Monday, February 15, 2010
"President Obama's Lexicon of Rhetorical Devices"
If I'm not mistaken, interrogators are trained to keep suspects talking, because the longer they talk, the more likely they are to slip up and incriminate themselves.
I'm just saying...
I'm just saying...
At Townhall.com, Ben Shapiro discusses the fine points of Barack Obama's speaking style and phrases:
"Obama is addicted to utilizing language that he has carefully tailored or perverted to obfuscate the truth. In other words, he uses double talk on a routine basis. In order to understand what Obama truly tells us when he speaks to us, it is necessary to grab our Little Orphan Annie Decoder Ring and decipher precisely what he means when he uses his pet phrases. This, then, is a list of his favorite linguistic flourishes -- and just what he means when he uses them:"
