THE CUTE AND FUN SARAH PALIN, while grinning and winking and droppin’ gs galore, is very cleverly tossing rancid scraps to the beasts of violence and fear that shuffle in the shadows cast by John McCain’s campaign and the GOP. You’ve heard it before, but here’s a lingual breakdown that makes the case in a convincing and terrifying way.
AN INTERESTING AND INSIGHTFUL ESSAY on how Sarah Palin, while grinning and winking and droppin’ gs galore, is tossing meat to the beasts of violence and fear that shuffle in the shadows cast by the “War On Terror” and George W. Bush and John McCain. The post deals heavily with language, which is one of my great interests and loves as most UMX readers know. And I think the writer does a fine job of making his case. It’s a scary case, and one that makes you wish you had a giant “Gong Show” hook to yank the dangerous, reckless, amoral politician off her pulpit before she can whisper any more urgent and hateful messages into the dark. And I don’t mean to focus exclusively on Palin…but I don’t think I’m alone in realizing that this person is ten times the force McCain is, launched onto her own path and trajectory, and taking things to a whole new (and terrifying) level.
The crux of the issue is simple:
1. Sarah Palin has unequivocally associated Barack Obama with the idea of terrorism and specifically with “terrorists”.
2. Republican President George Bush has defined in our National Security Strategy, and the Republican Party’s platform affirms, that we may identify and strike at terrorists before they have committed any defined acts of aggression against American citizens.
3. George Bush has made clear, by stating before a joint session of Congress that “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”
4. Palin has used deliberate choice of language to avoid these connections being highlighted by the media, while increasing the likelihood that the target audience for her message will be incited by her statements.
Through these arguments, it becomes clear that Sarah Palin’s assertions are designed not to prove that Obama is unqualified for the office of the Presidency of the United States. Rather, she appears to be attempting to convince a substantial portion of her supporters that Obama supports terrorism against the United States and thus should be, at the very least, incarcerated as an enemy combatant (which we are doing to American citizens already) or at worst, assassinated for supporting terror. She has done this knowing full well that she can retain plausible deniability thanks to the ambiguity of her statements as they’ll be interpreted by the media, by her detractors, and by her more reasonable supporters.
Go on and read the whole post. You need to, in order to soak up the entire idea properly. It’s not a pleasant ride, but I feel an important one.
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thanks for this link, nezua. i’m really feeling the post.
[...] Sarah Palin and Language October 28, 2008 Posted by Emily in Politics. Tags: language, Sarah Palin trackback via Nez. [...]
thanks, sparkle.
Two Cuban guys almost got caught up in a fight with a Republican mob in Miami. It was a McCain rally, but they’re both inciting violence against Obama and Obama supporters. These people don’t like it when our skin has color. I agree with Garcia sending the message that, you know, “I’m not hiding.” They’re welcome to come find me.
Great picture of Palin, nezua. It really brings out her character.
Sarah Palin isn’t worth the trouble of writing or reading any exegesis on her supposed language signals.
Instead, let us recognize that she is the epitome of the concept “the Banality of Evil”. That’s my impression of her whole pathetic presentation.
If by some bizarre twist of fate she does become Vice President, I think there will be a very large increase of the US ex-pat population right away.
hope you dont mind if i disagree! after all, i linked it and made this image specifically to draw attention to what i felt was a worthy article! but i dont mind that you dont want to read it a bit. 
“banality of evil” works very well, too.
gracias, lesserdevil!
that this dummy downed gop duo (tag team) can have any impact/support at all is so beyond my comprehension. i seem to have a zero tolerance for crediting palin or even mccain, with any of my attention. i simply can not stand either one of the b!tches…, even the many jokes about her have gotten to be too much attention to her, for my taste. the end is near…
a “banality of evil” does work well for the feel of the subliminal that palin manifests.
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