• Wonkette's fashion operative writes: "Speaking from experience, a real gay man knows not to wear a tie that bleeds on television.  It's all your eyes kept drawing to during the entire speech.  Come on, who who dresses this guys? Ray Charles, Rip Taylor and Tom DeLay?"

• "Everyone knows -- I mean, I know -- that you can't wear certain ties on TV or else they flicker and streak like that." [MatthewYglesias.com]

• "Fish markets don't have herringbones like that! The first and easiest rule of television, a medium that he's supposed to have mastered, gets completely forgotten!" [Shadow of the Hegemon]

• "I thought they tested that kind of stuff." [Rooftop Report]

• "It's subliminally pulsing at about the same brain-wave frequency that can set up epileptic seizures." [Baltimore Chronicle]

• Like he should be giving advice: "I'm interested in answering more questions for you all. . . Pick out a red or blue tie." [WhiteHouse.gov]