Language guru: Obama speech too 'professorial' for his target audience

CNN ^ | June 16th, 2010

[TaraP]

President Obama's speech on the gulf oil disaster Tuesday night was written at a 10th-grade level, which, according to analysts, may have gone over the heads of many in his audience...

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.

Though the president used slightly less than four sentences per paragraph, his 19.8 words per sentence "added some difficulty for his target audience," Payack said.

He singled out this sentence from Obama as unfortunate: "That is why just after the rig sank, I assembled a team of our nation's best scientists and engineers to tackle this challenge -- a team led by Dr. Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and our nation's secretary of energy."

[piasa]

professorial :(prah-fess-or-ee-oil) 1. full of bovine excrement; 2. inexperience [as in never having held a private sector job or never having managed a business]; 3. behaving arrogantly as appropriate for liberal faux god figure

[dixiechick2000]

I guess they are getting more than they bargained for!

I hope that they are soon consumed with anger at themselve for that vote.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

paging Al Green...

[piasa]

Obama: a guy whose ideas go over our heads like plutonium butterflies.

[Just mythoughts]

I guess they are getting more than they bargained for! I hope that they are soon consumed with anger at themselve for that vote.

My liberal friends and family are kinda my barometer of the mood in liberalville. So far not one, Baptist, Catholic, doctor, dirt farmer, or restaurateur, etc., are the least bit angry at BamBamKennedy. They are still in full hate George Bush rage and if the election were held today they would break their necks to get in line to vote for BamBam again.

[hoosiermama]

PIIIIIING..
Just wanted you all to know why we didn’t appreciate BO.....
Who in the h377 do they think they’re kidding?

[Huntress]

Obfuscation of what he actually did by talking about it too thickly to be understood?

Bingo. He has to talk like that because he hasn't done anything.

[Iron Munro]

Obama Gump tries to speak down to "small people"

[Califreak]

Camacho was stupid, but at least he loved his country and his fellow Americans, which is a whole lot more than I can say about the empty suit at 1600 today...

[funfan]

Priceless :)

[tina07]

or we the SMALL people as the BP guy said and he said ZerO called us SMALL too..the wee victims of the spill.

I heard and understood ZERO LOUD AND CLEAR....

CRAP AND TAX!!!!!

[thecabal]

I would welcome a President Camacho at this point. LOL

[sten]

funny... i’m a professional and i think he sounds like an uninformed moron every time he opens his mouth.

the ‘uuummm’ every 15-30 seconds is a dead give away.

[Rummyfan]

If you ask me the only people who still believe this guy are at a second grade level at best!

Actually I checked that yesterday after the speech- I had to go to the kindergarten level to find believers.

[pnh102]

LOL. I guess just calling people racist doesn’t work anymore. They’re just ignorant now. :)

[Liz]

This is classic Progressive thinking---- we are too stupid to know what these "geniuses" are doing. The Progs say Obama'a flopola BP speech was too "professorial" for his target audience. Translation: His speech flopped b/c Ohaha and his staff are too smart for the "little people."

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THE FACTS ARE THESE Ohaha's speech reeked of Rahm and Axelrod's political calculations. Some of the phrases used---the allusion to our fighting men----the Reaganesque "God Bless America"----show the WH mob had calculatedly written the speech using focus-grouped phrases intended to suck Ohaha out of the political sinkhole he's made for himself. In fact, the speech was so well-rehearsed-----even down to the orchestrated voice inflections and gestures-----that Ohaha must have channelled Lee Strassberg.

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The speech was slaughtered by Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman. Highlights of leftie thoughts on Obama's Oval Office Address on the oil spill.

Olbermann: "It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days."

Matthews compared Obama to Carter.

Olbermann: "Nothing specific at all was said."

Matthews: "No direction."

Howard Fineman: "He wasn't specific enough."

Olbermann: "I don't think he aimed low, I don't think he aimed at all. It's startling."

Howard Fineman: Obama should be acting like a "commander-in-chief."

Matthews: Ludicrous that he keeps saying [Secretary of Energy] Chu has a Nobel prize. "I'll barf if he does it one more time."

Matthews: "A lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue ribbon talk."

Matthews: "I don't sense executive command."

Rachel Maddow hung her head in despair.....too disgusted to even speak.

VIDEO: Obama: Oil Disaster "Most Painful And Powerful Reminder" That We Need Clean Energy

VIDEO: Krauthammer: Obama Gave It A Shot, But The Story Will Not Be His Speech

VIDEO: Frank Luntz Focus Group On Obama's Address: "Negative"

SOURCE http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/06/15/msnbc_trashes_obamas_address_compared_to_carter_

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If anyone is stultifyingly sophmoric it's Ohaha and his speechwriters. They promised a brighter day.....tomorrow.......Gosh, can you all wait til Daddy Warbucks comes back to Little Orphan Annie?

[rawhide]

His speech was all fluff and lofty ideas. Nothing at all was said to address the immediate problems at hand. obamma just shaked down the BP executives, the Chicago way. Now obamma can pay off his supporters with BP's money.

[Zack Attack]

Nice of him to care about “the little people”.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Bookmark.

[The Wizard]

I’ve heard of trying to cover up for someone, but this is the end.....assholes R us