Writing Analysts Claim Palin Writes ‘Better Than Most Educated Americans’

The media haven't yet found the smoking gun they've been looking for in Sarah Palin's e-mails. Overall, the messages have been benign, lacking the excitement and scandal some hoped they would contain. That said, at least one outlet has gone a different route, questioning the former vice-presidential candidate's intelligence through the expertise of writing analysts. AOL Weird News has more:

AOL Weird News brought samples to two writing analysts who independently evaluated 24,000 pages of the former governor's emails. They came back in agreement that Palin composed her messages at an eighth-grade level, an excellent score for a chief executive, they said.

"I'm a centrist Democrat, and would have loved to support my hunch that Ms. Palin is illiterate," said 2tor Chief Executive Officer John Katzman.

"However, the emails say something else. Ms. Palin writes emails on her Blackberry at a grade level of 8.5.

"If she were a student and showing me her work, I'd say 'It's fine, clear writing,'" he said, admitting that emails he wrote scored lower than Palin's on the widely used Flesch-Kincaid readability test.

While some would initially scoff or laugh at Palin's grade-level assessment, past speakers and writers of note have scored comparably. Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was a 9.1 and Martin Luther King's famed "I have a Dream" came in at 8.8. Remember, Palin's results were based on e-mails, not riveting speeches, so the fact that they score remotely close to the aforementioned works is intriguing .

Overall, this is good news for Palin, as her writing was found to be better than some CEOs'. The New York Daily News sheds further light on her abilities:

It turns out Palin's writing skills are still better than most educated Americans. Global Language Monitor gave Palin's emails a score of 8.2, which actually exceeds that of most chief executives.

"She's very concise. She gives clear orders. Her sentences and punctuations are logical," said Paul Payack, president of Global Language Monitor. "She has much more of a disciplined mind than she's given credit for."

Yesterday, ABC News took a somewhat "fresh" look at the medias' Palin e-mail obsession. The network divulged "groundbreaking" findings as well. For instance, as governor, Palin was "...nearly obsessed with what people said about her" and "She once e-mailed an aide asking for low-carb foods." Riveting, no? Watch the report, below, for more:

(H/T: Gateway Pundit)