I think he's had some tutoring. It used to be "duh...blah, blah, blah, duh, duh".

Dude, I had a speech teacher in college who, every time we said "uh" or "um" in the middle of a speech, would make us stop and start over. 2 minutes in, 10 minutes in, it didn't matter - we had to go back to the beginning. I have ZIP tolerance for "uh" and "um" and "you know" in PROFESSIONAL public speaking. It's ridiculous. Martha Stewart, by the way, does the same thing. SO. IRRITATING!

How about some electric shock collar on his twigs and berries so that when an 'UH' occurs, things get a little toasty.

That worked for me in the past. Now I just wear it for sport.

My daughter had to do a senior presentation. When she was practicing she did the ummmm uh thing a lot. I told her to cut it out! She said she didn't do it in class. It drives me crazy too

OMYGOD I have totally noticed this?!?!? How does a professional speaker-guy get away with this? How is he allowed to have this job? I can sort of understand not being aware of it yourself, but wouldn't SOMEone say something?

Birds of a feather ...and his boss is KING of the Um's. Where's the press on this guy...didn't they beat the shit out of Bush for his bumbling???

I agree with Lauren. He's been listening to his boss and his boss gets away with it.

Maybe he's got a third arm under his shirt and he's pulling his pud with it.

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Man must like his politics!

Maybe, ya know, he could, ya know, go to the Caroline, ya know, Kennedy School, of, ya know, elocution and ya know, stuff.

OMG, I thought I was the only one that noticed this!

WTH?

How'd THAT guy get THAT job with THAT habit?

I was about to say what Da Old Man already posted, ya know, about Caroline Kennedy, ya know.
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My coworker, Milton, does the um thing all the time. ALL OF THE TIME! You ask her a question and she starts her answer with "um" then throws "ums" here and there... one day, she will kill me with her ums.

Great, now my blood pressures is up! ;o)

I think someone should put a remotely operated stun gun in his shorts and every time he say's UH zap his nads, that'll cure him right quick.

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You'd think with that job you'd have to have some sort of ability to speak eloquently on a moment's notice. The use of excessive uhs and ums is so distracting.

It could be worse..

He could try to get more popularity with the younger voters by switching from "um" to "like".

Then, like, you'll have to like, listen to him like TOTALLY like talk like this, and it'll like piss you off something serious!

Howie Carr is a radio talk show host out of Boston. He has a regular contest called The Wizard of Uhs which will be a clip of Ted Kennedy giving a speech/talk. Callers have to call in and guess the correct number of "uhs" in the clip played. If Kennedy says "Uh-Uh-Uh", that counts as only 1 uh. Maybe Gibbs is polishing up his uh's in hopes to the be the new Wizard of Uhs in the near future.

That was funny!

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he just needs to take a minute, decide what he wants to say and then say it. Uhh means you are making it up as you go along. Kinda like the President....

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