On Writing Style

http://www.sadlyno.com The author of Sadly No, who for the sake of convenience I will assume is a male, writes in a clever way. Actually, it's more his line of thinking than his style that is clever. He is someone who has a penchant for pointing out lies in the media, and he has a talent for sniffing out one. That seems to be the idea his whole blog is based on, the title of which serves as a recurring catchphrase and stands to mean: "Is that statement we heard true? Sadly, No!"

I like his July 4, 2003 post entitled "They're all liars -- all of them!" It's aimed at pointing out the false claim by Rush Limbaugh that Hillary Clinton was lying about how many copies of her book "Living History" have been sold in the first few days. He claims it takes around six months to know the approximate sales numbers, so at that point in time she could not have known the figures.

The author of Sadly No proves his point in a very elegant and poised way. He does not go on smudging Limbaugh's credibility or taunting him. He recalls or researches that Limbaugh published a book in 1993, and he goes after the facts: he finds out that he went on boasting about his unprecedented early sales just one month after the book had come out. Simply juxtaposing this fact with Limbaugh's present allegations is a powerful rhetoric. There's no mud slinging in his blog. He operates with facts - very clever facts. That's the trademark of his style.

Later on in his blog we also find more sarcastic and bluntly anti-Christian sounding posts, but what never changes is his placing himself in a position of infallibility to dispense what he believes to be the truth about allegations made by public figures.