I watched the first part of Hannity and Combs because I figured they’d be covering the story and they did. They started by showing the ad, and it packed an even a bigger punch seeing it on a big screen. One thing that might actually not be such a small thing, because I think visual impressions go more toward forming our opinions than we realize . . . Kerry’s picture as a young man when he was giving the testimony, which is shown blown up throughout the ad, reminded me of every whiny, wimpy mama’s boy I ever met in college and couldn’t stand. Ugh! Tough on terror–I don’t think so.

They had a Democratic shill on, who trotted out the talking points of which there are basically three: the vets are eeevilll Republicans who are deliberately making “misleading” statements, nobody cares when Kerry was in Cambodia, anyway, so can we please just move on, and oh by the way Kerry didn’t really say those bad things about our men in Viet Nam, he was just passing on what other men had said. The Democrat was actually as effective as he could be with these points, given that they are pretty lame. Convincing? I don’t know–I’m not objective enough.

Combs (who I actually respect, even though I rarely agree with a word he says) looked like death. He was so upset that his voice kept cracking. Whether he was actually feeling panic or not I can’t pretend to know, but he sure enough sounded and looked panicked.