John on June 13, 2011 at 2:44 pm
One more media attempt to embarrass Sarah Palin has gone down in flames:
AOL Weird News brought samples to two writing analysts who independently evaluated 24,000 pages of the former governor’s emails. They came back in agreement that Palin composed her messages at an eighth-grade level, an excellent score for a chief executive, they said.
“I’m a centrist Democrat, and would have loved to support my hunch that Ms. Palin is illiterate,” said 2tor Chief Executive Officer John Katzman.
“However, the emails say something else. Ms. Palin writes emails on her Blackberry at a grade level of 8.5.
“If she were a student and showing me her work, I’d say ‘It’s fine, clear writing,’” he said, admitting that emails he wrote scored lower than Palin’s on the widely used Flesch-Kincaid readability test.
“She came in as a solid communicator,” said Paul J.J. Payack, president of the Global Language Monitor. The emails registered as an 8.2 on his version of the test. “That’s typical for a corporate executive.”
Before you snicker about the 8th grade level, the article goes on to point out:
Although it’s like comparing apples to oranges, Payack said that famous speeches like Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was a 9.1 and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” oration rated a 8.8 on the scale.
Of course those were prepared texts, not extemporaneous emails typed by thumb on a Blackberry with little to no editing.
The thing to notice here, besides the media’s apparent surprise at the results, is that AOL sought out two experts in an apparent attempt to embarrass Palin. Had they gotten a result that suited them, I’ve no doubt this would have been highlighted and shot around the web by the usual suspects. Since the effort failed, it will be sure to get little to no attention on the left.
The image of Palin as an imbecile is one created by the left/media in order to bring down the popularity of someone they consider a real threat. The fact that they’ve largely succeeded in harming Palin’s image with the public only proves how good they are at the politics of personal destruction. But as usual, left wing conventional wisdom has little to do with reality.
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=25731
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