Sarah Palin Can’t Write For Sh*t
Yeah …
So Sarah Palin apparently doesn’t get along very well with the English language, at least according to three Vanity Fair editors who took a crack at editing her recent resignation speech.
You can view their corrections for yourself by clicking here, but we’re warning you it’s a lot like watching the first fifteen minutes of Saving Private Ryan.
In Palin’s favor? We’d still do her …
Comments
By male sapphist on July 22nd, 2009 at 7:46 am
This is pretty weak. She wrote a speech, she gave a speech, and she did not have in an improper relationship with a teleprompter. If the national media keeps on piling on they are heading for a MessNBC level of irrelevance.
By Toyota Kawaski on July 22nd, 2009 at 8:43 am
its her notes who gives a dam
By fitsnews on July 22nd, 2009 at 8:54 am
Toyota,
Wrong. The notes were made (as “noted” in the story) by three Vanity Fair editors.
The document they were editing was Palin’s final version of the speech.
-FITS
By Toyota Kawaski on July 22nd, 2009 at 9:08 am
if she can read it then its fine not like it was a term paper in MLA format.Besides why is an alleged “GUY” reading vanity Fair? Oh let me guess Man-d left it in the shitter and you just picked it up.Not a Palin fan just making a point for her eyes only.
By lee on July 22nd, 2009 at 10:03 am
It’s obvious the Dems are really, really afraid of Palin. If it weren’t so, why are they spending so much time and money smearing her?
By dirtbogger on July 22nd, 2009 at 11:30 am
this is not news worthy and is a childish attempt at her credibility, but she is dumb as dirt! She just gives a good pep talk! But what bothers me is the two party system is a joke. Everything goes in one direction anyway__down hill. All I ever see is a dog and poney show with their talking points between Rebublicans and Democrats but what we get is a loss of freedom and an ever expanding debt and empire with both parties. Bush spent more than clinton, and Obama more than Bush. Face it we have hardly any representation in this government.
By Fred on July 22nd, 2009 at 11:37 am
The liberals have gone way to far with their attacks on Palin. They have turned her into a sympathetic figure, the little guy, the underdog fighting the Big liberal media machine. And Americans surely do love supporting the little picked on underdog fighting against the big guy.
Overheard at the coffee shop just this morning: “Why don’t they leave the poor woman alone?” — many heads nodding, some heads belonged to liberals.
By BigDaddy on July 22nd, 2009 at 11:46 am
You do not have to look at her speech notes to realize she lacks command of the English language. Her sentences during her speeches are incoherent. She has trouble saying what she thinks and clearly is in way over her head.
She is resigning, quitting her elected duties,and she doesn’t mention it until she is several minutes into her rambling babble.
No one in the Republican or Democratic party should be afraid of her. The Repubs should be ashamed of themselves for putting her on the ticket. She even makes Bush look intelligent.
By Glen on July 22nd, 2009 at 12:26 pm
She did not write that speech. She delivered it from the top of her head using cursory notes. What is typed on the page is a transcript of what she said. Nobody speaks with the precision with which they write. To take the spoken word and edit it like it is an essay is deceitful on the part of the Vanity Fair editors and all of the media who reported on it. But what else is new?
By T4 on July 22nd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
No one cares about Palin. Stick with your enemies here in SC, FITS.
By Recovering Lobbyist on July 22nd, 2009 at 1:04 pm
I think there is a saying that applies to the media’s obsession with Sarah Palin: thou doth protest too much. They are already irrelevant. Their obsession simply proves the point.
By James the Foot Soldier on July 22nd, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Sheesh – I never thought I’d admit this but I have to agree with Toyota on this one.
I for one need a break – it’s a little early for folks to be shilling for the 2012 primary and the candidate whose name rymes with dumb-fuk.
By CYNSD on July 22nd, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Governor Sarah Palin is a strong and noble woman, who firmly has a character that could whip our no-nuts president in the butt. I wish people would come to realize that.
By Not a Palin fan on July 22nd, 2009 at 1:25 pm
A speech “edited” by a bunch of libs over at Vanity Fair is relevant how? Oh, that’s right! Palin bashing is still the vogue.
The majority of revisions are stylistic. The Vanity Fair editors were editing as they would for a print piece that a bunch of effete snobs are going to read, which is unlikely to be the same audience Palin was writing for. I would love to see how some of the articles here on FITS would fare under an editor’s pen. ;)
I don’t know which is more tiresome, Palin herself or the predictable army of psychotic Palin-bashers. *Yawn*
By CL on July 22nd, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Now I am sure Vanity Fair’s next piece will analyze an Obama speech given without a teleprompter (if one exists). This is such a joke. Have you ever looked at a transcript of a legal proceeding? (I know – lawyers are idiots too).
Actually, I defy anyone to conduct as similar exercise with the speeches of Sonia Sotomayor(including versions she has subsequently published). Her relationship with the English language is as strained as the Sanford marriage. Yet this “wise Latina” is going to be one of the 9 philosopher kings who interpret the emanations coming from the Constitution.
By John Carpenter on July 22nd, 2009 at 6:24 pm
I don’t care if she’d have a hard time spelling “cat” if you spotted her the “c” and the “t”.
She hasn’t made her political “bones”–as has Obama–by leaking the sealed divorce records of opponents records sealed to protect their children.
That tells me all I have to know about the guy.
Insofar as the speech goes, I guess the editor ( whose name will never even be a trivia question on American life in the 21st century) has a little bit too much time on his hands.
He’d be wiser to use his fair-to-middling speechwriting skills to craft an editorial that will stop Obama’s poll numbers from falling like a polished rock.
By Old Bike Dude on July 22nd, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Sarah Palin has the intellectual depth of Cheese Whiz…but I’d do her!
By Elliott on July 22nd, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Wasn’t she a journalism major? What university awarded her a degree?
By jaded in S.C. on July 23rd, 2009 at 1:28 am
She isn’t bright enough to be governor, mayor, or anything else. Leave her alone and let her have babies, try to stand toe to toe with the good ole boys, keep killing in the name of sport. She’s just dumb. We need good leaders not cheer leaders.
By Upstate Conservative on July 23rd, 2009 at 7:47 am
jaded in S.C.: Cheerleading should be the extent of her involvement in the GOP. She’s good in that capacity, but I think she lacks the relative gravity we need right now. Unless we’re nothing but blue skies and unicorns in 2012.
I will be disappointed if she runs & wins the nom. With the Obama propaganda machine, she will stand no chance in the general election.