Foot-Palin-Mouth

Sarah Palin illustrates the state of education in Alaska with a another gaff for the ignorance party (aka tea baggers) In this little clip she denigrates a comment made by another politician regarding the view that America needs another "Sputnik moment". Of course as most moderately educated people know a "Sputnik moment" is a positive thing, i.e. in the 50's when the Russians launched Sputnik it so surprised and shocked the Americans that it galvanised them into a spurt of rapid technological and social progress leading to the space age, men on the moon, computers, the internet.



Palin of course sees a Russian sounding name and immediately thinks it must be a bad thing and concocts her own completely spurious definition of "Sputnik moment". I had lunch with an American friend at the weekend, he was saying how utterly flabbergasted moderate Americans of all political hues he knows are over Palin, the thought that she could gain power of any sort left him seriously considering emigration.

Interestingly BarbiePalin also used the term "WTF", unusual for an American politician, normally they avoid that kind of language, it makes you suspect whether she really knows what it stands for.... probably not.