WH releases what is now the Urkel speech to kids tomorrow. Personally, I’d like to know how the speech read last week before they decided to change things.
Taking a look at the speech, we have finally determined what Obama’s focus is–himself. Ed Morrissey does the numbers:
I’ve run the speech through a word frequency counter and found the following results:
* 56 iterations of “I”
* 19 iterations of “school”
* 10 iterations of “education”
* 8 iterations of “responsibility”
* 7 iterations of “country”
* 5 iterations each of “parents”, “teachers”
* 3 iterations of “nation”In other words, Barack Obama referenced himself more than school, education, responsibility, country/nation, parents, and teachers combined. And to think that people accused Obama of self-promotion!
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A Labor Day tribute to the heroes who work 24/7 to keep this nation free and safe:
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Oh yeah, sure, I'd get on a plane with these beasts.
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To borrow a phrase from Tammy: I LOVE us!!!
Is it any wonder Obama spends more time talking about himself than about the actual purpose of his speech? But it goes even deeper. Using Ed’s numbers, I found where he talked about himself more than the other keywords Ed mentioned…COMBINED. So much for a “stay in school” speech!
After giving Mr. Obama’s speech a quick scan the amount of “I” references JUMPS from the page. It is encouraging to see others have noticed this. A great mentor counseled, “Read everything you write with a red pen and a blue pen. With the red pen circle every reference to iterations of “I” and with the blue pen circle every reference to the audience for the document. The blue circles must outnumber the red circles with a ratio of 2 to 1 in order for the audience to find the document credible.”
This was the single greatest lesson I was ever taught. (notice only one I reference!)
Thanks for the word count! Urkel is the absolute poster boy for malignant narcissism! The one item I miss from your old web setup was the countdown clock of how far we have gone, and how far we have to go with this idiot.
Thanks for TCB-ing [Takin’ Care of Business] this Labor Day, Tammy. I was deeply touched by your comments while the music from that video honoring our troops was playing. I cried. I stopped what I was doing and prayed for our troops and those who honor their sacrifice. And then you played Toby Keith’s I Wanna Talk About Me. It simply showed the sharp contrast between our troops and their commander in chief. How sad.
My nephew will probably be sent to Afghanistan next February. He will turn 19 this month. I can tell you first hand that as long as there are people like you in the media [and out], honoring his and his brothers and sisters in arms’ sacrifice, they know their service is worth it. Another song, by Toby Keith, showcases this fact quite nicely. I recommend having Kleenex handy while watching the video: http://tiny.cc/AmericanSoldierTB
Thank you for reminding us that we live in the Home of the Free because of the Brave: Our military men and women. G-d bless them. G-d bless you, Tammy.
Boy that speech to the kids is just plain creepy. Wow. Made me anxious just reading it. Talk about putting on the pressure. WTF.. these are just kids, not stormtroopers! I would love to have a therapist evaluate the speech. Look at these quotes:
… pushing you to learn
… none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities
… What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. What you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.
… If you don’t do that – if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.
… But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life – what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at home – that’s no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That’s no excuse for not trying.
…. So I expect you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don’t let us down – don’t let your family or your country or yourself down. Make us all proud. I know you can do it.
Man, I feel sorry for Erkel’s kids, they are going log a lot of “couch time” when they get older.
the personal responsibility goes squarely on the parents- if the child is f’ing up in school, is abusive and disruptive it’s the parents’ fault. the greatest failure of our society towards children is the failure to parent and has nothing to do with the public education system. we can heave boat loads of money at schools, bitch and moan about no child left behind and shift the blame to the children as barky does here- and it always fails. when children have miserable, abusive or inadequate home lives with no love, no structure, no support that is a very good reason for ‘ not trying at school’. just maybe the elders are failing as parents, not fulfilling their responsibilities . the responsibility for proper parenting does not fall on the child. lecturing kids who go home to a crack house or to an abusive situation at the end of the day about cutting class is frankly ridiculous. if anyone thought this tool knew and cared about ‘ poor people’ and the underclass here’s your proof he’s a condescending self absorbed prat.
my mother worked at mcdonalds- we had nothing. the greatest gift she gave me growing up was to drag me down the the library the second i could read to sign me up for a library card. she brought me there every week. it cost nothing, use wasn’t mandated by law and czars and congressional intervention was not required . i grew up knowing i could learn about anything i wanted to and all i needed was books to do it because my education wasn’t the school’s responsibility- it was mine. it all seemed so magical and empowering- and it was. my mother taught me to value learning because she was doing this thing called being a parent- she didn’t expect the school or the government or POTUS to do it for her. obama and his ilk think they’re the only solution to our educational problems wereas they are a large part of the problem. dependent adults fostered on the socialist teat never grow up and as a consequence generally do not parent.the irresponsibility starts with the adults and leaders like obama and their destructive social policies.
Morning in the USA.
It’s here. It’s September 8th. This is the moment you have been waiting for-the POTUS lecturing you on a TV screen set up in your classroom. Your pants pulled down to your knees as you sit there . Your stomach making gurgling noises from not having any breakfast again this morning.
Slumped down in your seat like all the really big shots in your class. Taking out your knife so you can scratch your “sign” in the desk . and then…and then…you hear him…….
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LOL ! I wish I were omnipresent in thousands of inner city classrooms across America today.
I want to see the reactions to O’s words with my own eyes. How the punks and street urchins of our cities all of a sudden will forget themselves and march right out of those classrooms and help a little old lady cross the street (without snatching her pocket book).
Yes, this is the beginning of Hopey /Changie junk. O will not even notice that none of the children are following him. Another wasted day in American classroom not learning about our American History or American Heroes!
WE will be listening to the POTUS though. So we can throw shoes at the screen half way through his speechifying.
My mute button is so worn out… but that is another story.
Later this day.
Something to look forward to at 5:00 pm eastern: Tammy Bruce and Glenn Beck together again at last for the very first time. (-:
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This past Friday, one of my sons came home with a “Permission Slip” for the viewing of Barry’s Address. After I split my gut laughing so hard I got a little verklempt. I am so proud of us for NOT
blinking. Since when can you ever remember a reaction to a Presidential Address being so
strong, so NEGATIVE that it persuaded School Districts to send home permission slips with their students in order for them to view it? I am thrilled for US. Hell, I didn’t even have to sign a permission slip for my 12 yr old to attend the schools “Puberty Class”. ROFLMFAO!
I live in a blue state; but red county (thank the good Lord!). My 15 y/old son’s school did not play the tripe. He said no one was even talking about it which I almost laughed out loud about. 1elder1 above is right: the kids don’t care and the Once is oblivious to it.
He obviously isn’t however, oblivious to US watching him – or at least paying attention to what he is trying to do (I can’t stand to watch him myself, and I’m not even joking) – otherwise he wouldn’t have changed his speech and tactics.
It’s like watching the home coming Queen (is that wrong?) walking around at the big dance, with the back of her dress hem caught up in the band of her pantyhouse. She has no idea why everyone is looking at her and smiling. She just floats around the dance floor like nothing is wrong and feels she owns the audience. The only difference (yes, the only difference), is that she, unlike the Once, will eventually come to understand what everyone is smiling at. He never will “get it”.
Awesome tribute to our heroes — very moving.