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Monday, January 27, 2003
"Try tossing your hair when you speak. It lets people know you're smart and coquettish..."
Noonan wants to give President Noun Mangler some speaking tips for his SOTU:
Nothing is more beautiful, more elevating, more important in a speech than fact and logic. People think passionate and moving oratory is the big thing, but it isn't. The hard true presentation of facts followed by a declaration of how we must deal with those facts is the key. Without a recitation of hard data, high rhetoric seems insubstantial, vaguely disingenuous, merely dramatic. Without a logical case to support rhetoric has nothing to do. It's like icing without cake.
Once the facts and the declaration are put forward it's fine to use eloquence if you can muster it, and ringing oratory too if it will help people to see things as you do, and help them lean toward taking the course of action you recommend.
So to sum up: Moving oratory is what you use to underscore a point. It is not in itself the point.
It's obvious that Noonan has forgotten the rule that insists that you "know your audience" (her audience, presumably being President SAT Verbal 566). Keeping that in mind, why mention "lofty oratory" and "facts" to the man who would "persecute" evildoers who use "new-cu-lar" weapons? Better advice is: keep it simple, stupid.
But then we are dealing with a irrational man who wants to start a war based on an irrational hair up his butt. Witness:
An example. I'm going to refer to a private conversation about another conversation, I hope in a good cause. Four months ago a friend who had recently met with the president on other business reported to me that in conversation the president had said that he has been having some trouble sleeping, and that when he awakes in the morning the first thing he often thinks is: I wonder if this is the day Saddam will do it.
"Do what exactly?" I asked my friend. He told me he understood the president to be saying that he wonders if this will be the day Saddam launches a terror attack here, on American soil.
Yeah. Saddam is suicidal.
You know, there is only one moron in the upcoming "war", and its the one threatening to use nuclear devices.
Meanwhile Bush continues his terrorist attack on the US economy.
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