Dick Cavett absolutely eviscerates the "Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla".

[11 Bravo]

Nobody does snark like Cavett.

http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em

[KittyWampus]

1. aw, you should have posted an excerpt. Someone posted this earlier. It's really funny

and so well written.

[geckosfeet]

2. Yes - language as it was meant to be used. eom

[happychatter]

3. haven't heard from him in years... wasn't he offered a job like Frost with AlJazeera? NT

[liberal N proud]

4. What have we done to deserve this...

What have we done to deserve this, this media blitz that the astute Andrea Mitchell has labeled “The Victory Tour”?

:rofl:

[Zuiderelle]

5. Funny!

"It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any."

About this Palin quote:

"My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur 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, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars."

:wtf:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. I have always loved this man.

Could the willingness to crown one who seems to have no first language have anything to do with the oft-lamented fact that we seem to be alone among nations in having made the word “intellectual” an insult? (And yet…and yet…we did elect Obama. Surely not despite his brains.)

Sorry about all of the foregoing, as if you didn’t get enough of the lady every day in every medium but smoke signals.

I do not wish her ill. But I also don’t wish us ill. I hope she continues to find happiness in Alaska.

May I confess that upon first seeing her, I liked her looks? With the sound off, she presents a not uncomely frontal appearance.

But now, as the Brits say, “I’ll be glad to see the back of her.”