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Daily Diversion / Media / Politics / Silverman Vanity Fair Editors Take a Red Pen to Sarah Palin's Resignation Speech

Posted by Jack Silverman on Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:17 AM

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The first page of Sarah Palin's resignation speech after the Vanity Fair editors had their way with it. See the whole thing here. For Sarah Palin, going rogue is nothing new--the woman who put the "ick" in maverick gave her Republican handlers fits as she'd start free-styling off the top of her head, off point and usually off-kilter. Now that she's no longer a vice presidential candidate nor a governor, there are no more high-paid speechwriters or nervous chaperones--thus there's no more rogue for her to go. She's just Sarah being Sarah. The editors at Vanity Fair decided to take a red (and blue, and green) pen to Palin's resignation speech, in an attempt to "whip it into publishable shape." Executive literary editor Wayne Lawson wielded the red pen, the research department green, the copy editors blue. The result? Something akin to one of my blog posts before and after managing editor Jim Ridley has translated it into the King's English. Hear's hoping thay dont deside to take a redd pen to my werk.

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Slate had a pretty good article a few months ago about attempts to diagram Palin's sentences.

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Posted by Ashley on 07/23/2009 at 10:19 AM

Nice hatchet job...your mom would be proud of you..if you had one.
Why don;t you try dissecting the ramblings and gaffes of Biden..the Court Jester..as I like to call him...or maybe you should take a red pen to Obama;s book (before his editor got a hold of it)..he who believes we have 57 states..or so he said once.
Yes..you discovered that politicians aren;t the smartest people in the world...who would have believed it??..kinda like discovering rain or the sun..they;ve been around awhile and most people already know. Next time try your hatchet job on someone else...doing this to Palin is sooo yesterday...kinda like disco..goes out of style after everybody looks foolish for doing it...you look pretty foolish right now.

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Posted by JL on 07/24/2009 at 12:13 AM
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