Sarah Palin: Poet of the Northern Tundra


	Sarah Palin: Poet of the Northern Tundra

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10-6-2008 10:34 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e870a2d6-91d6-4828-a8a8-b781d23fbb67/02CAC555-3EB8-4BC6-B1B5-6C5EAF611B41/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2008/10/sarah-palin-poet-of-northern-tundra.html" href="http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2008/10/sarah-palin-poet-of-northern-tundra.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.newhumanist.org.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2008/10/sarah-palin-poet-of-northern-tundra.html">I <A href="http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2008/10/palins-steady-platitudes.html">wrote</A> the other day about Palin's steady (but often nonsensical) platitudes, but that was before I realised she was actually reciting her own poetry. Thankfully, <A href="http://www.slate.com/id/2201342/pagenum/all/#page_start">Slate have put me right</A> on that one</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2008/10/sarah-palin-poet-of-northern-tundra.html"><BLOCKQUOTE><P><STRONG>"Challenge to a Cynic"</STRONG></P><P>You are a cynic.<BR />Because show me where<BR />I have ever said<BR />That there's absolute proof<BR />That nothing that man<BR />Has ever conducted<BR />Or engaged in,<BR />Has had any effect,<BR />Or no effect,<BR />On climate change.</P><EM>(To C. Gibson, ABC News, </EM><EM>Sept. 11, 2008</EM><EM>)</EM><BR /></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2008/10/sarah-palin-poet-of-northern-tundra.html">See. She's actually a poetic genius</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2008/10/sarah-palin-poet-of-northern-tundra.html">speak directly to fans through her intensely personal verses, spoken poems that drill into the vagaries of modern life as if they were oil deposits beneath a government-protected tundra</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2008/10/sarah-palin-poet-of-northern-tundra.html">Let's have another example:<BR /><BLOCKQUOTE><STRONG>"Haiku"<BR /></STRONG><BR />These corporations.<BR />Today it was AIG,<BR />Important call, there.<BR /><EM><BR /></EM>(<SPAN>To S. Hannity, Fox News, Sept. 18, 2008</SPAN>)</BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2008/10/sarah-palin-poet-of-northern-tundra.html">As if this wasn't enough, Slate's Kitty Burns Florey also <A href="http://www.slate.com/id/2201158/">takes a look at Palin's grammar</A>, and needless to say it's amusing.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/02CAC555-3EB8-4BC6-B1B5-6C5EAF611B41/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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