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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStupid 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.
mcar
(42,210 posts)They used that idiotic line all the time during Obama's presidency.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)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.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)Ohiogal
(31,669 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)She used "I," "me" and "my" 108 times. If I recall correctly the speech was about 20 minutes.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,781 posts)unblock
(51,974 posts)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)...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.
Initech
(99,915 posts)kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)Scary and freaky, hed make a good horror story monster.
genxlib
(5,507 posts)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)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)Followers of Republicanism are really something when it comes to straining the limits of irony.