Posted on 09/05/2012 10:39:56 AM PDT by ColdOne
CHARLOTTE, N.C. First lady Michelle Obama's Tuesday speech was written at a 12th grade level and was the most 'advanced' speech ever delivered by a presidential nominee's spouse, an analysis finds.
The University of Minnesota's Smart Politics blog finds, using the Flesch-Kincaid readability test, that Obama's speech was delivered at a 12.84 grade level.
That's in contrast with Ann Romney's speech last week at the Republican convention, which measured at a 5th grade level.
The test which does not factor in the message of speeches judges readability by word syllables and sentence structure.
President Obama, on the other hand, has delivered some of the lowest grade level State of the Unions preferring shorter, simpler sentences in his addresses.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
It makes one wonder just WHO Michelle/the dems were trying to reach with her message. Speaking at this grade level surely didn’t resonate with those having less education. Most likely, these folks tuned out (either mentally, physically, or both...) and apparently Michelle didn’t care if they did.
So the only purpose behind this pointless study was to portray Mrs. Romney as being dumber than Mrs. Obama?
They must not have been too worried about losing their base.
So run-on sentences are the mark of a superior speech? Whooda thunkit?! ;-)
About the same level as her college thesis.
Who ARE thes people grading these things? Is it any wonder our educations system is screwed up?
I was told in my college-level writing class that to be readable to nonspecialists, my paper should be written at about 5th or 6th grade level.
Thank you thank you thank you for putting it into perspective.
Obviously content is not important to these people, just like the teacher redlining punctuation without evaluating the merits of the words themselves.
Well done!!
“It makes one wonder just WHO Michelle/the dems were trying to reach with her message.”
My sentiments exactly. If it truly weighed in at a 12th level, I’m very encouraged: it means 75% of the Dems base didn’t understand it! :-)
Your comment brings to mind one of my favorite HL Mencken quotes: "The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." I would say that defines Obama and most Democrats perfectly. I used to use it as a tagline...
I thought he meant “Graf” as in Graf Zeppelin. Now I’m disappointed that it wasn’t a fat joke :(
She would fail a basic speech, communications or business writing course.
We'd hear that and more if she were at the RNC.
Exactly. Her inability or unwillingness to communicate to the widest audience possible fits very well with her self-created role as chief Nanny of the Nanny State. She doesn't respect the American People enough to communicate to them, just over them.
No wonder I couldn’t understand it. Too many big words. Big government. Big spending. Big taxes. Big borrowing. Big on wealth redistribution. Big on retaliation against successful people. Big on abortion. Big on homosexualism. Big on plantationism. Big on destroying the constitution. Big on restricting liberty.
12th grade ain’t what it used to be...
Contessa.... uh...ah...mmmmm....
Too easy.
Why? It already passed the Wasserman-Schultz.
I am enjoying the comments-—I should make mistakes more often!
Wish I would have thought of that!
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