<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dick Cavett on Sarah Palin's "Victory Tour", and her war on grammar. </div><div><br></div><div>A few snippets:</div><div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; ">It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any."</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; ">"A cynic might wonder if Wasilla High School’s English and geography departments are draped in black."</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"Matt [Lauer], I bequeath you what I heard myself say once to an elusive guest who stiffed me that way: 'Were you able to hear any part of my question?'"</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"Could the willingness to crown one who seems to have no first language have anything to do with the oft-lamented fact that we seem to be alone among nations in having made the word “intellectual” an insult?"</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="georgia" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"I do not wish her ill. But I also don’t wish us ill. I hope she continues to find happiness in Alaska."</span></font></div><div><br></div><div>Enjoy!</div><div><br></div><a href="http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em">http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em</a></body></html>