{"id":3427,"date":"2008-10-02T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/10\/tina-fey-debates-joe-biden\/"},"modified":"2008-10-02T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T21:39:00","slug":"tina-fey-debates-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/10\/tina-fey-debates-joe-biden.html","title":{"rendered":"Tina Fey Debates Joe Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20080829\/425.palin.fey.082908.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20080829\/425.palin.fey.082908.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a> I\u2019m watching the vice presidential debate. While McCain\u2019s running mate is coping better than I expected (although just as I tuned in, she was saying that she isn\u2019t going to answer the question posed but focus on something else she thinks is more important), I still can\u2019t distinguish her clearly in my mind from Tina Fey\u2019s imitation of her on Saturday Night Live.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a move on the part of the Republican party to change <a href=\"http:\/\/antiquitopia.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/lesson-in-pronunciation.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the pronunciation of the word <em>nuclear<\/em><\/a>? Aren\u2019t they afraid that it might leave a dangerous loophole? I can imagine the president of Iran objecting \u201cWe didn\u2019t break our promise! You only said we can\u2019t make <em>nucular<\/em> weapons\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for VP debate humor, you may want to take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5058314\/vp-debates-mortal-kombat-style\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mortal Kombat version of the debates<\/a> (featured at <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5058314\/vp-debates-mortal-kombat-style\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IO9<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/io9\/2008\/10\/Mortalkombatelectionfront.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/io9\/2008\/10\/Mortalkombatelectionfront.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<\/p><div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2216397112891341688?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m watching the vice presidential debate. While McCain\u2019s running mate is coping better than I expected (although just as I tuned in, she was saying that she isn\u2019t going to answer the question posed but focus on something else she thinks is more important), I still can\u2019t distinguish her clearly in my mind from Tina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tina Fey Debates Joe Biden<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;m watching the vice presidential debate. 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