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Monday, August 2, 2010

Sarah Palin and Elmer Fudd

Thanks to J for the utterance.

From

Urban Dictionary: Refudiate

Refudiate (v): To return something to the status of Elmer Fudd. By picking the shotgun off the ground, he was able to refudiate himself.
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  1. JAugust 2, 2010 at 1:26 PM

    At times I have pondered Hayakawa-like when listening to political speech --or as they say now, "framing". And the politicians who win usually keep it simple--Obama's speech was a bit more effective than Bush's. But he sounded fairly "street" at times. That's what Vox Populi responds to--one reason the ..Heartland likes Miss Palin. She sounds like good country people, goldangit!

    Sound too eggheady and they send you back to New Haven or Boston or whatever. Same for like Schwarzenegger, who generally sounded primitive and macho. Overly eloquent and people think yr a bureaucrat, or worse, Englishman.

    Note that most villains in US films...are the well-spoken types--Hannibal Lector. Iago. Good guys are strong and silent. Clint Eastwoods. Overly rhetorical characters are either serial murderers, or....lavender

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  2. Luigi SperanzaAugust 2, 2010 at 1:37 PM

    Yes. A blogger was saying that he FELT, on occasion, to coin something like 'refudiate'. Will see if I can find the post.

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