2008/9/12 Tom Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-roberts/palin-maintains-global-wa_b_125880.html
> Palin says GW "can be" man-made and man "is potentially causing" GW.
>
> I am sure that admitting the theoretical possibility is going to
> confuse almost everyone. It even worked on the interviewer Gibson,
> one of the top newmen in the USA who immediately said: "now you're
> beginning to say it is man-made".
I'm puzzled. What are you trying to analyse? It seems to me that what
Palin is saying about GW reflects more what she thinks her audience
wants to hear than what she believes. Unless you're saying she is a
truth-from-the-heart politico who says what she means and means what
she says?
Her audience doesn't *want* to hear her saying "GW is real; we're
causing it; we need to do something about it NOW". Her audience is
very happy with obfustication. If they can't understand it, thats
great - then they don't have to do anything. As long as they get the
idea that no great sacrifices are going to be required, they will be
happy with her.
-William
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