From Richard Rostron:
Kamala’s WordSalad Explained
By RICH ROSTRON
The Response
We’ve all heard Kamala’s campaign babbling. Even Leftists who will vote for her if she’s a live grenade in their hands, have to have bit their lips in embarrassment while she rattled on incoherently amplifying a word or two repeatedly. But why does Kamala babble? What is the origin of this WordSalad that defines her peculiar speaking style?
Frankly, we’ve all seen this before. I’m sure of it. I’ve even spoken that way in the past. Mind you, a long time ago, but I have devolved into an embarrassing splatter of WordSalad as a kind of verbal vomit all over the floor.
When I spoke in WordSaladese, it was my own fault. It could have been avoided. I failed to avoid it because I failed to prepare for the possibility of speaking in public.
Where was I when I broke out in that humorous language otherwise known as babble? I was in class. And what had I failed to do? I had failed to read the assigned pages of homework the night before.
Imagine the assignment from my 8th grade teacher was to read pages 206-223. That’s a lot of reading for someone who considers homework a suggestion. If the teacher knew me, and she probably did, she knew I was unlikely to do the reading. This explains why she called on me to speak in front of the class about what I was supposed to have read.
From the front of the class, with a smug smile and her arms crossed in front of her, she asked, “So, Richard, what point do you think Salinger was trying to make on Page 219?”
She might as well have asked me to explain quantum physics. If I had read Page 219 of Catcher in the Rye, I would probably still have struggled to answer the question. But, since I hadn’t read Page 219 at all, I could as easily have explained the meaning of life.
Of course, I had heard that the book was about some young guy on his own in New York City. So, I expounded on what I knew, that a young guy was on his own in New York City.
Since I didn’t know the guy’s name, it was best that I focus on what I was sort of sure of; I repeatedly referred to New York City and how this young guy was on his own.
The teacher wasn’t fooled. My classmates were not fooled. I knew that no one was fooled and the only relief I had was when, after withholding any mercy as long as she could, the teacher finally told me I could sit down, adding that it would have helped if I had done the assigned reading.
This, of course, is Kamala Harris’s problem; she is all-too frequently unprepared to answer the questions she knows are likely to come her way. But there is a difference.
When I was in middle school (what we then called junior high), I went into the classroom with the assumption that I would probably succeed in fading into the background; the teacher was unlikely to call on me. As a candidate for president, what are the odds that the media might not call on Harris?
If the teacher told me, “I’m going to call on you tomorrow to speak about this assigned reading,” I might just have done the reading. There is something blockheaded about knowing you’ll be put on the spot and not doing anything to prepare for it.
In other words, it’s not just that Harris frequently breaks out in WordSaladese while on the campaign trail; it’s that she knows she’ll be put on the spot and absolutely refuses to do the homework required of winning the job (it appears she’s counting on the Left’s lapdog mainstream media to carry her to the finish line).
And if she’s not willing to do the work required of the campaign, why should we believe she’ll do the work required ‘of’ the job, should she win the presidency. I mean, as VP charged with overseeing our Southern Border, how attentive was she to that job? And if that was her best effort, what degree of incompetence can we expect going forward?
I wonder what Xi or Putin will do if they meet with a President Harris over talks to avoid WWIII and she breaks out in some kind of WordSalad. I don’t know what they’ll say, but I’ll bet smiles will break out across their faces.
