Earlier today, CBS News sent out the most
recent questions that Katie Couric had asked vice presidential candidates Joe
Biden and Sarah Palin, but not their answers, which were to air on the Evening
News tonight. The first question was:
What do you think is the best
thing and the worst thing that Dick Cheney has done as vice president?
On the way to lunch, I suggested to Jon
Chait that we should hold a Plank contest to see who could most closely
approximate Governor Palin's response, and offered my own guess:Well, I think it was terrible
when he accidentally shot that poor man in the face.
In the end, I didn't post the item, because
it seemed like a snarky, juvenile gag. And then I saw this:
When my obnoxious parody is Sarah Palin's
sincere response, you know that things have gone way, way too far.
--Christopher Orr