Sam Goldwyn was the legendary Hollywood producer who was known for malapropisms (“A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on”).The writer is a moron who:
A) Doesn't know what a malapropism is (A malapropism is the misuse of similar sounding words, especially with humorous results, such as Yogi Berra's statement: "Texas has a lot of electrical votes," rather than "electoral votes")
and
B) Doesn't realize that Sam Goldwyn was making a very clever joke (based on decades of experience in verbal contracts) and knew exactly what he was doing with that sentence.
This is what government schools lead to: functional illiteracy.
I noticed that, also. Goldwyn and a lot of others, including me, make that kind of joke purposely.
And the Post writer being quoted wrote, "Alexandra Petri discussed 'the trouble with Joe' and took the VP to task for 'periodically alarming outbursts.'”
I think she meant "...for periodic, alarming outbursts." The alarms aren't periodic, as she wrote; the outbursts are.