What Does Palinspeak Mean?

[Dave Monroe]

"Part of why Palin speaks the way she does is that she has grown up
squarely within a period of American history when the old-fashioned
sense of a speech as a carefully planned recitation, and public
pronouncements as performative oratory, has been quite obsolete.

[...]

"What truly distinguishes Palin’s speech is its utter subjectivity:
that is, she speaks very much from the inside of her head, as someone
watching the issues from a considerable distance."

[...]

http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/john-mcwhorter/what-does-palinspeak-mean

Former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin defended former Florida
Gov. Jeb Bush for speaking Spanish — or “Mexican,” according to Donald
Trump — but also says that if you’re in this country, you should
“speak American.”

“It’s a benefit of Bush to be able to be so fluent, because we have a
large and wonderful Hispanic population building America, and that’s a
great connection he has with them,” Palin said Sunday morning on CNN’s
“State of the Union.”

“On the other hand, I think we can send a message and say, ‘You want
to be in America, A, you’d better be here legally or you’re out of
here. B, when you’re here, let’s speak American.”

She went on to tell host Jake Tapper it is a “language that is
understood by all.”

http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/7/72/1777009/sarah-palin-wants-everyone-speak-american/
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