Dick Cavett proves to be a, well...

Turns out that Dick Cavett-who is still alive, surprisingly enough- really doesn't like Sarah Palin, because she doesn't talk like Dick Cavett, apparently. Also because she has the effrontery not to be a liberal. Combine the two, and obviously she's stupid. That Cavett comes across in the piece as a supercilious prig goes without saying. And it's intriguing that he says nothing memorable as he tries to display his own supposedly far superior language skills, for example referring to Palin's controversial wardrobe (a terribly important campaign issue, that), as "The Empress's New Clothes." Trite, Dick, trite.

Cavett, like so many lefties, judges politicians' smarts by how well, in the liberals' estimation, those pols talk (oddly enough, though, they ignore Joe Biden's offenses to the language.) So Stevenson was to be preferred to Eisenhower, Clinton to Bush I, Gore to Bush II, etc. It didn't matter what Ike had accomplished in being largely responsible for winning a war. His syntax was garbled at times, so he was a dummy. No matter that both Ike and Reagan were actually rather skilled writers.

And dig a bit of Cavett's response to criticism of his Palin piece:

"I had resolved to follow it with a switch-hit, hoping to tap out something as utterly frivolous as a change-up."

Huh? Here's a nonsensical attempt at folksiness. Dick, you're as phony as Sarah is genuine. I might add that a spoken blooper, which by the way even the sainted Obama committed more than a few of on the campaign trail (remember his talk of the 57 states?), is one thing. All politicians are prone to them. But to write junk like that...

Maybe Sarah Palin can give Cavett some writing lessons. But he'd have to move to Wasilla (or at least Juneau), and abandon the Hamptons, where he and so many of our most fashionable liberal snots camp out.


UPDATE: As the Bard might've said of Cavett:

"You speak unskilfully: or, if your knowledge be more, it is much darkened in your malice."

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