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Remember when refrigerator magnet poetry was en vogue? Well, this site is kind of like that but a zillion times better -- especially if you're a fan (or foe?) of VP candidate Sarah Palin.
We got a heads-up e-mail from Culver City's Jordan Kolasinski, the creator of this new site: Palindrome. He writes, "I created this site where you can take actual words Sarah Palin has said, re-arrange and re-contextualize them as you'd like, then HEAR her speak your PALINdrome back. You can also save yours and send it around."
Basically, he's uploaded three of Palin's speeches and interviews and uploaded the words as separate soundbytes so you can create your own speech. Here's our quick little attempt at a Palindrome.
Trust us. This site's addictive. But maybe he should think about calling it Palin-drone.
(The site's a bit slow because of heavy traffic, but he's working on fixing that issue, so be patient.)
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Let's cut through the bullshit here.
I think what Ms. Ziemba really wants to say is that Mrs. Palin's english prowess is not fit for anyone attempting to run for a presidential office. So to get this across, her buddy Jordan, who has the time to write cool little programs is promoted so all of us can make mockeries of her.
I think this is exemplatory of the Big City Los Angeles elitist culture (or maybe I should characterize as Upper-Middle-Class-Suburbanite-Transplant-Garbage-Culture) that LAist has typically displayed in this election. I don't think this display is a concious decision by all of the contributors and editors here (unfortunately), and in fairness, much of it comes from the users.
I came across this Paglia piece (oh yeah, she is die-hard Democrat) that characterizes my feelings so much better than I ever could.
Read at your own risk:
"The mountain of rubbish poured out about Palin over the past month would rival Everest. What a disgrace for our jabbering army of liberal journalists and commentators, too many of whom behaved like snippy jackasses. The bourgeois conventionalism and rank snobbery of these alleged humanitarians stank up the place. As for Palin’s brutally edited interviews with Charlie Gibson and that viper, Katie Couric, don’t we all know that the best bits ended up on the cutting-room floor? Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality."
"One of the most idiotic allegations batting around out there among urban media insiders is that Palin is “dumb.” Are they kidding? What level of stupidity is now par for the course in those musty circles? (The value of Ivy League degrees, like sub-prime mortgages, has certainly been plummeting. As a Yale Ph.D., I have a perfect right to my scorn.) People who can’t see how smart Palin is are trapped in their own narrow parochialism — the tedious, hackneyed forms of their upper-middle-class syntax and vocabulary."
Oh yea, love the image of Palin and the gun in the swimsuit. Please, people post your PALINdromes so I can see how far some of you can take this.
Palin got to be governor without an ex-pres dad so I do give her some credit for getting to where she is today. However, the fact that she purposely portrays herself as this folksy hockey mom who is an outsider that doens't know anything about politics as usual is precisely what supports that idea that she is stupid (It doesn't help that it's the exact same role the Republicans created for George W Bush that so many people ate up with a spoon. Now that the world is literally going to hell in a handbasket I don't think people will fall for that "I'd like to have a drink with him" crap again so easily.). Most intelligent people know that her own party set her up for failure by sequestering her from the press and not letting her get ready for prime time with smaller, local interviews. But, the real point I want to make is that when she talks that folksy junk it sounds as though she is talking down to me because she thinks I'm stupid. Big mistake.
Scoty, thanks for sharing your twisted panties!! LOL