the establishment something.

dude, have you every tried to watch Fox News when you're not stoned?  Of course the FNC audience wants to be able to torch up.  

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Wow.  Talk about crowd response.  Before Stephen Hill even finished his question I heard what sounded like a dying walrus in the background.  

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Final thoughts:  

More of the same.  Perry/Romney slapfest.  Sometimes I hear prescient, visionary pronouncements, but most of the time I think it's a bad dream.  A nightmare...

Ah, screwit.  Really, all highfalutin philosophical injunctions aside, looking at that stage, the main message I can take away is that if girls ever want to be taken seriously--really seriously--then they'll have to learn to wear black.  You have an army of people.  Most of them seem like they're in uniform.  They're dressed like the CEO of Exxon, or IBM, or pick your DJIA favorite.  But there's this little unripe cherry.  Not quite ripe, because if she were ripe she'd be clad with the burgundy skin of a sweet cherry.  No, she's tart.  Bright Red.  Somewhere between unripe green and truly ripe burgundy.  But even if she had a ripened Texas Aggie burgundy suit, it'd still be a burgundy suit.  

I know nclib is roiling in rage, and I don't mean to be sexist--frankly my eyes are too old to allow for that, as without my glasses all I see is a bunch of soldiers, all in uniform except one--but that one, in fire-engine red, is going to be a hard sell to a nation which expects its President to wear the uniform of the president.

The rest of them may be clowns.  But they're appropriately-attired clowns.  

I guess that was my final, most impressionist image.  

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Perry bombed, BIGTIME!

At one point, he tried to go after Romney for flip flopping and sounded like a stoner trying to do calculus. Just stumbling all over his tongue.

Let's see, first you were, um, before social security before you were, um, before social security...


cringe.