Why I hate the mass media (today)

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All that stuff about "Sarah Palin writes at an eighth-grade level"? Does not mean she writes like an eighth-grader; it means she writes in a way that an eighth-grader can easily understand. After seeing a bit of commentary, I wiki'ed the evaluation they used. It pretty much speaks for itself; writing at an eighth-grade level by these standards is competent-to-good and does not mean that you have the brain of a thirteen-year-old. But that's all we're gonna hear...

And this is why the TV in my house never changes channels from Nick Jr. for my daughter. Palin-frenzy in the news reminds me of nothing so much as a bunch of schoolkids coming up with new and exciting ways to smear the class scapegoat, and it disgusts me beyond belief.