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    the text (5.00 / 2) (#3)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:09:45 PM EST
    Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun. And then the extremes. In the winter time it's the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn't it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs? And then in the summertime such extreme summertime about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter than just some months ago, than just some months from now, with fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and merciless rivers that are rushing and carving and reminding us that here, Mother Nature wins. It is as throughout all Alaska that big wild good life teeming along the road that is north to the future.

    As the saying goes (5.00 / 1) (#20)
    by Steve M on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:43:07 PM EST
    Denali is not a river in Egypt.  Or something like that.

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    You just made my day! (5.00 / 1) (#24)
    by shoephone on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 02:41:22 PM EST
    Emailed it to all my friends and family.

    But, if I may be so bold, the poetic form should be included in the text:

    Denali,
    the Great One.
    Soaring under the midnight sun.

    And then,
    the extremes.
    In the winter time it's the frozen road
    that is competing with the view
    of ice fogged frigid beauty.
    The cold though,
    doesn't it split the Cheechakos
    from the Sourdoughs?

    And then,
    in the summertime, such extreme summertime,
    about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter
    than just some months ago,
    than just some months from now,
    with fireweed blooming
    along the frost heaves and merciless rivers
    that are rushing
    and carving
    and reminding us that here,
    Mother Nature wins.

    It is as throughout all Alaska
    that big, wild, good life, teeming
    along the road
    that is north to the future.

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    That looks great ... (none / 0) (#25)
    by Robot Porter on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 03:27:53 PM EST
    love it!

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    Everything involves a road (none / 0) (#26)
    by Militarytracy on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 03:33:17 PM EST
    and all this teeming life and future.  And Alaskans hunt because they eat.  No mention of the roadless wilderness.  I have to ask myself if she hunts from the road too.

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    um. . . (none / 0) (#5)
    by andgarden on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:16:22 PM EST


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    Yeah (none / 0) (#8)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:20:13 PM EST


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    I gotta tell you (none / 0) (#16)
    by Capt Howdy on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:36:49 PM EST
    there is something frighteningly Reaganesque about that woman.

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    Far more frightening (5.00 / 1) (#27)
    by Cream City on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 03:42:15 PM EST
    were and are the Reaganites who still think that he was saying anything.  

    They probably understand this poetic flight of fancy, too.

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    you can (5.00 / 1) (#31)
    by Capt Howdy on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 03:50:19 PM EST
    totally imagine Reagan reciting that opus and making the people with beer hats weep at the convention.


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    Yep. And I ought to have added (none / 0) (#36)
    by Cream City on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 04:16:20 PM EST
    that most frightening are the allegedly former Reaganites who now call themselves Dems and even "progressives."  They can do to the Dems what the Southern switchers did to the GOP. . . .

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    That's what it is! (none / 0) (#17)
    by Militarytracy on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:38:08 PM EST
    Best description of how well she dresses B.S. thusfar.

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    I thought he was going to tell us (none / 0) (#1)
    by andgarden on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:05:28 PM EST
    how to buy cheap tickets to Alaska.

    Shat-larious! (none / 0) (#2)
    by Robot Porter on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:08:30 PM EST


    I didn't watch the speech (none / 0) (#4)
    by Militarytracy on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:15:45 PM EST
    God's sake I had stuff to do, Wasabi to experience.  I get it, but I don't think I fully get it.  I think I need to find video of the speech.

    She loves to snack at the breasts (none / 0) (#11)
    by Militarytracy on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:25:57 PM EST
    of military worship....bleh.  And in honor of the American soldier I wish you would all quit making things up around here.

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    they pulled your plug (none / 0) (#6)
    by Capt Howdy on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:18:53 PM EST
    apparently  

    Arrgh (none / 0) (#7)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:19:59 PM EST
    The bastards.

    It is damn funny.

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    :ink to the hulu site (none / 0) (#9)
    by ruffian on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:23:25 PM EST
    Here's a link that still works, but it must be getting slammed.

    ok (none / 0) (#15)
    by Capt Howdy on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:35:43 PM EST
    that was hilarious

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    Thanks, so I still got to see it (none / 0) (#28)
    by Cream City on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 03:48:44 PM EST
    and it was worth every baffling bit of it.

    Of course, to be fair -- and to give me more golden moments by Shatner, who is so hilarious -- it would be wonderful to see him take on some of McCain's shtick.  And, for that matter, some of Obama's hopey-changey shtick.  Frankly, they all convinced me that only Clinton consistently made sense. :-)

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    Fred Armison (none / 0) (#34)
    by CST on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 04:08:35 PM EST
    Made it impossible for me to listen to Obama speak.  It's like pulling teeth.  Not because of what he says so much, just because of the pauses.


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    A linguistics teacher told me (none / 0) (#38)
    by Cream City on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 04:41:36 PM EST
    that she noticed it, too, as well as thee and me.  She said it's characteristic of those for whom English is a second language!  So I wonder if it also could be something heard among others in Hawaii, where there are so many multingual speakers?

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    Or maybe (none / 0) (#40)
    by CST on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 05:00:33 PM EST
    he inhereted it from his step-dad or time spent in indonesia.  Who knows, but it sure does grate.

    The preacher cadence doesn't bother me that much, maybe because I tend to listen more to his policy/debate speeches than I did his campaign rallies.  He doesn't do as much baptist preacher in those.  Also, I find it more effective than painfull pauses.

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    Ah, correct -- those were the formative (none / 0) (#44)
    by Cream City on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 05:56:38 PM EST
    years for language, as he was in Indonesia from ages 6 to 10.  Interesting studies, too, that we develop our worldview when we're between ages 10 to 12 or some say 10 to 14.  So it's always interesting to talk among generations about the major events each of us remembers from those years -- Pearl Harbor, presidential assassinations, Columbine, 9/11, etc.  For Obama, back in the U.S. then (in Hawaii), it would have been -- Watergate?

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    for me (none / 0) (#39)
    by Capt Howdy on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 04:45:23 PM EST
    its not so much the pauses as the Baptist Preacher cadence.

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    Aw, I enjoy listening to that (none / 0) (#41)
    by Cream City on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 05:07:05 PM EST
    from the Rev. JJ and others, too.

    It just always worried me in Obama because of the churchy things he says, not the churchy way he says them.

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    It's those whistling "S's" that make it (none / 0) (#45)
    by Inspector Gadget on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 09:36:30 PM EST
    impossible for me to listen to him speak.

    The preacher style is both cadence and putting the emphasis at the end of every sentence. I think he picked up the styles of the teachers and preachers who impressed him.

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    So NBC (none / 0) (#10)
    by Carolyn in Baltimore on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:24:42 PM EST
    Do you own Shatner or Palin's words? Where is the copyright problem, mmmm?

    Naw they own the copyright (5.00 / 1) (#13)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:28:55 PM EST
    of the show and they clearly have the right to block its use. This is not fair use.

    Now, it is waaaay stupid of them to block one of Conan;s few good moments imo.

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    Yup, especially with the ... (none / 0) (#18)
    by Robot Porter on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:41:49 PM EST
    entire entertainment press currently have a "hate-on" for NBC, they could use a little viral goodwill.


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    They want you getting their stuff from their (none / 0) (#32)
    by ruffian on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 04:01:46 PM EST
    own site, Hulu. I don't think that is too oppressive.

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    Conan may be too smart for the Tonight Show (none / 0) (#22)
    by andgarden on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 02:09:48 PM EST
    Hopefully he'll make it his own, but frankly, I'm not watching regularly.

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    here 'tis (none / 0) (#29)
    by Carolyn in Baltimore on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 03:49:14 PM EST
    http://www.tonightshowwithconanobrien.com/video/clips/shatner-does-palin-072709/1139665/

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    The Tonight Show (none / 0) (#12)
    by Carolyn in Baltimore on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:28:11 PM EST
    Video is still up on the tonight show site. Done a beat poetry - great.

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    Link? (none / 0) (#14)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:29:11 PM EST
    I want to offer it here.

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    here (none / 0) (#30)
    by Carolyn in Baltimore on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 03:49:58 PM EST
    http://www.tonightshowwithconanobrien.com/video/clips/shatner-does-palin-072709/1139665/

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    It started off like a Priceline (none / 0) (#19)
    by oldpro on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 01:42:39 PM EST
    pitch but by the end I was sure he'd finish off with..."Denny Crane!"

    Shatner is exceptional (none / 0) (#21)
    by Inspector Gadget on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 02:06:01 PM EST
    I'll bet even Palin would laugh at that.
    Embed code for the hulu (none / 0) (#23)
    by andgarden on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 02:11:21 PM EST
    looks like this:

    <object width="512" height="296"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/vKFN63C8GAflZB1YH2fV0w"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/vKFN63C8GAflZB1YH2fV0w" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true"  width="512" height="296"></embed></object>
    As I Keep Saying (none / 0) (#33)
    by squeaky on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 04:06:44 PM EST
    Palin is not to be underestimated. Imagine beat poetry, which is really what she does, sold to right wingers..

    Hilarious, Clinton couldn't touch that with his sax, nor Obama with his bball skills..

    finally (5.00 / 1) (#35)
    by Capt Howdy on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 04:09:57 PM EST
    something we agree on.
    this woman is a serious threat.

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    She's a wise Alaskan? (none / 0) (#37)
    by Militarytracy on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 04:17:28 PM EST


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    Now, when you say that (none / 0) (#42)
    by Cream City on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 05:08:33 PM EST
    it makes me wish Shatner had been wearing a black beret.  But those bongos in the background tell me that you're onto it -- the way he was hearing it, too.

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    Actually (none / 0) (#43)
    by squeaky on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 05:16:16 PM EST
    Even though it was clearly a parody, it hit the nail on the head.

    In Palin's speeches her rhythmic pattern and wild poetic metaphors, are really are quite like the beat poets.

    Had not thought of it till Shatner framed it that way.

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