{"id":1356,"date":"2008-09-27T00:08:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T05:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2008-09-27T00:08:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T05:08:04","slug":"i-should-be-asleep-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/uncategorized\/i-should-be-asleep-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"i should be asleep right now&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>but i started looking up things online and then couldn&#8217;t stop&#8230;how i wish i&#8217;d seen katie couric interviewing sarah palin.\u00a0 there were two of them, last night and the night before.\u00a0 i could have watched, if i&#8217;d known about them.<\/p>\n<p>i did read many highly amusing things about the interviews.\u00a0 the funniest one was from henrik hertzberg, from the new yorker.\u00a0 here it is:<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"indhed\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/images\/headers\/hese_HENDRIK_HERTZBERG_g.gif\" alt=\"Hendrik Hertzberg\" \/><\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"subhed_below\">Notes on politics, mostly<\/h3>\n<p><!-- End Headers --><\/p>\n<div class=\"utils\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">pluckArticleIds = new Array;<\/script> <strong class=\"filterHeader\"> Campaign &#8217;08 <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"published\" title=\"2008-09-26T13:31:00\">September 26, 2008<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/hendrikhertzberg\/2008\/09\/foreign-countri.html\">Foreign Countries<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The second installment of Katie Couric\u2019s interview with Sarah Palin aired last night. The topic was the great wide world. One exchange deserves special study. From the transcript provided by CBS:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>COURIC: You\u2019ve cited Alaska\u2019s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?<\/p>\n<p>PALIN: Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundary that we have with Canada. It\u2019s funny that a comment like that was kinda made to\u2026I don\u2019t know, you know\u2026reporters.<\/p>\n<p>COURIC: Mocked?<\/p>\n<p>PALIN: Mocked, yeah I guess that\u2019s the word, mocked.<\/p>\n<p>COURIC: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign-policy credentials.<\/p>\n<p>PALIN: Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of. And there\u2026<\/p>\n<p>COURIC: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?<\/p>\n<p>PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth, we do. It\u2019s very important when you consider even national-security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It\u2019s Alaska. It\u2019s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right next to, they are right next to our state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This seems to be a case of incoherence of thought leading to incoherence of syntax. Pronouns wander in search of antecedents like Arctic explorers in a blinding snowstorm. Homophones confuse the transcriber. For example, one of the Governor\u2019s answers could as sensibly, or insensibly, be rendered as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PALIN: Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries. They\u2019re in the state that I am the executive of. And they\u2019re\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the \u201cPutin rears his head\u201d answer, jagged shards of the hasty briefings lately stuffed into Palin\u2019s pretty head clang tinnily against one another. \u201cWe send those\u201d\u2014those? those what?\u2014\u201dout to make sure that an eye is being kept on this powerful nation, Russia.\u201d Those what? We send what? My hunch is that this alarming jumble must have something to do with the path that Russian intercontinental missiles would take on their way to the lower Forty-eight and\/or the air-defense installations that NORAD maintains in the state Palin is executive of. But who knows? The whole thing reads like something rendered from the Finnish by Google Translate.<\/p>\n<p>For a seventy-two-year-old cancer survivor to have placed this person directly behind himself in line for the Presidency was an act of almost incomprehensible cynicism and irresponsibility. It makes a cruel\u2014what\u2019s the word?\u2014mockery of his slogan. \u201cCountry First\u201d indeed.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. In the Seattle <em>Times<\/em>, Hal Bernton <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2008174647_palinrussia12m0.html\">reports<\/a> that Governor Palin has \u201cbalked\u201d at opportunities to visit Russia on any of those \u201ctrade missions\u201d she boasted of. Bernton writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Opportunities abound for Alaska governors to engage in Russian diplomacy, with the state host to several organizations focusing on Arctic issues. Anchorage is the seat of the Northern Forum, an 18-year-old organization that represents the leaders of regional governments in Russia, as well as Finland, Iceland and Canada, Japan, China and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Yet under Palin, the state government\u2014without consultation\u2014reduced its annual financial support to the Northern Forum to $15,000 from $75,000, according to Priscilla Wohl, the group\u2019s executive director. That forced the Forum\u2019s Anchorage office to go without pay for two months.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, she has met Henry Kissinger and the president of Afghanistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>but i started looking up things online and then couldn&#8217;t stop&#8230;how i wish i&#8217;d seen katie couric interviewing sarah palin.\u00a0 there were two of them, last night and the night before.\u00a0 i could have watched, if i&#8217;d known about them. i did read many highly amusing things about the interviews.\u00a0 the funniest one was from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6JLYy-lS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}