Posts Tagged ‘Joe Biden’

NOW: Live Blogging the Vice Presidential Debate

8:50 P.M. It's on, ya'll. Prepare your televisions, fire up your Internets, and ready your drinks.
8:58 P.M. What is the best network to watch the debates on? A haggard-looking Chris Matthews is babbling away on MSNBC.
9:00 P.M. Gwen Ifill lays it down. Half domestic, half foreign policy. Chosen by Ifill. Order by coin toss. No [...]

Blogging the Live-Blog of the Vice Presidential Debate

Live commentary on the vice presidential debate, tonight at Washington University in St. Louis.
Only three hours to go until the most important U.S. vice presidential live blog since Al Gore invented the Internets. Some words for our competitors: Watch out, Senator Biden—Sarah Palin's been reading the newspapers, all of them! Not so fast, Governor Palin—Joe [...]

Vice Presidential Debate Live Blog

Stay tuned here for The Sexist's play-by-play of the 2008 vice presidential debate.
While you're at it: Take the edge off the Sarah Palin/Joe Biden showdown by playing along with The Sexist's 2008 Vice Presidential Drinking Game.
The debate begins at 9 p.m. EST; I'll be live-blogging here starting around 8:45.

Vice Presidential Debate Video Corner

In preparing for tonight's much-anticipated Vice Presidential debate, the Internet has been a-twitter about Sarah Palin's tendency toward making horrific, embarrassing gaffes, and Biden's . . . tendency toward making horrific, embarrassing gaffes. In order to boost tonight's debaters a bit, here's some positive footage of the two candidates:
Jed Lewison of the Huffington Post has [...]

Palin v. Biden on Roe v. Wade

It's been rumored for a few days now that CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric's interview with Sarah Palin included a clip of the Governor being unable to name a single Supreme Court case. Technically, Palin fails to name a specific case that she disagrees with—let's give her the benefit of the doubt and assume [...]

The Sexist‘s Vice Presidential Debate Drinking Game

Thursday night, I'll be live-blogging the sole VP debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. As I do so, I will be playing a Palin-Biden drinking game of my own design. Here, The Sexist's advice on when to drink—and when to chug.
Alcoholic beverage of choice. If you decide to play up the regional theme, select [...]

The Morning After

The Sexist's morning roundup of District chatter on sex, gender, and Sarah Palin.

* On Slate, Dahlia Lithwick serves Joe Biden with some rules on how to fight a girl. Lithwick, a former parliamentary debater (side-note: totally awesome), gives Biden a frank run-down on how not to lose the Veep debate to Governor Palin. Most of [...]