Michelle Goldberg on Palin's debate performance: "It was an apalling display..."

I'm not the only one who thinks that Sarah Palin's performance at last night's debate was not only lack-luster, but a complete mockery of the office of VP (with all those winks and phony nods). I actually made a blog post and podcast episode about this here on my main blog. However, I wanted to share part of an article written by Michelle Goldberg of The Guardian UK:

And so she preceded, with an almost surreal disregard for the subjects she was supposed to be discussing, to unleash fusillades of scripted attack lines, platitudes, lies, gibberish and grating references to her own pseudo-folksy authenticity.

It was an appalling display. The only reason it was not widely described as much is that too many American pundits don't even try to judge the truth, wisdom or reasonableness of the political rhetoric they are paid to pronounce upon. Instead, they imagine themselves as interpreters of a mythical mass of "average Americans" who they both venerate and despise.

Source: Flirting her way to victory

This has to be one of the most spot on descriptions of Palin's performance that I've read today. The world is watching, and the last thing I want the world to think about the US is that our citizens are so apathetic and asleep at the wheel that we have sunk so low as to elect a clearly unqualified person to one of the highest offices in the nation. This simply cannot be allowed.