Thursday, February 05, 2009

Does Associated Press do this to Obama speech when he talks black?

    "If I were giving advice to myself back on the day my candidacy was announced, I'd say, 'Tell the campaign that you'll be callin' some of the shots. Don't just assume that they know you well enough to make all your decisions for ya," Palin said.
That Obama is 1/2 European-American and was raised as a white is rarely mentioned, but a black linquist certainly noticed it, McWhorter. So when he speaks "black" it is a language he learned as an adult, and doesn't sound authentic. But even then, I haven't seen AP being meticulous in recording how he speaks "street" or "church." (Now that he's in office, I rarely hear it.)

I say "ya" and "Warshington." But the MSM tries to make Palin look like a dope. The people trust her a lot more than the NYT or Washington Post. The article headline was "Palin Rails Against 'Anonymous, Pathetic Bloggers'", but they could have made her sports comment the headline, or that she played trombone (you gotta love that).

Update: Excellent article at Commentary on the elitism vs. populism in the Sarah Palin love her or hate her story:
    "This form of intellectual elitism is actually fairly new in America, though it has been a dominant feature of European society since World War II. It is not as exclusive or as anti-democratic as cultural elitism is in other countries, because entry to the American intellectual elite is, in principle, open to all who pursue it. And pursuing it is not as difficult as it once was, at least for the middle class. Indeed, most of this elite’s prominent members hail from middle-class origins and not from traditional bastions of American privilege and wealth. They can speak of growing up in Scranton, even as they raise their noses at dirty coal and hunting season."

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

No, Palin is made to look like a dope based upon her own comments. I'm not a Palin basher, but... well, that woman can string together word after word and often never come close to forming a logical statement - not to mention a full sentence.

Norma said...

Oh yes you are. She's very articulate. If the press recorded in print the stammers and ah-ah-ah of Obama, he too would look like a dope. Off teleprompter he's just another white politician.

Anonymous said...

articulate? No, she's not. I'm not a basher, I watched her with interest and thought initially that John had picked a good running mate. But when she started opening her mouth, it was incredible. The woman couldn't formulate a complete sentence to save her life - and she could go on for 5 minutes and not ""say" a single thing. Spare me your "liberal media" slant to Obama's speaking abilities. There are plenty of conservative hosts, reporters and newspapers out there, and they would have compared the two if it were possible.

Norma said...

I attended the rallies where she spoke, and she was far more inspiring and detailed than the blank words of hope and change we heard for 2 years from Obama. She did poorly on the TV interviews, which were edited to make her look even worse.

Anonymous said...

I attended a rally where she spoke as well, and didn't come out with the same reaction. And as for the interviews, her answers were not edited - they didn't need to be. If there was bad editing, where's the full copy? Surely the conservatives can find it and post it for all of us to see.
Her interview with Couric was amazing, to say the least. Couric is not the best interviewer, and her questions were pretty much straight across the board. And Palin was still floundering and clueless throughout.