"Look, here's my point", "Look, listen to me blather on", Look, look, freaking look.

[tridim]

Just listening to biden on MTP use my least favorite word in political punditry over and over and over. Sure they all do it, but usually only the Republics with no real point use it in excess.

Using "Look" before every sentence seems to be viral in Washington and it drives me up the wall. Biden needs to stop it now if he wants to be taken seriously.

[MichiganVote]

1. They all use that for effect. Dem or repub.

[tridim]

3. I know, and it makes me ill. It makes them all sound like idiots.

If they Dems were smart they'd stop using it today.

[burythehatchet]

2. for some reason cokespoon robertson's "look" is most repulsive

[PCIntern]

4. also..."The fact is..."

as in..."yes,it is alleged that we may have lost 5 million e-mails, but the fact is that we have 49 million in our computers so I don't see what the Democrat(sic) Party problem is."

Or: more frighteningly: Yes, our guy may have dressed in drag and kissed some men, but the fact is that Democrats have a history of dealing with stained dresses.

I HATE that.

On eidt: Fred Barnsian annoatation: ...but look, the fact is that...(Fill in the lie).

[Hand]

8. Dang! Ya beat me to it!

Then there's the combination variant: "Look, the plain fact of the matter is that (insert preferred lie)." That's a Repuke special. :grr:

[calimary]

20. Yes INDEED. Especially applicable to cheney. EVERY time he makes

a statement that contains the phrase "...in fact" - as in "we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators" or "the insurgency is, in fact, in its last throes", that is a VERY clear signal that he's IN FACT telling a lie. "IN FACT," ANOTHER lie, I should probably say.

[MADem]

5. I'd rather hear "look" than "like!!!"

Like, ya know...I mean, like, I went like this, and he went like that, ya know...I mean....like, it was AWESOME, ya know!!!!!

That kind of shit is fingers on a blackboard to me!!!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. George Will uses it as a transitional device when he >

has blathered a weak argument into a blind corner and can't find his way to his baseless conclusion.
"Blah blah blah blah... (UH-OH)... Look-- yadda-yadda."

[dave_p]

7. He was like, look?

That was a Thatcher trait. Look, this is BS, but I've emphasized it and you're a press drone who won't question it because I was like, Look.

Worked every time.

[spooky3]

9. "Let's face it"--now I'm gonna lie to you.

"Look, let's face it; the point of the matter is that the facts are you're wrong."

It's like being lectured to by someone wants to make sure you won't debate what she's about to say.

[dave_p]

11. Just so

I think its a classic piece of sideshow misdirection, actually.

Look, you're hereby alerted to the approach of a key point in my case.

But all that followed was waffle.

You missed the utter vacuousness of my remarks, didn't you? Because I'd communicated in standard parlance that you should wait for something significant. And none of it was!

"Look" (it's always in bold) should alert our ears to think about what was said before, not after.

[Zensea]

10. I thought you were talking about DU before I read your post

:evilgrin:

[monmouth]

12. Pat Buchanan does it all of the time and you're right. Very annoying n/t

[SusanaMontana41]

17. So does O'Lielly

at least on "Letterman" he did.

[gulliver]

13. Kerry does it all the time too.

It's rhetorically crying wolf if you say "Look" and then don't say anything worth looking at.

[Rob H.]

14. One that bothers me even more:

When Bush says anything resembling, "What the 'Merican people gotta unnerstan' is..." followed by a completely preposterous assertion. For a man who seems proud of the fact that he doesn't read newspapers or even watch the news on television, he has a lot of goddamned nerve to lecture those of us who do and are a lot more aware of what's going on in the world than he is.

</rant>

[jillan]

15. Whatever!

If that's all you can say about what Biden said on MTP, you must not have been listening. He was quite eloquent. He is wordy, but when I listen to him, I have no doubt what he said AND he talks from his heart. He even said at one point that his advisors are not going to like him saying this...but... and then he went on.

[tridim]

16. I actually do like what Biden has to say most of the time,mmmm,

I just don't like his condescending "look" speak, for the same reasons I can't stand high-pressure salesmen.

[Bluebear]

18. Donna Brazile, all the time.

First one I noticed "looking" constantly.

[treestar]

19. Look or Listen is so frequent in America

I think's it more of a marking that "I'm starting to say something if you care to listen," because people are always blabbing and need some sort of marker to start listening.

[butterfly77]

21. It really irritates me too...

when someone says "Look" I begin getting angry and I don't hear anything else afterwards. I usually just tune them out.

[applegrove]

22. Love that photo of Pelosi looking over Bush's shoulder. That says alot.

Sorry - off topic. As you were.