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Monday, November 22, 2010
Seth Meyers has something to say about the Oxford American Dictionary choosing "refudiate" as word of the year.
Religulous or Idiocracy are more appropriate here. But they are a few years old and were coined by Bill Maher and camp. You know, smart and clever people that Bristle would refer to as, air heads.
Sarah's lists of accomplishments are growing and growing.
Lie of the Year and now Word of the Year?
This only makes her stronger, even if she doesn't have enough grace or smarts to realize it is to mock her or accentuate her ridiculousness.
Because this keeps her in the national dialog. Yes Sarah, as a small town Alaskan (cause let's face it, even our cities are small towns, I'm talking Wasilla size) I still can't believe you are a household name. That you've earned celebrity at the cost of all those you've thrown under the bus and use our gorgeous state to bolster your phony Frontier woman narrative.
From the ADN today: Beyond its political intrigue, the DeMint-Murkowski tussle reveals the deeper ideological struggle within the Republican Party between hard-liners unwilling to bend their principles and moderates who say governing requires compromise.
Let's go back to Sarah Palin during the 2008 Presidential campaign with her competency-revealin interview with news presenter Katie Couric:
Asked if the US financial crisis was leading the country towards another Great Depression, her reply was: "Not necessarily this, as it's been proposed, has to pass or we're going to find ourselves in another Great Depression. But, there has got to be action - bipartisan effort - Congress not pointing fingers at one another but finding the solution to this, taking action..."
That last run-on sentence was perhaps, quintessential naive Palin that was trying to play both sides and appear mainstream appealing.
Realizing that TeaParty enthusiasm grabs headlines and raises money, ultra conservatives like DeMint have become emboldened by Palin's pot stirrin and threaten gridlock if American policies aren't more conservative on social and fiscal issues.
I know this is cyclical, this happens and it isn't new, but the propoganda and newstime that is dedicated to a fringe movement is unprecedented, and to have it wag the dog is insulting and bewildering.
Sarah will outlive her usefulness in the mainstream media, but she'll remain a conservative rock star and celebrity. I'll do a jig the day she can't even get $5 for her autograph. She is a horrible, horrible nightmare of a human being.
Shakespeare probably did not create new words. One does not become the most popular playwright of one's day by filling one's plays with words no one has ever heard before.
However, the happy coincidence of the most prolific and successful playwright the day and the advent of the printing press means that an inordinate percentage of English words appear in print for the first time in his plays. It does not mean he "invented" them out of whole cloth.
One does not become the Leader of the Free World by "inventing" words either, Sarah.
The only S.P. (or B.S. as Malia puts it)I involve myself in is from your blogs, Gryphen. Without your sense of humor, I just couldn't stand it. Thanks.
What the dictionary did wrong was not acknowledge that the wide spread use of Sarah's illiterate word was as sarcasm for her ignorance. And is almost exclusively used in the context of Sarah Palin world.
So unless they specify the word as humor or sarcasm they missed the point of its use.
When Sarah is not longer on TEEVEE all the time or takes English language lessons "refudiate" will disappear as quickly as it appeared.
So why did they pick a word that hs such a limited scope of usage, so short a probable life time, and which moreover has no actual meaning except that the person who first used it is dictionary challenged.
http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-do-we-pay-attention-to-sarah-palin.html
ReplyDelete...nuff said.
Religulous or Idiocracy are more appropriate here. But they are a few years old and were coined by Bill Maher and camp. You know, smart and clever people that Bristle would refer to as, air heads.
ReplyDeleteSarah's lists of accomplishments are growing and growing.
ReplyDeleteLie of the Year and now Word of the Year?
This only makes her stronger, even if she doesn't have enough grace or smarts to realize it is to mock her or accentuate her ridiculousness.
Because this keeps her in the national dialog. Yes Sarah, as a small town Alaskan (cause let's face it, even our cities are small towns, I'm talking Wasilla size) I still can't believe you are a household name. That you've earned celebrity at the cost of all those you've thrown under the bus and use our gorgeous state to bolster your phony Frontier woman narrative.
From the ADN today: Beyond its political intrigue, the DeMint-Murkowski tussle reveals the deeper ideological struggle within the Republican Party between hard-liners unwilling to bend their principles and moderates who say governing requires compromise.
ReplyDeleteLet's go back to Sarah Palin during the 2008 Presidential campaign with her competency-revealin interview with news presenter Katie Couric:
Asked if the US financial crisis was leading the country towards another Great Depression, her reply was: "Not necessarily this, as it's been proposed, has to pass or we're going to find ourselves in another Great Depression. But, there has got to be action - bipartisan effort - Congress not pointing fingers at one another but finding the solution to this, taking action..."
That last run-on sentence was perhaps, quintessential naive Palin that was trying to play both sides and appear mainstream appealing.
Realizing that TeaParty enthusiasm grabs headlines and raises money, ultra conservatives like DeMint have become emboldened by Palin's pot stirrin and threaten gridlock if American policies aren't more conservative on social and fiscal issues.
I know this is cyclical, this happens and it isn't new, but the propoganda and newstime that is dedicated to a fringe movement is unprecedented, and to have it wag the dog is insulting and bewildering.
Sarah will outlive her usefulness in the mainstream media, but she'll remain a conservative rock star and celebrity. I'll do a jig the day she can't even get $5 for her autograph. She is a horrible, horrible nightmare of a human being.
Link from Alaska Ear: Hurricane Dave is re-releasing as a single "Please Don't Ask Me About Her" --
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9qfgt2bQK.
a good listen
herk
Shakespeare probably did not create new words. One does not become the most popular playwright of one's day by filling one's plays with words no one has ever heard before.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the happy coincidence of the most prolific and successful playwright the day and the advent of the printing press means that an inordinate percentage of English words appear in print for the first time in his plays. It does not mean he "invented" them out of whole cloth.
One does not become the Leader of the Free World by "inventing" words either, Sarah.
The only S.P. (or B.S. as Malia puts it)I involve myself in is from your blogs, Gryphen. Without your sense of humor, I just couldn't stand it. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHer neck looks AWFUL. Really shows her age.
ReplyDeleteShe could hide it with scarves.
What the dictionary did wrong was not acknowledge that the wide spread use of Sarah's illiterate word was as sarcasm for her ignorance. And is almost exclusively used in the context of Sarah Palin world.
ReplyDeleteSo unless they specify the word as humor or sarcasm they missed the point of its use.
When Sarah is not longer on TEEVEE all the time or takes English language lessons "refudiate" will disappear as quickly as it appeared.
So why did they pick a word that hs such a limited scope of usage, so short a probable life time, and which moreover has no actual meaning except that the person who first used it is dictionary challenged.
Sarah is a Refuckican party member
ReplyDeleteWhat video is that? Because it sure isn't Seth Meyers. It's some sort of infomercial.
ReplyDelete