Great Moments in Political Punditry

(Every week political pundits grace us with gaffes, hyperbole, violation of logic and just plain untruths. Every week we try to catch them because we are smart alecks.)

Rich Lowry and Keith Olbermann conspire to be creepy.
Following the vice-presidential debate, Lowry, editor of the National Review, wrote a much mocked column on how Sarah Palin had made men "sit up a little straighter," and had sent "starbursts through the screen." Olbermann got in on the act by reading Lowry's words Penthouse Forum style, and then speculated out loud that Lowry had "masturbated" during the debate. Making for the first -- and hopefully last -- pundit-to-pundit accusation of self-love this election cycle.

Bill O'Reilly blows up like a volcano (again) on the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, after the jump.

Bill O'Reilly goes after Barney Frank again.
In this face-to-face TV showdown, O'Reilly doesn't threaten to break Frank's fingers, as he did earlier during his radio show. But he does express very loud displeasure with the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. Frank comes back with a fairly good zinger about O'Reilly's stupidity, but the story here is O'Reilly and his avalanche of anger. We think he may have lost a few million in the market.

All the Democrats on "The View" yell at the Republican one.
We used to think "The View" was all about exchanging recipes and talking to celebrities about their next projects. Turns out it's home to some of the most free-wheeling and outrageous political punditry on television.

Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan are America's new sweethearts.
She's a cheerful lesbian. He's a cranky paleo-con. Add them together and you get critical acclaim and ratings gold for MSNBC. Given the copycat nature of the cable news biz, expect other networks to launch more extreme right wing/sapphic duos any day now.