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From: Cliff on 24 Jul 2010 10:11

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jul/20/getting-the-humpty
"Sarah Palin: getting the Humpty"
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But what Sarah Palin lacks in vocabulary, she compensates for in audacity. After
saying that she "refudiated" the idea that her Tea Party supporters are racist,
and repeating that New Yorkers should "refudiate" a proposed mosque, Palin then
miscorrected herself, saying they should "refute" it. In fact, New Yorkers can
neither refute nor repudiate the mosque, as it hasn't said anything. But let's
not get sidetracked by the actual meaning of words.

This misstatement has become an international story because Palin defended it on
the basis that English is a living language, and that both George W Bush and
Barack Obama have been guilty of similar solecisms, with "misunderestimate" and
"wee-wee'd up", respectively. After putting herself in presidential company, she
finished by pointing out that Shakespeare liked to invent words too.
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]

So she now claims to the the Winger's Shakespeare (who she may have
actually heard of). Who or what she thinks he was is anybody's guess.
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Cliff
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