http://slate.msn.com/id/2100720/
This is not perfectly executed (it's a bit tendentious), but it's easy to imagine it done perfectly, and it seems like a great idea. It does a great job of capturing what's wrong with the man's speech. It's not that he makes gaffes, but rather lards that he lards so many of his sentences with "caveats and pointless embellishments." And the result is a language of "pomposity and evasion" -- even when he's saying the right thing. Michael
