| Memo to conservatives in Texas: if you're going to advertise on the Internet, try to keep the spelling/grammar/punctuation errors to a minimum. This is especially true if your Google ads are set to serve up on Burnt Orange Report. Unlike your base, we're clever enough to notice them, and we're not afraid of book-learnin' for ourselves or others.
In particular, if your ads are about education policy, you might want to mind your P's and Q's. Case in point: the following ad appeared on BOR a few days back, and I grabbed a screen shot.
Kay, I agree with the message. Indeed, Texas can do better, and learn more. We can start with teaching your online people a bit of punctuation: you need a comma in there. Preferably, you'll place the comma between "better" and "learn." Commas are allowed in Google ads, I checked. They help your reader understand the separate and distinct ideas in your sentence. In short, they make sense of your nonsense.
Speaking of KBH on education, her voting record suggests that she doesn't want Texans to learn more do better. She opposed just about every Federal effort to increase education funding, voting against community learning centers, against grant money to local education agencies, and against funding smaller class sizes. Oh, but she did vote yes on two issues: school vouchers and abstinence-only education. I guess she believes the same thing about commas as she does about condoms: they don't work! (Does she feel differently about semi-colons, seeing as they are a longer delay until the marriage of the second independent clause?)
Then, of course, there's Rick Perry. Or, in this case, there's his grassroots supporters, who have started the "Grass Boot" organization. They advertise here too. Goody.
What's an effot? I cannot find this word in the dictionary.
Grassbooties, did you mean effete? That would work: dictionary.com lists its secondary definition as "exhausted of vigor or energy; worn out: an effete political force." Glad you see it too. Maybe instead you meant effet, the common species of newt? Secret message to former speaker Gingrich, perhaps?
Really, I'm not sure, because even though I studied two foreign languages for a combined six years, I still don't speak crazy. And what's with the Capital H's? What's a Home Headquarter? Thank goodness for the Third Amendment, because I certainly won't be quartering any Perry footsoldiers in my home. Also? You need an "an" before "official."
From their website:
Wait, but what's a Grassboo? I'm still confused. It sounds like it might be this plus this, but seeing as Perry's opposed to all of that, I'm unclear. However, said combination might explain the whole "come along side a candidate" thing they've got going on over there.
Meanwhile, Kay's at it again, this time over on The Google:
Kay, you transferred nearly $8 million into your gubernatorial PAC. I think you can afford to buy a comma.
And actually, Republicans? Nevermind. Don't fix those spelling errors, grammar mistakes, or lack of punctuation. You're revealing through your own campaign materials what kind of incompetent, careless, error-prone public officials you'll be if elected.
Texas voters, we can and must do better this time around. |
