Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal

August 26, 2008

DNC Night #2


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Posted by acline | August 26, 2008 | Posted in: Politics |

2 Responses

  1. Ethan  August 27th, 2008 at 4:49 am

    “acline - OK, this guy is speaking like he’s giving a speech, i.e. scripted.”

    With apologies to the 15-Minute Hamlet, maybe he was given the following instructions:

    “Speak the speech exactly as I pronounced it to you… trippingly on the tongue; whole as t’were… a mirror up to nature.”

    I didn’t listen to all of the speeches, but a few of the ones I did were very scripty. Necessarily so, I suppose, such as the woman taking about getting rooked by the Supreme Court.

  2. acline  August 27th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    Ethan… Yes, scripted is good. But sounding scripted is not so good. At that particular moment, the DNC was doing a town-hall style Q&A. So sounding scripted was particularly annoying :-)

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