Sarah Palin and. "Refudiate". Accidental Or On Purpose?

I sort of feel sorry for Sarah Palin. She's done it again! On the other hand it seems to me that every few weeks she does something - or says something that plops her right back in the news again. Is she doing it on purpose? Is this her way of staying in front of the media so that no-one forgets her by 2012? Maybe!

When I read this article in the USA Today Blog, I felt sorry for her at first, but then I started to wonder - - accidental slip of the tongue or on purpose? What do you think?





Jul 20, 2010

Sarah Palin, political language, and 'refudiate'

The political word of the moment: "refudiate."

That's the "word" Sarah Palin initially used in a Sunday message on Twitter asking New Yorkers to oppose a mosque near the site of the 9/11 attacks.

Palin later amended her tweet to say, "peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real."

But, by that time, refudiate had entered the new political lexicon.

It got to the point where Palin sent out another tweet more or less joking about her new word -- and citing other unusual coinages by two presidents: George W. Bush ("misunderstimate") and Barack Obama ("wee-wee'd up").

Tweeted Palin: "'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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Maybe .. Comparing herself to Shakespeare may really be a bit much!