clipped from aleksandreia.wordpress.com

When Sarah Palin was asked by Katie Couric about whether climate change is caused by human activity, she responded, “I’m not going to solely blame all of man’s activities on changes in climate.” I immediately reaction was that she had committed a syntacical error reflective of her generally poor performance, since the meaning of her sentence is that she doesn’t blame changes in climate with affecting human activity. I was sure she meant to say that she doesn’t credit human activity with causing global warming.

But she used the same syntax in the VP debate tonight. (I’ll post a link once a transcript becomes available, or when I get around to it.) A mistake like that is uncharacteristic of her losing but strong, composed performance.