{"id":19970,"date":"2011-01-11T00:20:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T05:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=19970"},"modified":"2011-01-11T00:20:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T05:20:22","slug":"doublespeak-from-the-palin-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/01\/11\/doublespeak-from-the-palin-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Doublespeak from the Palin Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Compare this:<\/p>\n

An advisor to Sarah Palin, Rebecca Mansour said that the cross hairs, in fact, were not meant to be an allusion to guns, and agreed with her interviewer\u2019s reference to them as \u201csurveyors symbols.\u201d (New York Times, 10 January 2011<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With these items:<\/p>\n

Tweet by Sarah Palin (4 November 2010):\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cRemember months ago \u2018bullseye\u2019 icon used 2 target the 20 Obamacare-lovin’ incumbent seats? We won 18 out of 20 (90% success rate; T’aint bad).\u201d\u00a0 http:\/\/twitter.com\/SarahPalinUSA\/status\/29677744457<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tweet by Sarah Palin (23 March 2010):\u00a0 \u201cCommonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: \u2018Don’t Retreat, Instead – RELOAD!\u2019\u00a0 Pls see my Facebook page.\u201d\u00a0 http:\/\/twitter.com\/SarahPalinUSA\/status\/10935548053<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the Facebook page referred to (note words in boldface):<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>We\u2019ll aim<\/strong> for these races and many others. This is just the first salvo<\/strong> in a fight to elect people across the nation who will bring common sense to Washington. Please go to sarahpac.com<\/a> and join me in the fight (Palin, 2010, \u00b64).<\/p>\n

Stand tall, America. Real change is coming (Palin, 2010, \u00b65)!<\/p>\n

– Sarah Palin<\/p>\n

Please consider a one-shot $100 donation to SarahPAC \u2013 $5 for each of the 20 leftists being targeted<\/strong> for removal from the US House of Representatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sorry, Ms. Mansour, but the metaphors here (bullseye, reloading, aiming, firing salvos, and targeting) do not come from the language of surveying.\u00a0 If the crosshair logo were actually a surveyor\u2019s symbol, one wonders why it was removed with such dispatch yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Compare this: An advisor to Sarah Palin, Rebecca Mansour said that the cross hairs, in fact, were not meant to be an allusion to guns, and agreed with her interviewer\u2019s reference to them as \u201csurveyors symbols.\u201d (New York Times, 10 January 2011). With these items: Tweet by Sarah Palin (4 November 2010):\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cRemember months ago […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-denham","category-current-events"],"yoast_head":"\nDoublespeak from the Palin Camp - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/01\/11\/doublespeak-from-the-palin-camp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doublespeak from the Palin Camp - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Compare this: An advisor to Sarah Palin, Rebecca Mansour said that the cross hairs, in fact, were not meant to be an allusion to guns, and agreed with her interviewer\u2019s reference to them as \u201csurveyors symbols.\u201d (New York Times, 10 January 2011). 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