How many times has Obama uttered the difficult five-syllable word “unprecedented” during his White House term? According to the Politico‘s arbitrary (and would-be time-consuming, if they weren’t just making it up) count: 129 times! The last American president George W. Bush Junior said it 262 times! BUT IN EIGHT YEARS! Dana Perino went to journalism school (yikes!) and she thinks it is bad journalism or something to say a word like this 129 times in less than one calendar year. So that’s what happened on Fox News and in the Politico today. [YouTube, Raw Story]
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This news is unprecedented
How long before conservatives attempt to make “humor” out of this story by over using this word in an “ironic” sense? I say it takes them about 48 hours to come up with their first “joke”, which will be.
Also according to Dana Perino, Bush never used the words “brush”, “ranch”, or “clearing”.
Also, I can’t even tell you how badly I want to see the homo elves fucking each other to the dulcet tones of wingnut sobbing, but I can’t click on that URL. I might get fired for accidentally clicking on the Sarah Palin ‘n’ dildo one as it is.
THE WORD “UNPRECIDINTED” IS DERIVED FROM AN ANCIENT MUSLIN WORD MEANING “9/11″!!! THIS IS NOT A SIMPLE MATTER OF “CO-INSIDENCE” THIS IS AMERICA UNDER ATTACK BY FOREIGN PEOPLES!!!
This is unprecedented horseshit from the master horse shitter; Faux.
If the things he describes are unprecedented, then using the word is appropriate, yes?
I like to say the word “iteration” and look for opportunities to inject it into everyday conversation. I like the word “stakeholders”, also.
The real problem here is that this elitist is speechifying it correctly.
Next week:
“White House Source Reveals: “Obama only shakes it one time, and hasn’t trimmed his nose hair in weeks!”
For the love of God and all things holy!
Who cares what Dana Perino says? She’s such a pussy she couldn’t even beat up Tiger Woods.
Time to switch to “hegemony,” “articulation,” and “queering.” Let’s bring it all back to 1991 so Barry can wear his pleated jeans again and read Stuart Hall’s unprecedented contributions to cultural theory in peace.
Hey come to think of it, a black POTUS is unprecedented.
Ergo, everything he does is unprecedented.
What Ms. Perino meant was that she was told in journalism school not to use the word “unprecedented” in her thesis, “Weekly World News – An Unprecedented Bastion of Fascinating Information.”
They SAY Bush said it 262 times. But how many times did he actually pronounce it correctly?
Obama is such a hack journalist.
So… he was talking about a bunch of shit that has happened before? Just to protest Our Evil Muslin Purznit, I’m going to start using “precedented”, like, all the time, forever.
[re=468139]shadowMark[/re]: Ha ha!
I’m just amazed Dana Perino can count.
“Pres Obama Exhausts the Word”
So is vocabulary like the elusive political capital, wherein a substance that doesn’t exist can now be earned and spent? Do things get less and less unprecedented now, even if they really are unprecedented, because we’ve used up our alotted number of uses?
Oh, and a couple more questions: how do people who report on this shit claim to do actual work? And where the fuck were they when the term Weapons of Mass Destruction was being tossed around like a dog’s chew toy? Or enhanced interrogation, for that matter? Or un-American? I have a couple of unprecedented things I’d like to see done to these idiots.
[re=468136]thesheriffisnear[/re]: Ha! I’m a sucker for the word “precise.” I use it over and over again whilst defending my use of of any given $10 word, by saying said $10 word is more “precise” than some smaller, more common word. It’s even rubbing off on my kids, with their outsize vocabularies and all.
God, they can be annoying little know-it-alls. I’m so proud.
[re=468143]Redhead[/re]: Those were underpreznitted times, y’know.
[re=468135]the problem child[/re]: No, it is unprecedented.
[re=468143]Redhead[/re]: What they fail to mention is that Bush said the word “precedent” 1,294 times while in office, with 1,108 of those times being in conjunction with the word “I’m”.
Word overuse is a danger. I have equated Dana Perino so often in my mind with the female yoni that the metaphor becomes meaningless, like repeating “toy boat” over and over.
[re=468161]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: They were underpresidented times. In more ways than one.
How mavericky of Faux and Dana P.
Who cares? As long as he didn’t invoke the ‘c’ word 129 times.
[re=468166]Extemporanus[/re]: Gotcha! So really Bush has only said “unprecedented” 129 times since leaving office and becoming unpresident.
The last American president George W. Bush Junior said it 262 times! BUT IN EIGHT YEARS!
However, when Bush said the word, he meant what happened at the end of his term, when Obama became newprecedented.
[re=468173]bitchincamaro[/re]: You’re not counting while seated at state dinners with Laura, right?
Bush said “Doh!” 862 times during his first year in office. Report that, Fixed News.
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Bush’s 262 usages were all on the order of “I can’t wait till 2009 when I become unpresidented”.
[re=468157]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Its really no fun unless the word is multisyllabic, rolling off the tongue in a way that displays one’s alliterative ability as well as their extensive vocabulary. “Iteration” flows, man. It makes me smile just saying the word. Do I seem pretentious? WOW, pretentious, another needlessly alliterative word. I’m on a roll.
[re=468153]Japster[/re]: Dana Perino went to journalism school, pal: she doesn’t count, she just blindly accepts the count published in the press release.
In my dreams, Dana Perino has used the words “lesbian three-way” at least 129 times.
[re=468167]Mr Blifil[/re]: forkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkfuckforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkforkfork.
Can we start the impeachment proceedings now?
FU, Dana Perineum and Faux News.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcz4_JL5b7c
Nukular! Nukular! Also.
So some mouth breathing Fox intern sat through video and counted the number of times Hopey said “unprecedented” instead of, say, fact-check Sarah Pahlin’s autobiographical work of fiction. Hmm. Sully noted today that SP claims in her “book” that Todd’s parents settled Bristol Bay in the 30′s with their little fishing boat, when in fact an Alaskan historian said erm, no, it was settled in the 1800′s and by the 30′s was humming along quite nicely. Hysterical how she makes things up that are easily verifiable. Next thing you know, she’ll be taking credit for TruckNutz.
Hmmm…do you think Fox News is the top and Politico the bottom in their relationship or is it vice versa?
Only 129? Pshh! “FUNDAMENTAL!”
Why are they picking on the word “unprecedented”? It’s a perfectly cromulent word.
How many times did Bush say:
9/11
war on terror
God
charge to keep
bring democracy
He[she] may have a PhD[MD] but look who’s President
lower taxes
I would like to see some unprecedented war crimes trials. Just a thought.
You know who else went to journalism school?
[re=468157]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Those libruls, with their brains literally falling out of their heads.
“They misunderprecedented me.”
[re=468231]chascates[/re]: Also, “what does Dick think I should do?”
Fancy elitist with his multi-syllabic words that must be pronounced in a precise fashion. Why can’t he communicate by grunting, like the Real Murkans?
Wait til she hears about Sheer “Am I An Idiot?” InSannity and “literally.”
Don’t the birthers think they have a chance of unpresidenting the country?
Bago:
you have embiggened us all.
[re=468139]shadowMark[/re]: Funny! Girlfriend probably had a better swing that night than Woods.
There’s no precedent for journalism as shitty as Faux nooze, for sure.
Ha ha the jokes on Fox. While they were playing all those unprecedenteds Barak was usually referring to how bad Bush fucked up the world. Fox is usually loath to air any criticism of Bush.
You know how you don’t like it when someone clearly smarter than you uses a word that is a stranger to your vobabuclary? That’s how it is for the fucks at Fox, and Obama.
Well, at least it’s an improvement over W’s speeches which all sounded like “FREEDOM 9/11 EVIL FREEDOM AMERICA 9/11 EVIL FREEDOM AMERICA FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM”.
[re=468136]thesheriffisnear[/re]: I like “ubiquitous” because everything is.
[re=468231]chascates[/re]: and don’t forget “date certain” — who the fuck talks like that?
And how many times did David Gregory mindlessly parrot whatever Dana Perino told him?
[re=468231]chascates[/re]: or how about “weapons of mass destruction,” perhaps??
[re=468340]FlipOffResearch[/re]: The righties hate big words hence the uproar over “unprecedented” If Barry just said “Ain’t never been this fucked up” instead it probably would have passed muster with them.
I am wondering if anyone counted how many times “un-American” was used to describe any criticism of Bush’s policies.
[re=468461]Rotundo[/re]: Except, then he’d be criticized for “jive-talking” or being “ghetto”.
Perino, eh? That was Bush’s favorite Stepford wife fembot. Karen Hughes grew a conscience, Laura was always a secret lib, anyway, but Perino was just ripe for the picking being mildly attractive and dumb as a bag-o-bricks.
Barack should throw in a couple un-prece-fucking-dented sometimes.
The only place you’re going to see that LYING BITCH is on fox noize…
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