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Assessing the stylistic personality of Palin’s resignation speech:

“The style is closer to a high schooler’s angry diary entry than to an official speech. I’ve read a lot of speech transcripts. They tend to have fewer words in all capital letters. And fewer things in quotation marks that aren’t actually, you know, quotes. And I’ve never seen an official speech transcript, written by an actual speechwriter, that contains this:

*((Gotta put First Things First))*”

Ezra Klein - Sarah Palin Resigns