Ethics

Palin's Resignation Speech

By Ed Brayton

Ezra Klein, speaking of Palin's resignation speech at that hastily arranged press conference, said that the transcript makes plain that she wrote it herself. I think he's right.

The main thing I'd point out about Sarah Palin's dazzlingly incoherent farewell is that it's pretty clear she wrote it herself. The proof is in the punctuation. The transcript was posted to her official Web site earlier today. The style is closer to a high schooler's angry diary entry than to an official speech. I've read a lot of speech transcripts. They tend to have fewer words in all capital letters. And fewer things in quotation marks that aren't actually, you know, quotes. And I've never seen an official speech transcript, written by an actual speechwriter, that contains this:

*((Gotta put First Things First))*

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 06, 2009 (boomark / email).