{"id":11440,"date":"2024-08-27T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T15:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2024\/08\/27\/political-conventions-speechwriting-cultural-allusions-metaphors\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T19:37:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T19:37:27","slug":"political-conventions-speechwriting-cultural-allusions-metaphors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2024\/08\/27\/political-conventions-speechwriting-cultural-allusions-metaphors\/","title":{"rendered":"The allusions and confusions of regional references"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Friends and former colleagues from the Upper Midwest have had grand fun in the last few weeks watching a Minnesota vibe infect national politics. Mountain Editor sends frequent links to stories about Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, who happens to be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/methowvalleynews.com\/2024\/08\/09\/no-bad-days-in-related-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his second cousin<\/a>. (No, they\u2019ve never met, but their mothers corresponded. I have encouraged Mountain Editor to give Tim\u2019s mom a congratulatory ring. He fears that might be presumptuous \u2014 but his family migrated west to Seattle when he was 6, so he never picked up the ethic of showing up just to say hey; no excuse necessary if you\u2019re carrying a casserole, aka \u201chot dish\u201d in most of Minnesota, or a plate of lemon bars.)<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>My friends and I riff on our shared nostalgia for such customs, lapsing into colloquialisms and speech patterns we have long since shed. (If you want a sampling, just go to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jackohman.substack.com\/p\/wednesday-night-lights-day-3-of-the?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=2673779&amp;post_id=148006407&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=1feuj&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cYou Betcha!,\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;a newish Substack column by Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman.) Beyond the goofs, though, I drew on the Democratic National Convention, and convention coverage, during a recent writing workshop in northern Wisconsin. The speeches, especially, provided fodder to examine narrative: How a speaker moves through the arc of a story; whether they build around a central theme or meander a bit too much; how they employ the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/stories\/ladder-of-abstraction-narrative-writing-details-theme-empathy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ladder of abstraction<\/a>, launching off an intimate anecdote to soaring, universal themes. It proved a great way to explore emphasis, pacing and the nebulous notion of&nbsp; \u201cvoice\u201d in writing. (Professional tip to all writers out there: Read your work out loud.)<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Consider this succinct analysis from a retired journalist\u2019s Facebook post after Day 2 of the convention:<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-quote mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p><em>\u2026forget the words for a few moments, and notice how much tone, pacing and emphasis (or lack thereof) matters. Doug Emhoff comes across as funny, a tiny bit goofy, extremely nice. Michelle Obama\u2019s presentation, in contrast, was almost staccato, delivered with hyper articulation and strong, careful emphasis. A very powerful delivery, almost fierce at times. And Barack: he is eloquent, extremely graceful \u2014 look at those hands! \u2014 a natural speaker whose smooth delivery contained a lot of tiny pauses. His speech was almost a melody with a rhythm that to me suggests southern pacing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Analogies and cultural allusions were on abundant display in a convention that hammered themes of diversity and inclusion. Walz, especially, went all in on regional authenticity, from videos of himself at the Minnesota State Fair to his flat-voweled accent to a full field of football references. He earned his right to the latter from his many years coaching high school football. But his pep-talk acceptance speech left a few New York Times columnists a bit befuddled. This from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/22\/opinion\/scorecard-night-3-democratic-convention.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michelle Goldberg<\/a>: \u201cWalz made me wish I understood football metaphors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>We talked in the writing workshop about the power and risk of metaphor. Four of the five writers had no problem with Walz\u2019s talk of fourth downs, blocking and tackling, gaining one yard at a time, leaving it all on the field, reaching the end zone. Two in the group were from the Midwest; one spent several years coaching high school baseball; and one was from Texas so, duh!, football. But a fifth wasn\u2019t having it. She was the youngest among us, a self-described \u201ccity girl\u201d from New York who emigrated there with her family when she was 5. Her cultural and ethnic background is Egyptian and Yemeni. She lived in Indiana briefly, but still expressed amazement at the large gatherings of cows she saw on the drive here from the Duluth airport. (I resisted telling her that multiple cows are a herd, not a gathering. Another time, maybe.) In her world, football is not the American version. I wouldn\u2019t be at all surprised if she actually understands the game of cricket.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>It all made for a lot of two-way teasing and some strained explanations. Or, as another New York Times columnist said of the Walz speech: The most extended metaphor of the convention. That led to a more serious discussion of how, when and whether you trust your audience to understand your cultural references \u2014 and how sometimes you leave people out. Those East Coast ivy-league journalists, who have long misunderstood the nuances of middle America, now find themselves in a game of catch-up as Walz, in his way, and Kamala Harris, in hers, draw from their particular backgrounds and speech patterns.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>I had no definitive guidance to give the writers about the effective use of analogy, allusion and metaphor. Questions about writing, I told them again and again, are usually answered with \u201cIt depends.\u201d Kind of like life.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>But I am quite sure that Walz\u2019s rally speech was part of the playbook \u2014 not a last-minute audible.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editor muses on how cultural references have the power to make writing more intimate and authentic, but can also leave readers 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