There is power in misspelling a name. I'm probably notorious for misspelling names, but I do try to keep it down to a minimum.
Yesterday, I wrote a short entry that I would have written no matter who John McCain picked. The pattern of the media is too often repeated to be un-obvious if one is old enough to have seen more than a few elections. They always try to denigrate the Republican vice presidential pick as somehow unqualified for the office. If the VP candidate is particularly well qualified, they then go after the Presidential nominee, but usually their target is the vice president.
The only combination that I remember them not attacking in that way was Dole-Kemp.
So, yesterday, I misspelled Sarah Pal*n's name. I did take the precaution of using Google to double check the spelling. Unfortunately, enough people were misspelling it that Palen seemed correct.
There is a lighter side to that error. My entry managed to make the first page of that Google spelling. My blog has racked up a lot of hits that it wouldn't have gotten if I had spelled the name correctly and been on Google page 35. Even better, the sentence that Google picked to highlight reads:
Sarah Pal*n is unqualified to be the vice presidential candidate...
Of course, that was completely out of context with what I wrote. A whole bunch of folks, likely leftys who couldn't spell Palin either got sucked in.
It is funny when you think about it.
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