Hey, Andrew Sullivan: Even if your dubious premise about the value of sniping at Sarah Palin's memoir is correct, it would be a "civic responsibility," not a "civil responsibility." You and your flunkies aren't the least bit "civil" when declaiming (17 times in one day!) about all things Palin. And you'd best avoid getting into a war of words with people who can craft sparkling throwaway phrases like "This isn't a Freudian slip-- this is the whole damn Freudian marina." Duck the haymaker from Ace, and you'd still have to face Cassandra and Dan, both of them also black belts in wordsmithery.
Geoffrey Dunn: Your essay on "The First Ten Lies from Going Rogue" says Palin is lying about having lived "an American life" because she's spent most of her time in Alaska (!) So because another writer once observed that there are many unique things about the 49th state, suddenly people who live there are not American? Just what have you been smoking?
Dunn, again: You say Palin "lies" by describing John McCain's staffers as having had "a jaded aura." That's an entirely defensible opinion, not a lie. If they "bent over backwards to protect her" (as you say but Palin does not), it has no bearing on whether they were jaded. They might well have been jaded, working as they were for an irascible senator who often sounds jaded himself (anybody remember the McCain-Feingold bill or the way McCain was flummoxed by economic implosion?).
Maureen Dowd: "Bass-ackwards" is not "a Palin coinage;" it's just an expression you haven't heard before. And I don't believe you ever worried that Palin's book would make you feel even a smidgen less American. Guess what? Her book is not about you.
Matt Maher: I know you mean to inspire by writing Christian "praise music," but in spite of what you sing in "Love Has Come," God is not going to lead us beyond "earthen" tears, because we're not ceramics. The word you wanted was "earthly."
President Obama: The way you switch from "I" in positive usage to "We" in negative usage has drawn notice.
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Re: Bass-ackwards, possible Palin coinage.
Not unless she's a LOT older than she looks... my great grandparents were using that. Pretty obvious spoonerisim.
They also said things like "I'm off, like a herd of turtles! Or turd of hurtles, either one."
They are never going to let up on Palin. She scares them for some reason. Either that or they have nothing better to do.
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