FW: Sarah Palin's "refudiate" (blend: refute + repudiate)

[Jonathan Lighter]

See also
http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2010/07/19/128625018/sarah-palin-shakespeare-and-the-georgia-governor-primary<http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/19/palins-dawn-of-refudiation/?fbid=bSfd2TYKLo9>

CNN also ran clips of the current President of the United States saying
"Navy corpse-man" and of course "wee-wee'd up."

JL

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Check out Sinclair Lewis's _It Can't Happen Here_ (1935).
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> Sen. Buzz Windrip of Fort Beulah is elected President as "Savior of the
> Forgotten Men." (That'll need some work.) He reads only "the finest in
> literature": James Whitcomb Riley, Plato, Hiawatha [sic], Elbert Hubbard.
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> Linguistic hook: "Mrs. Adelaide Tarr Gimmitch...during the Great War she
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> advocated calling our boys in the A.E.F. the 'Unkies.'"
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> Yessirree Bob!
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> JL
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> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > At 7/18/2010 09:00 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > >And today, over 10,000 Googlits....
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> > And those are the people who may elect our next Presidentess.
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> > Joel
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