She is functionally illiterate in 3 languages.

[kpete]

Sarah Palin was featured on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday morning and discussed Jeb Bush and using the English language in America.

“When you’re here, let’s speak American… I took Spanish in high school, I took French in high school. I got em all mixed up," Palin said.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/09/06/palin-let-s-speak-american.html

[malaise]

1. That woman is breathtakingly

stupid - and proud of her ignorance.

[roguevalley]

16. if she had said American English she would have had some standing but truly, I have known this about

her since 1996

[malaise]

29. I knew nothing about her back then

and wish I still knew nothing about her.

[Person 2713]

2. Hey as long as she doesn't try to speak Mexican!

[frogmarch]

3. She knows Spanish good,

and even made this sign:

[smirkymonkey]

4. How is this woman still viable in politics in this country.

WTF? Are we this hard up for public servants. We're the laughing-stock of the developed world.

[JHB]

22. She's not. She's viable in the political grifting biz...

You'll note that she's not running for anything, she's just dong the verbal equivalent of shaking pom-poms for the Jingo Squad.

[cantbeserious]

5. One Will Not Dispense Derogatory Quips - Though - One's Imagination Can Run Wild

eom

[livetohike]

6. Why is she featured anywhere? Can't the producers find anyone intelligent and relevant for that

show? She hasn't held a public office in years.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. She's click bait. nt

[Jim__]

8. Why would we expect her experience with French and Spanish to be any different from her ...

... experience with everything else?

[libdem4life]

9. Exactamento.

[Igel]

10. So she never got them sorted.

I got her sussed: She skyved most of the time in state school, the dosser. If she'd gone to public school she'd not have kipped during lessons.

Then again, I bollocksed up my Russian when I took Serbian. And a lot of kids have said the order of Spanish and French matters.

Perhaps she was channeling Mencken and his _American Language_. A worthy tome.

[tblue37]

25. I took Spanish and French from 9th grade through 4 semesters of college.

Neither language ever got in the way of the other for me.

[LiberalElite]

11. How did I know it

How did I know that this was about Palin just from the title?

[shenmue]

12. Me too

[Rose Siding]

13. "6 medium clever raccoons stacked like a human woman"

Perhaps my favorite Jon Stewart slam of all time.

She speaks ALL THE LANGUAGES KATIE!!!!!!11111111111

[Half-Century Man]

14. She make a lot more sense when drunk.

Her or me, either way works.

[DavidDvorkin]

15. Getting Spanish and French mixed up is a common problem for intelligent people, too

My wife is multilingual and a language tutor, and she's very familiar with that problem. There's a letter from Thomas Jefferson to his nephew advising him to study one of those languages but not both because of that.

Now I hate all of you for putting me in the position of defending Sarah Palin!

[SeattleVet]

17. Found her high school English textbook:

"English as She Is Spoke", by Pedro Carolino

If you are not familiar with this scholarly tome, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_As_She_Is_Spoke

To craunch the marmoset, indeed!

[lunatica]

18. I was watching CNN when she was announced as the next guest

I changed the channel and saved myself an explosive headache. Thanks to CNN for telling us she was up next.

[dembotoz]

19. i really do admire her ability to extend her 15 minutes into a longer longer longer time

if she had been in the original star trek is still might be running



she is really good at what she does.....building quite the family empire.
working to bring her daughter along...show her the ropes, build her base...

yes she is a side show to us but to her base she is the main event.

[Triana]

20. OK. YOU first, Sarah. n/t

[A HERETIC I AM]

21. If you have read about her post HS education....

Sarah Palin is trained and qualified to be the light hearted fluff piece reporter at a mid sized or smaller TV station.

That's it. That's all she is qualified to do. The fact that she got elected to mayor of a small burg and then governor of the state does indicate she is a bit savvy, but she is still dumber than a box of rocks and disgustingly badly informed.

Back when the first debate with Biden was coming up, I suggested Joe bring out a map of the world and simply ask her to point to Iraq or the Suez Canal or Israel or ANYWHERE something important is happening.

The debate would have been over in 30 seconds

FWIW, someone should do the same to Trump

[3catwoman3]

27. She has street smarts, but...

...that is all.

[lonestarnot]

23. Prollee 4. Igpay atinlay.

[treestar]

24. if she babbles French and Spanish like she does English

it's no problem. Making a word salad is as simple as picking random French words.

[fadedrose]

26. But she spoke kindly of Biden

and that almost knocked me over...

I'm sure she knows "American" insults she could have used.

[CTyankee]

33. Did she call him O'Biden again?

[napi21]

28. HAH! That's exactly what I said when I watched her. "Yea, you studied them all,

but in the end, you can't speak any of them properly!"

[spanone]

30. 'american' is a language? why the fuck would cnn put that moron on the teevee?

[kairos12]

31. She speaks bagger. Eytmology from the Birchers Klan.

[SummerSnow]

32. Sarah Palin struggles with the English language...

"Refudiate, misunderestimate, wee-wee'd up. She created those words . She needs to learn how to speak English.

[Gothmog]

34. Palin is not qualified to be a fox new host much less the Sec. of Energy

[eppur_se_muova]

35. She's "tri-ignorant", to paraphrase Jim Hightower. nt