Sarah Palin Pains
My favorite blogger finishes an excellent reaction to the VP debate with this:
What my mother doesn’t seem to understand is that Palin has to overcome the towering, elitist expectations of the elite media, like the New York Times, where elitist eggheads can elitely demand elite accoutrements like subjects and verbs. Well, Elite Media, I come from Regular America. I went to a university far away from the ocean that didn’t have the gall to judge me on “actual meaning.” If I showed up to class looking good, calling people by their first names, and giving shout-outs to those who deserved shout-outs, I did just fine, thank you very much. I may not have answered all of life’s questions the way that life or life’s moderators wanted me to. But goshdarndogit, I think I’ve done pretty well. (Glancing down to index card.) I love Israel, and I like energy, and I think that’s naive and this is dangerous, and I don’t want to surrender, and maverick, and I’ve been at this for five weeks, and … no more questions, please. I have to catch a plane.
Beth Sethi said,
October 5, 2008 at 8:31 am
So funny, Amy, and so scary because it’s SO TRUE. Yikes. I also have a new appreciation for subjects and verbs and nouns that actually exist in the dictionary (unlike Palin’s invented noun, “the fundamental of our economy.”)