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.
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Teddy just loves to remind us why he was only Kennedy nobody bothered to assassinate.
Ted Kennedy - showing the world why the word 'asshat' was created.
Moidalize: now there's a word you don't hear as much as you might like!
- Completely Mental Ed Grimley
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.
It's clearly a sign of stupidity or mental illness when a 78 year old white guy from Massachusetts screws up an African name.
It was just a mother Freudian slip.
Teddy is 78?
Damn!, So it's true: Only the good die young.
"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.
Twba: Yes, those Freudian lacy underthings will get you every time.
Slips! Freudian slips!
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.
"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?
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".
"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?
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.
'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".
Jason, you ah so quee-uh.
"Obama" sounds a lot more like "Osama" than "Barney Frank" sounds like "Barney Fag".
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.
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.
Actually, Ted Kennedy is only 72 (born in 1932). But his mind is still addled.
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?
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.
Cut Teddy some slack. Word on the street is he was liquored up.
I thought Orrin Hatch had got him to quit.
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"?
Yes, those Freudian lacy underthings will get you every time.
Teddy's a Freudian lace curtain.
Actually, he seems to be more of an ink blot.
"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...
Teddy is a drunk. Osama for President.
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.
I think he also mispronounced Chappaquidick once but that was because he was cold and wet.
At least he didn't call him Osama Yo' Mama.
"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.
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...
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"
If someone dropped a "dumb-bomb" on Teddy, it would raise his IQ.
I know of an easy way Teddy could get rid of 60 to 70 pounds of ugly fat.
He could cut his head off.
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.
Like I said, Orrin Hatch got him to quit.
Couldn't convert him to Mormonism though.
"The drunk jokes are 15 years out of date"
So is Teddy.
Touche, Gil.
I mean, er, Freedom, Gil.
Whatever floats your boat.
Teddy drives me crazy. Of course, that's the only place I'd let HIM drive me...
"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.
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.......
How well I remember the old battle-cry from the `80 campaign:
Sink Or Swim With Teddy!
Kevin