On Palin using a French word in "her" book and some lovely flashbacks based on France

[zulchzulu]

I was trying to remember when Palin dissed France in one of her speeches, which I've seen best described as "rhetoric lost in cul-de-sacs", and found some of those morsels of her madness:

It goes to projects having little or nothing to do with the public good -- things like fruit fly research in Paris, France, or a public policy center named for the guy who got the earmark.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/10/24/palin_details_special_needs_po.html?hpid=topnews

Of course, it was pointed out in the article that "scientific studies involving fruit flies are helping further researchers' understanding of autism, a disorder that both Palin and McCain speak of frequently while campaigning." Science...bad... France... bad...

But back to the usage of the word "rogue" in Palin's "book", otherwise known to gifted and honest writers everywhere as NOT her book, but from the scrawly hands of her demented ghost writer, Lynn Vincent.

Gawker wrote:

"Sarah Palin's book will be awesome because her ghostwriter has abundant experience in shaping the confused, fevered thoughts of religious fanatics into sentences."

http://gawker.com/5371146/sarah-palins-ghostwriter-pals-around-with-racists-and-wackos

Indeed.

And speaking of the French word "rogue" and France specifically, who cannot forget the wonderful punking of Palin by the "President of France" just before Election Day.

MP3 Audio: http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/pranked.mp3

Listen to the awkward laugh at around 1:40.

So, like a Palin speech, let's veer down and awy suddenly to propose a toast to Christopher Hitchens, who is probably working on another $45 highball as we peruse these pixels:

This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just "people of faith" but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity.

-CH
http://slate.com/id/2203120

[Barack_America]

1. I wonder if Sarkozy taught her that word?

[zulchzulu]

2. We should ask Sarah and even ask what she thought of her interview with Sarkozy

I bet she forgot and acts like it gave her some "cred"...

:rofl: