re: #168 Killgore Trout

OT: As many of you here know I’m not the biggest Palin fan and I suspect she’s not very intellectual. This seems to be a bit much…..
Sarah Palin: What I’ve Learned

The article reads like it was written by an 8th grader. Impossible sentence strutres, bad grammar, nonexistent words. This has to be a smear.

It’s not a smear. And it’s probably authentic. You should go read Camille Paglia on Palin and intelligence. If a committed feminist leftist can see through the folksy and unpretentious manner of Palin to the sharp core of intelligence, you’ll see it too when you take a second look. Palin is not one whit the intellectual. But she’s bright, and she is far from ignorant.

Now Biden, by contrast, affects an intellectual pose. Yet he’s not that bright, and he’s surprisingly ignorant. Or take Pelosi. She’s so innumerate that no warning flag goes up in her brain before these words come out of her mouth: “we’re losing 500 million jobs a month.”