Tabloid Alaska Bloggers: Never Let the Truth Get in the Way.

Had the leader of all 57 States chosen to speak of aspects of healthcare insurance in terms of their “mandation” during last week’s SOTU address, there can be little doubt that Cheerleader Pelosi would have leapt from her seat in fevered admiration of the Leader of the Free World’s professorial wisdom and his ingenious promotion of the constitutionalised right to free speech implicit in his creativity with the spoken word.

What inspiration. What hope.

Oh brave new world that hath such a person in it.

No such indulgence is afforded Governor Palin, whose actual use of the word “mandation” during an interview with Hannity has been taken as meat and drink by those of the ill-informed who are compelled to live their lives painting poison about Palin, just because they can.

“Since August more Americans have paid more attention to the (health care) bill and more Americans are becoming more concerned. It hadn’t been a matter of he not being able to explain his policy with government take over and mandation of health care, but Americans, understanding what is in there, not liking it."

Playground queen of high school mean, Jeanne “Loadsabrains” Devon, chuckles and chortles about the inadequacies of any fellow American who just happens to be a Republican; and resorts constantly to her particular variation on the Harry Enfield theme of I happen to be considerably richer than you:

‘Excuse me sport, I hope you don’t mind me interrupting, only I noticed that I happen to be a liberal and, therefore, I am considerably cleverer than you.’

Yet, Devon didn’t understand Governor Palin’s reference to “mandation”, couldn’t find it defined in any online dictionary, ergo Palin made it up - and how stupid is that:

“In other deep layer of Palin analysis, she went on to discuss health care “mandation.” What’s “mandation” you ask? According to Dictionary.com it means “No dictionary results.” Strange…”

“After Sarah Palin’s excruciating exchange with fellow Fox News talking head Sean Hannity, America was introduced to a brand new word – “mandation.” Seconds later it entered the Twittersphere, and Facebook, and blogs across the cyber universe. Liberals adored it, and Mandation Nation was born. When writing my post, I looked it up in the dictionary and announced on the blog that according to Dictionary.com, “mandation” meant “no dictionary results.”

Introduced a brand new word, Jeanne?

Well, let’s just sweep aside for the moment the overwhelming evidence that the English language is a work in constant progress, and never more so than in a society in which freedom of speech is a constitutional right for every citizen. Let’s not examine too closely just what it is that gives you the right to police any citizen’s right to express themselves neologically or otherwise. No, let’s not scratch too far into the arrogance of your loadsabrain prejudices.

Instead, let’s just invite you to buy a copy of this text:

Healthcare for the Uninsured: Is Mandation the Answer?*
Carson E. Beadle
William M. Mercer Meidinger Hansen, Inc.

The 37 million people in the United States who have no healthcare insurance pose a major social problem, but is legislation that requires employers to provide a minimum amount of healthcarecoverage for employees the solution?

Compensation & Benefits Review, Vol. 21, No. 6, 17-23 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/088636878902100605
Published in 1989, you notice, Jeanne. Twenty one years ago.

Gosh, look, there’s that new word which you, in your state of ignorance, didn’t know anything about.

Hey, why not do a Google search on the word. See how many times it is referred to in the context of healthcare and insurance. On second thought, maybe not – wouldn’t want to even consider that Governor Palin might have been using the word in full knowledge of its relevance to healthcare insurance… especially when it’s a word you don’t know.

Cue deafening silence, resembling those occasions when Ms Devon failed to distance herself from her friend "Jeff" Griffin’s hatespeak conspiracies, her friend Shannyn Moore’s mendacity in peddling lies as facts on cable tv, her friend Linda Kellen Biegel’s accusation that the good people of the Palin administration acted as Nazis.

Tabloid Alaska Bloggers: never let the truth get in the way of bashing the Palins.

Chuckle chuckle, chortle chortle.

Update (Joshua): it's a crazy world we're living in, friends. Gov. Palin uses a technical term in a television interview, and before you know it the whole world is looking it up on Google.

For all you mandation lovers out there, here's my link of the day: Ten Steps to Easy Mandation. Sorry, make that ECDIS Mandation - Electronic Chart Display Information System Mandation. Not for the fainthearted, this one.