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She went up on stage and gave the most depressing speech on how the publishing industry was cutthroat and cruel and that winning a prize wouldn't make any difference.
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COMMENT FROM DONRO: @Alex — gotta get a Reagan quote in there somehow… ALEX KOPPELMAN: Rick, I could be wrong, but it looks like the CNN.com feed's getting ready to show Cain… COMMENT FROM BOB KNUDSEN: The most depressing political speech I may have ever seen.
And it is depressing, in a speech that traffics so readily in the language of faith, to see the idea of fraternal fellowship so scorned.
The big thing that strikes me as depressing about this speech is not what is in it, but that Mr Cameron chose to make it at all.
Would we agree that his recent experience during the Jaipur Literary Festival is a depressing blow against free speech?
The last few weeks have seen a regular procession of bad takes inspired by the same depressing topics: the free speech debate, Labour's anti-semitism row, Brexit.
Furthermore, to see such a vocal contingent of Wesleyan students argue that because Mr. Stascavage's writing expresses an unpopular opinion on campus to which some take personal offense, the Argus has somehow practiced hate speech is depressing, only more so because it comes on the heels of President Obama rightly claiming that college students are coddled ideologically.
In citing that depressing statistic, it echoes a speech in June by Li Keqiang, China's premier, in which he said that "some 200 million Chinese still live below the poverty line by World Bank standards".*Take comfort.
It would all sound depressing if Soderbergh didn't pepper his speech with fits of incredulous laughter.
That was probably the most honest part of the speech, and easily the most depressing.
British Prime Minister David Cameron's big conference speech on Wednesday was as depressing as it was brilliant.
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