Who Says 'Shout Out' During a Debate?

I posted this comment to the blog entry "Palin Meets Test" on the New York Times:

She sounds like a hometown little league announcer - I fail to understand the media's love affair with her "style." Her constant use of colloquialisms and that terrible scripted Midwestern lilt is soooo irritating. I am beginning to think her hilarious but disastrous performance in the Couric interviews was a ploy. The McCain camp knows she has reasonable political debate skills - meaning she knows how to obfuscate and evade where she does not understand and like the question, speak forcefully if insubstantially, and spin stock phrases over and over again - and wanted the bar as low as possible to create undue enthusiasm for Palin post-debate. The media, as usual, just goes along. They probably feel bad for "mistreating" her after the Couric catastrophe (correct me if I'm wrong, but those were Palin's words that sunk her during that interview, right?). (Sigh). Nothing ever really changes. She embarrasses me as a woman and an American. It's like she thinks she's running for head cheerleader.