Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Fixing forum comments: Part I

I like reading forum comments if only to see into the void that is the internet's hive mind. Sometimes though I'm embarrassed by what I find. There are so many people out there who post what they believe to be intelligent strings of thought, but due to a lack of proper grammar, spelling or poor sentence structure their point is lost. So as a service to these poor individuals I will try to make order from chaos.

This first comment comes from a The Huffington Post article wherein Jon Stewart made the claim that Sarah Palin might be a Russian spy.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/pierre_F_Lherisson/stewart-palin-russian-spy_n_816764_75921470.html


Revised forum comment:

While John Stewart's assertion that "Sarah Palin may, just may, be a Russian spy." is hilarious and demonstrates the vicious steps some people could take to crush an opponent. Whether by making or insinuating false statement about an adversary this clearly falls into the propaganda department. The aim of propaganda is to cast doubt on your opponent. Such tactics sometimes take an unexpected twist and end with unforeseen consequences. John Stewart would have been better off portraying Sarah Palin as an Agent Provocateur for the Democratic Party. Trying to insinuate that she [Sarah Palin] gets paid handsomely assuming the roll of the extreme right to coerce weak minded Republicans to resort to violence. Such stratagem if well orchestrated, would have been more effective in his attempt to discredit her. To call Sarah Palin a Russian spy casts some serious doubts on Stewart's IQ.

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