Posted on 06/15/2011 6:31:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
If the emails have a tale to tell, it is this: Sarah Palin was a typical governor of a state of less than a million people until John McCain selected her as his running mate. After that, she became a celebrity.
Although she has a journalism degree, she is in no way a polished writer whose email prose leaves you begging for more. She is an ordinary stylist and ordinary thinker.
These characteristics don't bring Abraham Lincoln to mind. But they aren't symptoms of incompetence either. Many of Alaska's governors have feuded with the media, struggled with the Legislature, run amok pursuing trivia, relied on only a handful of advisors, wearied of the congressional delegation rolling the truth downhill in the direction of the Capitol, and written unimpressively. Palin's open reliance on her Christian faith, however, is definitely different than her predecessors, a first.
It may be shocking, but as governor of Alaska, Palin spent a lot of time trying to do the job she had been elected to do, surrounded by people who sometimes agreed with her, sometimes not. This is not the banality of evil; it's the reality of governing.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Right on. Many times I will, in an email, start a sentence with a preposition. Grammatically it is wrong, but I get my point across easily and you still know what I mean. That is the real point of communicating.
Reminds me of the multi-week national tragedy that the libs declared because W, like many of us, pronounces Dingy Harry's home state as NevaHda.
Shocking because the liberal world teaches otherwise. And they don’t dare venture outside that.
As a writer, surely he realizes that e-mails are not usually considered formal writing. Geesh!
Mine are more like Shakespeare, but I know what you mean.
This new tact the media is taking is designed to do two things: ignore those entries that actually put Palin in a good light, that show her leading on principle and doing the job the people elected her to do; and two, dismiss the exercise as worthless to discourage the talk of looking at OTHER politicians’ emails and public records using the FOIA. “Nothing to see here, move along and let’s not go down this path again with anyone else.”
Sarah will blurt out the truth without thinking. That is pure horror for the thought control police in the media.
As governor, she probably got 100 emails a day, and although some were informational and required no response... I'd wager that more than half of them did.
In such a position, lengthy emails are a waste of time.
My emails typically went something like: "Janet, please see Suzy to schedule a status update with me this week... 30 minutes max."
Short and to the point.
I wonder how much TARP and Porkulous money went to the NY Slimes, WaPo, LA Slimes and the Trib to keep them in the stable.
Frank,
It’s surrounded by quotation marks. I don’t know how to do the italics deal that most people use for quotations. Love your graphics!
Impressive writing? In emails? What were they expecting?
Conversely, it's quite clear liberals rarely read conservative media. Their knowledge outside their world is shockingly limited.
They rarely see into our world, while we routinely see theirs. I think they avoid doing so, purposely.
We have a distinct advantage. Truth.
“The banality of evil . . .”
She’s evvvviiiilllll! I tell you!
AOL Weird News brought samples to two writing analysts who independently evaluated 24,000 pages of the former governor’s emails. They came back in agreement that Palin composed her messages at an eighth-grade level, an excellent score for a chief executive, they said.
“I’m a centrist Democrat, and would have loved to support my hunch that Ms. Palin is illiterate,” said 2tor Chief Executive Officer John Katzman.
“However, the emails say something else. Ms. Palin writes emails on her Blackberry at a grade level of 8.5.
“If she were a student and showing me her work, I‘d say ’It’s fine, clear writing,’” he said, admitting that emails he wrote scored lower than Palin’s on the widely used Flesch-Kincaid readability test.
“Michael Careys writing style did not leave me wanting more, either. Email was never intended to be prose. By it’s very name it is intended to convey information in a compact, portable and concise manner, quickly”
I can just hear this guy going back to his editor and saying “Dere ain’t nuttin dere”! To which his editor replys.. “OK she’s got a J degree, pick apart her writing style” . This is the kind of krap you get with MSM and why their stuff is pet rat cage linning.
Oh the horror. She was actually doing her job! If the SRM wants to see some emails that make no sense, they should see some my ex boss (liberal numero uno) that had so many misspellings and incomplete sentences, we had to call to see what he wanted. He is now an LTC.
I didn’t realize that email should be written as prose. Why isn’t this common knowledge?!
:: Mine are more like Shakespeare, but I know what you mean. ::
Mine start out reading like Shakespeare but then I run it through the spell-check...
If only Carey was half the man Palin is.
Judging from some of the “writing” I see being done by “journalists” today, they have no room to talk
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