Remembering the 2008 Elections

Best Expression of Admiration for Sarah Palin

John Cleese speaks out on Sarah Palin by saying that she could've been a character in a Monty Python sketch. He also said that his former Monty Python cohort Michael Palin is no longer the funniest Palin.

Worst Expression of Admiration for Sarah Palin

Rich Lowry made this notorious post on the National Review Online about Sarah Palin's performance at the vice president debate is enough to make even the most devoted Sarah Palin fan feel grossed out after reading it. Here's the juicy quote:

A very wise TV executive once told me that the key to TV is projecting through the screen. It's one of the keys to the success of, say, a Bill O'Reilly, who comes through the screen and grabs you by the throat. Palin too projects through the screen like crazy. I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, "Hey, I think she just winked at me." And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America. This is a quality that can't be learned; it's either something you have or you don't, and man, she's got it.

Keith Olbermann does the best and most appropriate reading of the above quote in this video.