palinizing:. The tactic is defined as a painfully transparent political
filibuster of sorts. When Sarah Palin is presented with a question she either
does not understand or that she does not want to answer truthfully, she
opens her mouth and out pours a waterfall of GOP buzzwords, cascading
haphazardly from her lips and leaving listeners drenched in the
horrific realization that this small-town mayor turned newbie governor
from Alaska is, quite simply, both an idiot and a liar.
Palinizing is above all the art of distraction, with the goal of
diverting attention away from a fault (in Palin’s case, ignorance) and
towards the glittering veneer of hollow talking points which dazzle but
do nothing in terms of answering the question presented. For Palin’s
most ardent fans, the evasiveness is perceived as a much-deserved slap
in the face to the “mainstream” media. For her detractors and even
those who are ambivalent towards her, Palin’s verbal hopscotch is
infuriating.
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