Cavett also wrote of her (beginning with a reference to John McCain):
I feel a little sorry for John. He aimed low and missed.
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What on earth are our underpaid teachers, laboring in the vineyards of education, supposed to tell students about the following sentence, committed by the serial syntax-killer from Wasilla High and gleaned by my colleague Maureen Dowd for preservation for those who ask, “How was it she talked?”
My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.<snip>
Matt Lauer asked her about her daughter’s pregnancy and what went into the decision about how to handle it.
Her “answer” did not contain the words “daughter,” “pregnancy,” “what to do about it” or, in fact, any two consecutive words related to Lauer’s query.http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/