Sarah Palin Winks At America

Sarah Palin sure did wink a lot during the debate.

My question is, why? Was she trying to woo America?

Or is she trying to pull something over on us?

Here's some video:

Comments

[Mary Civiello]

03:03 PM on 10/29/2008

Does the Wink Work?

Sarah Palin’s wink has become well-known to those watching the campaign and to those watching Saturday Night Live. The new Obama ad has appropriated Sarah’s wink to try to show that she’s a lightweight in serious times. So, does the wink get a nod as a rhetorical tool for Sarah or for you? A wink is a comfortable, intimate, just-between-us move. It usually involves sharing fun or making fun and therefore is polarizing. If the audience likes you or likes what you’re saying, it solidifies the relationship. For example, when Sarah Palin mocks the media or city slickers, her winks wow her followers. If, however, the audience doesn’t like you or what you’re saying it further alienates. Think of the wink between sexes. If a man winks at a woman who likes him, she may be even more attracted to him. If she doesn’t like him, she’s repulsed by the intimacy. Use the wink if you’re sure your audience is with you. If not, I wouldn’t. In Sarah’s case, she couldn’t assume the audience with her and the wink has arguably helped turned more the all important undecided voters against her.

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[jusme828]

12:46 AM on 10/07/2008

Here's a "wink" for you....

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=B0&Date=20081006&Category=PHOTO21&ArtNo=1006012&Ref=PH&Params=Itemnr=57

let's dog both candidates for the "winking"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Belgian Beer]

01:53 AM on 10/05/2008

The winking was pretty bad, but giving a shout-out to her homies at some elementary school in her hometown was incomparably worse. it just degraded the debate in a truly shocking way.

What's next? Rapping her talking points?

[krocklin]

09:14 AM on 10/05/2008

Good point. I haven't heard any of the pundits speculating on the motives for the winking or the meaning of the grade school reference. She's reaching out to her homies of course, when she is supposed to be engaging in a debate, like someone who goes on camera and is so thrilled at all the attention she waves"HI!" to her mom or boyfriend.
Totally unpresidential and disrespectful, not to mention counter to the purpose of having a debate.
Questionable behaviour and wording like this are calculated and condoned by the McCain campaign to undermine real substantive dialogue.
I don't think she succeeds in this except with the hardcore types. She's a ditzy dangerous non-entity cynically invented for strictly demographic purposes. Demographics alone only goes so far without substance and intelligence.

[sunnyboy]

07:50 PM on 10/06/2008

speaking to the motive for the winking eye;if you have a bible,or acess to a bible,check out the following. PSALM 35:19 and PROVERBS 6:12,13. Food for thought!

[diahni]

08:33 PM on 10/04/2008

Wish I knew the word for vomit in Yup'ik. Not to worry, guys, it'll all be over in a month. That winking during the debate was a new low in th already smarnty

[TheAndrew]

03:54 PM on 10/04/2008

"Yup yup."
Remember when the batter winks at the pitcher in Field of Dreams?
Yup yup.

[rosieee]

09:33 AM on 10/04/2008

I can not understand how anyone could vote for Palin after her winks, Being vice president is just not the job for her, She belongs in a strip joint. I was ao insulted by those winks. Is this what she learned in her three days at debate camp learning to keep all her lies straight? It was scary to me to begin with that someone running for vice president had to go to debate camp to learn what is going on in the world. Palins and McCains record is so bad on lobbyists and beong tied to Bush, I guess a wink should turn us all on.

[koyaanisqatsi57]

02:30 AM on 10/04/2008

Travis Bickle (paraphrasing): "You winkin' at me? You winkin' at me? You winkin' at me? Then who the hell else are you winking... you winking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the f*** do you think you're winking at? Oh yeah? OK. "
[Draws]

She really comes across as a bimbo. Good enough for Rush and other conservatives. But she just wouldn't make it as a Democrat VP candidate. She's such a sad spectacle.

[grimp]

10:48 PM on 10/03/2008

Sarah Palin wired for debate see wire on left side of her hair in U tube video Eyelash probelm and winking problem

[HGalal]

10:33 PM on 10/03/2008

In addition to winking, can she lap dance for the benefit of 'joe-six-pack'?

[jimmyjones22]

01:26 AM on 10/04/2008

"you becha"

[RobertHewson]

09:22 PM on 10/03/2008

"Joe Sixpack" Speaks:
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/10/joe-sixpack-speaks.html

[JenMI]

08:33 PM on 10/03/2008

Rich Lowry is eating it up.... and then some.

[NotMcCain]

06:46 PM on 10/03/2008

Imagine if Hillary acted like this, with the flirty,"Can I call you ____?" and winking at the audience (and earlier, at Charlie Gibson in the interview). Or Elizabeth Dole, Olympia Snowe, Hutchinson, Granholme, McCaskill, or any other female politician.

It's demeaning. And manipulative and phony. Just like the top of the ticket.

[wdw101]

07:37 PM on 10/03/2008

Hillary could not pull it off.......she is old

[Dodge]

09:15 PM on 10/03/2008

Sarah is not fresh as daisies either

[rock2casbah]

08:15 AM on 10/04/2008

Hillary would not need to try and pull it off. When you bring something to the table you don't have to resort to vamping to win over the room. Palin is Marilyn Monroe insecure.

[Swedish]

06:42 PM on 10/03/2008

I find it hard to respect any politian that can not pronounce NUCLEAR, but does it the same way as the sitting President, NUCELAR. What the heck is Nucelar anyway?
Wink or no wink, does she think she can flirt her way into the White House?

To quote Bill Maher, she is a category 5 Bimbo.

[CaptainZero1969]

07:01 PM on 10/03/2008

AHHH! I thought I was gonna break a tooth every time I heard mispronounce that word! Bush with lipstick...Bush with lipstick...Bush with lipstick...

[Swedish]

09:14 AM on 10/04/2008

Bush with lipstick is even scarier than just another bimbo.

[Yama]

07:20 PM on 10/03/2008

You mean like when Michelle mispronounced "Nevada", or Obama mispronounced "Massachusetts" and "Wesleyan University"?

Kinda like that?

[Amoradocat]

09:29 PM on 10/03/2008

But it's ok because, she can see Alaska from her house! Pathetic campaign.

[rock2casbah]

08:24 AM on 10/04/2008

Did they now? A mispronunciation is pretty rare indeed by the Obamas. That is the point !! t
They are so well spoken and intelligent , that even if they do mispronounce some word it is taken for what it is worth nothing, a human gaffe.

When your entire presence is one ongoing human gaffe, oft repeated, and even fervently promoted like "I can see Russia" and I said no to a Bridge to Nowhere after I said yes to it. or In what way Charlie.? or "You betcha"...........Well then that's when we have category 5 bimbo in the race.

[bobdob]

06:13 PM on 10/03/2008

God, I hate her. What a freakin' bimbo.

[Liberoservative]

05:56 PM on 10/03/2008

I dunno... but when I see "wink wink" "nod nod"..... I feel like someobody is trying to pull the wool over my eyes.....

After hearing her response on what a VP does.... Presiding over the Senate???????????

WTF?

Has she even read the Constitution????

Another Dick Cheney..... This can not happen......