Wow…Glynnis, I have to hand it to you…you sure know a way to spark page views on yourself.

Let the hate begin, from the peaceful left!

From the peaceful left? It’s a “linguist, and conservative political commentator” that made the comments.

and then there’s Barack Obama, the token black president who can read a teleprompter as good as any of the best game show host in the business. for god sake, leave her and her family alone.

I’m trying to remember the speech they illustrated in TNR, I think she gave that speech in all 57 states, oh, no, wait, um oh..maybe that was somebody else…Now, now it’s coming back to me, this is the one where she really dialed in on that 17 minute answer, no, um, wait, wrong again…

Maybe it’s the speech where she asked the guy in the wheel chair to stand up? no, no, that’s not it…darnit! um, oh i know maybe it’s the one where she offered condolences to the 10,000 dead in the tornado?? nope nope, only 12 died, that was somebody else famous too, darnit, oh oh, maybe this was the speech where she addressed the 7 eleven owners with those funny accents? no no that was somebody else too…

Pick on her all you want, the examples of her opponents inserting foot in mouth and speaking in circles is legion.

He’s proven he doesn’t always need a teleprompter, the perfect example is when he was talking to the GoP on their territory. Besides, politicians on all sides use them as do commentators and people on TV. That’s what’s taken the place of notes because it’s easier to look out at your audience while using a teleprompter then while referring to notes on a podium.

Why is a teleprompter such a big deal? Almost anyone (intelligent at least) uses some sort of notes for speeches that are only 5-10 minutes long. If I had to give a 20-30 minute speech or longer I sure wouldn’t turn down an aid to help me get through it. The “poor mans teleprompter” or whatever she called it was just a lame name for notes on her hand…which wasn’t the big deal. The big deal was they were the standard baseline talking points that she had to refer to instead of having those basic things already in her head….and even that’s not a big deal because everyone has brain farts and forgets the basics from time to time.

Joshua, you can’t expect anti-intellects like timzank to understand. Reading just doesn’t make sense to some people. Neither does sentence structure. god bless America!

Palin’s style of speech is charming and unique. She appeals to the common man who is often happy with, even prefers platitudes to details. Personally, I like her. She has a mission. What is that mission? To divide the Republican party.

Palin’s popularity is due to her willingness to confront out-of-control government spending and an intrusive federal bureaucracy that is threatening individual freedoms and killing the economy. The fact that the media attacks how she speaks without actually stating what she says is quite revealing. Indeed this is the Palin media phenomenon in a nutshell: ten thousand articles about her in the mainstream press, but none of them willing to explain honestly why she has such a large following. Welcome to the world of the elite media, where honest reporting is trumped by liberal advocacy every night of the week.

felix,
Again, here is the situation: some media is liberal, some, including the highest rate cable news station, as you routinely point out, is conservative. So stop complaining about the so called “elite liberal media”. People, in general, form there own opinion about Palin because even in the elite liberal media, her speeches are frequently shown. I don’t know about you, but I form my own opinion based on what I see, not on what Wolf Blitzer says. As do most people.

She is not that savy on complicated political, social, or economic matters. She has the conservative talking points down, but that is it. She has proven her own limitations in that regard. But as I said, many people do not care about any of that. She is folksy, and lot’s of people prefer folksy to intellectual. There is nothing wrong with that. But Palin has gotten massive media coverage, coming from nowhere in Alaska as a young governor, to the center stage of the Republican/conservative/tea party. She has been on dozens of shows, and has been covered in great detail in newspapers, both left and right, all over the country, and even the world. She is not a baby. Politicians are constantly hammered. Why should she get a pass on that. Especially since she spends an inordinant amount of time dishing it out..

MarkStr82Hell says:
April 6, 2010 at 5:02 pm

and then there’s Barack Obama, the token black president
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WOW, what a REMARKabley ignorant asshole YOU are.

President Barack Obama was ELECTED, not APPOINTED, he can’t be a “token” anything. He was the best man that ran, the majority of Americans elected him.
The other man who ran was an aged lying jerk, and had that dingbat albatross $arah hanging around his neck to further accessorize his disregard for the American people.

And…or…ummmm, I would comment, but I’m going to a baseketball game at C’alinksy field to see my favorite players, which I can’t name.

AmeriCuda says:
April 6, 2010 at 8:47 pm
And…or…ummmm, I would comment, but I’m going to a baseketball game at C’alinksy field to see my favorite players, which I can’t name.

A+ …but the posters here probably won’t get it.

tjl, it doesn’t require a lot of intellect either (obviously) to get swept away by platitudes, and promises of unicorns such as your savior put forth.

NewsBusters: Headline – ‘Conclusion: Sarah Palin Speaks Like A Toddler’
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/04/06/headline-conclusion-sarah-palin-speaks-toddler

Exactly!Toddlers are who speak from inside their own experience in a related way and they will come up to you and comment about something said by a neighbor you have never met or recount to you the plot of an episode of a TV show they have no way of knowing you have ever heard of.It was really funny and interesting!
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Stewart III,
Exactly.
“In the end, this was certainly not an article intended to flatter Palin, but it was by no means as demeaning as MacNicol made out.”
Read the entire article decide on your own, don’t just rely on a cherrypicking piece.
Whatever Palin sounds like(and I don’t think she is Presidential) she is effective. It’s certainly entertaining to watch the left gyrate about her. I wonder what the next headline will be:Palin, Is It Really Just Halitosis?

I would bet there are just as many Republicans “gyrating” about Palin as there are Democrats. Of course none of the Repubs can really speak out, lest they alienate the far right, but she is scarry to the party regulars because she has the potential of completely dividing the Republican party. That election in upstate New York, where the far right Palin-ites insisted on a third party candidate, had the effect of electing a Democrat in a district that had not elected a Democrat in like a hundred years. And if the right will not compromise with the Republican moderates, if they insist on their far right agenda, if they drive out the Crists of the party, the Repubs could see a lot of bad results in the national elections. Sure, the Palin-ites may win in those districts which are traditionally right, but in the close races, the moderate districts, the right by itself can not elect that many candidates. By all rights the repubs should make a recovery during the next election cycle, that is how it ususally works after one party makes big gains the cycle before, but if Palin divides the Repubs, as I explained, it could be a disaster. Lots of repubs are worried about that. And they should be.

Republicans maybe concerned about TEA Party people if they are of the RINO brand. “Far right”? I would consider the psycho militia to be far right, I hope they want to alienate them. But you don’t see the “vitriol”, to use a favorite left term, in print or commentary that the left so eloquently resorts. I don’t see the TEA Party putting up a 3rd party candidate, but hold current fiscally conservative elected officials feet to the fire, that includes Dems.
Palin speaks at some TEA Party gatherings, but what drives the thousands of other protests? It sure isn’t her.
I believe mainstream media and MSNBC want to make villians out of people exercising their 1st Amendment freedoms. They should be careful who they are critcizing.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i2bqPClsmNm4BDd-KxIdvJ4gNCCQD9ESRH4G3

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20001743-503544.html

We Liberals knew she was stupid the minute she opened her mouth. I guess the right is just slow? Oh, and enough with the stupid teleprompter comments. GOP Ronnie Raygun used one just like all of the other modern day Presdents do. Still can’t quite deal with the ass kicking Obama handed the GOP? The reason many of you folks like Palin is because, as you say, she’s just like us. Well that just means you’re equally stupid. Oh, and I’d put Sasha and Malia’s lingustic skills up against Palin’s any day.

8 sentences and writes stupid 3 times. Don’t you have a Thesaurus?

Not to change the subject, but is Hank Johnson a lib answer to Palin?

This is such a tough call: who to believe about Palin’s communication skills. Do I take the word of whoever this author is or Camilia Paglia–, a hard-cord liberal and feminist, an Ivy league professor, scholar, and author. Paglia–if this woman doesn’t know who she is there’s no point in telling her–wrote this in SALON in October 2008:

media insiders is that Palin is “dumb.” Are they kidding? What level of stupidity is now par for the course in those musty circles? (The value of Ivy League degrees, like sub-prime mortgages, has certainly been plummeting. As a Yale Ph.D., I have a perfect right to my scorn.) People who can’t see how smart Palin is are trapped in their own narrow parochialism — the tedious, hackneyed forms of their upper-middle-class syntax and vocabulary.

As someone whose first seven years were spent among Italian-American immigrants (I never met an elderly person who spoke English until we moved from Endicott to rural Oxford, New York, when I was in first grade), I am very used to understanding meaning through what might seem to others to be outlandish or fractured variations on standard English. Furthermore, I have spent virtually my entire teaching career (nearly four decades) in arts colleges, where the expressiveness of highly talented students in dance, music and the visual arts takes a hundred different forms. Finally, as a lover of poetry (my last book was about that), I savor every kind of experimentation with standard English — beginning with Shakespeare, who was the greatest improviser of them all at a time when there were no grammar rules.

Many others listening to Sarah Palin at her debate went into conniptions about what they assailed as her incoherence or incompetence. But I was never in doubt about what she intended at any given moment. On the contrary, I was admiring not only her always shapely and syncopated syllables but the innate structures of her discourse — which did seem to fly by in fragments at times but are plainly ready to be filled with deeper policy knowledge, as she gains it (hopefully over the next eight years of the Obama presidencies). This is a tremendously talented politician whose moment has not yet come. That she holds views completely opposed to mine is irrelevant.

MacNicol or Paglia? Paglia or MacNicol.

Very tough but I’ll go with Paglia.

Glynnis MacNicol says “Conclusion: Sarah Palin Speaks Like A Toddler”

I say: Conclusion: Glynnis MacNicol thinks like an Obama Kool-Aid Drinker. Cant the left stop the attacks and defend the policy of the Great American Communist?

Here is Obama’s playbook taken from “The Communist Manufesto”

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.

Oh yeah, and spread the wealth.

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves” – Abraham Lincoln

Palin’s disrespect for the environment has damaged Alaska’s wildlife and endangered Alaska’s natural heritage. Ironically in March 2010 Discovery Communications announced that Palin was to host her own TV show on the beauty of Alaska. Palin belongs on Fox not Discovery. Please see THE GREEN MARKET.
http://thegreenmarket.blogspot.com/2010/04/sarah-palin-belongs-on-fox-not.html

Today, while Palin idiotically and sarcastically trid to rip Obama for his “inexperience” in nuclear matters, she still mispronounced the word NUCLEAR as NUC-U-LAR. I pity the right wingers that listen to anything this woman says (not even because she so often gets the facts wrong, but because she’s just lame at humor and sarcasm, lol).

Glynnis,
Are Sarah Palin’s malaprops as damaging to the nation as an articulate, well-rehearsed President who is consistently wrong with his facts – and even more pernicious, employs calculated deception in much of his rhetoric?
Just curious as to when we’ll be seeing a thread on that?

Sarah Palin…a voice only dogs could love. How anyone would willingly pay to listen to that screechy voice is beyond me. OK, she’s got looks and personality but unfortunately she doesn’t have the brains nor ability to govern. Considering the financial mess she left in Wasilla and her willingness to walk away from her governor’s job half way through her term because she could make more money in the private sector speaks volumes to me. She loves the attention, she doesn’t love the hard work. Think about it folks, if she had the looks of Rodney Dangerfield, you wouldn’t be all jazzed up about her.

Glynnis is at it again. lol! She must really be a very insecure liberal. Aren’t they all?

Go Sarah! Keep on driving the nutballs bonkers.

Nuclear? mmmm…how quick they forget, “corpseman”? Good God!

Gotta love the fear this woman elicits from the left. What a delight she is. Go on with your transparent slams, and all the other small people will nod approvingly and harrumph under their breath as your numbers dwindle.

No one ever complained about W. using a teleprompter because it was obvious to everyone that he couldn’t read. It’s just as transparent that Palin can’t talk. Which is all perfect for people who can’t think.

I find it amusing those that are criticizing McWhorther without reading up on him. I’m sure if you read his work, and understood it, you’d be in a lot of agreement with him.

I understand high-output, continuous loop recordings of Palin’s voice are said to be excellent for blasting barnacles off of your boat hull.

Caution: Hearing protection recommended.

“also too up there doncha know real Americans the lord Jesus you betcha (winky)”

Palin’s an idiot. I’m sure most teatards don’t even know what a linguist is and/or what we do.