It may be sexist, it maybe patronizing, but this lady is so damn CUTE

[crumbum]

Hey TE, I thought of you when I read Dick Cavett's column today in the Times. He concluded by saying that he thought she was attractive, and would enjoy watching her on TV with the sound turned all the way down.

I liked how he charged her with assaulting the English language:

"What on earth are our underpaid teachers, laboring in the vineyards of education, supposed to tell students about the following sentence, committed by the serial syntax-killer from Wasilla High and gleaned by my colleague Maureen Dowd for preservation for those who ask, “How was it she talked?”

'My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.'

And, she concluded, 'never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.'

It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any."

Check out his column here. http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em

I was gonna post about this earlier but I didn't know how to phrase it, what is she doing wrong technically with her diction? Is it wrong even or are we just being exposed a uncommon regional speech pattern?

As Camille Paglia so helpfully pointed out, it is neither -- it's the the linguistic equivalent of free jazz, and Palin is the Coltrane of this nascent movement.

[samir]

Hey, TE, how about that Brock Lesnar?

[Trembling Eagle]

Hey, TE, how about that Brock Lesnar?

First, I was like: 
but then I was like: 
now I'm all: 

[samir]

I remember him from my younger, WWF-watching days.

[Fido]

Hey TE, I thought of you when I read Dick Cavett's column today in the Times. He concluded by saying that he thought she was attractive, and would enjoy watching her on TV with the sound turned all the way down.

I liked how he charged her with assaulting the English language:

"What on earth are our underpaid teachers, laboring in the vineyards of education, supposed to tell students about the following sentence, committed by the serial syntax-killer from Wasilla High and gleaned by my colleague Maureen Dowd for preservation for those who ask, “How was it she talked?”

'My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.'

And, she concluded, 'never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.'

It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any."

Check out his column here. http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em

I was gonna post about this earlier but I didn't know how to phrase it, what is she doing wrong technically with her diction? Is it wrong even or are we just being exposed a uncommon regional speech pattern?

Cavett answered that question nicely too:

"What will ambitious politicos learn from this? That frayed syntax, bungled grammar and run-on sentences that ramble on long after thought has given out completely are a candidate’s valuable traits?"

He went on to describe her as a "serial syntax-killer" who "seems to have no first language."

[daveB from Oakland]

Or she's just that dumb, what evidence do you have to the contrary? The woman couldn't name one newspaper or magazine.

I think she reads stuff. But the stuff she reads is much too extreme for the acceptance of the general public. Therefore, she obfuscated in her answer to pretty Katie Couric. I'll try and expand on that theory later, but I'm much too debilitated right now.* She's married to a guy who's associated with a secessionist movement. And yet she had no problem throwing Obama under the bus for his vague associations with whomever. Her hypocrisy knows no bounds ... because she has no awareness of when she's being hypocritical.

*Always

[Sarah]

For years, I've predicted and feared the arrival of a world where people have so lost track of what words mean and how they need to be put together in order to make sense that we will have no way of knowing precisely what others are trying to say when they attempt to communicate.  Speech and writing will cease to function as anything more than conveyors of mood.  Understanding will be so subjective that we will all be stranded on private islands of solipsistic interpretation. 

That world is on its way, and Sarah Palin will be very comfortable in it.

[dave from knoxville]

Or she's just that dumb, what evidence do you have to the contrary? The woman couldn't name one newspaper or magazine.

I think she reads stuff. But the stuff she reads is much too extreme for the acceptance of the general public. Therefore, she obfuscated in her answer to pretty Katie Couric. I'll try and expand on that theory later, but I'm much too debilitated right now.* She's married to a guy who's associated with a secessionist movement. And yet she had no problem throwing Obama under the bus for his vague associations with whomever. Her hypocrisy knows no bounds ... because she has no awareness of when she's being hypocritical.

*Always

So you are saying she's a politicopath.

[Fido]

For years, I've predicted and feared the arrival of a world where people have so lost track of what words mean and how they need to be put together in order to make sense that we will have no way of knowing precisely what others are trying to say when they attempt to communicate.  Speech and writing will cease to function as anything more than conveyors of mood.  Understanding will be so subjective that we will all be stranded on private islands of solipsistic interpretation. 

That world is on its way, and Sarah Palin will be very comfortable in it.

I know what you mean, Sarah. I know what you mean.

Cheer up. Here, have an aardvark.

[Sarah]

Prog rock, Fido!

[John Junk 2.0]

For years, I've predicted and feared the arrival of a world where people have so lost track of what words mean and how they need to be put together in order to make sense that we will have no way of knowing precisely what others are trying to say when they attempt to communicate.  Speech and writing will cease to function as anything more than conveyors of mood.  Understanding will be so subjective that we will all be stranded on private islands of solipsistic interpretation. 

That world is on its way, and Sarah Palin will be very comfortable in it.

You seem bummed out.  Next time instead of typing a bunch of high fullutent stuff you can just do this: 

[Sarah]

But being high fallutent is half the fun, Junk.  Besides, all the typing keeps my fingers nimble.

[Trembling Eagle]

guess who?



http://www.celebuzz.com/short-shorts-pics-sarah-palins-s64391/photos-32205611/#bodyinnertop

[daveB from Oakland]

guess who?



http://www.celebuzz.com/short-shorts-pics-sarah-palins-s64391/photos-32205611/#bodyinnertop

Argggh. You're bottoming out, TE. I'm almost starting to feel sorry for her. Most politicians are not subjected to this type of stalkerazzi stuff. Granted, there's not a whole lot of difference between her and Britney Spears. But nevertheless ... you gotta kick the habit, Eagle. Go lift.

[Trembling Eagle]

guess who?



http://www.celebuzz.com/short-shorts-pics-sarah-palins-s64391/photos-32205611/#bodyinnertop

Argggh. You're bottoming out, TE. I'm almost starting to feel sorry for her. Most politicians are not subjected to this type of stalkerazzi stuff. Granted, there's not a whole lot of difference between her and Britney Spears. But nevertheless ... you gotta kick the habit, Eagle. Go lift.

as soon as I print these pics out for my locker door.