OBAMAS USE OF COMPLETE SENTENCES STIRS CONTROVERSY

[nycbos]

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In the first term in office, President Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the previous eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say.

New polls indicate that millions of Americans are put off by the President’s unorthodox verbal tic, which has Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opens his mouth.

Mr. Obama’s decision to use complete sentences in his public pronouncements, as well as his insistence on the correct pronunciation of the word “nuclear,” has harmed his reëlection hopes among millions of voters who find his unusual speaking style unfamiliar and bizarre.


According to Presidential historian Davis Logsdon, of the University of Minnesota, after eight years of George W. Bush many Americans find it “alienating” to have a President who speaks English as if it were his first language.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/obamas-use-of-complete-sentences-stirs-controversy

[liberal N proud]

1. Perfect!

[TheBlackAdder]

2. Obama mistake: He made stupid people feel inferior because of his ability to speak properly.

[progressoid]

8. And he did it while being Black.

It's one thing if Bill Clinton or Elizabeth Warren does it, but a smarty pants BLACK MAN??!!11

[marybourg]

3. And he's a know-it-all!

I heard Steve Inskeep say it this morning on NPR. While maintaining a strictly neutral stance toward Traitor Trumps bizarre behavior and pronouncements, President Obama's intelligent, decent demeanor was too much for Inskeep this morning and when his Publican guest was groping for a reason why he hated Obama, Inskeep helped out by offering that he was, in effect, a smug know-it-all.

[mopinko]

4. and yet they will still likely zero out public radio.

the guarded language and subtle bias that has crept into public radio is sometimes more disappointing to me than people thinking the national inquirer is news.

[DK504]

9. I can't listen to NPR any longer.

I spend half of the time rebuking (or screaming at the radio) when I mistakingly hit that station.

The media is still so meek and and afraid of speaking like educated aldults and holding "leaders" accountable for speaking like adults.

The Rethuglicans push for ignorance is, once again, a gut punch to all Americans.

[Mc Mike]

15. Dave Foley, admiringly: "Do you understand all of Public Radio, Smatthew?"

Andy Dick: "I understand that it is pseudo-intellectual claptrap, disguised as serious discourse, and I can therefore ignore it."

[Paladin]

5. An oldey but a goody, more on-point now than ever.

Since we're about to be saddled with a president with a clinically-established 4th-grade vocabulary level.

[MagickMuffin]

6. He isn't the only one, John Kerry speaks in complete coherent sentences

And he was made fun of by people because he could speak in complete sentences and paragraphs. Drove Jon Stewart crazy!

[Gothmog]

7. I love good satire

[Missn-Hitch]

10. How is satire going to work with dips**t in the WH?

[tclambert]

13. Bet he accuses Borowitz of writing fake news.

[Missn-Hitch]

17. Did you see the moving van article?

He put "NOT THE NEWS" in the header. Haha.

[smirkymonkey]

11. I knew this was Borowitz even before I clicked on the thread!

I'm beginning to get good at this!

[tclambert]

12. Hey, Donald uses complete sentences (sometimes).

Build the wall. Drain the swamp. See Spot run. Run, Spot, run.

[Mc Mike]

14. Sad!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

16. Now there's something Pissolini will never be accused of!

...employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opens his mouth.

Not even close.