Even More Crow for the Palin-hatin’ Lefties to Eat
Man, sometimes life is just sweet. For those of you who caught the premier of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” on TLC last night (which apparently was a quite a few of you, according to the ratings), you would have seen quite a few subtle jabs at the left, such as when she was sitting on the base of Mt. McKinley and joked “I can see Russia from here”. But here’s an even better dig at the lefties. Remember the toss up about her referring to “Partying like it’s 1773″, which was quickly followed by a bunch of condescending, yet historically ignorant, doofuses who tried to make her look like an idiot, because well of course nothing happened in 1773 dontchaknow. Poor Sarah simply must have meant 1776, but she’s just to dumb to know her history after all. Well, you remember who was eating crow after that, right?
Well the latest was her use of an apparently made up word “refudiate” in a tweet on the 9/11 Victory Mosque. Well guess what.
Sarah Palin’s reality show scored huge ratings for its premiere Sunday night, while the guardians of usage at the New Oxford American Dictionary awarded the former Alaska governor the higher-brow distinction of coining 2010′s “word of the year” — “refudiate” — via her Twitter account.
Hehe, it’s almost like they said “Fuck it. Let it be tweeted, let it be done. The momma grizzly hath spoken”.
The former governor used the word in a Twitter message last summer, calling on “peaceful Muslims” to “refudiate” a planned mosque near the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York. When critics pounced on the made-up verb, Palin deleted the Tweet and replaced it with one that called on Muslims to “refute” the site — even though that usage made no sense, either, since to refute is to prove something to be untrue.
But in a release today, the New Oxford American Dictionary defended Palin’s use of the word. “From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which Palin has used ‘refudiate,’ we have concluded that neither ‘refute’ nor ‘repudiate’ seems consistently precise, and that ‘refudiate’ more or less stands on its own, suggesting a general sense of ‘reject,’ ” the New Oxford American Dictionary said in a press release.
And lest you think the New Oxford editors were only hailing “refudiate” as a publicity stunt, let the record show that Palin’s coinage was also named to the honor roll of the Global Language Monitor project — together with terms such as “spillcam” and “vuvuzela.”
Did I just hear the sounds of Olberdouche and Madcow melons gong POP! Why yes, I do believe I did.
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I do love it when lefties faces get rubbed in the shit.
And FIRST!!
I felt myself losing IQ points watching the show, not because of the content, but just having to hear her talk.
To me, I find her voice and cadence very irritating, Once I put the TV on mute and turned on some music, watching the show became bearable. (ooo, a pun!)
I knew what she meant the second she said it. At the time, I wasn’t really sure if it was a word or not, but the meaning came across.
Bush used words like this too, but I always understood what he meant, and when called on them, he confirmed that what you thought he said was what he was conveying. No parsing the definition of of word that has but one meaning into something that may/possibly///dosen’t have multiple meanings.
I refudiate all who disagree with me. (look it up).
DJ Allyn, ITW said the following:
funny, I feel much the same way about hillary. Her demeanor and body language go very well with a Death metal soundtrack.
But like I said in an earlier thread, I’m a little burnt out on dear Sarah. She is way too over exposed and I believe in danger of losing her credibility and clout because of it. As we ramp up for the 2012 election, I’d like to see her back away from the reality TV and dancing with the stars and whatever show pegs her or her family for an appearance and concentrate her efforts and media celebrity on what she does best……
Stump across the country and get everyday, non Ivy League, average Americans elected to take back our government and country.
Get off the TV Sarah and start kicking some lefty asses on the campaign trail…..it’s what you do best m’lady
DJ Allyn, ITW said the following:
I find most regional dialects,y’know, a bit annoying (‘cept southern women
), but you get use to them as you hear it,y’know. (g-d save us from californiaspeak)
I could say rude things about Barney Franks speech pattern, or Liebermans drone or that damn Texan drawl which I picked up somewhere (I do know where) and it just stuck. It’s the message, period.
With all the lefty heads resploding all over the place, has anybody considered grabbing the mop and bucket concessions in DC and at various and sundry MSM locations?
I surprised myself and actually watched the show. It wasn’t horrible. And I hate “reality” shows. I don’t really care about the workings of the Palins’ home life, but Alaska looks like a really neat state.
To DJ’s comment, I don’t really like the cadence and general sound of her voice, but she probably can’t help that.
I like Sarah, and saying stuff like this does a lot more good than she could do by running for president.
Jaybear, Colonel of Imperial Ancient Artillery
I differ with you on the matter of Sarah Palin being overexposed. To all of us who are involved in the Patriot movement, yeah we have seen an awful lot of her; thanks be to whatever Deity is turning the crank of the universe this week. And, of course, those in the opposition are sick of seeing her for the same reasons we were glad. She helped Patriots kick butt.
But much of the country has only seen Sarah, and her family, through the lens’ of Andrew Sullivan, Karl Rove, Katie Couric, Tina Fey, and Joe McGinnis. They, and the MFM are desperate to try to return the national conversation about her to shortly after the 2008 election.
The current show on TLC is showing her to be something very different from what the Left has tried to define. As some said over at HOT AIR:
and
This is a second chance at an introduction to much of the country, and she very much is NOT the monster the Left has painted her to be. It is a case of the MFM having to ask, “Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”. And they do not win.
Combine it with Bristol Palin’s perfomance on DWTS. Consider how she has been painted by both the MFM and Levi Johnson. They in effect called her things that if said explicitly about a girl whose family were not public figures; would result in a visit from father and brothers and major medical bills, if not the proverbial 3 S’s.
Her being on TV was expected by the talking heads to be a disaster. Guess what? She is not the best dancer there. But she is now seen as someone’s daughter, someone who tries and achieves credible success through her own efforts, and someone that the media has been lying about and insulting. The credibility of the enemy’s strongest weapon has been damaged.
Sarah is going to build on this, and the show will tie in with her book tour, which is back to the realm of ideas. Thankfully, the election campaign is finally over, and we can prepare the battlefield for 2012. That is a good thing. DWTS is about over, and Bristol will be going back to real life soon. All in all, I think the exposure is worth it. I suspect that Sarah had this all figured out long ago.
LC Subotai Bahadur, Lord Pao An
Response to LC Subotai Bahadur, Lord Pao An @:
Uhmm, what he said.
“…He thwarts the way of the wicked.” (Psalm 146:9)
God IS good!
She was excoriated for saying there would be “death panels” under the “health care” law, but here is Paul Krugman recommending “death panels” to help balance the budget.
(The money quote is at about 4:38; I couldn’t sit through the whole nine minutes. 
)
While I’m not sure that I agree with the OAD’s interpretation, I do have to concede that the English language has evolved, is evolving, and will continue to evolve, much to the consternation of most of us English instructors.
I think they are stretching it juuuuuuust a bit…
Grammar Czar said the following:
Response to LC 0311 Sir Crunchie I.M.H., K.o.E. @:
I like Sarah, but dear God, I hope she doesn’t run in 2012. I think starring in something as base as a reality TV show utterly obliterates any credibility she may have previously had.
Madam President said the following:
I disagree. If you watched it, she comes across as a normal person, she deals with her kids, talks about what a wonderful state she live in and the opportunities living there, and yes she deals with the bastard that moved in next door to them.
She isn’t running yet, so all the wailing about her being on Fox and doing a show promoting Alaska (hell, I wouldn’t have watched it if it didn’t have her) has weakened her standing as a possible candidate for President, let us remember that Obambi was just interviewed by media heavyweight Ryan Seacrest. There’s retaining the dignity of the office for ya.
Obambi has been on “The View” and “John Steward”, not exactly high brow, but maybe necessary to reach the idiots that are allowed to vote today.
LC Subotai Bahadur, Lord Pao An said the following:
As a regular viewer and reviewer of Dancing With The Stars, I have to say that you’re right, Bristol is not the best dancer on the floor. She is, however, holding her own against competitors that have years, nay, decades of professional experience. Anybody who can score triple 9′s on a paso doble in Week 9 of a DWTS competition most certainly does not have two left feet, and, in fact, could probably out-dance 99% of her liberal detractors!
I might also cite her waltz tonight as one of the most original waltzes I’ve ever seen on the show. It was Gothic and elegant, with bits that looked like they could have come straight out of a fantasy movie. To their credit, the band, frequently noted for its musical “clunkers,” came through with a beautiful and eerie accompaniment. If I were Head Judge Len “DNCMSTR” Goodman, I would make that the Judges’ Encore for the week, scores be damned.
I think (and correct me if I’m wrong, Jaybear), that what Jaybear is mainly talking about is the constant political exposure which I, too, am getting a bit sick and tired of. Just to mention one thing: If I could have one wish, then it would be for just one single month without speculation about whether she’s going to run for president in 2012.
It’s almost as tiresome as Allahpundit’s endless slobbering all over Mitt Romney’s junk. I do so wish that Townhall had put something in his contract about that, but I digress…
On the other hand, Subotai is absolutely right about the TLC show. Remember, all of us who already like her and what she stands for don’t need to be told what and who she is as a person, we already see ourselves in her and her family, but this show is not for us. It’s for all of the people who have never heard a word about the Palins that wasn’t carefully scripted and invented by the Obamedia. This show gives her and her family a forum where they can be themselves without all of the distortions and lies made up by the likes of Olberdouche, Chris Tingles et al, a forum where Main Street America can really learn about her as a person, not as a political focal point.
We need that as a nation. We don’t need more preaching to the choir, we don’t need to convert the faithful, we need Main Street America to see, as we’ve known for a long time, that the Palins are, in a word, us.
As a linguist, this is wonderful news. Language is constantly evolving, old words die off (go look up ‘skenting’) and new words are created. It’s an organic and human process. People can bitch all they want but I have to agree with the Oxfords on this one. It is a good blend of both words and expresses very well what neither word can. One of the beauties of this pidgin language of ours is that is is so very flexible and malleable. And ultimately the point of the symbols we use to communicate is this: did the listener understand the message? If so than the communication was successful.
Has “pwn” been accepted by Oxford yet? If so, it’ll be the third word in our wonderful language sans vowel.
What are the three S’s?
#22 readerjp
I don’t know if y’all live in the West, but we have an ongoing battle with the Federales over various nuisance critters that kill and eat livestock. Or just kill them for the hell of it. It doesn’t take many losses to make the year a loss for ranchers. Of course, since the big city Moonbats who think that meat properly comes from cellophane wrapped packages as Darwin intended, love a critter the more they attack ranchers; the Federales will prosecute the hell out of any rancher who defends his stock.
The proper response by a rancher, if they should encounter such a nuisance critter is the 3-S’s:
Shoot,
Shovel
Shut up.
LC Subotai Bahadur, Lord Pao An
Response to readerjp @:
Generally taken to refer to Shit, Shower, and Shave. You’re not a vet.
I expanded then to the Five Sacred S’s : Supper, Sleep, Screw, Shit and Shower; all five are essential First Priorities, and you have no problem, unless you have to choose between them. Of course the One Singleton S – Shooting- will always trump all the previous.
Response to LC Subotai Bahadur, Lord Pao An @:
Yes, Three S’s refers that too, but significantly Shoot again always takes priority.
Invest in lead.
So Bristol didn’t get the boot.
LOL…laughing about everyone complaining about politics taking over entertainment. Not too many here complain when the twits from Hollywood mouth off and throw parties to fundraise for politicians. And we know what party those brainiacs in Hollywood just loooove to endorse and try to influence all their adoring fans to vote for too.
The irony is so rich on this one. At least this outcome won’t affect the country.
…well, it may from some of them if you see the Hollywood worshipping freakazoids commenting out there.
I don’t even watch TV nor have I ever watched this show. But you know what…after reading these comments…I’m going to vote next week for Palin. I mean just anyone, who really doesn’t even know our Constitution or understand Economics 101 gets to vote for people who actually affect other people’s lives and how earners get taxed. Hahaha….don’t you just LOVE America!!!!!!!
I just all of you vote for Bristol. And vote often.