What's Chimpy's excuse for not being able to pronounce Abu Ghraib?

[Sparkly]

Not enough rehearsal time?
Small type on the teleprompter?
Gas at an inopportune moment in the speech?

He tried three times!!

[Rosco T.]

1. battery in his earpiece was dead n/m

[Stew225]

2. maybe today was the first he had heard of it.

[Justitia]

33. ha, ha - this is my favorite explanation! -eom

[soleft]

3. Did you notice he flubbed it right after he said the word dictator

[PfNJ]

4. what a colossal.....

f**k up that was, even for him, huh?

[Alerter_]

5. oh give him a break, he did a good job reading the speech

his reading skills have really improved. Abu Ghraib? Anyone could screw that up!

[Stephanie]

11. It's the site where atrocities were committed under HIS administration

It is has rivetted the attention of the entire world for the past two weeks. It has ruined the moral authority of the United States for our lifetimes, most likely.

But BUSH has been out bike-riding, and hasn't even bothered to learn the name of the place.

[Eye and Monkey]

19. Do you think that Napoleon could pronounce "Waterloo"?

[calimary]

30. Yeah, but "Ambachelor Negroponte"??? "Ambachelor?"

What're we giving them on June 30th? Roses?

Oh yes, and besides the multiple manglings of Abu Ghraib, there was also "...help establish the sability..."

and "2nd Light Calvary Regiment."

AHA! Proof that Howard Stern is correct - "President Jesus!"

[Spazito]

32. You have GOT to be joking...

a robot would have had more animation and inflection. He slurred, mispronounced and garbled his words. There was no improvement not to mention no content.

[Cocoa]

6. too aroused

thinking about those pictures got him all hot and bothered, he couldn't think straight.

[AspenRose]

7. It's Clinton's Fault! (tm)

:dunce:

[librechik]

8. the guy who analyzes Bushies language

is it Mark Miller? says he has a speech dysfunction which makes him screw up words that might indicate he's guilty of something or that he is a failure in that area--whereas words like "assassination" or "murder" he can say flawlessly and with relish.

[Stephanie]

12. Mark Crispin Miller

The Bush Dyslexicon

and a new book coming out in July.

[SammyWinstonJack]

25. bush* has a brain dysfunction!

which makes him screw up the World!

[jjmalonejr]

9. Abu Gurum?

Is that from a Harry Potter book or something?

[Ready4Change]

10. He doesn't watch TV, doesn't read newpapers.

Its possible he's hadn't ever heard the name until he started practicing the speech. That's what happens when you and/or your cadre act in a way as to specifically rule out outside viewpoints and information.

[thebaghwan]

28. Do you think he pops old Laura every now and then?

n/t

[Imperialism Inc.]

13. He's an imbecile.

[Junkdrawer]

38. Yeah, that would tend to explain it...

but I'm sure a more complex explanation will make people feel smarter...

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. I really though he was finally

going to lose it. He really couldn't spit the words out. He spat and sputtered worse than an old GTO.

Unfortunately, he finally recomposed himself and continued on with the speech, but for a second there, I really had my hopes up.

[yella_dawg]

15. Yeah, but he managed the Thurston Howell III

pronounciation of "rather" again.

[Sparkly]

16. I noticed that!!

What the heck is that about?!

[DAGDA56]

18. A prep schooled, Connecticut Yankee...

...who's probably more comfortable in deck shoes than cowboy boots... I often drop into a New England accent when I'm tired...and I haven't lived there since high school.

[Stephanie]

17. Yes! RAH-therr

Also, did you hear him say of-FENSE instead of OFF-ense? He can't even handle sports metaphors. It was something like "the best of-FENSE against terrorists is..." and I'm like, what? You slap them in the face?

[sallyseven]

20. The bushes always mispronounce

names when they want to show contempt. 41 use to say Saddam wrong for years. Other names too. That is a bushie trick and its bush league.

[arwalden]

47. I Cringed When I Heard That... Cringed and Giggled

A nervous giggle though. Not a giggle of delight, but a giggle borne of fear. --- It's little wonder why the rest of the world has such little regard for our country.

He hasn't a CLUE that a word's pronunciation and inflection changes its meaning.

-- Allen

[voice of reason]

21. he was speaking in tongues

[earthside]

22. This has been enjoyable ...

I have enjoyed reading this thread.

I love it "Abu Gurum" - Harry Potter!

The best reply: He's an Imbecile!

And really, Bush shouldn't have had any problem with Abu Ghraib since we would assume that he has been hearing about this and talking about it for the past three weeks.

So ultimately the only rational reason to the question of why he cannot pronounce Abu Ghraib really is that he is an imbecile!!!!

[Stephanie]

23. CNN just showed it again!

They showed both times - when he choked on it, and when he mispronounced it.

[Sparkly]

24. He choked so badly, he looked like he needed a Heimlich

or a Heineken...

[spanone]

26. Mr. Cheney took a drink of water.

[thebaghwan]

29. Isn't it amazing how Cheney can drink water and still throw his voice to

sound just like *

[onecent]

27. And ya know---I can't believe he's all ours

This man is a total MORON! I have written MSNBC and CNN regarding this man's lying speech tonite. I don't understand how these media channels can sleep at night when they misconstrue the truth and roll their eyes when Democrats speak.

I also wish this was on all the local channels so the "Americans" can see for themselves how sneaky this rotweiller is.

Did you get a look at the audience? I thought they almost looked like Stepford wives (and husbands)....

[Bluebear]

31. Abu ga-rape and RAWtherrrrr....

RAWthherrrrr is a patrician New England way of pronouncing rather. Oops, he forgot his phony cowboy accent for a moment!

[AspenRose]

34. I didn't hear it but the description sounds like he was like Mush Mouth

from Fat Albert.

[Sparkly]

36. Jon Stewart should have a field day with this by tomorrow night

The first try, he looked sort of ill and stuttered "Abu Ga.... i... b" with long pauses between noises. After that it was "Abu Garrub" and I believe "Abu Garum" or "Abu Grum."

[opiate69]

35. He doesn't speak Arabiac. Or Iraqan.

[Sparkly]

37. Yes, but he speaks Mexican

and the Spainians appreciate that.

[Justitia]

42. Y'all are killing me!!!! hahahaha!

If I wasn't laughing, I'd be crying, and it would be a shame.

[UTUSN]

39. 2nd Kickepoo n/t

[waywest]

40. @#$!$%$$ telepromPter..

Where's Karl?

[voice of reason]

41. He pronounced it 3 different ways

and none of them sounded right.

[leftofthedial]

43. oh come on!

that is much harder to say than, for example, "nukuler."

I mean it's not like he's heard it said 100,000 times on every TV station in the country for three weeks now.

[GiovanniC]

52. The Reason is Obvious

The President doesn't watch the news!

That's where most of us learned how to pronounce "Abu Ghraib". We heard it pronounced on the television news, maybe listening to NPR or something.

But Bush lives in a vacuum. He doesn't read the newspaper, he doesn't watch or listen to the news. He's like a contestant on Big Brother... oblivious to what's going on in the world around him.

And that makes him a very dangerous Chief Executive.

[Oddman]

44. oh my friends . . .

but if I could speak Iraqiem I would say the names of them prisons just right. But my diselocution redirects my narwal pathways through my brain and so's I commence with this part of my vivisection of the stragaties of my purposful undertaking to free them Iraqis peoples and bring them democracy and their freedom.

So I say to you: Ask not what our country can do for us, but what our country can do for we!

[Jim__]

45. Hey, c'mon, he gave it the old third grade try

He was using that old standby - phonics. There was this word on the teleprompter that he had never seen before. So, did he just give up? No! He tried sounding it out.

Abu, Abu gar, abu gar abe.

If he were a third grader, I'd give him A for effort.

Unfortunately, he's president of the United States. And, what's that say about us?

[Hubert Flottz]

46. He forgot to remove his "Mouth Protector"?

Got to play it safe on AF1 rides to those campaign rallies ya know!

Smirk Protector

[in_cog_ni_to]

48. He is such an embarrassment to this country!

Did you see him READING the tele-prompters? OMG....what a damn fool! And the pronunciation of Abu Ghraib was just SHAMEFUL! What an idiot he is. I just loved the scabs on his face. :evilgrin: hehe....what a loser.

[arwalden]

49. My Stomach Is Too Weak To Visit Freeperland... But I Do Wonder What They

think of the miserable performance of their trained Chimp.

-- Allen

[arwalden]

50. Serious Question: Does Anyone In This Administration Actually BELIEVE

that Bush* is competent? Does anyone honestly believe that he has a clue?

Or is it a conspiracy to cover up facts, ignore the obvious, and muddle through as best as can be done? I'm thinking that among senior officials it's an actual organized and active conspiracy... among staffers, it's an unspoken yet understood conspiracy of silence.

-- Allen

[truthspeaker]

51. he's a DUMBASS

[cosmicdot]

53. to give the impression he wasn't in the loop

afterall, he can't pronounce it right ... right???