The pitbull wearin’ lipstick doesn’t have many camera friends today. So she took her bus and went home. Ignore her, and she goes away. She doesn’t want to give you a schedule and wants to play games, ignore her. She thrives on media attention, so much so that her flacks like Mansour get all worked [...]
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough’s penned an impassioned rebuke of Sarah Palin’s attempt to compare herself to a young Ronald Reagan and denigrate George H.W. Bush as a “blue blood”. Really Scarborough is attempting to elevate two of his favorite fellow GOPers. Palin is not a stupid woman. But like the current president, she still does [...]
John McWhorter explains Palinspeak is and why it isn’t a disqualifying trait to Palin’s loyal supporters. Yet Palinspeak still differs from statements like Brownback’s in degree. It’s a rather extreme case — an almost instructive distillation of the difference in public conceptions of language in Charles Eaton and Robert Byrd’s time versus our own. “Folksy” [...]