The White House released a behind-the-scenes video on crafting President Obama's 2012 State of the Union address. It focuses less on the content of the speech and more on the collaborative process itself — the late nights, the brainstorming sessions, the drafts, the rewriting, fact-checking, studying past SOTU speeches. Rinse. Repeat.
Snippets of the video reminded me of The Last Word's own intro for our nightly Rewrite segment, with the scribbled out words and sentences. Anyone else notice that?
White House senior advisor David Plouffee, Director of the National Economic Council Gene Sperling, the White House director of speechwriting Jon Favreau co-star in the clip.
Sperling described Obama as someone who "takes ownership" of his words and the policies he's developing.
Jon Favreau said he finished writing the first draft one week before the SOTU.
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It amazes me how Con-serv-Artists and the mainstream media can keep repeating, or allowing people to repeat, that this president is stupid and doesn't know what's he's doing. It's what they did with Gore and Kerry. We need to stop their lies NOW. They do it to make more money, let's include them and our "employee" politicians in the Truth-in-Advertising laws. Start a competition for the truth. A NO-More-Lies Law that 99% of us can get behind!
Very interesting. It is good to see what goes on behind the scenes. It think the nation would be better if we all understood how our government really works.
Same old familiar rhetoric...Nobama is still talking about the same issues in his previous SOTU in 2010 and 2011. That must mean he hasn't been able to solve any of them. Samo old hope and change Bull S*#t we heard before. A Bill Clinton, he is not. He had his chance, now it's time for a real change.