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"So God Made a Farmer" was the name given to a speech given by the radio broadcaster Paul Harvey at a 1978 Future Farmers of America convention. The speech was first published in 1986 in Harvey's syndicated column. The speech borrowed a few phrases from a 1975 article written by Harvey in the ''Gadsden Times'', which was itself inspired by parts of a 1940 definition of a dirt farmer published in ''The Farmer-Stockman''. The 1940 article was copied verbatim by Tex Smith in a letter to the editor in the ''Ellensburg Daily Record'' in 1949. The speech was given as an extension of the Genesis creation narrative referring to God's actions on the 8th day of creation. Harvey described the characteristics of a farmer in each phrase, ending them with the recurring "So God Made a Farmer". The speech was used in a commercial by Dodge Ram during the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLVII. The ad featured photographs of rural America set to a narration of a portion of Harvey's speech. In a collaboration with the FFA, Dodge agreed to donate $100,000 for every 1,000,000 views that the YouTube video of the ad received up to $1,000,000. This goal was reached in less than five days. ==The speech== Paul Harvey, a radio host who died in 2009, delivered the speech at an FFA convention in 1978. His speech began as a continuation of the Genesis creation narrative referring to the actions God took on the 8th day. In it, Harvey stated that God needed a caretaker for the land he created. The speech continues with God expressing the characteristics needed by the person he is creating: Multiple passages setting out characteristics of the sort end with the same refrain, by which the speech is now known: "So God made a farmer." Harvey's "So God Made a Farmer" speech was characterized, according to ''The Atlantic'', by its "folksy timbre". ''The New York Times'' spoke further on elements of his speaking style in its 2009 obituary: "his style was stop-and-go, with superb pacing and silences that rivaled Jack Benny’s. He spoke directly to the listener, with punchy sentences, occasional exclamations of “Good heavens!” or “Oh, my goodness!” and pauses that squeezed out the last drop of suspense: the radio broadcaster’s equivalent of the raised eyebrow or the knowing grin." Bob Greene described the opening phrase of the speech as "seemingly simple, and devastatingly direct". The speech also ran in Paul Harvey's syndicated newspaper column in 1986. Both the sound recording of the speech and the text of the article have been federally registered with the U.S. Copyright Office by Paulynne, Inc., Paul Harvey's company that is now owned by his son.〔http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=1&ti=1,1&Search_Arg=god%20made%20a%20farmer&Search_Code=TALL&CNT=25&PID=II5DrHAs1xrV88ZL-havGLuQffE5&SEQ=20141212113944&SID=1〕 〔http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=2&ti=1,2&Search_Arg=Paulynne&Search_Code=NALL&CNT=25&PID=FFCviSPmuDjMXMkEqBCNVOZkFFCl&SEQ=20141212114136&SID=2〕In an introduction, Harvey claimed, in a typical rhetorical flourish, that he had found the essay in his mailbag. : 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「So God Made a Farmer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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