errol louis and thomas frank. thank you for your time. >> what a malarky.re was a lot of talk about malarky, and what do you do when your co-host faints on live tv. that's right. keep on selling. the view finder is ahead. ?denttv e presidential and vice presidential candidates before the first mention of social and more specifically women's issues, even then it left much to be desired. moderateor martha raddatz asked a question late in the debate about abortion but enabled the two vice presidential candidates to give their answer while only mentioning the word women a combined one time. >> you want to ask basically why i'm pro-life? it's not simply because of my catholic faith. that's a factor of course. but it's also because of reason and science. >> life begins at conception. that's the church's judgment. i accept it in my person life. but i refuse to impose it on equally devout christians muslims, jews, i just refuse to impose that on others. >> michael: joining me now is salon.com staff writer irin carmon. this debate, they spent a ton of time on foreig

errol louis and thomas frank. thank you for your time. >> what a malarky. was a lot of talk about malarky, and what do you do when your co-host (vo) during the debates, it's hard to know what candidates are thinking. unless, of course you've stood at the podium yourself. with governors granholm, spitzer, and vice president gore, watch the only truly experienced presidential debate coverage. >> michael: as you can see pundits are still arguing about who won last night's vice presidential debate. but one side of how the public received it is what people googled as they watched the debate. that brings us to the number of the day--three. the third highest debate research term last night was malarky. that c characterized the whole evening. it became this week's big board. an old slang word of possibly greek or irish origin meaning deceptive talk or nonsense, and paul ryan, shall we say was full of it. joe biden said malarky the first time when ryan mentioned defense cuts and mentioned that ryan's budget cuts embassy security $300 million. and then when saying ob