Debate From Roger Ebert POV

Film critic Roger Ebert has some thoughts about last night's debate. He admits his lack of credentials but makes a case for noticing body language, facial expression and vocal tone, par his background. Who better to critique staged performances? Here are some lines I liked.

Sizing up the weight of the debate for Sara Palin:

"In university terms, she was being asked to defend her doctoral thesis without having written it."

On Sarah Palin's strengths a la Marge Gunderson:

"When she was on familiar ground, she perked up, winked at the audience two of three times, and settled with relief into the folksiness that reminds me strangely of the characters in "Fargo."

Regarding the staged nature of her delivery, the moment Palin blew off Biden's loss of composure:

"If a man had responded in that way to such a statement from a women, he would be called a heartless brute."

Source: Roger Ebert

As for Marge Gunderson, check out Palin in Fargo.