What Does Palinspeak Mean?

[Mark Kohut]

Who I beseech, and when, will a first rate actress make her mark by
doing a one-woman show.
Tina Fey could do it, of course, but she is better off being more original.

That, done right, would be worth laughing with. A fierce parody of
American Unexceptionalism.


On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "...she speaks very much from the inside of her head, as someone
> watching the issues from a considerable distance."
>
> I see no evidence she's ever "watched an issue" at all. There are no issues,
> just verbal tokens she tosses out because they get an audience response, a
> la Searle's Chinese room.
>
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> "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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