When I was in high school and faced with an essay question I couldn’t begin to answer my standard response was to fill up the paper with enough nonsense in the hope that I’d accidentally hit upon some point that would save me. It rarely worked. That said, take a look at this exchange between Palin and Wallace and tell me what she is saying. Extra points for attempting to diagram these sentences – and I use that word loosely.
WALLACE: What do you think of Barack Obama’s presidency so far?
PALIN: He has some misguided decisions that he is making that he is expecting us to just kind of sit down and shut up and accept, and many of us are not going to sit down and shut up. We’re going to say no, we do not like this…
WALLACE: Wait, wait, where’s he saying sit down and shut up?
PALIN: In a general just kind of general persona I think that he has when he’s up there at, I’ll call it a lectern. When he is up there and he is telling us basically, I know best, my people here in the White House know best, and we are going to tell you that yes, you do want this essentially nationalized health care system and we’re saying, no, we don’t. And the messages are not being received by Barack Obama. So I think instead of lecturing, he needs to stop and he needs to listen on health care issues. On national security, this perceived lackadaisical approach that he has to dealing with the terrorists. We’re saying that concerns us and we’re going to speak up about it and please don’t allow this persona to continue where you do try to make us feel like we need to just sit down, shut up and accept what you’re doing to us.
In a general just kind of general persona I think that he has when he’s up there at, I’ll call it a lectern. WTF is that?
The woman has diarrhea of the mouth. She just throws sh*t at the wall and hopes it sticks. She is a joke – a dangerous joke – who has been elevated by a lazy media to heights she doesn’t deserve. Personally, I’m sick to death of her, but ignoring her isn’t an option. Her appeal, imo, is that she makes people comfortable with their own ignorance. Dangerous stuff, indeed.