TheGreenHornet
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When did speech writers come into vogue?
From what I have gathered President Woodrow Wilson was the last President to write his own speeches.
Now I think most folks or at least the more astute understand that Presidents use speech writers.
They give speeches...though not really what I would call a speech...they merely read what someone else wrote.
What is the difference between that and plagarism....not their words nor their ideas...they are just pretending that by reciting as in a speech form what others have thought or wrote.....without giving credit.
In addition to that form of deception they now of course use teleprompters....and those skilled at it can make it appear they are not even reading scripted material...that they are just speaking naturally.
Thus the American People are being deceived.
From what I have gathered President Woodrow Wilson was the last President to write his own speeches.
Now I think most folks or at least the more astute understand that Presidents use speech writers.
They give speeches...though not really what I would call a speech...they merely read what someone else wrote.
What is the difference between that and plagarism....not their words nor their ideas...they are just pretending that by reciting as in a speech form what others have thought or wrote.....without giving credit.
In addition to that form of deception they now of course use teleprompters....and those skilled at it can make it appear they are not even reading scripted material...that they are just speaking naturally.
Thus the American People are being deceived.
Why Don't Politicians Write Their Own Speeches?
I was scouring the op-ed pages of the papers today and came across a David McGrath piece in the Washington Post introduced with the blurb "When was the last time you saw or heard a writer credited at the end of a speech by John McCain or Barack Obama?" I clicked through, expecting a piece express
www.outsidethebeltway.com
