Posted on 07/19/2010 12:15:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
While Tea Party talking head and former vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin prefers to speak in the “pro-America” (or predominantly conservative) parts of the country as she said at a North Carolina fundraiser, she still felt it was necessary for her to chime in on a local controversy in New York City.
With her BlackBerry, Palin tweeted that New Yorkers and Muslims reject plans to build a Mosque and Muslim community center near Ground Zero, and she made a fool of herself in the process by inventing a new word – “refudiate.”
“Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn’t it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate,” Palin tweeted.
She later corrected herself, after liberal commentators pounced on her misuse of the English language, and wrote, “Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.”
Yesterday, she then fired back to critics by comparing herself to Shakespeare.
“Refudiate,” “misunderestimate,” “wee-wee’d up.” English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!
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Was she speaking to corpse-men? In which of the 57 states?
Just gives her a chance to bring up the “57 states” gaffe and ask where the press was on that...do it Sarah!
I guess all the freepers have NEVER made a typo (maybe from a telephone even???).
It’s a “portmanteau” of REFUSE and REPUDIATE, hence REFUDIATE........
“I guess all the freepers have NEVER made a typo (maybe from a telephone even???).”
UH? The Freeper comments have pointed out NBC ignored 0dumbo’s many many gaffes but tried to make Palin’s error a big deal. The criticism of Palin was in the article NOT done by Freepers/
The comment on word usage serves to illustrate how trite the left is. They are good at name calling and trivialities. Where is the discussion of the substance of the arguments for or against the mosque?
To me a mosque at that location would be an insult to the 3,000 people who died. People like Cuomo who support the Mosque are both out of touch and clearly in favor of One World government, IMO. Maybe they are on the payroll...
Three letters - J-O-B-S
Three letters - J-O-B-S
That would be hugh and series if that ever happened. Might even stune a beeber or two.
Hmmm, maybe the left does not realize that Sarah Palin has the power to create new words that have MORE meaning than their combined lives...
LOL! Biden can spell, but he can’t count—which is why our economy is where it is.
That’s a great word......Refudiate !...kinda like a cross between Refute and Repudiate !
I Refudiate Obama....with severe prejudice !!
Sounds great ! :-)
as we know, libs are so “brilliant”!
the u.s. has, for example, 57 states according to our president.
Notice how fast the left leaped on this. About 2 minutes.
Remember how fast they picked up on the Messiah’s “57 states?” Never!
What smarmy, small brats these media be. For pete’s sakes.
“It’s a “portmanteau” of REFUSE and REPUDIATE, hence REFUDIATE........”
I didn’t know combination words like that had a name, so I called them “double exposures”. Portmanteau?
“The comment on word usage serves to illustrate how trite the left is.”
Agreed! Some spokesbimbo on PMSNBC asked “Wee-wee’d up”? What does THAT mean? I say, Ask your Dear Leader what it means, you dunce! And following that with a condescending sneer at how Sarah Palin is supposedly comparing herself to Shakespeare. The MSM is twisted and evil!
Wow. Talk about your editorializing on a web site when you're supposed to be "objective".
Hm.
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