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Cryptofascist warblog The Politico has won the long weekend (and, by retroactive default, the Revolutionary War) with their crucial SCOOP on Obama’s weird obsession with pronouncing proper nouns—names of places he’s visiting, names of people he’s speaking to, that sort of thing—in the way in which they are actually intended to be pronounced. Quoth Politico’s Carol “Robert” E. Lee: “In Obama’s view, pronouncing someone’s name or hometown correctly is a simple way of showing respect.” This is called Obamanomics, and it’s foreclosing America’s jobs.
This is because Barack Obama’s name (”Barack Obama”) has also been mispronounced on occasion! ACTUAL LEDE of this patriotic linguistic exegesis:
“Bill Clinton. George Bush. Jimmy Carter. They’re all pretty easy to pronounce.
But Barack Obama is not so simple.”
Phonetically, it is “Blagojevich.” But the Queen’s English was not invented by Jesus for use towards such recalcitrant vowelage!
We’re going to get into some heavy psychological shit for a minute, but we totally get it, you know? Obama’s wonky obsession with “correctness” and “facts” is mayhap tied to America’s habitual inability to properly intone the 6 letters—of which all 6 are vowels—of the Hawaiian alphabet. But that still begs the question: Why is Liz Becton blogging for Politico under the pseudonym “Robert E. Lee”?
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A good day begins with recalcitrant vowelage.
Just don’t call him “Bob” Lee.
Would “Big Boob” be okay?
recalcitrant vowelage
It’s savory and delicious of you cook it long enough.
It’s just so his Nigerian Voodoo God doesn’t turn the wrong people into living zombies…specificity is important when dealing with enraged super beings.
kill them.
Be sure to check out the comments for the delicious tears of the deadenders.
I had an uncle with recalcitrant vowelage. He couldn’t eat cabbage or broccoli for the last 50 years of his life.
And Obama is not getting criticism in the way George W. Bush did for his pronunciation of “nuclear.”
because really, what’s the difference between correct and incorrect?
Does his teleprompter use Pashto characters or regular American ones?
vowel movement.
“At Tuesday’s nonprofit event, he nearly sounded out the last name of Dave Cieslewicz.”
Barry, everyone around here just calls him ‘Mayor Dave’. Feel free to do likewise.
Well shucks. Blagojevich had so much going for him for a presidential run after Obama, but it looks his good name will ruin his career.
FEAR AND TREMBLE, FOOLISH MORTALS!
Shorts has managed to snag an EXCLUSIVE interview with erstwhile “human,” JOE THE PLUMBER:
http://www.shortsshortsshorts.com/?p=4334
“When will the God-fearing rich WASPy people of the world finally throw off the chains of their oppression and be blessed with one of their own in the Oval Office?”
Why are links to other people’s blogs not instantaneously nullified and the perpetrators thrown into a Siberian labor camp?
a thoughtful consequence of him having Pakistani roommates in college that has its share of critics.
first of all carol, this sentence bites the big one. does the “thoughtful consequence” have its share of critics, or the fact that barack (gasp!) had pakistani roommates in college? bee of all, my college roommates were armenian and, like barack did travel to pakistan before me, i went with them to glendale. am i on some turkish list now?
What’s so hard about pronouncing “Wog”?
Or “Upper Absurdistan” or “Lower Revolutia,” or whatever it is said “wogs” reside?
(Boy! Boy! Another gin and tonic over here! Chop, Chop! And this time put some bloody ice in it, you jaundiced looking heathen!
Bloody natives. Never go get the rubber in on time.)
That’s a coincidence, I also feel I have “won the morning” by taking a good shit.
iantenna: Glendale?!? Porto’s Bakery on Brand Avenue. The BEST. Even though it is Cuban.
I kind of like Politico, but this is totally retarded. How fucking bizarre! A president who likes to speak properly!
True fact: the name that the natives call their home is the place’s endonym.
The name that the rest of us call it is the place’s exonym.
For instance, the German endonym for that city down south near Austin is München. München’s exonym is Munich.
This concludes today’s lesson.
Where is my Palin post? It has been almost five minutes since the news broke!
@hobospacejunkie - and the name we give to a place or thing that represents something larger is a metonym (if I’m not mistaken).
Well, this is the sort of coverage you get when the ‘evil’ MSM abandons the field to Nico Pitney and his imaginary Huffington Post for which he allegedly works - see: http://www.newsy.com/videos/679
Kudos for Politico for paying attention to the words coming out of his mouth, but c’mon, Helen’s angry and the President’s hugging people and nobody’s paying attention except for crazy people on their webcams!
SARAH PALIN IS FUCKING RESIGNING
In other news, I miss Juli.
I noticed when Barry spoke in Egypt that he pronounced “Koran” with a muslin accent.
I can’t believe that Obama would so dis the Bush Administration Foreign Policy of disrespecting and bombing the darkies with this whole “At least say their name correctly” pussy stuff.
quitter. (barring there being something with the kids’ health or something) quitter. I think she just said “US Americans” in her speech.
oh god, Palin got whatever TMI disease Sanford came down with…. just give her the hook already!
What are those fowl creatures that are making horrible noises in the background of her speech? More Turkeys?
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Awesome, Ms Juli. And absolutely correct. “Will the Fedora be tipped our way? Will we get yolked from the Eggman? Tune to Politico for another edition of ‘Matt Drudge Rules Our World’”.
Weenies.
Potater: SARAH PALIN IS FUCKING RESIGNING, to become AK first Octomom??
hobospacejunkie: Up in northern Arkansas is the little town of Mount Judea. But the endonym is “Mount Judy”.
Vanity Smurf: Yes — what the hell?! There were definitely sheep. Where in godsname ARE they?
Who IS this clown? Unless he is wearing her pumps, I am not interested in the speech from the new governor of the sort-of state.
Suds McKenzie: Yeah speaking of drudge bait
Palin signs a deal for a show on Fox in 3…2…1…. Also. Watch out Gretta, the Barracuda’s coming for you.
Potater: Well, I spent 4 hours in the emergency room this morning but at least there is some good news today. Now if only Gov. Mark will admit to the boys or furries- and resign-this would be the best 4th of July weekend ever!
This had better not interrupt my wall to wall Michael Jackson coverage!
will they drag Mathews out of the Irish Bar he’s been in all week?
or Oberman from the first base line somewhere?
or Madow from Provence Town?
Hello? Where is the “Mock Sarah Palin” thread with the MEGA-Drudge Siren?
Do resignations come in threes? First Palin, next Sanford? And then???
Suds McKenzie: Yes — I needs me some Mathews spittle shed on this topic.
Bitch is stealing MJ’s thunder.
Bill Clinton. George Bush. Jimmy Carter. They’re all pretty easy to pronounce.
Barack Obama is very easy to pronounce (if you speak jive).
Suds McKenzie: CNN actually apologized for temporarily interrupting its Jacko coverage!
My only question about Palin is how much did Eliot Spitzer pay her for sex?
So does this mean the sex tape won’t be released?
Palin is resigning? How does Obama pronounce “Mutha Fuck!”?
Buffy and Hildegard: Tweety is too busy shedding his spittle across France right now. No way is she important enough to sober him up and find a satellite truck.
Hmmmm, I never would have figured Palin as a hiker but it looks like she’s hitting the trail?
And SA-RA PAY-LIN is resigning. Also.
barack obama is actually the easiest president name in history to produce phonetically. there is practically no human language speaker that should have difficulty producing those syllables except languages that lack an “r” sound
HMS Nerd: hobospacejunkie: I’m turning in my exam.
Endonym = Heaven
Exonym = Wasilla
Metonym = Meth Capital of Alaska
Did I pass?
Where Barry Obama owns a house:
Exonym = South Side
Endonym = Sout Side
Where his Chicago supporters with money live:
Exonym = Nort Side
Endonym = North Side
It’s a promise he made to the Queen, “I’ll learn to speak the Queen’s English and give up my hoodspeak if you listen to all of my rapper music on that ipod.”
sezme: Barack Obama was never easy anything, according to some people we both know. Boy fended off advances from both sexes in the 80s like a freaking nun.
Foreigners need to get it through their thick skulls that American presidents don’t need to know how to pronounce foreign place names, just how to bomb them.
Also.