Sarah Palin has had quite a remarkable time of it very recently with her Bush-like recreation of the English language. I might add that in any medium, before you’re allowed to ‘riff’ you should have a basic grasp of the fundamentals. However, when your riff is an unintentional one, (otherwise known as a screw-up) the better part of valor is to admit defeat. Not the killa from Wasilla! There is no defeat on her twitter page, she is in
the same league with no less than William Shakespeare!
While you really must see the video for her full statement, I will just say here that it took a bit of the steam out of her wrong-headed pleas to stop the Mosque, community and arts center, pool and restaurant intended to promote diversity in the general area of Ground Zero, when she pleaded for New Yorkers to "refudiate" the plan, leading me to believe that George Bush is speech-scribbling on her palm.
She repeated her word creation in urging "President Obama and his wife" to influence the NAACP to drop charges in a racism dispute with the Tea Party. It seems that the presidential pair were to refudiate the NAACP – because she said so!
Palin, by no means finished with this and other issues, was tipped that she’d made a faux pas. Did she hie herself to dictionary online perchance to correct her post? Nay, you know better than that! Rather, she equated herself with the bard, and gave us a memorable, ‘must see’ English lesson about our ‘living language.’ If she had done it tongue-in cheek, perhaps we’d feel better, but a woman who cannot admit fallibility in the smallest of mistakes cannot be trusted with the large ones.
A tweet by any other name would still reek as foul .