Until now the  mainstream media have been at a loss to explain why their hero, President Obama, speaks so lucidly when using a teleprompter but frequently stumbles when his electronic aid isn’t available.

But thanks to Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Dunn we now have the answer. Obama’s brain is moving faster than his mouth creating what she calls an “intellectual stammer,” which is different from a stutter:

But consider this: It’s not that Obama can’t speak clearly. It’s that he employs the intellectual stammer. Not to be confused with a stutter, which the president decidedly does not have, the intellectual stammer signals a brain that is moving so fast that the mouth can’t keep up. The stammer is commonly found among university professors, characters in Woody Allen movies and public thinkers of the sort that might appear on C-SPAN but not CNN.

Dunn then goes on to compare Obama’s stammer  to that of the late William F. Buckley, who was one of the 20th century’s greatest conservative thinkers:

That’s kind of ironic, given that the godfather of the intellectual stammer is arguably none other than the paterfamilias of the conservative movement, William F. Buckley Jr. With his slouch, his glazed-eyed stare and a speaking style that suggested the entire Oxford English Dictionary was flipping through his mind while he searched for a word like “dithyramb,” he makes Obama’s extemporaneous speech seem canned — not to mention pedestrian — by comparison.

There is little doubt that Buckley was an intellectual. The tougher case is to call Obama one.

Buckley acquired a great deal of knowledge in his life and was able to recall much of it at any given moment, whereas Obama tends to lean towards the more trivial due to his lack of knowledge and experience. In addition, he is burdened with having to choose his words carefully to continue the ruse that he is a centrist, and pro-business, when his background, past associations and radical appointments as President indicate quite the contrary.

Dunn has it wrong though. Obama doesn’t have an “intellectual stammer”  but instead suffers from what I refer to as  “intellectual deficit disorder,” where sans his beloved teleprompter his mind is searching for words that just aren’t there.

This is just the latest example of the Obama-loving mainstream media’s concerted efforts to explain away the President’s shortcomings. Unfortunately it won’t be the last, as the 2012 election draws closer.

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Don Irvine
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6 Comments for L.A. Times Explains Obama’s ‘Intellectual Stammer’

Joseph J. Pippet

JMJ Mr. Irvine. President is Burdened with Intellectual deficit disorder (SElf inflicted) and Addicted to the teleprompter (Sel;f inflicted) the problem though is We suffer because of it. Respectfully with Love, Joseph J. Pippet, Wildwood, NJ USA

Rigel

Let’s spend most of the media’s time and money attempting to make Sarah Palin look stupid and Barack Obama look smart. Meanwhile back at the farm housing continues it’s downward slide, medicare is about to crash. Medicare WILL NOT remain as we know it whether the Ryan Plan is used, Obama Care goes into effect, or it crashes. Outlook is bad or worse. Watched Chuck Schumer demagogue the Ryan Plan over the holiday weekend. No ideas from Chuck, just the impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace. Are you listening Homer Simpson? LOL

The Major

OH!! So THAT is why I have stuttered most of my 62 years,,I have an ‘Intellectual Stammer’,,,& I always thought I had ,what my prof’s called, a ‘needle stuck in the groove’ STUTTER. I can’t,I can’t,I can’t get my sentences started,,but when I do,,WATCH OUT. I walk the Malls talking to myself out loud & the Security guards think I’m crazy,haha. I just keep speaking aloud to practice NOT stuttering.
SO,,,my brain is faster than my mouth??? I sure as heaven HOPE SO,,,if our brains were the same speed as our mouths,,,,duh,,,,nothing would come out right at all,,,Y/N??? Obama is using his TP’s so he can propagandize us with the words of wisdom of his HIGHER UPS & MARXIST ‘HANDLERS’,without whom,,he would have NEVER have been elected. Since I have this Intel Stammer too,,I guess I am up there with Prof’s & woody allen,& ‘public thinkers’.. I ‘ll never be a Prof. altho I’ve been an Instructor in the Army,,not Philosophy,,but Survival skills,,,I HATE the sight of woody allen,,he makes me hurl,,& most if not all ‘public thinkers,are far left progressive ivory tower liberals who have hated America while I & many like me have defended this most generous of Nations,,the great exception was of course Will Buckley Jr. I could talk all night about Big Bill,,but thats fr another night.

Wildbird

The NEW YORK SLIMES and its intllectual blabbering poppycock