Jimmy

How exactly did Meghan McCain graduate from Columbia University and work for Newsweek without ever learning to write well?

I was actually really interested in reading her take on why Ann Coulter is bad for the world and/or the GOP, but I had to keep taking breaks from reading it because of her terrible writing.

I don’t by any means consider myself an expert on writing (I’m the king of run-on sentences), but I’ll [albeit somewhat jokingly] quote Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart and say “I know it when I see it”. And that blog post is not it. Maybe she was just having an off day, but I would think someone of her fame would think twice about posting a major blog entry that could very well be quoted by CNN on an off day.

Huh. I’m somewhat confused.

Anyway, cheers!

-j

P.S. after a quick look at mccainblogette.com I’ve decided that she’s probably not an awful writer (how forgiving of me, right? *grin*) but just a simple writer. She doesn’t go out on a limb and use any complex sentences very often. That’s what I do most of the time, and even though I land on my ass on the ground a lot of the time, I much prefer that to simple writing. I still don’t think it’s very good writing, but I think I understand why she passed her writing classes at Columbia: I think she’s probably following most of the rules of writing (I don’t know jack about the rules of writing, any ability I have is purely natural and the product of two English-major parents) but in a completely uncreative way. Drives me crazy.

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