Posted by
Infinite Rainbow on Thursday, September 11, 2008 12:00:00 AM
you all must be stupid. (Or, ... tsk, tsk, tsk, how could so many people get it so wrong?) Keeping in front of us what Obama supporters say should be put behind us, he said something like, "If it meant what I said it meant, how could it mean what they thought it meant." This can as easily be flipped to something like, "If they thought it meant what they thought it meant (a hit on Palin), how could it mean what he said it meant?" The more he strings it out this way the more convincing it becomes that they wanted the interpretation they got and are milking it.
They have to decide folks, is this brilliant man one of the centuries greatest rhetoricians? Or is he an incompetent communicator insensitive to his audience and the effect of his words?
An amplification of this story appears in a companion blog titled Post Pig Pause Gives The Meaning
Infinite Rainbow