In some ways today's statement was a bit dull; most of the key points had been revealed in advance, and there were no startling surprises in the speech itself.
'Now, you will recall the language in the speech, itself, that out of 400 independent savings and loan associations in Maryland, exactly three of them have been indicted and none convicted.
Expect to hear more such talk in the commentary about President Obama's speech on higher education on Thursday – and perhaps even in the speech itself.
The book-length memo that eventually begat the "crisis of confidence" section of the famous speech was a joint Caddell-Granquist production, as were many sentences in the speech itself.
The President's four-part proposal, released a few days before the State of the Union address and summarized in the speech itself, promises a path to citizenship for Dreamers, along with a border wall, an end to the visa-lottery program, and severe cuts to family-based immigration.
In the speech itself, Tesco was described as a "good employer and an important source of jobs in Britain".
Birkett argued that The Star article was nothing more than a summary of Mosley's speech, and that any comments implying the overthrow of the British government were found in the speech itself.
Whereas in other contexts it has been argued by the press, or sections of the press, that there is a public interest in freedom of speech itself, and that an editor should be permitted to decide where the ethical balance falls, no such argument has been aired in this particular context.
This will be a good thing in the long run, but it was a little odd tonight, as was the speech itself in certain respects.
In a sense, the speech itself was the plan.
