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Dumbing Down of U.S. Congress
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FBN’s Lou Dobbs on Congress and the President dumbing their speeches down for the American People.
- Duration 4:22
- Date May 21, 2012
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Mention seventeen other countries sixteen other countries.
Have a better reading scores -- a American students.
It's -- kind of interest thing to take a look at what's happening -- their government in the dumbing down of America.
If for example the US constitution.
Is -- It's for some very tough document to to -- And there's a reason for that it's not dumb down by any stretch of the imagination.
The Federalist papers.
We're talking about founding documents of this of this nation.
The Federalist papers.
Both require.
Seventeen.
-- But there.
Level.
Comprehension.
In order to understand.
Think -- that.
And I'm kind of proud of that myself the declaration of independence.
It is almost.
It is difficult.
The declaration of independence.
-- -- -- -- -- -- Now a new study.
Are you get ready for this -- new study by the Sunlight Foundation.
Analyze the entire congressional record.
Including all of the speeches made in the US senate and the house of represented.
Read it through -- computer.
And they do this intermittently.
Program that assesses the speeches in the -- -- difficulty of comprehension and according to that grade level analysis.
Our elected officials are in this may not shock you they are dumbing things down.
Congress is now speaking.
Congress is now speaking.
And it.
At a ten.
-- level.
They're -- that's sounds bad it's even worse.
When you consider just seven years ago seven years ago.
Florida eleventh grade level.
The president himself however is dumbing it down even more than congress are you ready his State of the Union Address this year.
Had an eight for the president of the United States.
-- -- -- In his State of the Union Address.
And -- Grade level.
That is the third lower score of comprehension of any State of the Union Address and just about eighty years.
The second worst was president Obama's if -- union last year the worst rose George HW Bush's state of the union back in nineteen -- to.
We give mr.
Obama credit.
He is right in line with you and me and our fellow citizens.
The average reading comprehension -- Of Americans is now.
Between the eighth and ninth grade.
He's speaking directly to the American people resulted dumbing down teachers for example.
Like one in North Carolina.
Who was caught on video.
Telling students that people can be arrested for speaking ill of the president who speaks at an eighth grade level.
Fortunately her stern was so Smart and so well taught.
That the student challenged her assertion and -- -- cut at all on video take a listen.
-- I don't up and and Blondie yeah yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
-- that.
But it is an issue demand and I am not hot.
Key -- -- -- -- -- The event of the united -- I plant.
Well the future unidentified still but suspended and I guess that's what -- -- Would like to call if you will forgive me for this terrible -- a teachable -- we're.
