[raybbr]

From the guy's website:

The Readability Analysis of the Oval Office address appears below:

• Passive Voice — With some 13% passive constructions, the highest level measured in any major presidential address this century.  In political speaking,the passive voice is generally used to either deflect responsibility, or to have no particular ‘doer’ of an action, at least when speaking about himself or his Administration.  Otherwise, BP was the clear ‘doer’.

[BilLies]

FYI
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nunberg/payack.html

Size Doesn’t Matter
Geoffrey Nunberg

“Fresh Air” commentary,
April 18, 2006

At any one moment there are hundreds of made-up statistics floating around in the media, and fully 37 percent of them have to do with language.......
And there’s no shortage of hucksters ready to satisfy that need. Take one Paul J. J. Payack, a California marketing executive who runs an outfit called the Global Language Monitor, and who has a gift for concocting appealing factoids about language trends

[thecabal]

That's what bugging people about the speech. It's a whiny-ass attempt at blame shifting and misdirection.

"The buck stops over there"