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2006-08-24 Home Front: Politix

Intellectually Curious George -- "Texas English'' is his first language

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Posted by Sherry 2006-08-24 00:09|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 those who worry about how ideas are communicated rather than what is being communicated are fools.

I'd rather hear a good idea from an ignorant, tootless bum than a bad idea from a well spoken, well respected person. but hey - that's just me.

Posted by Flavitle Omart7450 2006-08-24 00:50|| 2006-08-24 00:50|| Front Page Top

#2 John from Powerline's comment that Bush is a fine communicator up close and personal tracks with something I read a few years back - that GWB was kind of a 180-degrees-out-of-phase version of Reagan. Ol' Ronnie was incomparable in front of a crowd, but in front of a small group, he came across as awkward and even a little confused. Dubya, on the other hand...well, we've seen him trying to do the mass communcation thingy with somewhat mixed success. But in the one-on-one, or small group environment, Dubya's persuasive ability has few equals. Now if he could just work out how to talk to 300 million people as if he was talking to each of them individually...

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2006-08-24 01:18|| 2006-08-24 01:18|| Front Page Top

#3 It is a failing of the Bush advisors to create a format that works for him - leave the man's style alone, allowing him to connect with his audience - which he can certainly do. Reagan was Hollyweird trained - and loved the camera, audience or no. Clintoon was adept at the small "townhall meeting" format, where he could check out the "babes".

I figure George is at his best at a Texas BBQ, excelling at the one on one or small groups in an informal setting - talking Texican. Hell, even when he's "into" a press briefing at the WH like on Monday, you can tell he can connect - with everyone but petrified Helen and the real assholes. The drawback there is that those asshat MSM reporters are falling all over themselves trying to force sound bytes, create a mistake posing their "Do you still beat your wife?" BS, rather than posing intelligent questions and taking the President's response as given.

Shucks, somebody on his staff shud get it by now. They shud jus' leave 'im be. Tell 'im to let his hair down and have fun. Let Bush be Bush. Let 'im do a little rip-snortin' and ass-kickin'.

Let the Beltway Boobs and the MSM go fuck themselves.

Posted by flyover 2006-08-24 02:47|| 2006-08-24 02:47|| Front Page Top

#4 those who worry about how ideas are communicated rather than what is being communicated are fools.

those who don't worry about if their effectiveness in communicatiing are foold. This has ever been the great strength of the left: care about communication and not miss an opportunity to send the message. So while America slept, the left has turned the world against she.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-08-24 04:43|| 2006-08-24 04:43|| Front Page Top

#5 those who worry about how ideas are communicated rather than what is being communicated are fools.

This is nonsense. How you communicate is at least as important as what you communicate. This is common sense. If you don't believe this, try telling your wife how much you care about her, but do so in an angry or lacadaisacal tone. Try telling your boss all the correct information, but do so in an unpolished and unprofessional manner. Have you ever taken a speech class, ferchrisakes? Think before you speak, please. This is Rantburg.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-24 10:03|| 2006-08-24 10:03|| Front Page Top

#6 "Texas English"? Bush is from Connecticut. He was educated in the finest Northeastern blueblood schools. He went to freaking Harvard, for chrissake.

Posted by gromky 2006-08-24 10:10|| 2006-08-24 10:10|| Front Page Top

#7 And while at Harvard he took a class called Management Communications (MC, ta da). He has been shown to communicate well to over 50% of the voting public.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-24 10:42|| 2006-08-24 10:42|| Front Page Top

#8 It's clear that Mr. Bush went native when he moved down to Texas, and that the local patois is more natural to him after all this time than that he was born to. Some people are like that -- you should hear me after spending some time with Mr. Wife's Indian colleagues (with your eyes closed you'd think I was wearing a sari with a bindi stuck over my "third eye") or after we'd lived in Germany a little while (one of Mr. Wife's colleagues there was relieved to learn that he'd brought me with him from America rather than being a local "souveneir" that had subsequently been in a brain-damaging car accident -- my Americanness was clearly not apparent to eye or ear).

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-24 10:56|| 2006-08-24 10:56|| Front Page Top

#9 My brother attended one of these get-togethers with W and reported the same thing. Especially how fired up he gets when he talks about doing what he believes is the right policy.

Posted by FWIW in DC 2006-08-24 16:42|| 2006-08-24 16:42|| Front Page Top

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