Posted on 06/17/2010 6:08:14 AM PDT by 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.
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Was Obama actually speaking in some form of subliminal ebonics?
Halp us Obama we be stuk in a erl spil!
The speech stunk. Get over it, CNN.
This is news?? Isn’t this response #1 in the Dem playbook to condenscendingly smile and say ‘you just don’t understand’ when you tell them they are full of it?
“How does this “word analyst” ... and obvious Obama sycophant ... explain the high marks the speech received in the African-American community, then?”
The answer to your impertinent question is obvious. The African American community has a higher reading level than other groups. They just don’t like to show it.
Amazing! At the university I graduated from those who were too stupid or intellectually lazy to make it in any other discipline including the Teachers College ended up in the School of Journalism.
There is something WLB Obama could do to convince the rest of us he’s been on this since the beginning. If, as he claims, he has been engaged since the first days, WLB could release the transcripts and identities of the other attendees of the working groups discussing the spill with him. After all, such groups would have had to have kept meeting minutes and a list of participants to have been legitimately constructed. So, let’s see some of the work product. It’s not a national security concern so there’s no reason to hide behind that canard.
Hey, CNN!, dumb it down a little. Maybe your ratings will go up.
And in related news, during the faux debate over the health care bill the Dems recently rammed through, the public was told by several Dems that the reason the public was not supportive was that the Dems had just not explained their position well enough.
Now comes the idea that if the public were just better educated (from government schools?) they could understand Zero when he explains things.
Both these memes have education in common, and it should come as no surprise that the left supports “education”. I use it in quotes because it is really ideological education in leftist-think and the leftist-worldview.
The next step beyond “education” is “behavior modification”, something we have just recently seen in the news with respect to the government’s seizure of public health care.
“Behavior modification” is just another form of re-education, a practice common in Communist dictatorships. Of the estimated 1 million people sent to Vietamese re-education “camps” after the US abandoned the South, scholars conclude that about 160,000 did not survive that experience. In Communist China, it is estimated that about 10% of the millions sent for “re-education” died.
In fact, when the Weatherman Underground were planning the armed overthrow of the US government, an informant states they talked about sending about 25 million Americans to be “re-educated” and expecting about 10% to die during the process.
November or Never!
I bet the viewing public are just going to love being told “You are too uneducated to understand the president “
Yeah? Well, where did most of Obladi-Oblada's constituents go to school?
You know you’re SOL when they have to say you didn’t talk dumb enough for the people to understand
"Oh, that's too funny!"
What's even funnier is that his target audience (that must mean liberals/environmentalists/Democrats) is either going to be really ticked that they got 'dissed' or not even realize that they've been 'dissed' to begin with.
I'll go with door #2.
I thought I understood?
Deep water well go boom.
Oil bad for yummy shrimp.
Lazy black guy do nothin.
Deep water well go boom.
Oil bad for yummy shrimp.
Lazy black guy do nothin.
LOL!
Dat's "laff out loud" fo dem white folks dat be to ignant ta undastand.
Actually, this guy is not completely off target. He made me wonder if all of those folks who voted for Alvin Greene understood Obamas speech? You know, that the speech was aimless, pointless, meaningless, there was no actual plan for a cleanup, not a single detail about what to do about the leak, and that Obamas main focus was on how to exploit this catastrophe to further that part of his Utopian socialist agenda to tax carbon out of existence so that unicorn and rainbow power can be harnessed for the good of all? Or instead, perhaps, were they simply lulled into a nice blissful Delta state by the sweet murmurs and cadences of his silver voice?
Oh for the Sake of Pete
“the Grade 7.4 of his 2008 “Yes, we can” victory speech”
So as to not go over the heads of the “Obama gonna pay my rent wid his stash” crowd.
Writing stuff is easy. Writing something that is well understood across a wide audience is difficult.
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