White House ‘fixes’ Bush’s grammar.
By on Jan 10th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
White House ‘fixes’ Bush’s grammar.
McClatchy’s Jerusalem blog writes that the White House transcribers are revising Bush’s remarks to read with more grammatical coherence:
“I ain’t got it yet,” Bush said as Abu Mazen stopped speaking and an aide got on stage to fix the problem – which looked like it might have been an unplugged chord.
(As an interesting side note, “I ain’t got it yet” was changed to “I haven’t got it yet” in the official White House transcript…)
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And the dumbfck ain’t ever going to get it either.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:11 pmAnd he ain’t never gonna get it, neither.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:12 pm1. Oops. Sorry to step on your line.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:12 pmHe’s a Yalie, too.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:14 pm. . . and it was probably an unplugged cord — not an unplugged chord.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:14 pmI can’t wait for the day to return where the U.S. has a President that doesn’t sound like an inbred turd.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:16 pm“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.”
“Laura and I really don’t realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis.”
“She is a member of a labor union at one point.”
“Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it.”
“We ought to make the pie higher.”
January 10th, 2008 at 5:16 pmHow Bush chose stupidity
http://www.slate.com/id/2100064/
Bush’s assorted malapropisms, solecisms, gaffes, spoonerisms, and truisms tend to imply that his lack of fluency in English is tantamount to an absence of intelligence. But as we all know, the inarticulate can be shrewd, the fluent fatuous. In Bush’s case, the symptoms point to a specific malady—some kind of linguistic deficit akin to dyslexia—that does not indicate a lack of mental capacity per se.
But if “numskull” is an imprecise description of the president, it is not altogether inaccurate. Bush may not have been born stupid, but he has achieved stupidity, and now he wears it as a badge of honor. What makes mocking this president fair as well as funny is that Bush is, or at least once was, capable of learning, reading, and thinking. We know he has discipline and can work hard (at least when the goal is reducing his time for a three-mile run). Instead he chose to coast, for most of his life, on name, charm, good looks, and the easy access to capital afforded by family connections.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:18 pmTimes Hill’reh DIDN’T cry:
9/11/2001 – 3,000+ civilians die
January 10th, 2008 at 5:19 pmHurricane Katrina – 1,000+ civilians die, mostly black, mostly children
Oklahoma City Bombing – 170+ civilians die, including infants and children at a daycare center
Funeral for Rosa Parks
Funeral for Ron Brown
Multiple times Bubba Clinton cheated and got caught
Ain’t nuttin’ wrong wit da way he talks. Just proves dat he’s da kinda guy ya all kin drink a beer wit.
Haters.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:19 pmYale University and Harvard Business School should be sued for allowing this mental defective to graduate from their respective institutions. Christ, I thought you had to have some basic skills, and maybe talent to get in. Whatever happened to meritocracy?
January 10th, 2008 at 5:20 pmable as
Transcribers, like secretaries, routinely correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling, as long as those changes don’t affect the meaning of what was said or written. It’s just reflex — the way we were trained. Everybody makes a mistake now and then. However, if the same person makes the same mistake over and over and over again, we tend to just dismiss that person as uneducated.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:22 pmI wonder how many US Taxpayer supported employees it takes to clean up Dubya’s “gramure”? MY guess is, a small army.
And……… Do we REALLY have to listen to Dana (Katie Couric mini-me) Perino for the ENTIRE 11 remaining agonizing months of the BushCo Scumbag Circus????
January 10th, 2008 at 5:24 pmMinistry of Truth
Newspeak: Minitrue.
The propaganda arm of Oceania’s regime, controlling information:news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. Winston Smith works for the Records Department (RecDep) of Minitrue, “rectifying” historical records and newspaper articles to make them conform to Big Brother’s most recent pronouncements, thus making everything that the Party says true.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:24 pmwould that they could fix more than the grammar…
January 10th, 2008 at 5:25 pmugh…
Ain’t nuttin’ wrong wit da way he talks. Just proves dat he’s da kinda guy ya all kin drink a beer wit.
Haters.
Comment by JPV — January 10, 2008 @ 5:19 pm
Kind of hard to drink a beer with a guy who doesn’t drink beer.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:26 pmEvery time Bush speaks, the value of a Harvard Education goes down.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:26 pm#9 Yale University and Harvard Business School should be sued for allowing this mental defective to graduate from their respective institutions. Christ, I thought you had to have some basic skills, and maybe talent to get in. Whatever happened to meritocracy?
able as
Comment by able as — January 10, 2008 @ 5:20 pm
Sorry to say, both institutions have a “Legacy” program for their graduates, that for enough money and endowments, they will let Junior in and push him through, to keep the checks coming.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:26 pmThey do this all the time. Actually, I’d say the mainstream media is more guilty of it than the White House. So often I read the quotes from him on a major news site and they seem reasonable, then I watch the footage and find out that the grammar and emphasis is completely different than portrayed in print. On TV they tend to show just a few seconds of his speech and usually pick a moment when he doesn’t look completely ridiculous. The media actively tries to promote the idea that the President is a reasonable, well-spoken man, when we all know it just isn’t true.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:27 pmchildrens do learn!!!!!
January 10th, 2008 at 5:28 pmToo bad you can’t fix stupid.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:28 pmLOL! That’s real sad that WH transcribers have to play English teachers with the Grammar-in-chief. Bush’s grammar and verbiage are just Bushisms. Yale.. All of payoffs from Yale by Daddy Bush won’t help his ignorant and incompetent son.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:30 pmSuch class – his teachers, real or imagined, would be so proud.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:33 pmBush is the example of the best the US has to offer as a President. Now the world knows why US education is one of the lowest in the world.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:35 pmSomebody’s got to say it, so it may as well be me. Wasn’t he looking for his copy of ‘My Pet Goat”?
January 10th, 2008 at 5:37 pmIt don’t madder if’n your commander and chef is a moron as long as he ain’t no idjut
January 10th, 2008 at 5:37 pmGawd. this is so embarrassing. We can’t take Bush anywhere without having to go back later and apologize.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:43 pmtoday’s edition:
Your President Speaks!
http://www.first-draft.com/2008/01/your-presiden-7.html
January 10th, 2008 at 5:48 pmHuh. It’s too damned bad that the rest of that idiot’s massive blunders can’t be fixed that easily…..
January 10th, 2008 at 5:49 pm‘I aint got it yet’, bush’s reply when asked: ‘What does the constitution mean?’
January 10th, 2008 at 5:50 pmtoday’s edition:
Your President Speaks!
http://www.first-draft.com/2008/01/your-presiden-7.html
Comment by katy
That is too sad for words. No wonder we are the laughingstock of the world.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:57 pmHees jes a plane spokin fellar.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:33 pmHyuk yuk…
Kind of hard to drink a beer with a guy who doesn’t drink beer.
I doubt very much that GDumbya has quit drinking. Based upon his demeanor, total break with reality, speech and thought patterns, lack of basic etiquette skills and poor (and often just plain retaliatory) judgements and decisions, it is pretty clear to me that he is an active alcoholic — not a recovering one.
And that observation is times 10 when it comes to Darth Cheney.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:34 pmAmerica — I give you your President — Ernest T. Bass — hope you’re proud.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:35 pmAin’t nuttin’ wrong wit da way he talks. Just proves dat he’s da kinda guy ya all kin drink a beer wit.
Haters.
Comment by JPV — January 10, 2008 @ 5:19 pm
Kind of hard to drink a beer with a guy who doesn’t drink beer.
Comment by dim wit — January 10, 2008 @ 5:26 pm
And it is real hard to talk to a guy that drinks all the time, much less understand wtf he is saying.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:46 pmWhite House ‘fixes’ Bush’s grammar.
Can they just fix what’s wrong with his brain first?
January 10th, 2008 at 6:47 pmHaters.
Comment by JPV — January 10, 2008 @ 5:19 pm
Fcking moron.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:47 pmCan they just fix what’s wrong with his brain first?
Comment by dlet — January 10, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
They are still trying to find it.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:48 pmCan they just fix what’s wrong with his brain first?
Comment by dlet — January 10, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
Didn’t his brain resign some months ago?
January 10th, 2008 at 6:58 pmThey are going to be pretty darn busy to fix all the poor grammar from this criminal PresiDunce.
Buck Fush
January 10th, 2008 at 7:02 pmAfter they are done redacting the bad grammar from the already redacted documents of the Bush administration, they can be reclassified.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:14 pmAs tarpaper.
Just
Plain
Embarrasing.
Mucking Foron.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:18 pmYale must be so proud!
January 10th, 2008 at 7:24 pm#8 km4
January 10th, 2008 at 7:42 pmPoint well taken – Bush has the mannerisms of a fool, but he is shrewd in his own skills of lying, conniving, conspiring, and plotting.
We all know of criminals who are illiterate, poorly skilled in reading and writing, but succeed in their chosen paths of immorality and criminality.
Haters.
Comment by JPV — January 10, 2008 @ 5:19 pm
Fcking moron.
Comment by Wayne — January 10, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
Sarcasm. :-)
January 10th, 2008 at 7:49 pmHmmm, I wrote a post which was apparently deleted by the staff because I referred to Barbara Bush as a sounds-like witch.
Bush has suffered from being the rich kid from a connected family and no one had the courage to expect more from him in elementary school, so he never developed the “ear” to hear when a word or phrase sounds grammatically incorrect.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:53 pmThat continues today with no one, including his wife, allowed to criticize Bush, much less tutor him.
To Bush’s grammar police: I ain’t impressed.
January 10th, 2008 at 8:58 pmMy comment got axed as well. C’mon TP, has O’Reilly scared you?
January 10th, 2008 at 9:41 pmWho else would like to see this buffoon’s now 93 year old 3rd grade teacher just whack the shit out of him with a rolled up newspaper?
January 10th, 2008 at 10:10 pmWell, let’s try again. Bush is the guy with the big missles. If he can’t communicate those missles might just get launched when all along he just wanted lunch…ok, but is it too much to ask that our president is articulate. It’s embarassing. Perception is nine tenths of the law. If he sounds stupid people will think he is. And how embarassing for Yale…my goodness!!
January 10th, 2008 at 11:01 pmGrammer ferst, econime secund, and ther taint nuttin’ wrong with Eye-rack.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:37 pmPart of the “I’d have a beer with him” strategy left over from the campaigns, maybe? Plus, how do you argue with a dumb@ss? He gets the free pass all the time because of low expectations.
Although I’d love it if congress would clear more shrubbery in the White House this year, instead of Bush clearing brush at the ranch. I’m sure Laura would be appreciative.
Haters.
Comment by JPV — January 10, 2008 @ 5:19 pm
Fcking moron.
Comment by Wayne — January 10, 2008 @ 6:47 pm
Sarcasm. :-)
Comment by Zooey — January 10, 2008 @ 7:49 pm
Ooops =P
January 11th, 2008 at 12:12 amWould that the cord remain plugged in, and it were Shrub that became unplugged.
January 11th, 2008 at 5:15 amI have an acquaintance who attended high school with George W. Bush. I once asked him if he remembered much about Bush. He said that the only thing he remembered is that his math teacher, who would sharply call out the name of any student he caught napping, would often be heard yelling “Bush!”.
January 11th, 2008 at 11:56 amEducated grammar should be a fact of life, or for those of good intentions of success in life, a goal. A president of the United States does not have the luxury of projecting a bad image for his country. Use of ‘that word’ is the height of ignorance once one spends three years in an American school, starting with kindergarten. Disgusting.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:48 pm