| News Lampoon | Obama Berlin speech probably not all that great! | |||
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noise' to one, boring to another, ignored by the rest By Mickey Sartre, News Lampoon cub reporter July 25, 2008, German Village, Ohio--According to most of the people I've talked to, Barack Obama's Berlin speech wasn't as great as all the pundits and reporters are saying it was.
I'd been dozing during the John McCain speech here at Schmidt's Sausage Haus und Restaurant when I heard a faint, tinny sound below the drone of Candidate McCain's voice. I opened my eyes and saw the other reporter covering the event listening to something on his headphones. "What're you listening to?" I asked.
"Obama's speech," he said. "How's he doing?" "It's hard to tell with all the cheering. Sounds like a bunch of noise. How's McCain doing?" "The usual," I said. When McCain's speech ended, I yawned, looked around, and saw a small crowd gathered round a television tuned to the Obama speech. I pushed past the stretching and yawning people who'd endured McCain's speech and joined the crowd watching the Obama speech. "How's he doing?" I asked. "Shhh!"
I went outside, stretched and yawned, and then walked to my hotel. On the way, I asked several people if they'd heard the Obama speech, but only one, a guy named Ace, had. Ace told me he thought it "sucked" and was "boring." When I got to my room, I watched MSNBC's Chris Matthews gush worshipfully about Candidate Obama's speech for as long as I could stand it before I turned off the television and went to bed. Developing story. . . .
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