Here's the moment after last night's debate when Barack Obama tries to give John McCain one of his special secret Muslim handshakes, in response to which Ol' Cantankerous executes a bizarre kind of semi-snub in which he directs Obama to shake Cindy McCain's hand instead. The moment generated a lot of comment in the "blogosphere", whatever that is, and as you can hear in the video, CNN's Wolf Blitzer thought there'd been no Obama-McCain handshake, either. In fact, as the clip below establishes, the two men did shake hands and embrace a little earlier, in a surprisingly mutually friendly fashion, given McCain's general irritability yesterday. The footage is also notable for the way in which Tom Brokaw, officially the worst debate moderator in history, is thrown into confusion when he can no longer read his autocue.
