WTF happened to the rules of debate?

[no_hypocrisy]

If you were on the Harvard Debate Club, you don't have the option of answering your own choice of question or going off on a tangent when you're rebutting?

Why is Gwen Ifel allowing Palin to make her own rules?

[dogtag]

1. Because Gwen wrote a book

and she has to make amends.

[cottonseed]

2. She was warned.

[Bluebear]

3. Harvard is only for latte elitists, we want folksy people who love Jesus and wink.

[Marsala]

4. That happens a lot in national debates

Obama actually did some of that. Still, Palin took it to an extreme.