This is a thing of beauty.

[apocalypsos]

Vanity Fair goes at a copy of Sarah Palin's resignation speech with a red pen and an editor's eye.

Comments

[doortje.livejournal.com]

What surprises me is that a lot of the language errors are v. similar to the mistakes I make in the early drafts of essays for school. o_O And English is my second language.

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. You would think that someone making speeches with national exposure would have had basic Plain English training. Even I've had Plain English training, and the only PR I do is a newsletter with a circulation of under 1,200 and information leaflets no one reads.

[theliel.livejournal.com]

i laughed for a good few minutes on that.
the speech actually makes some kind of sense with that editing, and 4srs would have been btter.
but it wasn't enough. the edits make it seem less edgy, less over the top. in short the speach was like a 16 year old draampromqueen breaking up with her latest bff and boy freind because I'M TOO IMPORTANT FOR YOU THAT'S WHY.

sarah palin, that bitchy cheerleader in high school who decided to make your life hell because she could all gorwn up and this woman had armed forces under her command people.*boggle*

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

I'd find that a lot more clever if he didn't turn a perfectly grammatical sentence into a fragment by eliminating "It's."

What a dingus.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that the bit that got added to the sentence before it with a comma? I had to do a double-take at one point because he did it a couple of times and once it was so cluttered with red marks it was hard to find the comma notation.

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, ok. I'll buy that. Yes, I had the same problem, it was hard to read. But then again that's part of the joke. :-D

Sorry if I came out really snarky. I'm not very good with my tone today. Maybe I should have that cocktail after all.

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

I'm not very good with my tone today. Maybe I should have that cocktail after all.

This seems to be an "It must be 5:00 SOMEWHERE" day for a lot of folks.

Me? Work first made me wish that around 10:30 this morning.

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

Seriously. You know it's a shitty day in the Universe when it's Early O'clock and all you can think about is how damn tasty hawt slash is citron vodka is with pink grapefruit juice, lime, and salt. Mmm.

Yeah, it has been an incredibly spiky week. Here is where I step up to take responsibility for my part, I spose. *shame*

I'm trying sencha and a lot of water instead of booze--we'll see if that approach makes it better. ;)

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

The bit where Research corrects Abraham Lincoln to Andrew Johnson absolutely killed me.

[draconic-voices.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this. It totally made my hour. And I'm in agreement with the earlier commenter about the Andrew Jackson correction - hilarious, and yet, not surprising at all.

[mike-smith.livejournal.com]

Whoa, it's like this Palin lady is really dumb or something, and Vanity Fair totally figured it out.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. Well, to be fair, editing jokes make me laugh, so ... *shrugs* :)