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Meet The 33 Year Old Speechwriter Whose Speech Was Teleprompted To The President Last Night
When Jon Favreau (no, not the actor) left the White House last year, 33-year-old (high-school football-playing, pirate-costume-wearing, Harvard grad and Ted Kennedy intern) Cody Keenan took over the reins of chief spechwriter for President Obama. As Reuters reports, Keenan's speechwriting career took off after he crafted the impassioned speech that Obama delivered at a memorial service for victims of a 2011 shooting spree in Tucson, Arizona, where former Representative Gabrielle Giffords was seriously injured. A former professor noted "he doesn't take himself too serious," and we suspect, given last night's SOTU, the rest of the world now knows that.
The wordsmithing wizard of terrific teleprompterism dressed for work...
and his special speechwriting outfit...
Six days before the State of the Union address, Cody Keenan posted on the photo-sharing site Instagram a blurred image of a speech draft with President Barack Obama's notes in the margins. He ended the post with "#SpoilerAlert #InsideSOTU-Cody."
No amount of eye-squinting could decipher the details, but if anyone knew exactly what Obama intended to say in his annual address to the nation, it was chief speech writer Keenan.
The 33-year-old Keenan wrote what will be his State of the Union address numero deux after taking over duties last year from Jon Favreau, who left after five years in the job.
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U talking about sexual chocolate? Mr. Obumma.. not writing his own speech? psshh
http://hedge.ly/1bwAwh2
Yea he's got the 44 IQ workin there.
Then this is for him:
http://americandictators.blogspot.com/2014/01/economic-studies-even-you-...
garrr thems be the words of butt pirate trickery!
Neither the pirate nor the pretender understand inflation risk, or they do understand, but are comfortable lying to the, "first time investors," that they are trying to dupe into buying the debt of an insolvent government.
So which is it, Mr President? Are you ignorant or evil?
The absolute kicker was that is was "affordable", huh?
You're so money, baby. MyRA is so money too baby!
"You stay classy, San Diego. Im Ron Burgandy?''
A pirate writing speeches for a butt pirate thief of a president. Ironic. Or tragic. Take your pick.
A guy who doesn't take himself seriously writing for a guy who sounds promises of vauge betterness while ruining the nation. Sounds evil to me.
That guy didn't dress up pirate for Barry for nuthin...
( So which is it, Mr President? Are you ignorant or evil? )
BOTH.
I'm sure the pirate knows about inflation. After all, he wants larrrge booties of gold pieces, harrrrr.
maskone909, while it may be low hanging fruit, one must emphasize and second the whole butt pirate thing. For one, I'm still waiting on the unicorn ranch I was promised back in 08, and, like, when I wake up now, my butt hurts like I got stuffed in my sleep and all I got was this stupid telephone. And whenever it's my turn to hit the J, this dude keeps elbowing in on my toke. First it's stealing my hit and now, now it's Butt-Surf-USA, baby! All hail the chief, with his pen and his phone and his thar'she blows, two bit, wooden leg, eye patch, fake beard, no account, swash unbuckling fuck toy.
OK. Now I have now seen everything.
Harvard, Kennedy old boy, given a position he was not qualified to have, with no oversight or governance. Yup.
Dont forget that he was born and raised in Chicago.
He's too busy being awesome. His underling Sexual Bundt cake, aka the Dread Pirate douchebag aka the mongoloid whisperer aka William Fakesqueer, aka Code dog Keenan has become the only linguistic fromp* that Berri needs.
*Fromp - To fart while sitting in a bath tub, at bite the bubbles.Alternatively - One who goes around smelling bicycle seats.
Any drinking buddy of Chappaquidic Ted's will be OK in Kim Jung Obama's book
He graduated to a Journeyman drunk driver by bein g an apprentice under tedski.
+1
Nice rant from one of our fine cousins north of the border. LOL! Pretty priceless.
Girls bicycle seats to be precise! I heard that when I was in 3rd grade in the 40's and not a Fromp but a Snark.
http://gantdaily.com/2014/01/28/jp-morgan-exec-jumped-to-death-from-33-s...
http://music-mix.ew.com/2014/01/26/grammys-macklemore-ryan-lewis-perform...
Its the magic number!
I guess he couldn't cut writing reality TEE VEE scripts. Same talent...
Of course, obumbles is FAR TOO IMPORTANT AN INTELLECTUAL TO WRITE HIS OWN DROSS SPEECHES.
American fellows: Meet your next president!
I don't take him serious either.
Thats right. Hes a fucking joke
This is good. Right?
Would you shake apart if I said no? Just testing your convictions.
If the tech-nerds can de-swirl kiddie-porn pervert pics they should be able to filter this too right? Then fire his leaky ass (no pun intended).
The Osama Slayer doesn't write his own speeches?
Fucking guy can't even carry the water.
Ah, the pen behind the teleprompter in front of the asshole who's behind the (continued) intentional destruction of the US. Nice to meet you, douchebag.
Apparently he is a very good plagiarist as well.
my word cloud has BYTCHEZ as the largest word so there ya go
My Bytches R A - there, fixed
Gag me with a rag. So we're listening to shit from some doped up college boy comedian? No wonder it sounded so much like shit from a doped up college boy comedian. Somebody shoot me now, please.
Worded it better than I ever could.
I thought the speech sucked.
You're generous to call it a speech. It sounded like a recital, and it sucked.
Speech? What speech??
He sounded like rectal...and sucked what?
Recital?? I thought that was a barker on a Carny runway.---Step right up little lady--knock all 3 down and win that Panda Bear. Pathrtic. Milestones
My thoughts exactly. Politics aside, it was just a poorly-written speech with no coherent theme.
So, Barry is a spongebob fan...
That explains a whole lot right there.
lol
This guy's got nothing on Patchy.
If you like your plagiarism, you can keep your plagiarism…period!
33 - the new 15
How hard is it to write insincere promises to the free shit army?
Depends on whether you have a human soul or not.
The octopus has many tentacles...
DaddyO
Every King needs his Jester.
getting trolled hard by .gov these days
What kind of professor would say, "he doesn't take himself too serious,"?
Obviously not one who has ever taken English or knows whan an adverb is used for. Must be on the Harvard staff.
Speaking of adverbs, this GQ who wears to much Soul Glo has less credibility than that old schoolhouse rock song
"Loly Loly Loly get yer adverbs here"
What a
fucking
PUTZ
I just figured out who Obozo really is! He is that little black kid in Schoolhouse Rock who's Mom sends him to the sto fo a stick a butta
WTF is the point of this article? Is this Reuters' way to advertize on ZH? What?
I write the songs that make the whole world cringe . . .
The Captain Morgan motif is only meant to disarm the unwary. Somali want a cracker?
Decide for yourself, graduated from Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences:
http://dailynorthwestern.com/2013/02/06/top-stories/northwestern-alum-na...
Akak, I hope that wasn't you because with one slash with that hook you could have solved a few of this nation's problems.
Miffed;-)
It would have put that freak, Biden, in office. Unintended consequence?
If Biden were to go then we get to have the Orange Carrot Boner to be shoved deep up our ass.
The Line of succession is horrific. It is a just a Life Insurance Policy.
Based on the drape of the fabric of the pant leg. This fucker never worked a day in his life. I wonder WHICH secret societies he is a member of.
Is than anything genuine about the man, OR is the speech writer making national policy? such as it is. In any case we ought to be outraged, but we are not. Hollowmen deliver hollow speechs .
Lie Witness news...from Jimmy Kimmel..survey on what folks thought about the State of Union address "BEFORE' it was televised..everyone lies thier fannies off and said they watched it...so funny..this is the real world we live in:)
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/01/lie-witness-newsstate-of-union-ad...
I keep saying we have a huge problem with folks living in virtual software or web worlds and they can't tell when the real world shows up:) Now all those folks that sell data collected from social networks can adjust their error factors on the value of this type of data from surveys to be sold...lol.
I get so tired of folks trying to quantify social network stuff to where they think its more accurate than it is...so I probably put a bunch of data sales in jeopardy today with a touch of reality and so did Kimmel of course.
I didn't know Captain FeatherSword from The Wiggles moonlighted as O's speechwriter. Brilliant !!
http://images.zap2it.com/assets/p186181_b_h3_ac/the-wiggles.jpg
just look at the pic, says enough.
And again 33, the Magick Number
Joo!
Who would waste their precious time watching the SOTU shit? I would rather watch a dog shit.....
How pathetic is it that our "elected" leaders can no longer come off the cuff with an original thought or something heartfelt (ala JFK) and anytime they attempt to do so it winds up an embarrasing, abysmal failure at improvisation (fool me once, don't get fooled again, etc.)
They truly lack the ability to think for themselves, just like the other 98% of this country.
Follow the leader!
(over the cliff)
I feel cheated...
The Prez never once squinted his eye and said "ARRRRRGH" during his SOTU...
The speech-writing Pirate should be fucking FIRED.
It really doesn't take many "speechwriter" qualifications to turn in focus-tested platitudinal garbage. I'm pretty sure I could write a computer program that would serve just as well with no drawbacks relative to that quality work.
Parameters:
max_thought_length = 30000; // 30 seconds
audience_condescension_percent = 100;
semantic_content_percent = 0.0005; // need non-zero value to seed or you may end up with a copy of an earlier Obama speech
Apparently, the average WS portfolio manager is 36 years old. No "muscle memory", as Jim Grant calls it, other than a ZIRP environment. This guy is 33 years old. Still has his statist beliefs intact as a lot of people a this age still do. There's a reason they pick these people at that age.
I'd like to see him wear his pirate outfit during his trial as accessory to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in the Hague. Call me sentimental but maybe after his conviction they can use the same rope to hang him that was used to hang NAZI war criminals.
Here's another take - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7hyUucbmj4#t=42
This isn't a joke?
Is it?
Can't they use the computer program from CSI to clean up the image?
wonder if Obama could even write a speech?
Fuck no he couldn't--he's a complete dumbass. Even a dumbass can be elected president. That's been proven.
the pirate costume is quite ironic since this guy said on Fox News in the video below with Megyn Kelly that last night's speech was a rip off (pirated) of the speech he wrote for George Bush's 2007 SOTU speech. Why am I not surprised with this Marxist, criminal, treasonous, lying, sociopath, scumbag of a POTUS?
http://www.infowars.com/obama-plagiarized-bushs-2007-sotu-speech/
OBAMA PLAGIARIZED BUSH'S 2007 SOTU SPEECH:
Former Bush speechwriter says rhetoric “eerily familiar”
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
January 29, 2014
Barack Obama plagiarized portions of his State of the Union speech from George W. Bush’s 2007 address, according to former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen.
The similarities underscore the point that no matter which party is in power, Americans are forced to endure the same empty rhetoric on an annual basis.
“Barack Obama has gone from blaming George W. Bush to plagiarizing George W. Bush,” Thiessen told Fox News host Megyn Kelly.
Noting how the two speeches were “eerily familiar,” Thiessen pointed to some examples.
”There were lines like ‘Our job is to help Americans build a future of hope and opportunity, a future of hope and opportunity begins with a growing economy, a future of hope and opportunity requires that all citizens have affordable and available healthcare, extending opportunity and hope depends on a stable supply of energy,’ all of that came from the 2007 State of the Union from George W. Bush,” he told Kelly.
Politico’s Dylan Byers added that although Obama didn’t lift any lines directly from Bush’s 2007 speech, the repeated use of the word “opportunity” was an integral characteristic of both speeches, while both also ended with an emotional narrative about a wounded veteran.
I cannot keep repeating this enough. USA USA USA is fast becoming the joke of the world.
Always has been in Canada.
There are pshycho illness definitions that define USA USA. Denial; Cruelty; Blaming others for every ill. Failure to even look at fault. Self destructive natures. Self perpetuating destruction.
"Wordsmithing wizard"? Feeding mind numbing drivel to mentally ill meglomaniac?