What Does Palinspeak Mean?

[Mark Thibodeau]

Anyone here remember Nixon Agonistes?

I'm damn sure Pynchon does!

J

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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