this needs to be exposed!

On the other hand... if the woman did this poorly by cheating... it's just one more adjective in the list of her sins of hypocrisy. I really think she's Toast no matter what. But this should be exposed if it's true.

Actually, I can explain why she spent so much time looking down and was apparently distracted during the debate.

I was making a last minute check of the mic wiring at her podium when I suddenly realized the debate was starting. Rather than disrupt the debate, I decided my best move was to stay under the podium.

There I was, inches away from the knees of America's MILF.

This is not an appropriate venue for describing how I spent the next 90 minutes. That will have to await my memoirs.

She's been done wrong by yet another Bill. Kismet.

Now we know why McCain invented the Blackberry!

If you look at some of the footage from the debate, there is what appears to be a wire loop behind her right shoulder. At first i thought it was her hair extensions, new for the debate, long enough to hide a mic. but it is an arc, not a strand. Look at the footage.It certainly looks like a wire. I didn't notice the hair/wire thing until it was pointed out to me after, but during the debate, especially early on, she kept looking down as if listening intently. Could have been reading but not from notes as she wasn't shuffling cards that I saw. The point is that her performance was so much better, though manipulative, than her previous exposures. What's scary is that it is quite imaginable that she would be encouraged to cheat -- and that people would not be astonished if she had done so. We never did find out about the Cone of Silence, either. There was discussion but no resolution and finally, it went away.

Ifill's questions were simply terrible- and don't blame it on any pre-debate comments made by Republicans. She was also terrible in the 2004 VP debate between Cheney and Edwards. Google for those transcripts if you don't believe me.

Her questions the other night were convoluted, confusing, unnecessarily complicated, and were NOT "debate watcher friendly." She gave both candidates ample opportunities to go off the topic and did not keep them under control- something that helped Palin much more than it did Biden.

I'm a high school teacher, and my teaching methodology professor would have given me a failing grade if I had designed a lesson using the kinds of questions Ifill used.

I have watched and enjoyed Ifill in a smaller setting on the TV show she hosts, but she looks like a deer in headlights when she is on the big stage. She should never be allowed to moderate a debate on her own again.