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Slate Editor Debate Tip for Joe Biden: Imitate Campbell Brown
NewsBusters ^ | September 5, 2008 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 09/05/2008 3:51:23 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Does the liberal senior editor of State, Dahlia Lithwick, secretly want the Democrat ticket to lose this year? You have to come to that conclusion when you read the complex mosaic of debate "tips" that she provides to Joe Biden including, get this, imitate the perpetually annoying Campbell Brown. This is just one part of an array of tips Lithwick provides in a Slate article condescendingly titled, "How To Debate a Girl, and Win." Lithwick starts out by sneering at Sarah Palin (emphasis mine):

Dear Sen. Biden:

You have a problem. In less than a month, you will face off against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in a vice-presidential debate in St. Louis, and were you anyone but Joe Biden, it would likely be a rout. Last week, Palin proved herself a charming, confident, and gifted reader of speeches. But that doesn't change the fact that two years ago she was the mayor of a town of 6,000, crusading against dirty books at the local library. You are a six-term senator and chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee.

Lithwick has absolutely no doubt that Biden will win his debate with Palin but worries about how he wins it:

That's your problem, Joe. Everyone expects you to win the debate, and to trounce her on the substance. But the rules for debating Gov. Palin are different. If you lecture her, you'll be seen as a sexist bully. If you act too smart, you'll be seen as a sexist bully. If you condescend to her, you'll be seen as a sexist bully. So this longtime parliamentary debater (and longer-time female) is going to humbly offer you a few tips on how to debate a girl.


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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campbellbrown; joebiden; mccainpalin; obamabiden; sarahpalin
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To: PJ-Comix
But if you even hint that Sarah Palin may be opining on the Israel-Palestinian peace process with something Piper pulled off Wikipedia that morning,

These so-called intellectuals just cannot resist the urge to demean anyone who disagrees with them in the most condescending, arrogant way.

21 posted on 09/05/2008 5:00:06 PM PDT by CaptRon (Pedicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: PJ-Comix

Airhead Campbell Brown can give you “batillions”(her words from Clinton’s war) of advice from her lisping lips. Bet this bimbo never said no to many.


22 posted on 09/05/2008 5:03:01 PM PDT by dforest
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To: indylindy

And she’s married to Dan Senor. Hasn’t she learned anything?


23 posted on 09/05/2008 5:05:19 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: Popman
The really sad irony, which the genius Ms. Lithwick fails to see, is that she would rather see a man for whom she has obvioulsy little respect, and who she seems to realize is woefully unsuited for the job, as Vice President of the United States.

But, hey! Don't question her love of country.

24 posted on 09/05/2008 5:07:04 PM PDT by CaptRon (Pedicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: PJ-Comix

Wear earthtones, Joe. It’s very “alpha.” I hear Toni Morrison has a trope or two that you can pick up cheap, too.

Oh, and do try to get Rolling Stone to put a revealing shot of you on the cover, even if they have do some digital enhancement ... all the hipsters are doing it.

Yessiree, ol’ Joe’ll show that woman, Miz Palin, a thing or two.


25 posted on 09/05/2008 5:07:13 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: PJ-Comix

I have this picture in my mind of Gwen Ifil and the Obama camp coordinating on questions that they think can make things go their way.

Does anyone think they won’t do this?

I’ve watched Biden for a long time. He is an absolute brass turd who gets absolutely everything wrong every time. There is a report about his meeting with his vaunted Foreign Relations Committee after 9/11 where he is flailing around and pretty much admits it. He had no idea what to do. So much for experience. His big idea was to send a huge check to...get this...Iran!

He insisted that Iraq be divided into three parts (all Gaul, and all that). How arrogant, the US telling another country how it must arrange itself. He’s an idiot.


26 posted on 09/05/2008 5:07:57 PM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: PJ-Comix

I wonder why all the lib pundits think Biden needs help and advice.


27 posted on 09/05/2008 5:14:19 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (If you don't vote, you don't matter.)
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To: CaptRon
But, hey! Don't question her love of country.

With "rats" it's always party over country

28 posted on 09/05/2008 5:14:23 PM PDT by Popman (McCain as POTUS is odious, Obama as POTUS is unthinkable.)
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To: Bahbah
He’s an idiot.

You give Biden too much credit.

29 posted on 09/05/2008 5:17:37 PM PDT by Popman (McCain as POTUS is odious, Obama as POTUS is unthinkable.)
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To: indylindy; All

I’ve heard rumblings that Brown will be interviewing the trooper Wooten in the so called Troopergate incident. Disgusting.


30 posted on 09/05/2008 5:23:45 PM PDT by TrishaSC
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To: TrishaSC

One thing to keep in mind. These people don’t really care what the dirt is they think they can stir up on Palin.

They think you do, the leftist ain’t voting for McCain/Palin anyway. True, not true, they think you will stay home like 2006 when the Foley thing came up.

I voted anyway, many didn’t. I was pretty disgusted with the RINOs but I know the MSM and the democrats. If our party would get behind principles and fight back life would be more pleasant.

Democrats and RINOs are all the same, both stink.


31 posted on 09/05/2008 5:31:20 PM PDT by dforest
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To: PJ-Comix

So Joe has to paint his fingernails to match his suit?


32 posted on 09/05/2008 5:48:50 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: PJ-Comix
Presented to

Dahlia Lithwick

First Prize


33 posted on 09/05/2008 6:25:06 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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