How can someone with a communications degree be completely incapable of communicating?

[HopeHoops]

:shrug:

Then again, it only took, what, five colleges before she found one that would give her a diploma. They probably gave it to her just to get the fuck rid of her.

[Boojatta]

1. Note to self: investigate admission policies of schools offering communications degrees.

[cloudbase]

2. It's not considered

an academically rigorous course of study.

[Imajika]

3. Bingo..

Communications degrees are not exactly difficult to obtain.

[lunatica]

4. When you can't get a degree for anything else you go for Communication

I've known some real idiots who got degrees in communication, even at UC Berkeley.

[patrice]

9. b.i.n.g.o. nt

[Snoutport]

11. Hey! My B.S. is in Communications!! (Journalism/speech writing were my focus)

A lot of schools have TV and Journalism as well as speech as part of a communications degree.

[lunatica]

15. Not all Communications majors are idiots

But I have known a few who are.

[pinboy3niner]

5. Give her a break

As Dick Cavett observed, "She doesn't seem to have a first language." :)

[Bunny]

7. Ha!

That's a great line! :rofl:

[HipChick]

6. Axelrod said Palin is “a good reflection of why we can't abandon education' in this country..

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/06/07/axelrod-palin-reflects-why-we-cant-abandon-education/

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. She does do well in using propaganda techniques

Some colleges do cover these in communication classes ie.



Propaganda Techniques

Edward Filene helped establish the Institute of Propaganda Analysis in 1937 to educate the American public about the nature of propaganda and how to recognize propaganda techniques. Filene and his colleagues identified the seven most common "tricks of the trade" used by successful propagandists (Marlin 102-106: Propaganda Critic: Introduction). These seven techniques are called:

Name Calling
Glittering Generalities
Transfer
Testimonial
Plain Folks
Card Stacking
Band Wagon
These techniques are designed to fool us because the appeal to our emotions rather than to our reason. I think she has master the use of these techniques rather well.

http://mason.gmu.edu/~amcdonal/Propaganda%20Techniques.html


See this for more information on techniques.
http://www.propagandacritic.com/

[HopeHoops]

10. Well, whoever writes the notes on her hands for her is good at that.

[Romulox]

12. "I know! Is phony major. Lubchenko learn nothing. Nothing!"

Hibbert: Son, I'm afraid that leg is hanging by a thread.
Lubchenko: Lubchenko must return to game!
Hibbert: Your playing days are over, my friend. But, you can always fall back on your degree in ... communications!? Oh, dear Lord!
Lubchenko: I know! Is phony major. Lubchenko learn nothing. Nothing!

[ljm2002]

13. Actually, she communicates quite well...

...with her intended audience. Which is not you and me, and not thoughtful people in general.

Remember the old quip by Adlai Stevenson, when told by one of his constituents, "Every thinking person in America loves you!"; he replied "Well sure, but I need a majority."

It's funny but sadly VERY true. Don't underestimate her, that could be a dangerous game. In my opinion, she does use what she learned as a communications major, and she knows who she is appealing to. She'll appeal as an "outsider", and the more the traditional Republican leadership rejects her, the more she can play that up: "Why, I'm just a good-hearted Christian girl with American family values. I never went globe-trotting when I was a teenager like all those rich brats, and all of these elite-types are tryin' to put me down. Dontcha just hate that? They'll try and act like I don't know what I'm talkin' about just 'cuz I don't speak all eddicated and stuff like that. But I know what's right and what's wrong, I sure do, and I don't talk down to folks." Something like that.

Sure, she's a grifter. But successful grifters know their marks well. So does Sarah Palin.

[Ichingcarpenter]

14. That's why I said she does well in Propaganda Techniques

And she does use them everyone of them with her intended audiences

Half the population falls below the bell curve and that's who she appeals too and they do vote.

She's dangerous.

[Avant Guardian]

16. Imagine her without a communication degree...

...she would probably communicate with grunts and clicking noises.

[mysuzuki2]

17. what exactly is communications?

there was no such major when I was in college.