This is fabulous:
Kerry said he writes in long hand, then cuts and pastes pieces of the speech to reorganize his thoughts. He uses old-fashioned scissors and glue, not the computer keystrokes modern writers are accustomed to.
It’s not that he’s opposed to keyboards – he said he uses computers and preferred to compose letters on a typewriter when he was fighting in the Vietnam War. He said it’s just that he writes more effectively on paper.
“I find that this” – he moves his fingers like he’s typing on an imaginary keyboard – “somehow becomes the concentration. … It interrupts the flow for me.”
Did you know that John Kerry served in Vietnam?
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Glen writes in the comments:
You’re starting to worry me: this was Freeperville petty. People work best the way they work best. They don’t always work best the same way all of the time. Hello?
I was not trying to poke fun at Kerry(other than the umpteen millionth Vietnam reference). I was really trying to poke fun at Nedra Pickler, the person who felt it necessary to write this idiotic speech. I guess I am the only one who remembers all the idiotic press in 2000 about “Gore writing his acceptance speech himself.”