Monday, January 19, 2015

State of the Union ad infinitum

"[A]n almost-plausible speech taking one sentence from each SOTU since 1961."


posted by John Althouse Cohen on Monday, January 19, 2015
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1 comments:

Richard Lawrence Cohen said...

Then there's this panegyric from yesterday's NYT about the president's speech writer, and how, fueled by man's-man single-malt scotch, he wracks his soul for weeks before finding the inspiration to craft those immortal sentences about ordinary Americans who triumph over adversity:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/us/politics/cody-keenan-obamas-hemingway-draws-on-friends-empathy-and-a-little-whisky-for-state-of-the-union.html

Obama calls him "Hemingway" for his beard!

January 20, 2015

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