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Palin's Resignation: The Edited Version

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A very good example of the kind of editing any magazine editor has to do with raw copy. I never worked for a magazine more glorious than a trade magazine, but I found that copy editing always turned into manuscript editing.

My issue with this is that it seems that they marked up a transcription. It'd be a lot more interesting if they'd taken her prepared remarks.

I think Sarah Palin is a moron, but this is a cheap shot. A funny cheap shot, but a cheap shot nonetheless.

I wouldn't even go as far as to say she's a moron. She clearly only cares about hitting her talking points in her speeches. As a result, she has absolutely no concern for depth and nuance.

This single-minded demagogy is the most disturbing part of the Palin saga. A huge portion of the American voting public likes her all the more for it. The less she says anything beyond G.O.P. talking points, the more people are enamored with her.

This sort of anti-intellectualism sends chills down my spine.

That's a lot of red - but it reads much better. Good job, editors. :)

At first, I thought that the document was a semi-fabrication -- a third party transcription done to force readers to confront the Governor's terrible English skills. I can understand how one might give a speech in "the vernacular," but the released transcription suggests that she regards this mess as reasonable English.

However, it is hard to find fault with her as her writing skills unfortunately are average for an American. I blame the electorate for not demanding higher intellectual standards of its leaders.

Marked up in 3 colors? Looks like my source code by 10 p.m. on a typical day.

You edit your source code on print outs?

Absolutely. For multiple reasons. I can see more lines of code on one page. I can spread out multiple pages and see a lot more code. I can mark it up any way I want. I can post it on the wall. I can easily take it with me (I rarely move my laptop). And perhaps most of all, I can give my back and eyes a break by leaving my desk and lying on a bed or recliner while I review.

Or, "English Majors: When Needed, Indispensible."

This isn't thinking. If you really are hackers, then hypothesize the opposite.

What if Palin is the most important and profound leader of this generation? What if her sincerity is truth? Find facts to support this conclusion. Explore the secret histories of the world. Get drunk on the cognitive dissonance.

Whatever you do, don't spend all your time re-enforcing your existing biases.

Yeah, the POTUS sounds like a stammering idiot without his teleprompter. But let's keep talking about the irrelevant Sarah Palin...

The double-standard is the religious orthodoxy of the left.

The POTUS sounds like a stammering idiot without his teleprompter.

Um, no he doesn't. Maybe you're thinking of his predecessor?

Bush usually worked from notes except for large speeches, like the state of the union address. Obama's reliance on speechwriters via his teleprompter is so significant that even the MSM has commented upon it. It's not a secret.

http://www.google.com/search?q=obama+teleprompter

Sarah Palin is an interesting phenomenon, even if she herself is pretty unimportant (in the scheme of things). Consider: Why is the GOP is pushing such a mediocre figure? Why is the entire left in a frenzied and permanent two-minutes-hate concerning her? Don't say, "Oh she was nominated for the VP, blah blah, and she's dumb blah blah". Joseph Biden is the actual VP and he spends his days and nights trying to come up with new and improved oratorical outrages. Yet nobody hates Biden, and everybody hates Palin. And they probably hate me just for pointing it out. It's very strange.

It's surprising what people are impressed by. A lot of people were impressed by Bush's speaking ability -- something that even as a conservative I never understood -- and a lot of people are impressed by Obama's.

Personally, I get annoyed by the low information content of everything he says. Completely standard for Presidents since Carter, I know. But I find it bizarre that otherwise intelligent people can stand the information-free drivel Obama's speech-writers have put down just because the same people agree with the emotions behind it. Case in point, his seminal speech on race and Jeremiah Wright.

Demand information from your politicians, not emotion, not empathy.

A state governor resigns amidst controversy after running for Vice President of the United States and you don't think this is news?

It's not just any state governer, it's Sarah Palin.

You have to understand that many of us ditched sites like Reddit and Digg because for weeks on end hit pieces on her were the front page. On Digg it was a farce because you could limit the topics down to any one of the narrow choices and still get two or three Palin stories on the front page.

My first instinct seeing that title was "Oh on, not here. Aren't we done whipping her around yet?". Then realizing the source was HN, I had to click the link... I'll concede that it was interesting to see the edited copy.

A smarmy leftist crossed out "because I know being right is better than being popular" and replaces it with "but I'm convinced that being right is better than being popular", with similar pointless non-corrections, in an obvious hit piece and you think this is news?

Hmm? Do you think this is news? It's a "dumb blonde joke" writ large. These people are cockroaches, period.

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