You can say that with a straight face?

Slate reports: Scenes From Spin Alley.

MIAMI—Karl Rove must have known things didn't go well when the New York Post asked him whether this was the worst debate of President Bush's life. No, Rove insisted. This was one of the president's best debates, and one of John Kerry's worst. "Really?" asked the reporter, Vince Morris. "You can say that with a straight face?"

Even Rasputin couldn't spin this as a win for aWol.