Jon Lovett's The Culture Of Shut Up

Jon Lovett is a 31-year-old speechwriter, screenwriter, producer and comedian. Lovett was born in New York and now resides in California. In 2004 he received a Math degree from Williams College. Lovett’s career began not long after graduation as he started to do comedy. Around this time, he also became Chief speech writer to Hilary Clinton and continued this until 2008. At this point, he became speechwriter for Obama, which lasted for three years. With his humorous background, he was able to craft some of the famous jokes told by Obama. After his political tenure, he was presented with the opportunity to produce shows such as, “1600 Penn” and “The Newsroom”. With Lovett’s young career after college, he accomplished things that others would spend a lifetime dreaming …show more content…
All the hard work that Lovett invested into structuring speeches for Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama, he was able to find even more success as he started to present more speeches for his self. There is one speech particularly, that was eye-opening for the world that we live in today. The title of this speech is, “The Culture of Shut Up”. Lovett delivered this speech on February 11, 2014 in front of a crowd at Loyola Marymount University, which was later published in The Atlantic. “The Culture of Shut Up” was delivered in honor of the university’s “First Amendment Week”. Lovett began his speech with the thesis which states, “Too many debates about important issues degenerate into manufactured and misplaced outrage—and its chilling free speech”. An opening statement that will be emphasized throughout the rest of the