And we can conclude that he failed to grasp how jarring those sentiments would sound to most Americans' ears.
His brief remarks featured a jarring segue from sentiments of confidence about Mr. Cheney's recovery to expressions of consternation at what the Florida Supreme Court had done and suspicion over the way manual recounts were proceeding.
Speakers were encouraged to argue against their views to "highlight the shortcomings" of their opponents, yet only Taylor, Cousens and Marcus took up the mantle, pushing the debate into pure, mocking irony that jarred with genuine sentiment, and made telling the two apart at times difficult.
Such sentiments would seem jarring for Eurovision, especially in a year celebrating diversity, where host city Vienna installed special same-sex couple pedestrian traffic signals.
As an expatriate living in China, where the Japanese invasion and occupation are recalled with unrestrained venom, I found it jarring to hear such positive sentiments about Japan's colonization of Taiwan.
Such sentiments might seem surprising, even jarring, in a country where, in Soviet times, Nazis were vilified in a daily diet of war movies.
Sentiments like those are especially jarring in Michigan, which has one of the largest and most vibrant Arab-American populations in the country and a vocal group of advocates for bringing more Syrian refugees to the United States.
Those interconnections in turn led to a feeling of local ownership, and the expression of sentiments that can sound very old-fashioned, if not jarring, at a time when health care has become polarized.
But the contrast between these lofty sentiments and his dismissive response to last week's uranium enrichment "swap" deal with Iran, brokered by Turkey and Brazil, was jarring.
An example of each has had a retweet from Amy, but the share of the last sentiment, that's the important one; it jars.
