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Osama...Obama...Fo-Fama...
I realize this is a week old, but you don't have to be Zad Rust--yes, that Zad Rust--to know that True Tales of Ted Kennedy keep better than yogurt pie on a window sill in August.
Reports the AP via ABC News, the Duke of Chappaquidick--a key element of what has come to be known universally as the Stupid Grandson Theory--"mangled" the name of the Democrats' greatest hope for...what exactly is not sure, but there's a lot of hope there:
Kennedy...mangled the name of the Democrats' new star, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, calling him "Osama bin...Osama...Obama."
I believe the actual word the reporter was looking for was moidalize. Strangely, sadly said mangling came after this Algonquin Roundtable-level exchange, pronounced "deft" by the AP:
In other comments, Kennedy deftly dodged a question about whether foreign-born citizens should be allowed to become president.
"I didn't know David Ortiz was planning to run," said Kennedy, referring to the Boston Red Sox slugger who is Dominican.
He then looked out at his sister Eunice Shriver, who was in the audience, and said, "Did you hear that, Eunice?"
Shriver's daughter Maria is married to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has been talked about as a potential presidential contender but was born in Austria.
Whole thing here.
|1.19.05 @ 11:13AM|#
Teddy just loves to remind us why he was only Kennedy nobody bothered to assassinate.
|1.19.05 @ 11:22AM|#
Moidalize: now there's a word you don't hear as much as you
might like!
- Completely Mental Ed Grimley
|1.19.05 @ 11:54AM|#
Yet another thing he has in common with Bush. Inability to speak at key moments. Either these too men are really dumb, or they are token on the same bong. I vote dumb.
|1.19.05 @ 12:00PM|#
It's clearly a sign of stupidity or mental illness when a 78 year old white guy from Massachusetts screws up an African name.
|1.19.05 @ 12:23PM|#
"Teddy is 78?
Damn!, So it's true: Only the good die young."
Yeah.
Old Teddy personally helped one of them along too, about 30 years
ago.
|1.19.05 @ 12:29PM|#
It's clearly a sign of stupidity or mental illness when a 78
year old white guy from Massachusetts screws up an African
name.
Listen to WRKO playback the many soundbites left by the Senator and
you will realize he screws up far more than a Yemeni name.
|1.19.05 @ 12:49PM|#
"It's clearly a sign of stupidity or mental illness when a 78
year old white guy from Massachusetts screws up an African
name."
Yeah, it's not like has any reason to invest some tiny amount of
effort in learning, it's not like that's part of his job or
anything. But I see what you're saying, why would an old white
senator need to learn a black man's name?
|1.19.05 @ 12:51PM|#
Ahhh...memories of the MLB home run record chase from a few years back, when good ol' Teddy commended "Mike McGwire and Sammy Sooser". In baseball terms, that's "0 for 2".
|1.19.05 @ 1:23PM|#
"It's clearly a sign of stupidity or mental illness when a 78
year old white guy from Massachusetts screws up an African
name."
There goes Joe. The redder the person being insulted the more
fervently he tries to defend them. Is there any Commie you wouldn't
take a bullet for, Joe?
|1.19.05 @ 1:46PM|#
Nothing gets people crankier than interrupting the Two Minute
Hate.
Brett, "Sooser" is how someone with a thick Boston accent
pronounced "Sosa." Sort of like "Chiner."
Oh well, back to my commie/racist musings.
|1.19.05 @ 1:54PM|#
'Sort of like "Chiner."'
The First Law of Norteastern Liguistics: R's can be neither created
nor destroyed - they are conserved.
Thus, if one speaks of "Chiner", one is condemned to drive a
"Caa".
|1.19.05 @ 2:25PM|#
"Obama" sounds a lot more like "Osama" than "Barney Frank" sounds like "Barney Fag".
|1.19.05 @ 2:37PM|#
joe:
Tell you-ah Pats to take it down a few notches.
I think my Steelers have what it takes to win at home this weekend
if they bring their A game, but that Colts massacre was
scary.
Here's to Tom Brady - may he see much of Joey Porter again this
weekend.
|1.19.05 @ 3:09PM|#
Da Stillers got a chance if Big Ben shows up. You can't finesse
the Bus - they either put enough guys in the box to stop the
league's best running game, or they don't. "Enough guys in the box"
means Pittburg's wideouts are in single coverage a lot. So either
Ben puts the ball in their hands, or he doesn't.
I'm not hearing much about "the Patriots' banged up secondary"
anymore, though.
|1.19.05 @ 3:25PM|#
The criticism of Teddy is silly.
Everyone knows that when you are better than everyone else you
needn't bother to learn anyone else's name.
Well do you?
Adamant|1.19.05 @ 3:51PM|#
Ah yes, getting a name wrong. Always funny. Like saying Saddam when you mean Osama? Like saying Nukular. Or maybe trying to spit out the word subliminal? But hey, we're all human, right? We just try to put food on our family.
|1.19.05 @ 4:22PM|#
Yet another thing he has in common with Bush. Inability to
speak at key moments. Either these too men are really dumb, or they
are token on the same bong. I vote dumb.
Is is a sign of something when a poster doesn't know the difference
between "two" and "too" or between "tokin'" and "token"?
|1.19.05 @ 4:23PM|#
Yes, those Freudian lacy underthings will get you every
time.
Teddy's a Freudian lace curtain.
|1.19.05 @ 5:00PM|#
"Ah yes, getting a name wrong. Always funny. Like saying Saddam
when you mean Osama? Like saying Nukular. Or maybe trying to spit
out the word subliminal? But hey, we're all human, right? We just
try to put food on our family."
Because, of course, nobody was there to criticize Bush for those
things...
|1.19.05 @ 5:55PM|#
A couple of cocktails mid-morning, a little something fortifying before lunch, wine with lunch and all of a sudden a guy is supposed to be drunk? This is prudery at its worst.
|1.19.05 @ 6:10PM|#
I think he also mispronounced Chappaquidick once but that was because he was cold and wet.
Yehudit|1.19.05 @ 7:00PM|#
"Yet another thing he has in common with Bush. Inability to
speak at key moments. "
But only one of them gets regularly made fun of for that particular
quirk.
Kevin Carson|1.19.05 @ 7:37PM|#
LAWYER: Mr. Quimby, did you assault Mr. Lacost?
FREDDY QUIMBY: Of course not. I love each and every, uh, living
thing on God's green earth.
LAWYER: Well therefore you certainly would NEVER lose you temper
over something as trivial as the pronounciation of 'chowder'.
FREDDY QUIMBY: That's CHOWDAH! CHOWDAH!!! I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL
ALL OF YOU! ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU IN THE JURY!
JURY: (gasp)
LAWYER: Wow, that didn't go well...
|1.19.05 @ 10:04PM|#
Teddy is the fool who drinks himself drunk, passes out, then
vomits in the middle of the party.
This is the "Dean of the Democratic Party"
|1.20.05 @ 9:11AM|#
I know of an easy way Teddy could get rid of 60 to 70 pounds of
ugly fat.
He could cut his head off.
|1.20.05 @ 10:03AM|#
The drunk jokes are 15 years out of date. When I used to pass him in the early 90s, the dude's face was purple. But he's cleaned up since then.
|1.20.05 @ 10:20AM|#
Like I said, Orrin Hatch got him to quit.
Couldn't convert him to Mormonism though.
|1.21.05 @ 12:35AM|#
"The drunk jokes are 15 years out of date. When I used to pass
him in the early 90s, the dude's face was purple. But he's cleaned
up since then."
He hasn't cleaned up -- his face just ran out of purple pigment.
Either that, or he's using better makeup these days.
|1.22.05 @ 7:36AM|#
The problem with the drinking is exactly that - it does not go away just because he stopped. The effects continue to Kerry over.....and over.....and over.......
|1.22.05 @ 3:42PM|#
How well I remember the old battle-cry from the `80
campaign:
Sink Or Swim With Teddy!
Kevin
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