With CPAC coming soon, and Sarah an invitee, I thought this quote funny. Of course someone will write her cpac talk, but it's still fun to listen. I wonder if my comments below still hold?
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http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/207488-cpac.html
"Sarah Palin's extended genius at playing this game makes her a democratic phenomenon of a particular postmodern sort: the mangled English, the flat contradictions, the complaints of 'gotcha' questions from the 'lamestream' media, the post of aggrieved outsider-all lend her campaigns the status of performance art.
"Washington was stunned by the emergence of this feisty outsider from the North," one columnist noted. "For decades, political leaders had seduced voters with their fancy talk and pretty words. But Palin refused to be a slave to oratory or grandiloquence or basic syntax.
She liberated the English language from the rigid orthodoxy of meaning, because in America even words should have freedom: the freedom to appear wherever they'd like, almost as if emerging by chance or random draw."
A sample: "My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur," Palin once said, "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."
As the columnist concluded: "Words truer been have spoken never." (Scott Feschuk, "Sarah Palin's no slave to syntax,"" Maclean's (16 October 2009).) Footnote: Mark Kingwell's 'Unruly Voices' p129
