John McCain elicited some hearty laughter at last night’s NYC gala in honor of the late Gov. Al Smith. In introducing Barack Obama, McCain mocked the hype about his opponent.
“Prepare yourself for non-stop hilarity,” McCain said. “The funniest 15 minutes of your life — or any other. I think he knows that anything short of [...]

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Sitting beside two forceful presidential candidates, grandfatherly Bob Schieffer wasn’t able to get in many words.
But he did make a linguistic error when he described the academic performance of American students, whose math and science scores lag. “The implications of this are clearly obvious,” Schieffer said.
The implications may be clear and they may be obvious. [...]

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In today’s PARADE, Leonoardo DiCaprio describes his response to hype about the Titanic.
“I was very much portrayed in the press as a heartthrob,” he said. “My instinctive reaction to this tabloid madness was to want to run away.”
Rhetorically, this is a double whammy. First there’s the word reaction, which is a spontaneous response to stimulus, [...]

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The more interviews Gov. Palin grants, the less intelligent she sounds.
CBS aired a mind-numbing interview yesterday in which the governor assured Katie Couric that, though she couldn’t name a single magazine or newspaper, she’s been reading a “vast variety of sources.”
Variety, by definition, is a diverse assortment. Unless you’re reading an unusually eclectic range of [...]

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Kim Kardashian’s dance moves proved to be just as sloppy as her language. Baby may have back, but she does not have votes — from TV viewers or Grammar Guard.
Here’s an excerpt from her Sept. 30 post.
To be honest last week, I cried so hard when I got home, just knowing this is SO hard [...]

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