Make America Grate Again!!
Dear reader it has come to our attention that speech writing MUST be a declining art. Recently Donald Trump’s superbly enhanced wife gave us a stirring performance at the republican party convention. Melania is capable, (insiders say) of speaking seven different languages. That is truly impressive!. In spite of this excellence in language diversity she, as so many pollies do, required a professional speech writer. This is an indispensable part of the political process these days. A speech writer is there to finesse the art and as Kevin Rudd so boldly demonstrated, render the spoken word into a sort of incomprehensible sludge. Julia clearly used a speechwriter when she said ‘working families’ and ‘moving forward’ at the first speech as P.M. In an instant the voters were lost. Similarly Tony Abbott used a speechwriter, (or maybe he didn’t) to give us the three word slogan. Likewise we turned off.
Donald is no slouch in the wordsmith department. As a consequence Donald has a lot to say, and is quite happy to talk without the benefit of speechwriters on world affairs, Mexicans, Islam and building walls. Donald is resolute. We like that in leaders.
Kev. Talking the legs off a chair.
But this speech by Melania seems incomprehensible. I understand that Americans are almost as likely as Albanians not to have the requirement of a passport. That’s because Americans (so we are told) have no requirement for overseas travel. Because they are blessed by god with everything the world has to offer. So you can understand the isolationism that Trump espouses, and perhaps get an inkling into why Melania, did not do her speech in French, Russian, Slovenian, Greek, Italian, or German. Melania is quite fluent in these languages. If she’d just plagiarise all of it in French, she’d be a legend. But why, as a picture perfect protegee of the plastic surgeons art, would she bother trying to read in bad English, a very dull speech. And why could any one be bothered plagiarising the platitudinous waffle that Michelle Obama trotted out.
Getty Who?
People living outside the US of A, quite like Obama, but the locals, we’re told hate him. Why bother plagiarising the other bloke’s missus. Surely, and this is the point, if Melania had done her own Gettysburg, and spoke about what she knows, perhaps nuancing it to talk about shopping in the most exclusive boutiques, a love of ostentation , and a desire to see the poor eliminated as a global scourge she would have bought the house down. Even if she’s got up and said ‘Vladimir, there is no other was the greatest inspiration to her hubby’. Instead, multi lingual, travelled, rich beyond measure she banged on about her old man’s integrity, vision and all that other crap.
We demand a better standard of poor speech writing. Bad poor speech writing is as bad as when Vizard thought he was a comedian, or John E, thought he was the sheriff of the Sth Pacific and took us to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s an aberration and why?
Because it’s so lacking in imagination. It’s also just bloody lazy. We all learnt this years ago, why bother plagiarising, when tortuous gobbledygook will stand the test. A gold standard, that if said with enough conviction will carry the day.
And the ol maxim aint true; ‘You CAN fool some of the people some of the time, and you CAN fool most of the people all of the time’.
Particularly if you own the vehicle for telling and fooling.
That’s it in nutshell. God bless America.
And God bless Rupert!.