In the hours that have passed since Monday night’s debate, horses and bayonets have taken over the Internet. There is an @horsebayonette Twitter feed, several Tumblrs devoted to horse and bayonet jokes, and — I’m guessing here, but I’m probably right — a run on plastic bayonets for Halloween.
This is 2012, the year of the meme, when people simultaneously watch the debates and snark on Twitter — and when every week, another term seems to bubble into the lexicon and swirl around online. First we got “Etch A Sketch” and “you didn’t build that,” followed by “literally” and “47 percent,” “Big Bird,” and “binders full of women.”
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In my opinion, the best debate was the vice presidential. Joe Biden just exuded the confident humor of someone who know the game inside and out and made Ryan look like a dumb kid.
Best Tweets of the Night:
-- Both candidates' use of the numbers 1 through 5. This underscores the importance of keeping Sesame Street.
-- Obama: "I know you haven't had a chance to execute foreign policy." FACT-CHECK: Romney did organize a multinational Luge competition.
-- Romney: "I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses." ...as groovy as that would be.
-- If life were really good, Mitt would have said "binder full of NATO allies."
-- Romney: Love me some drones. My drones will dronier than the drones Obama has.
-- WORST PANDER EVER: Latin America is great because it is a time-zone opportunity?!?!
-- Obama should have picked up the mike and dropped it after the horses and bayonets line.
-- Saw Horses and Bayonets at SXSW back in 2010. They slayed.
-- Lone debate correspondent for Horse & Rider has a fresh lede.
-- Divorce Pakistan? Did we get married to Pakistan during a drunken weekend in Vegas?? Was Zach Galifianakas involved?
-- Bob Schieffer preparing for the debate: "Don't say Obama Bin Laden, don't say Obama Bin Laden, don't say..."
-- Schieffer missed the night's most important debate question: "What are you guys going to be for Halloween?"