I don’t listen to speeches I read the transcripts. The transcripts cut through the optics to the substance, and the substance is all I care about.
After Trump’s RNC speech, I went looking for the transcript and found one at a local NBC affiliate. The only problem is, what I was reading in that transcript didn’t match what people were talking about. What the NBC affiliate had posted was the press-release speech that was posted to the teleprompter…not the actual speech with Trump riffs. A whole lot of Trump riffs.
I found the actual speech at the NY Times and copied it. I then decided to post it here, and note the differences between the two. The question then is: highlight the prepared or highlight the riffs?
The riffs won. And if you want to really know what we’ll get with Trump as President, I’d pay attention to the bold bits.