Palin's "Gaffe"?
Today is Thursday, 13 January 2011.
In response to yesterday’s column, “Palin’s Pogrom”, “what’s that mean” kindly wrote: “HH uses lots of "50 cent" words. Most of us use "10 cent" words. For those of you that, like me, did not know the definition of Pogrom:
an organized massacre of helpless people; specifically : such a massacre of Jews
I'm thinking that was a poor word/phrase choice on Palin's part. She is Ms. "Gaffe."”
Kindly spare the two-bit, juvenile anti-intellectualism of “”50 cent” words”. “Pogrom” should be familiar from high school.
“Gaffe n. 1. A clumsy social error.” (American Heritage Concise Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1994.)
“Do you think those pants make your ass look fat?” That might be considered, at best, a gaffe.
I cannot imagine that Sarah Palin choose such a “loaded” term as “blood libel” through clumsy error. For Palin deliberately to choose a term whose only historical purpose has been to arouse the brainwashed to the mass murder of Jews is not a “gaffe”, but anti-Semitic malice aforethought.
In response to yesterday’s column, “Palin’s Pogrom”, “what’s that mean” kindly wrote: “HH uses lots of "50 cent" words. Most of us use "10 cent" words. For those of you that, like me, did not know the definition of Pogrom:
an organized massacre of helpless people; specifically : such a massacre of Jews
I'm thinking that was a poor word/phrase choice on Palin's part. She is Ms. "Gaffe."”
Kindly spare the two-bit, juvenile anti-intellectualism of “”50 cent” words”. “Pogrom” should be familiar from high school.
“Gaffe n. 1. A clumsy social error.” (American Heritage Concise Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1994.)
“Do you think those pants make your ass look fat?” That might be considered, at best, a gaffe.
I cannot imagine that Sarah Palin choose such a “loaded” term as “blood libel” through clumsy error. For Palin deliberately to choose a term whose only historical purpose has been to arouse the brainwashed to the mass murder of Jews is not a “gaffe”, but anti-Semitic malice aforethought.
posted by HH at 4:24 PM
1 Comments:
HH said:
"Kindly spare the two-bit, juvenile anti-intellectualism of “50 cent” words”. “Pogrom” should be familiar from high school."
Sorry, but "pogrom" was NOT familiar from high school. HH must have gone to a highschool with more rigorous academics than the one I attended.
I object to your word usage and you come back with an assertion that I neglected my academic training. I did not. Besides, how may of us have retained everything they were exposed to in their schooling?
Turn down the elitist rhetoric. You lose credibility with those of your readers who believe you have some.
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