Posted on 05/20/2013 4:02:33 PM PDT by presidio9
On Sunday, President Obama gave a commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Keep setting an example for what it means to be a man, he told the graduates. Be the best husband to your wife, or boyfriend to your partner, or father to your children that you can be.
Thats what Obama said, according to the New York Times, USA Today, Politico, and dozens of other news organizations. But Obama never uttered those words. Heres what he actually said: Be the best husband to your wife, or your boyfriend, or your partner.
Thats not a small difference in wording. Its an enormous change in the meaning of the sentence. In fact, it changes the significance of the whole speech.
How did so many reporters get it wrong? In a way, they didnt. They quoted the text of the speech as it was prepared for delivery. You can read the whole thing on the Web site of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. News organizations do this all the time. You send them the text of what youre going to say, and they post articles after the speech, telling their readers that you said it.
But this time, the speech didnt go according to script. Literally. Obama changed the boyfriend line from hetero boilerplate to explicitly gay-inclusive. He ad-libbed. And this was a heck of a time to do it. The speech was about what it means to be a man. The president of the United States, who until a year ago didnt support same-sex marriage, has just put an official stamp of masculinity on male homosexuality.
It was also
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He ad-libbed
No, his propagandist prepared TWO SPEECHES, one for publication by Big Media, and one for the Teleprompter.
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Bingo!
Oops! Watch out for someone’s widdle toes....
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Here is the line that I was responding to:
Have these people ever actually seen a homosexual? Theres nothing masculine about them.
Am I to take it then that gay sex is an image you are quite familiar with?
“...Proposition shared the ballot with him in California..” but not rejected at Rev. Wright’s low-down group.
They never shut up about it. Their entire identity revolves around what they do. I suppose “seen” should have been substituted with “met”. Sorry about that.
In political arenas and on TV, you would be right. In real life it has been my experience that they generally keep their sex lives to themselves as much as the next person. It seems to be a common misconception on this website.
The teleprompter probably malfunctioned.
OK, O’faggot, you can come out and let the world know you are a flaming gay. We all know it anyway.
I dealt with Morehouse guys when I was a cop in Atlanta. For the most part, rich kids from somewhere else in the country. But the Moron in Chief isn’t far off when talking to Morehouse grads about partners. Its not a surprise to meet a “Morehouse Man” that is a bit light in the loafers.
I once made a sales call on an absolutely gorgeous man in SF who I had no idea was gay until he told me about his sex life, crawling around on his hands and knees in SF bath houses. He didn’t think I would be shocked but I was.
Most of them in SF I could tell, but this one threw me for a loop. He wanted health insurance BTW, was afraid he had AIDS.
He rarely gets a pass from me, but I’m willing to think it was a slip. Maybe a Freudian slip.
Other things concern me more. The lies and omissions about his past. The ghostwritten books. The coverups about Benghazi, the IRS, Newtown, the AP, ....
Tsk, tsk, tsk....
Is his color palate "spring", "summer", "fall", "winter?"
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He often refer to "folks" when he drops the "g".
Sometimes he whistles when he ends certain word endings.
Like extended: ssssssssssss, etc.
I listen to voice differations. Maybe from living in several southern and east Texas places.
I'm a southern belle ("YES") but have been told I have a Russian accent. I've been told I have an English accent. I'm usually not aware of a particular accent I'm using.
Voice patterns are often the same patterns of your audience. And Obama wants surely to audience and that's okay until you see a speaker ALL the time.
Like THE GOLDEN GIRLS tv show! Like Bea Arthur.
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Well, isn't that well written!
I mean:
"And Obama definitely wants to click with his different audiences.
That's okay but it gets a little old when it is so obvious and he does it all the time. What is his core voice.
It is like when Hillary quoted James Cleveland. - "I Don't Feel Noways Tired" to a black audience - in a church I think,
He stutters a lot at other times, haven’t seen enough of it to know if he’s really REALLY lying then, or lost his place on the Teleprompter.
I didn’t think much of GW as a speaker, except he was really good on 9/11-12, but Hussein is a hundred times worse, and infinitely more evil.
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