Comments on: Sarah Palin: Gibberish We Can Believe In?

By: stannenb

stannenb — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:19:37 +0000

There is some hidden good news in this. At least she believes in molecules.

By: 4jkb4ia

4jkb4ia — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:08:26 +0000

Most favorable interpretation: McCain is reminding everybody that illegal immigrants come from places other than Mexico.

By: rxbusa

rxbusa — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:55:39 +0000

Oops sorry. 2 AM brain. I agree with you and am looking forward to seeing both McSame and Palin get shredded in the debates…my friend just wants me to quit being smug.

And it is a terrific post, WO! I can think of no better compliment than being mistaken for Marcy… made me look up fungible and everything!

By: masaccio

masaccio — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:16:35 +0000

Oops, put me in the category of not noticing the author.

By: WilliamOckham

WilliamOckham — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:12:48 +0000

Um… Don’t blame Marcy, I wrote this post…

I agree that we shouldn’t underestimate Palin, but we shouldn’t overestimate her either. The more exposure she gets in less controlled settings, the fewer people are impressed with her. The VP debate represents a real danger for McCain-Palin. I think they have far more to lose than gain from it, but they can’t cancel it. Palin’s probably praying for a natural disaster to use an excuse to get out of it.

By: Leen

Leen — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:47:37 +0000

Her responses are very similar to how many Americans would respond. With a lack of depth that is very dangerous. President Bush’s shoes fit her perfectly.

By: Leen

Leen — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:44:05 +0000

They have been promoting Sarah as the woman you want to go hunting with even if you do not know how to hunt. That interview with ”Chhaaaarlie” said it all. Serious questions were being asked and she filled them with ”what do you mean Chhaaarlie?’

McCain was not thinking about this country when he went along with Sarah being the pick. He knows…it is written all over his face when she speaks.

By: rxbusa

rxbusa — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:36:30 +0000

A friend of mine keeps telling me not to dismiss Palin because of the gibberish. He says I’m way too linear and reality-based and risk underestimating her impact, referring me to a recent post at HuffPo by Lakoff. While I only grudgingly admit his point, I do think it is the key to why this part of what Marcy says

Palin riffs from one aspect of fungibility to another before she starts her policy response to the question. That response is heavy with emotional terms (’very, very hungry’, ‘holding the bag’, ‘got to flow to domestic markets first’) without any clear sense of what the policy is

is the key to Palin’s ability to garner so much support when many of us think she is an incoherent nutbag.

By: TheraP

TheraP — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:54:25 +0000

It’s been clear to me all along, from the perspective of cognitive expertise, that your conclusion, ew, is exactly correct. She uses jargon but throws it around in meaningless ways…. as if she knew something. Exactly the kind of thing that someone does who wants BS through a thicket they really know nothing about.

Jargon is the tip-off. Anyone who really knows something does not try to obfuscate. Instead they unpack the information so everyone can understand. But a person who knows little to start with just flings it around, like a woman flailing a purse over her head. The contents tip out. And there’s nothing there.

She’s a very lazy thinker. But she’s a damn grasper for power.

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:07:22 +0000

yer scarin me ew

I translated the passage about two days back, and I’ve been surprised that nobody else could decipher it

I didn’t have access to the “Fungible Molicules” sources, but I could understand the concept

the important thing was to catch that princess pandora was trying to sound smart, and hoping nobody would suspect she was spouting bullshit

I could put that information into a folksey statement that doesn’t use all the fancy technical terms that I don’t fully understand

basically, her answer in NO, there is no way to ensure that the oil we recover from new offshore drilling goes exclusivly to domestic markets

I dumb it down a bit for the rubes

princess pandora ain’t too bright, so she tries to smarten it up a bit for the rubes

that’s a bad way to run a con, er a campaign