Here's McWhorter's snooty column, titled "What Does Palinspeak Mean?"
Posted on 04/06/2010 6:10:14 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Today, The New Republic published a post by John McWhorter called “What Does Palin Speak Mean?” He is as snarky and condescending as he can be. One of the major problems in this society are these pseudo-intellectuals (Frum, Noonan, Buckley, etc) who cite speech as tangible evidence of a person’s IQ and abilities as an elected official. To me it’s just superficial.
Obama was supposedly a great orator, a man ‘who conquered the English language in a way that would make Abraham Lincoln blush.’ These professorial types should be ashamed after their adamant praise of Obama reading off a TelePrompTer with pre-written speeches by a 24-year-old. Yet, an effective conservative leader like Sarah Palin gets smeared.
(Excerpt) Read more at cubachi.com ...
I haven’t met anyone who understands English who doesn’t also understand what she is saying,
Are these folks for real or do they get checks in the mail from secret sources just to dream this crap up and spew it upon the public?
Too bad. So sad, foad, race-pimp affirmative action jerkoff.
(((PING)))
The eloquent one waxes supreme - without his ‘prompter -
http://www.thespaceplace.com/nasa/spinoffs.html
Nobody could follow that rambling, mind numbing mess of words -
This from the same idiots who want to teach ebonics in our schools. Oy!
“Obama was supposedly a great orator, a man ‘who conquered the English language”
He musta missed the class on silent “p”s
Here's McWhorter's snooty column, titled "What Does Palinspeak Mean?"
Keep in mind that these are the same blowhards who peed themselves over W pronouncing Nevada as “Nevahda.”
April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott
This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.
I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)
We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.
Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy
III. Lunch and Public Encounters
Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.
IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.
William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)
The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn ("intellectual"), referring to the Manson murders
Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers ("intellectual") (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:
Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that ["intellectual"] Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
Very nicely said, and in my view very true.
I suggest that John McWhorter sit down, sip a cup of coffee, and listen to one of Sarah Palin’s speeches. They are available. And McWhorter would know that America’s greatness cannot be legislated by government and he will know they are sick and tired that the state owned media has failed their responsibility as watch dog of the government.
The media is not just the watchdog of the American citizen. It is not the watchdog of citizen Palin.
Was this article written before Obama rambled on for 17 minutes and still didn't answer the woman' question?
Palin is smarter than the POTUS and TOTUS!
There has never been one person who has been so viciously attacked by the media and the government. Her children were targets of ridicule. Her church was burned (with people in it). Wasn’t it 39 investigators that were sent to Wasilla? I am mad at Sarah for her McCain stance, but, by GOD, this woman is strong.
McWhorter = cocktail sipping piece of garbage.
As I said on another thread on this subject
Sarah speaks an upper MidWest and a bit of Canadian thrown in.
Most people who start in on speech should have a background in the knowledge of dialects of the various areas of the U.S. and where they originate.
New Englanders of many generations speak archaic English.
They use a patern and words mostly from 16th Cen. England
and in most cases not spoken as much in Eng. today.
In the Appalachian area, they speak a form of Scotch-Irish
with a bit of old english.
The TideWater area also speaks archaic forms of English.
If you don’t have a background in language history, the
liberal magizines such as New Republic make a fool out of themselves
Like anyone reads the Noo-Repugnic?
Only if we send them hits from this thread!
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“Most people who start in on speech should have a background in the knowledge of dialects of the various areas of the U.S. and where they originate.”
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You mean uthah than Maah-thur’s Vinyud?
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John Hamilton McWhorter V (1965– ) is an American linguist and "conservative" political commentator. He is the author of a number of books on language and on race relations. His linguistic specialty is creole and the process through which it forms.
McWhorter describes himself as politically independent. On moderate/conservative blog Booker Rising he’s referred as a “moderate-Liberal.” He is also a senior fellow the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative think tank.
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