{"id":63086,"date":"2017-01-12T15:31:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T19:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=63086"},"modified":"2017-01-12T15:31:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T19:31:55","slug":"obama-refers-to-himself-75-times-in-farewell-address-photo-of-peter-hasson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=63086","title":{"rendered":"Obama Refers To Himself 75 Times In Farewell Address Photo of Peter Hasson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->PETER HASSON<br \/>\nThe DAILY CALLER<\/p>\n<p>President Obama referred to himself 75 times in his farewell address Tuesday night, according to a review of his prepared remarks by The Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<form id=\"dc-quiz-wrapper\" action=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/daily_caller\/ajax.php\" method=\"POST\">\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"quiz-h3\"><span class=\"quiz-fine-print\">Completing this poll entitles you to Daily Caller news updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to our <a class=\"quiz-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/footer\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a class=\"quiz-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/footer\/terms-of-use\/\">Terms of Use<\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<p>Obama\u00a0heavily promoted the speech, penning a <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/01\/02\/obama-my-presidency-has-always-been-about-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> about it and appearing in a promotional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9gC6G1K9YSY\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> in the days leading up to the address.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/07\/12\/obama-mentions-himself-45-times-during-memorial-speech-for-dallas-officers\/\" target=\"_blank\">(RELATED: Obama Mentions Himself 45 Times During Memorial Speech For Dallas Officers)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obama said \u201cI\u201d 33 times during the speech, \u201cmy\u201d 20 times, \u201cme\u201d 10 times, and \u201cI\u2019m\u201d or \u201cI\u2019ve\u201d 12 times.<\/p>\n<p>The president made a habit of focusing\u00a0large chunks of\u00a0his speeches on himself during his eight years in office.<\/p>\n<p>Last July, for example, he mentioned himself <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/07\/12\/obama-mentions-himself-45-times-during-memorial-speech-for-dallas-officers\/\" target=\"_blank\">45 times<\/a> over the course of a speech\u00a0given at a speech for\u00a0the slain Dallas police officers.<\/p>\n<p>In his blog post promoting the speech, Obama encouraged Americans to tune in \u201cbecause, for me, it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/01\/02\/obama-my-presidency-has-always-been-about-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">always been about you<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/01\/10\/obama-refers-to-himself-75-times-in-farewell-address\/\">http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/01\/10\/obama-refers-to-himself-75-times-in-farewell-address\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}