On Sep 12, 9:36 am, "William Connolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/9/12 Tom Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-roberts/palin-maintains-global-wa...
> > 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
>
> --
> William M. Connolley |www.wmconnolley.org.uk| 07985 935400
The Huffington post is just trying to make it clear that she is still
expressing more skepticism than her running mate.
As for your analysis, I am not sure what you mean by "her audience".
If she said global warming is man-made, then she risks losing some of
the denier vote in the Republican base.
If she continued to express disbelief, then she could loses some swing
voters in the middle.
She fooled Gibson (the interviewer, at least in real-time) in thinking
that she said global warming was man-made. But, actually, she did
not really do that, and the deniers will know that. Masterful.
(BTW, I actually feel like an expert relative to William on US
politics. I don't think I have every felt that way when posting here.)
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