Those poor US political speechwriters Those poor US political speechwriters
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016
Writing isn’t the toughest job in the world, but writing for politicians must be up there somewhere. The US election campaign produced the biggest political upset in recent memory, but it also exposed the gruelling challenges facing speechwriters ordered daily to tell deadpan lies, or split hairs, or transform outrageous discrepancies into beautiful ideological dilemmas.