Posted on 08/06/2007 5:53:36 AM PDT by beaureguard
Tony Harris of CNN, Jake Tapper of ABC, Mara Liasson from NPR, and CNN's Candy Crowley all used exactly the same word in referring to Obama's shallow foreign policy address. The same word ... and it's probably a word you've never heard before in your entire life used to describe a speech.
Now think back a bit ... think back to the Gettysburg Address if you wish. What the hell, let's go all the way back to the Sermon on the Mount. We can call that a speech, can't we? Are you working on this? Are you conjuring up each and every speech you've ever heard or read about? Fine ... now tell me; how many times have you ever heard of a speech being called "muscular." That's right ... muscular.
Well if you were listening to Liasson, Tapper, Harris and Crowley last week, you heard each one of them refer to Obama's foreign policy address as "muscular." In the case of ABC's Tapper it was "obviously very muscular." Not only that, but Tapper also told us it was "strikingly bold." So ... there's the "bold" word also. The same word used by the Associated Press in their coverage.
But let's stick with "muscular." We've all hear speeches referred to as "bold" before, but never "muscular."
Try this. Google "muscular speech." You'll get about 7 hits (as of Sunday morning). Every one of those hits point right to Obama. Your Google News search will reveal that not only do we have the four TV news reporters using the word, but you'll also find it in a story written by Dan Balz of the Washington Post, and it appears in coverage in U.S. News & World Report.
Take it a step further. Google for any news story or other resource using the words "muscular" and "speech" in the same item. No ... I didn't go through all two million hits. It soon became clear that most of the hits were concerned speeches about Muscular Dystrophy or body building. I did not, however, find one single reference to any actual speech being described as "muscular," other, that is, than Obama's.
OK ... so what is going on here?
Suddenly, out of the blue clear sky, we learn that Barack Hussein Obama is the master of "muscular speech." Tell me .. how in the wide, wide world of sports do ABC, NPR, The Washington Post, CNN, U.S. News & World Repot and other media outlets suddenly begin using the very same exact word to define a speech ... a word that has never before been used in that manner?
It seems obvious, doesn't it? Barack makes an embarrassing speech on foreign policy. He gets roundly ridiculed. Obama then re-states some of his positions in that speech in an effort to stem the ridicule and to show the voters that he really means business when it comes to fighting terrorism and dealing with America's enemies. Then some Obama operative figures out that Obama can be positioned to the voters as a man of strength and resolve by throwing the word "muscular" into the mix when describing his speech.
When I joined a group of fellow talk show hosts for a meeting with the president in the Oval Office last week, the left suggested that we were merely there to get our talking points in person, rather than by our super-secret daily faxes from the White House. We were referred to in more than a few articles and blogs as the president's "propagandists."
What, then, do you call all of these reporters who are parroting the "muscular speech" line? And don't give me that coincidence nonsense. You know what happened as well as I do. Someone sent the word out. Someone got the word to their like-thinking friends in the press that they would like to see Obama's foreign policy speech referred to as "muscular," and the press fell right in line. The suggestion was made, and then eagerly acted upon. That's the "objective" mainstream media for you.
Think about it. There's simply no other explanation.
Well, they can’t say Obama has “Gravitas”.
But his muscles turn to jello when nuclear weapons are involved.
The Presidents Bush were quite fit. Even Clinton sort of jogged (although jogging to McDonalds was quite a statement).
President Reagan rode horses and cleared brush. President Ford was a football player.
The fitness of a President doesn’t get him elected but it helps. Remember Clinton and Gore throwing the football around like the Kennedys had? And how the media went on and on about hot it projected youth and strength? I’m not sure this is any different.
Hey Jack... that term is obviously homo.
That’s “muscular” as opposed to anything that takes a living brain cell to formulate.
Muscular is the opposite of Intelligent.
Muscular stud? ROTFLMAO!
Agreed !
That’s exactly what I felt when I read it....
This is a great story. Neil needs to update it because Dan Balz of the WaPo, Reid Wilson of Real Clear Politics, and the Chicago Trib all did the same thing.
He’s got some damn big ears!
"stud"
Obama the O’Barbarian
Well, I would describe Obama’s speech as “muscular” - in a glutimus maximus kind of way.
Naw...
Muscular is the opposite of weak....
Stupid is the opposite of intelligent.....
My conclusion is that Obama is both stupid and weak....
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