Palin really is crazy....

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Monday July 19, 2010 · 5:14 AM PDT

2010/07/19 · 05:14

From www.heraldsun.com.au

Sarah Palin creates word controversy, compares herself to Shakespeare

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin defended her newly-created word today, then compared herself to Shakespeare in the realm of coining new terminology.

The word was "refudiate" - it was unclear if she meant refute or repudiate - and she first used it last week on Fox News's Hannity show when she called on President Obama and his wife Michelle to "refudiate" the NAACP's suggestion that the Tea Party movement was racist.

By today, "refudiate" had popped up again. In a tweet addressing the Ground Zero mosque controversy, Ms Palin wrote: "Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate."

Then came a fourth tweet, apparently acknowledging her language tussle: "'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!"

I think it would take the talents of Shakespeare, arguably the greatest writer in history, to coin a word that has yet to be used to describe the utter ignorance of Sarah Palin. What was it, four or five colleges before she could squeeze out a degree? She is an uneducated, illiterate, egotistical wannabe who's sole existence in the public sphere is due to an act of political desperation by John McCain.

Can you just picture her as president of the United States? I can't. But apparently there are an awful lot of simple-minded folk out there who thinks she's their kinda people.Terrifying.

And you might notice that in the Tags, there is one for "neologism" which basically means the creation of new words. But it has a more specific meaning in psychiatry. To wit:

In psychiatry, the term neologism is used to describe the use of words that only have meaning to the person who uses them, independent of their common meaning.[1] This is considered normal in children, but a symptom of thought disorder (indicative of a psychotic mental illness, such as schizophrenia) in adults.[2]

Yup.

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