I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Sarah Palin is probably angry because words confuse her.
Think about it. She’s not very good at talking to people, she had to hire other people to write a book about her own life, bounced around 5 different schools to help get herself a collegiate degree, and gets mad when people talk to her about magazines. If I were someone who had no idea what words meant, and somebody asked me about magazines, I would probably also get mad. But lately, her illiteracy has extended into mild racism and comparisons of herself to Shakespeare.
Over the weekend she asked Muslims to ‘refudiate’ the plans to build a mosque at Ground Zero. As if there are actually plans to build a mosque at Ground Zero that would come to fruition. To cover her tracks, she had a big ol’ laugh on Twitter about how malleable English is as a language, but REALLY? I’m impressed that someone would be able to sound more illiterate than the people on Twitter than communicate with numbers as letters.
I think that Sarah Palin is like Shakespeare. But not the writer, more like a character Shakespeare would come up with. A half-retarded politician who gives birth to retarded babies would be, in Shakespeare’s time, a satirical act. God, I hope she runs. It’s like a comedy goldmine.
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Mike
July 20th, 2010 - 3:11:16 PM
you had me going until the word retarded. why not keep her Sarah Palin's son out of the conversation? we're all one step away from disability, even you. can't help but think that if you're in some accident and end up spending your days having an aide wiping the drool from your chin, you'd hate being called a retard. I'm no fan of Sarah Palin but I know better than to mock people based on their disability.
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Melba Narberth
July 22nd, 2010 - 10:25:08 AM
I'm not saying Palin's intelligent, but there are politicians who are far dumber than Sarah Palin. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas still thinks there are "two Vietnams" and once asked if the Mars Pathfinder had taken pictures of the flag she thought Neil Armstrong had planted on Mars. Hank Johnson of Georgia recently asked a Navy Admiral whether sending more soliders to Guam could cause the island to capsize. And Alvin Greene of South Carolina is so dumb, even Keith Olbermann couldn't pretend there wasn't something wrong with him. Why aren't you berating these politicians for their lack of intelligence? Methinks it has something to do with their party affiliation and their ethnicity. Scaredy-cat.
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Josh Stephenson
August 13th, 2010 - 5:26:34 PM
yeh, i think the baby reference killed it for most readers.
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