Sarah Palin: Below-Average American

An as-yet-to-be-authenticated, high school transcript of Sarah Palin's was posted on Gawker Thursday, and it's a doozy. The report shows Palin's GPA for that grading period as a 2.2, her lowest score being a D in Foreign Language class (which seems a bit too on-the-nose). It also says that she earned 3 C's and 2 B's.

The real shocker is her SAT score, also listed in the report. Apparently, Sarah Palin scored an 841 out of 1600 (the maximum of the old point-system). It goes without saying that if I had brought home that SAT score when I was a senior in high school, I would have been disowned. My mom would've painstakingly cut me out of each and every photo with her sewing scissors the way she did friends she was no longer speaking to. I would have become that circular void in photo albums, a hole in the Olan Mills family portrait, excised like cancer.

But, hey, that's just me, your average arugula-munching, Ivy League-attending, elitist American asshole, talkin'. And, I mean, compared to people who didn't have Hardass Asian Parents Psychotically Obsessed with Education, maybe Sarah Palin's sucky SAT score is A-OK. She is, after all, just an average American. She shouldn't be expected to have scored a 1590, like Bill Gates did. Or a 1355, like Al Gore, someone who actually held the position Palin is vying for. Or a 1206, like...President George W. Bush. Or even, say, a 1080, like Kobe Bryant. Am I right? (Click here to see other famous people's SAT scores. James Woods is an SAT genius, btw.)

Maybe it's even unreasonable to expect Sarah Palin's SAT score to be better than the national average--997 combined--in 1982, the time this alleged transcript was issued. In which case, cool. I can accept that. Because Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world, red and yellow, black and white, smart and dumb, et al., and I love Jesus. But if this below-average report card turns out to be real, is it too much to ask that Palin stop lying about being so "average"?

Comments

[Myshkin57]

Why was my post linking to the proof that this is fake deleted? Geez! I don't like Palin but I wouldn't stifle the truth.

[Myshkin57]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/11/71941/717/207/627300#c2

Let's see if it works this time.

[pvd]

Appears to be fake based on reports from several sources including Gawker (where this was posted and where this article links).

[callenish]

It can't be true that good ole boy George W. Bush scored a 1206 on his sat!!! He sure doesn't show that level of intelligence! Oh wait what am I thinking who else could have SCREWED the middle class the way he has.

[rockyb26]

Contact the media and urge them to report on the Troopergate story. As of today they're ignoring it.

Contact list:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=111

[Roll451]

Regardless of whether this SAT report is accurate, Palin has shown herself incapable of giving intelligible, let alone intelligent, answers to straight forward questions. She is too ignorant, and probably too stupid, to be a heart beat away from the presidency.

[boogiewoman]

I'm not surprised thats why she tries to talk like the youth. Remember she didn't even know what the V.P. did. Where does he go? He flies over Alaska.

[wendynyc]

She probably ranks far higher on th street smarts score - unfortunately that's what counts in real world politics - look at Dick Cheney!

[gigi09]

Palin's radical right-wing mentors!

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/10/palin_chryson/

[lasvegas65]

Sarah Palin regardless of her below average SAT, is just a princess pawn in this election and we really shouldn't entertain ourselves with anything personal about her. She is exactly what McCain intended to attract the American people. Hence (Attract), it looks like it worked for those who are easily persuaded by these types of tactics.

[Myshkin57]

This is fake. SAT scores have only be given in multiples of ten for at least 30 years. She's not bright, but this isn't the evidence of that.

[tsat]

I guess she is a below average American.

[TXfemmom]

Call me silly, but I prefer to have intelligent, elite politicians who can actually understand and comprehend the very complicated things which face this country.

[Suzeeq]

ditto

[Rockerbabe]

SAT and ACT scores only signify that one is able to take a genral standardized test very well. I am no lover of Governor Palin, but using SAT scores to validate intelligence is a farse. Dubya has one over 1000 and look at the mess we are in today. Then there is Paulson, Cheney, Bernacke, Greenspan and all the CEO of these investment banks - some smarts you got there!!!
Of course, getting into Harvard or Yale or whatever Ivy League school one desires to attend has an aweful lot to do with connections and money as well as smarts. I wonder what the alma mater of these brillant business men just happen to be - any Ivy League takers?
I never have done well on standardized test, but I am more than capable of mastering the subject matter and belong to two honor societies, have a master's degree and several professional licenses. I didn't do well on the SAT or the GMAT or GBus boards. . .
Getting elected to office is not a matter of SAT smarts, but street smarts, political smarts, connections and campaign strategy well executed. On that account, Governor Palin is plenty smart and smart-alcey.
Go figure!

[jchflorida]

They give you 800 if you spell your name correctly .

[Zingaro Zorro]

We are told that during the Great Depression a group of more than 200 Minnesotans moved to Alaska and began another life removed from mainland reality.

The Minnesota Multi-Phasic Personality Inventory {MMPI} doesn't attempt to assess the abnormal psychological tendencies of migrant ancestral pilgrims.

Linguistics experts will assess the reality that Sarah Palin speaks with an accent typical of Scandinavian immigrants between the First and Second World Wars who populed the city of Minneapolis and the northern territory of Minnesota.

Would emigrants from Minnesota to Alaska be considered migrant farm workers?

Could Palin's political views have to do with the fact that she attempting to distance herself from her family hisotry of poverty and migarant farm work?