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Kerryisms
http://slate.msn.com/id/2100720/
This is not perfectly executed (it's a bit tendentious), but it's easy to
imagine it done perfectly, and it seems like a great idea. It does a
great job of capturing what's wrong with the man's speech. It's not that
he makes gaffes, but rather lards that he lards so many of his sentences
with "caveats and pointless embellishments." And the result is a language
of "pomposity and evasion" -- even when he's saying the right thing.
Michael
- Thread context:
- Qatar to legalise unions,
k hanly Sat 22 May 2004, 02:24 GMT
- Avoidgin the Geneva Conventions etc.,
k hanly Sat 22 May 2004, 02:09 GMT
- Abu Ghraib / Robert Mapplethorpe,
Yoshie Furuhashi Sat 22 May 2004, 01:34 GMT
- Orientalist Torture, Cont'd,
YOSHIE FURUHASHI Sat 22 May 2004, 01:27 GMT
- Kerryisms,
Michael Pollak Sat 22 May 2004, 00:46 GMT
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Kerryisms,
Frank, Ellen Sat 22 May 2004, 00:52 GMT
- Chavez and arming the people,
michael a. lebowitz Fri 21 May 2004, 21:18 GMT
- boston lecture on China,
Michael Perelman Fri 21 May 2004, 21:00 GMT
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