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Does Kevin McCarthy have a speech impediment? I have seen a couple of articles allude to this (Original Post) still_one Oct 2015 OP
Not a speech impediment, he has Sarah Palin Word Salad Syndrome. No cure either. nt dorkzilla Oct 2015 #1
Could be that he is a republican lapfog_1 Oct 2015 #2
How do you define speech impediment? Sanity Claws Oct 2015 #3
Yes…..his brain. blm Oct 2015 #4
Yeah. He can't speak. tkmorris Oct 2015 #5
I wondered about dyslexia. moondust Oct 2015 #6
I was thinking something like that still_one Oct 2015 #7
+When he made his resignation speech he did just fine until jwirr Oct 2015 #9
Yes he does. Palin's brain is connected to his vocal cords. Stinky The Clown Oct 2015 #8
No biggie. Sen. Susan Collins, NPR's Diane Rehm, and RFK Jr. do. KamaAina Oct 2015 #10
Curious that's all. Thanks still_one Oct 2015 #11

Sanity Claws

(21,846 posts)
3. How do you define speech impediment?
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 09:44 AM
Oct 2015

His problem seems to be ignorance. He can't even read from a prepared script.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
9. +When he made his resignation speech he did just fine until
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 12:28 PM
Oct 2015

the end. But it looks to me like he has trouble reading the teleprompter and mixes up the sentences. Anything that needs a teleprompter gets garbled.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
10. No biggie. Sen. Susan Collins, NPR's Diane Rehm, and RFK Jr. do.
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 12:29 PM
Oct 2015

They all have spasmodic dysphoria.

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