Long Speeches. Short Excerpts. How Soon We Forget.
This is a time when people are making long, very significant speeches. Our President just made one yesterday. Attorney General Garland made one the day before. Both said many things during their remarks. Few of us remember everything that was said. That's why transcripts are available for those of us who wish to make sure we remember those speeches.
Most people, however, will not review those speeches carefully after reading the transcripts. Instead, most of us, including myself, remember lines from them that were significant to us at the time we heard those people speak.
Some, of course, will remember only lines from those speeches they didn't like for one reason or another. They might bring one such line up to start a discussion of why that particular line means that the entire speech is not valuable, nor is it important.
Doing that is a mistake. The entire speeches are available for review. Picking one line from a speech and characterizing that speech based on that single line is foolish. First, the line may be taken out of context. Second, one line does not represent the entirety or overview of what was said.
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