hit me with your best shot: the bitch slap

(and yes, i'd call it a bitch slap even if she weren't a bitch were a man.)

one of the funniest (!) lines in sarah palin's convention speech last week (and listen, i know what you're saying right now so let me nip this in the bud: we're talking about her because at least she's interesting. if we weren't talking about her we'd be talking about mccain sleeping) was the line about...hold on here, i have to collect myself and not laugh while i type this. hmmmmpft. okay. really, it's a good one. hold on.

okay – one of her funniest lines was this one, a direct shot at obama:

"Al-Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America and he's worried that someone won't read them their rights."

and i thought obama wasn't hitting back hard? here's what he said yesterday at that event in farmington hills, michigan, alluding to osama bin laden:

"First of all, you don't even get to read them their rights until you catch 'em..."

more here.

(hat tip: brett)