I gave up on the State of the Union long before Tim Kaine came on to give the Democratic rebuttal, but the word is out about his disturbing left eyebrow -- take a look at this picture:
Kaine's background and his recent victory in Virginia make him an interesting figure to deliver the Democratic response, but that eyebrow is too distracting for the party to ever put him on national television again. Call me shallow if you want, but it's true. If you don't believe me, watch the Real Player video from C-SPAN. Yikes.
(PS There are 880 hits for "tim kaine eyebrow" on Google already.)
Most people, when on television, store their tension in their eyelids (look and see how often news anchors blink, it's a good indication of their confidence). Unfortunately, it looks like Kaine is one of the rare breed that store tension in their left eyebrow.
Posted by: Joe Murphy | February 02, 2006 at 10:39 PM
OK, I'll say it: You're shallow. What does an eyebrow have to do with the quality of someone's ideas? Nothing, I think.
Posted by: Jack Davis | February 07, 2006 at 12:17 AM
Jack Davis is right. Eyebrows are meaningless. I guess you would have avoided FDR because nobody wants a cripple to lead us in war...
Posted by: John Whitelaw | February 08, 2006 at 01:32 PM
Kaine didn't impress me much in the reply. His speaking style was too measured, too stilted, too practiced. He didn't look natural or comfortable. Surely this was an occassion screaming out for Obama?
Posted by: Stewart Kelly | February 08, 2006 at 10:54 PM
Brendan - shame on you. So the man has asymmetrical eyebrows. So what?
Posted by: William | July 29, 2008 at 12:48 PM
Maybe his botox person got the dose wrong?? I've never seen anything like it.
Posted by: mary | August 16, 2008 at 11:48 AM
My left eyebrow does the same thing; sometimes i'm concentrating or looking at something and then i notice my eyebrow way up there
Posted by: Alex | August 29, 2008 at 03:02 PM