De volgende drie fragmenten vormen samen alinea 4, maar staan niet in de juiste volgorde:
a And yet, were Shriver to make the same speech today, the furore would be 10 times as bad, a cycle that would begin with a baying mob on Twitter 1 and end with the Society of Authors issuing yet another of its feeble "please play nicely, children" statements.
b From mere folly to utter derangement in a mere six years. Well done, everyone!
c To read this speech now is unnerving. As she notes elsewhere, her words are mild, her tone almost jokey; at the time, no one would have cared about the sole audience member - yes, there was only one - who could not tolerate her heinous references to sombreros and dialects had a newspaper not picked up this woman's indignant blog the next day.