CNN: Obama speech too complex for his target audience because of its high reading level

cnn ^ | 6/17/2010 | cnn

[wrrock]

Tuesday night's speech from the Oval Office of the White House was written to a 9.8 grade level, said Paul J.J. Payack, president of Global Language Monitor. The Austin, Texas-based company analyzes and catalogues trends in word usage and word choice and their impact on culture....

Obama's nearly 10th-grade-level rating was the highest of any of his major speeches and well above the Grade 7.4 of his 2008 "Yes, we can" victory speech, which many consider his best effort, Payack said.

[wrrock]

MSM is saying his speech was too 'professional' and went over the heads of too many as the reason for its poor marks

[mnehring]

Yet it is the MSNBC people who gave it poor marks.. hmmmm...

[skeeter]

Oh, thats why it was so poorly received. We're just too stupid.

Hilarious.

[woweeitsme]

We’s is just nuttin’ but a buncha dum cuntry hicks...huh huh huh.

I’s keep forgittin’ dat dat dare Prezident guy is jest way too smartee-pants for mah dum butt!!!

Gahaw!

[Blueflag]

I guess I am to stoppid to relize my prezidant had nuthin ufseful to sey.

[RexBeach]

Eye no whye Eye dud knot git itt. Maria Montessori taut mee too rite.

Duh!

[farmguy]

Maybe we could get some super intellect like algore to interpret it for us non-intelligentsia little people.

[Doogle]

"THAT'S RACIST"

[headstamp 2]

Typical elitists. Everyone is just too stupid to understand what Nobama is trying to do for us.

The MSM is a cruel joke.

[ClearCase_guy]

Dumb people can't understand Obama very well.
On this basis, dumb people have decided that Obama must be really, really smart, since they can't understand him.
His core group of supporters has thus been identified.

[sarasota]

Somebody has been drinking too much ObiKoolaid.

[glorgau]

Yeah, Obama didn’t use the word “pusillanimous” to describe his actions so far.

[ZX12R]

He could have used pure ebonics and jive talk. It doesn’t matter. No content is still no content.

[SMARTY]

“Obama speech too complex for his target audience because of its high reading level”

THAT is hilarious!!

[Wyatt's Torch]

Wow... they have stooped to a new low to excuse the fact that he is an incompetent fool...

[GailA]

Guess my being an avid reader makes me unintelligent? I was using big words on my older male cousins that they didn’t even know when I was 12.

Now boring I turn off, and tune out. Obama is BORING and a LIAR, so why should I tune him in. I just come to FR and read the comments and find out the truth without having to go through the pain of listening to the BORING, LIAR.

[TSgt]

Perhaps he should write his speeches in Word?

[Volunteer]

No. The speech just sucked. There was nothing of substance in it and the “magic” has worn thin.

[reefdiver]

I guess i’m a red neck, hill billy, tea bagger. But I vote

[GailA]

And the college educated President and the MSM need to learn that it is I/we HAVE, not I/we GOT. Very poor English.