Topic: Fort Stewart

A listener email from Fort Stewart claims that out of a battalion of 1,500 soldiers, only two volunteered to attend a speech by President Barack Obama. The remaining troops were reportedly forced to attend the event, where the President repeated his recurring "marry up into the gene pool" joke.

President Obama visited Fort Stewart, Georgia, where he repeated a familiar rhetorical trope about "marrying up" to his wife, Michelle Obama. The segment analyzes the President's use of repetitive greetings as a speaker's trick to avoid misnaming the military base during his address.