As the night wore on, he seemed to fumble his words more and more, and the look on his face suggested, to me at least, that he was very tired. He also made a crack or two about it being past his bedtime. I think he was just very tired.
That having been said...
I am a pretty decent amateur poker player and plan on taking on the pros in various tourneys within the next few years. Playing poker you are always making an effort to notice things about your opponents. How fast does he/she call? When they are faster to call (or slower) what kind of hand do they have? Does he watch the board, his cards, or the other players? How does he place his chips when he has a big hand? When he is bluffing? Trying to log all of that stuff in your mind in the middle of a game is a pretty big challenge. Which brings me to Fox News election coverage, and the contributions of Susan Estrich.
At first, I thought she was drunk. She seemed tight in her body language, which is not normal for her, and VERY loose in her speaking manner, which is also not normal for her. Then, when she stopped talking she threw on the phoniest, most obnoxious smile I have ever seen, at least when I was supposed to take it seriously. Though I definately did not hear any slurring in her voice, I immediately decided that she was drunk, or at least a little bit tipsy. Seeing her on Fox before always gave the impression that while a lefty, she was most definately not one of the stuck up, elitist lefties.
Then, the reports of the Dems cooking up exit polling numbers to puff themselves up started to surface. That they had used their own network of allies to get them out over the air to attempt to fool people into thinking that Kerry was winning. Then it hit me. She was not drunk, but lying through her teeth. She knew she was lying, and it showed, big time, IMHO. I believe that she used her role as a Fox News Contributor to spread DNC sanctioned lies in an attempt to influence the election, and personally, I would just as soon never see her ugly mug again. Unless, she happens to be sitting at my poker table...JFK
I had the same reaction to Estrich. I thought, this chick is either very very mad that the "boys" at FOX weren't accepting the exit polls, or she had been drinking. Estrich was one of the memorable moments of the night. CNN's Judy Woodruff had her moment as well, crying as she insisted that Ohio was still in play because of the provisional ballots.
Brenda Butner(sp?) is a Republican. On her show Bulls & Bears, she had a disgusted look when her panel predicted a win for Kerry.
I have to tell you, I think she had a few drinks prior to coming on the show. She acted differently than I ever saw her before.
I too, was surprised at Susan Estrich's behavior. As lefties go, I have found her to be tolerable. She's often funny and I'd never seen her rude or impolite. (Hubby and I have fun doing voice imitations of her when recovering from upper-respiratory infections.) After her little tirade with Brit, I looked at hubby and asked "What the heck was that all about?" Her face was all over FOX during the 2000/Gore fiasco, and I never saw anything like that.
Thanks for your interesting post. Somehow I actually missed Estrich being there. She has always seemed a bit "wobbly" to me, mentally and physically. *LOL*