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highplainsdem

(48,731 posts)
Sat Sep 8, 2018, 01:03 PM Sep 2018

Stupid RWNJs attacking President Obama as "narcissistic" for yesterday's speech.

Sarah Palin and Seb Gorka and others are howling that it was sooooo narcissistic of President Obama to use the words I and me and my 102 times in yesterday's 64-minute speech.

They suggest that shows he's more narcissistic than Trump.

Naturally, they don't mention any Trump speech for comparison purposes.

I looked for a transcript of last week's Trump rally in Montana, didn't find a full transcript, but I did find this article at CNN quoting just the "59 most out-of-this-world lines in Donald Trump's Montana speech"

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/07/politics/donald-trump-montana-speech/index.html

and in those 59 lines alone, I counted nearly 50 uses of those three words Trump's sycophants find so objectionable in an Obama speech.

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marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
4. I wondered where that came from
Sat Sep 8, 2018, 01:41 PM
Sep 2018

I told a Trump voter that he has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. She said, so did Obama. I tried explain why they were different but she was having none of it. I wondered where she got the idea in the first place.

unblock

(51,974 posts)
7. Donnie says things like "I'm the best", "I have a great brain", and "I alone can fix it"
Sat Sep 8, 2018, 01:52 PM
Sep 2018

And he keeps his count lower by referring to himself arrogantly in the third person.

Obama says things like "I disagree with that" and "I feel that" and "my opinion is"

Huge difference that counting words doesn't capture.

JaneQPublic

(7,113 posts)
8. Ha! That's rich. Have they met the Bloviating Megalomaniac...
Sat Sep 8, 2018, 02:03 PM
Sep 2018

...leading their party?

NEW RULE FOR DEM POLS: If the GOPERS are heaping tons of hate on you, then you must be doing something right.

kimbutgar

(20,882 posts)
10. His voice makes me want to hide under my bed
Sat Sep 8, 2018, 02:36 PM
Sep 2018

Scary and freaky, he’d make a good horror story monster.

genxlib

(5,507 posts)
11. I would say he is caricature of a bond villain
Sat Sep 8, 2018, 04:02 PM
Sep 2018

But in reality, he is more like a bond villain that got thrown out of casting for being too ridiculous.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,320 posts)
13. Apparently he can't stand it that people won't call him "Doctor"....
Sat Sep 8, 2018, 04:18 PM
Sep 2018

because they know his PHD isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/16/sebastian-gorka-likes-to-be-called-dr-gorka-he-gets-his-way-only-in-conservative-media/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a479cc244400

His own PHD advisor says he isn't an expert at what he claims to be.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/politics/gorka-credentials/index.html


He is truly scum. I'm hoping when the shit finally hits the fan, he and Stephen Miller are both in cuffs.

gulliver

(13,142 posts)
12. Paul Ryan said the Times Op-Ed writer was "living in dishonesty."
Sat Sep 8, 2018, 04:06 PM
Sep 2018

Followers of Republicanism are really something when it comes to straining the limits of irony.

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