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“little starbursts through the screen”: Rich Lowry is in love

October 3rd, 2008 @ 3:46 pm - by NMC · 26 Comments

Did they ever have it over there at the National Review / The Corner?  If they did, they’ve since lost it.  Here’s Rich Lowry, who seems to think the people on tv are looking at him, personally:

I’m sure I’m not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, “Hey, I think she just winked at me.” And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America. This is a quality that can’t be learned; it’s either something you have or you don’t, and man, she’s got it.

He says he’s not alone in this.  Anyone?

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26 Responses so far ↓

  1. GlitterGirl says:

    gag me with a spoon! Maybe I’m just jealous because I got none of those little starbursts.

  2. intrepid process server says:

    NMC says i can’t say she’s do-able…. so…. she’s not do-able…

  3. NMC says:

    no starbusts for me, either. I said: “Oh no, the wink!”

  4. Ben Cole says:

    Ol’ Rich needs to get out and about and spread his charmin’ self around a bit more. He’s gotta learn that little chippies like her can get a man in a world of trouble. She’s just workin’ for a big tip.

    Y’all duck … there’s probably gonna be a lotta incoming from Georgette.

  5. GlitterGirl says:

    I think I’m gonna hide under my desk, Ben.

  6. Phantom says:

    Memo to Rich:

    You’re supposed to SIP the Doubledecker Planters Punch.

  7. GlitterGirl says:

    LOL, Phantom.

  8. sailor says:

    I counted three winks in all. My grandfather used to wink when he told an UN-TRUTH. “Just kidding,” he meant. ‘Would have to go back and see what she was saying at each wink…hmmmm….

  9. Anderson says:

    Given the disturbing propensity for GOP males to think that Ann Coulter is “hot,” and now the crushes on Palin, I have to think that they’re not getting enough action.

  10. lilaruby says:

    just think of mccain’s slithering pointy tongue and her wink…what a combination! mccain just said “viva la baracuda” – i swear he did at a rally. this is beginning to sound like an elmore leonard or carl hiassen novel gone bad!

    I have to believe the reason obama’s support from women is increasing is partly due to her “flirting” with their men.

  11. Crispin Garcia says:

    Creepy, very creepy . . . . I just hope he wasn’t eating Cheetos when she winked at him.

  12. MSlawyer says:

    never mind

  13. Steve Eugster says:

    It is not good to lust after a married woman.

  14. sailor says:

    She’s just winkin’ cuz she’s lyin’ gosh darnit…not flirtin’ jus joshin’…

  15. NMC says:

    I think you’re committing some sort of logical fallacy to say flirting and lying can’t both be expressed the exact same expression.

    personally, I think they’re both what was happening.

  16. GlitterGirl says:

    Hey Steve-even Jimmy Carter fessed to lusting in his heart.

  17. Jimmy Carter, along with Gerald Ford and Harry Truman, was an honest man. Admitting one’s lust is good. Acting on it is not. But, she sure is cute, fetching. And she can kill and dress a moose. I get woozie just thinking about her (I wonder if she likes to ice fish). And, I know I should not. I know, . . . . . .

  18. lotus says:

    Don’t feel bad, Steve, she makes most people woozie. All kinds of woozie.

  19. nmc says:

    I’m not fully getting it here.

    She’s an attractive woman. But when I listen to her talk, about essentially anything, all I can’t think is “Please, deliver me from having to hear this woman one second after November 4th.”

    All I want is to know that someday, she’ll be the subject of a “where are they now story,” about “do you remember the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008?”

  20. GlitterGirl says:

    Steve @ 17 heh!
    #19 Good man, NMC-you’re thinking with your head and not your—uhhh–other brain.

  21. GlitterGirl says:

    I just saw those winks again on CNN and they don’t correspond to anything she is saying.Well maybe on one she was winking at her dad because she was mentioning him when she winked.

  22. jdog says:

    Psalms 35:19 NIV
    Let not those gloat over me who are my enemies without cause; let not those who hate me without reason maliciously wink the eye

    there is more about winking in the bible…none are good…lol…this is not to impress my beliefs on fellow bloggers but just very interesting

  23. jdog says:

    Proverbs 6:12, 13
    A naughty person a wicked man walketh with a froward mouth 13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;

  24. jdog says:

    Proverbs 16:30 NIV
    He who winks with his eye is plotting perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.

  25. lotus says:

    A reader of Andrew Sullivan speaks for me:

    In reaction to Rich Lowry, I’m sure I’m not the only woman who, upon reading his words, sat up a little straighter and said, “Is he kidding? Is he goddamn kidding me?” Is this the kind of reaction the women in this country should want men to have to the possible first female Vice Presidential candidate in history? Holy hell.

    I thought Palin’s performance at the debate was downright embarrassing and on top of that I have to read this clown’s blog, stating more or less that Palin gave him an erection? Little starbursts my ass. Here’s what I thought when Palin “dropped” that first wink at us: “Did she just wink at us like she was America’s cocktail waitress?” Rich Lowry is on the verge of slapping Sarah Palin on the ass and asking her for another of those fantastic whiskey sours.

    Standing O, whoever you are.

  26. lotus says:

    Booman cracks me up:

    Everyone’s mocking Lowry, but I at least partially agree with him. I described myself as stunned, which isn’t that far from mesmerized. I had a tremendous amount of difficulty processing any meaning in what she was saying. Part of the reason for that was that she was speaking extraordinarily quickly and part of it was that she kept making unsignaled changes in direction. Part of it was because a lot of what she was saying was filler, and basically meaningless. But another big factor was that I couldn’t believe my eyes. I couldn’t believe that she was acting like a beauty contestant, and it stunned me almost insensate. I couldn’t believe that John McCain had allowed this to happen. I still can’t. So my sympathy goes out to Rich Lowry. He’s now the butt of a joke. But, for me, those little starbursts in the living room were real. They came from my frying synapses.