Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Palin invents word 'refudiate,' compares herself to Shakespeare (Dummy Update!)

Politico reports that Sarah Palin addressed her now-infamous "refudiate" tweet (see below for the backstory) on Sunday's episode of "Sarah Palin's Alaska." She now says it was a simple typo:

While in the car, Sarah also talked to Todd about the time she tweeted the word "refudiate." "I pressed an F instead of a P and people freaked out," said Sarah, pointing out that her blunder was the second-most-searched word on Google trends. "Make lemonade out of lemons," said Sarah.

At the time, Palin acknowledged in a tweet that she had created a new word.
It is perhaps worth noting that the "F" and "P" keys on a QWERTY keyboard are not near each other.
Moreover, Palin spoke the word "refudiate" in a Fox News appearance before she used it on Twitter:

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