Palinspeare... 'refudiate' word scramble

[BamaNation]

Sarah Palin entered the fray over plans to build an Islamic community center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero in a series of tweets on Sunday asking “peaceful” New Yorkers and “peace-seeking” Muslims to oppose the plans.

But it was the former Alaska governor’s use of “refudiate” (hint: not a word) that’s drawing attention today. Palin used it in an initial tweet asking Muslims to “pls refudiate” the building of the mosque.

just curious ... is it not ok to 'refudiate' something on 'Twitters' ?

In the East Room of the White House earlier today, President Obama praised Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s “vision for modernization in Russia, especially high-tech innovation as a personal passion of the president,” noting that during the Russian leader’s visit to Silicon Valley this week, “he visited the headquarter of Twitters (sic), where he opened his own account.”

just askin...

Also, this is America, we use headquarters , not headquarter. But he might not have learned that given his early education background.

 

[BamaNation]

The ability of the cheesepuff eating blogosphere (to quote Bama grad Joe Scarborough) to jump on stupid things like this shows how petty bloggers have become. It's bled over onto the talking heads shows, too. I'm sure this will be about 93% of Rachel Maddow's & Keith Ohlbermann's shows tonight because they are all so much smarter than us.

I don't even like Palin at all, but I'm sure I've made up a word or two myself. Thus, I'm willing to let things like this slide. If you're on-air, quoted, writing, twittering on twitters, interviewed 900X per week, you're bound to do this occasionally. It's stupid to criticize.

At least she's not struggling to determine the meaning of the word "is."

 

[Bodhisattva]

I'm sure this will be about 93% of Rachel Maddow's & Keith Ohlbermann's shows tonight because they are all so much smarter than us.

Add Chris Mathews to the pointless, snarky and petty list. All they seem to do is find some snippet (often out of context) by O'Reilly or Limbaugh or whoever and mock it for the several segments. That passes for enlightened liberal commentary?

 

[DiamondDust]

Add Chris Mathews to the pointless, snarky and petty list. All they seem to do is find some snippet (often out of context) by O'Reilly or Limbaugh or whoever and mock it for the several segments. That passes for enlightened liberal commentary?

And as I'm sure you'd agree, those on the right do the exact same thing. Remember Hannity's criticism of President Obama's mustard choice?

http://www.tidefans.com/forums/non-sports/87356-sean-hannity-mustard-cop.html

 

[ValuJet]

Words ya can understand. Spelling, even (Dan Quayle putting an "e" at the end of "potato.") The lefties rode that one for months, as I recall.

"O" seems to have gotten off light comparatively speaking, with his claim that there are 57 states.

We need to cram a few more stars onto the flag. He must not have counted them that morning. :cool2:

 

[Bodhisattva]

And as I'm sure you'd agree, those on the right do the exact same thing. Remember Hannity's criticism of President Obama's mustard choice?

http://www.tidefans.com/forums/non-sports/87356-sean-hannity-mustard-cop.html

Yeah, that seems to be Hannity's go-to move as well. A complete waste of time. And these clowns get paid millions for this? :rolleye2:

Pick an issue. Offer an educated opinion supported by an analysis of economics/history/international affairs/philosophy. Instead we get inane opinions with partisan guests who are also incapable of scholarly analysis.

 

[bayoutider]

Sara is probably trying to use some words she heard in a Harry Potter movie.

 

[BamaNation]

And as I'm sure you'd agree, those on the right do the exact same thing. Remember Hannity's criticism of President Obama's mustard choice?

Sean Hannity--Mustard Cop

This is known as the "I know you are but what am I?" argument. I even resorted to it myself.

However, I agree and have said as much. The ONLY political show I watch or listen to is Morning Joe. You have intelligent people on both sides who articulate their points in a serious yet lighthearted fashion (most of the time). I appreciate someone on the otherside of a debate who can reasonably lay out their position without resorting to condescension, pettiness, or screaming.

In fact, it infuriates me even more when the right engages with it. I haven't watched Fox in 2 years. I want a substantive argument not one crafted by polls, 8 sec soundbites, and wanna be jr. staffers. The problem is that many of our elected officials got there because they have no brains. They were elected because someone crafted a nice speech and they are able to recite 8 bullet points on 32 different TV interviews. It's ridiculous.

Meanwhile, guys like Mitt Romney - who is Midas in my view (I didn't say perfect) - are left to languish. Maybe we'll get smart in the next election and elect someone who has actually done something for the world in general and U.S. specifically. Excepting that, maybe the Republicans will win the house and/or senate in 2012. Not that I think they have any good ideas, but because it would stop the railroad to obliteration dead in its tracks.

 

[BamaNation]

The word potato was misspelled on the cue card Quayle was given. I would have made the same error.

 

[jthomas666]

The word potato was misspelled on the cue card Quayle was given. I would have made the same error.

By itself, the potato bit was no big deal. Unfortunately for Quayle, it was just one of a string of ill-conceived statements, up to and including his infamous attack on Murphy Brown.

 

[Relayer]

Remember when Obama during a speech repeatedly referred to a Navy corpsman as "corpse man"?

A conservative Commander in Chief would never hear the end of it for such ignorance.

 

[cbi1972]

Refute / repudiate -> refudiate.

People do [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau"]this kind of thing [/ame] all the time.

 

[JAXFLBAMAFAN]

I have passed the time away may times with Rush on the radio.

Rush is passionate what he believes but it is a total waste of time to listen to Rush or anyone else.

For all their mass apeal and large audiences, it appears to be just a bunch of noise. I will say that they do bring some things to light that would otherwise go unnoticed. But nothing every comes of it.

Dem's regained the majotity in the congress.
Bill Clinton could have been elected 3 terms if it were legal.
GWB was completely inept.
Obama won election.
Healthcare went in.
Stimulus was passed
Prescription Drug was passed.

All of this while Rush, Hannity, Beck and these other guys were screaming to the top of their lungs.

Nobody in politics is in fear of the public, or conservative radio.

They can tell the public everything will be all right right up until disaster strikes and still be reelected.

November 2010 will be no different than it has been in the past. Call me a cynic but I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[banjeaux]

I have passed the time away may times with Rush on the radio.

Rush is passionate what he believes but it is a total waste of time to listen to Rush or anyone else.

For all their mass apeal and large audiences, it appears to be just a bunch of noise. I will say that they do bring some things to light that would otherwise go unnoticed. But nothing every comes of it.

Dem's regained the majotity in the congress.
Bill Clinton could have been elected 3 terms if it were legal.
GWB was completely inept.
Obama won election.
Healthcare went in.
Stimulus was passed
Prescription Drug was passed.

All of this while Rush, Hannity, Beck and these other guys were screaming to the top of their lungs.

Nobody in politics is in fear of the public, or conservative radio.

They can tell the public everything will be all right right up until disaster strikes and still be reelected.

November 2010 will be no different than it has been in the past. Call me a cynic but I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[PacadermaTideUs]

Refute / repudiate -> refudiate.

People do this kind of thing all the time.

Quit rationalizing. MSNBC says this is a ginormous story.

 

[JPT4Bama]

Being the father of a Marine, we all got a chuckle out of Mr. Obama mispronouncing Navy Corpsman... more than once. :smile:

 

[CrimsonNan]

Being the father of a Marine, we all got a chuckle out of Mr. Obama mispronouncing Navy Corpsman... more than once. :smile:

And he went to Haaavard?

 

[buzzincuzzin]

If Snoop Dogg uses it,,,, it's a word. Til then,,,,,,

 

[Tide1986]

And he went to Haaavard?

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