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onebadclam
08/13/09

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Given Palin's lack of self awareness is it surprising she might refer to herself in the third person?
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SuhinaCalydon
08/13/09

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You make no sense. You said that if Palin didn't write the post, that "leads one to pretty much dismiss all of the points it attempts to make." It does? Why? You admit it is thoroughly researched, logical and well written. Is the argument less valid if someone else wrote it? I call an ad hominem.
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The Curse of Millhaven
08/13/09

@SuhinaCalydon: Well, it sounds like she is a person whose ability to communicate sophisticated ideas is highly questionable is passing someone else's ideas and writing off as her own. In most formal settings such as school or a journal that would get the argument dismissed. On the other hand, the fact that she did not write it may make it more worthy of attention rather than less since she is kind of stupid.
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The Curse of Millhaven
08/13/09

@The Curse of Millhaven: Silly browser will not let me correct my own typo up there.
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zissoublue
08/13/09

@The Curse of Millhaven: I'm sure you're aware that the president does not write his own speeches.
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The Curse of Millhaven
08/13/09

@zissoublue: No president does. It is a matter of time limitation as much as anything else. That is why nobody jumps on presidents for not writing their own speeches. Plus Obama is rather famously smart enough to communicate sophisticated ideas, writers or not.
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Steverino Begins
08/13/09

@SuhinaCalydon: A good point. I think Palin, I mean her Facebook writer, is trying to dazzle everyone with research capabilities and crossed t's and such...and embedded quotes! It's like she's trying to be a smart, hand-gesturing lawyer at the end of an LMC movie.

Too bad the point she's making is crap. So old people have consultations about what sort of care they want to keep receiving, or not receive. What's the big deal? It's not a "death panel." People hear "death panel," and they think a government committee will decide if someone can live or die, and that's not true here.

Fucking Sarah Palin.
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southernbitch
08/13/09

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i just went over to her facebook page to read the note (i cant believe i never visited that before! comedy gold!) and started clicking through some of the profiles of the people urging her to run for president and, surprise! a lot of them don't seem like real people. examples:
[www.facebook.com]
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they're just liking everything and constantly writing insane shit on her wall.
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Better to Eat You With
08/13/09

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Fortunately, even if someone gave her this in the form of a prepared speech, she couldn't possibly deliver it. In fact, I'd like to see that happen: "Read this aloud, Sarah. Can you tell us what it means?" Where's Katie Couric when you need her?
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kneetoe
08/13/09

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And at 3:30 am, after two bottles of white zin, she changed her status to "about to be divorced."
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ArtfulSlinger
08/13/09

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What sick country am I living in where a Maverick Governor gives up her seat so she can just toll away the hours on Facebook? This is the hope for the poor white people in America?
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BxgrlJeri
08/13/09

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The insurance companies have found uneducated and ill-informed numnuts to further their agenda and SP decided she wanted a first-class seat on the wrong-way train so she hired someone to put her "thoughts' out there for the sheep-like masses.

When I am appointed to the death panels, they will be the first to go.
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HurtsSoGood
08/13/09

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Alternate theory: she got lucky. Kind of how those million monkeys banging on a million typewriters producing a Shakespearesque play in a million years.
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BxgrlJeri
08/13/09

@HurtsSoGood: Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and again.
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johnny_carsick
08/13/09

@HurtsSoGood: ah, but even under that theory, we're about several hundred thousand palins and years short.
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southernbitch
08/13/09

@johnny_carsick: ugh, that's gonna get filed under "nightmare fodder" in my brain- hundreds of thousands of sarah palins writing hundreds of thousands of sarah palin soundbytes.
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Mariallena
08/13/09

@HurtsSoGood:
Thanks to the Internet, we now know that not even a billion monkeys banging on a billion typewriters can produce anything like a single good line from a Shakeaspeare play.
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DevilsAvocado
08/13/09

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Let me introduce you to the TM patented-pending Devil's Avocado method for filtering uncharacteristically eloquent documents purportedly written by brain-addled, illiterate imbeciles.
Step 1: remove all text enclosed within quotation marks. Result: in this instance, 351 words are reduced to 152 words.
Step 2: Google key passages or phrases from the remaining 'original' text; in this instance: "medicare advance care planning consultation coercive effect". Result: Google result number five, being the first after four expressly referencing the Palin Facebook quote: "Rush Limbaugh has falsely claimed that seniors would be subject to "[m]andatory counseling" at "a minimum of every five years, more often if the seasoned citizen is sick or in a nursing home." He added, "That's an invasion of the right to privacy." Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York falsely claimed on Fox News' Fox & Friends that the bill "says that there will be consultation between a caregiver and a patient to discuss things like hospice care and other issues -- other end-of-life issues," which he claimed raised the question of "whether there's any coercive element to this."
A poor example of cobbling. The lazy plagiarist's best friend.
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PaisleyPajamas
08/13/09

@DevilsAvocado: After reading your comment, I am now sorta, kinda looking forward to her book being published. We should throw a "Ghostwriter Filtering" party! I make a mean party dip.
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misslinda
08/13/09

@PaisleyPajamas: Just don't make guacamole ;)
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Claire Buoyant
08/13/09

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But whoever it is, their being enlisted to perform these services is obviously part of a diabolical plan to rehabilitate Palin's image as a staggering dipshit.

Just wait until she gets a Twitter account again, then everyone can see what an idiot she is regardless of all the carefully ghostwritten wordcraft.
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DaisyDerro
08/13/09

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To make an analogy: it's as if Stephen Hawking did my seventh grade science report. It's not fooling anyone.
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misslinda
08/13/09

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What's the big deal? Doesn't everybody have their assistants write all of their Gawker comments?
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DevilsAvocado
08/13/09

@misslinda:
Yes.
[signed - indentured acolyte]
pp. Devil's Avocado
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Mo MoDo
08/13/09

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I would say that Bill Kristol-Meth is ghost-writing for her, but even he's not that eloquent.
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drunkexpatwriter
08/13/09

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My writing used to get tighter and more typo-free when I was on coke. Maybe she discovered meth.
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hurleyburley
08/13/09

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"With all due respect" was the tipoff for me. She's not big on giving due respect to anything that doesn't fit into her narrow, uninformed little worldview. Remember what she said about community organizing?
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