El Guapo. El Chapo. Jihaddi John. El Burritto. Americans are stupid.

[Atman]

Americans are stupid media morons. We have to give every evil bad guy a fun "Bad Guy" name.

El Chapo has a real name. It's Joaquin Guzman, but Americans can't pronounce it.

Jihaddi John has a real name, but Americans can't pronounce it.

All our evil bad guys actually have names, but not in American media. We have to give them cartoon names, because American audiences are too stupid to understand reality. Give us a comic book name, something we can understand. It makes it much easier to hate people that way.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. don't forget Donald Trump. though that comic book character does have a pronounceable name.

[Oneironaut]

2. El Chapo was his childhood nickname

[Ed Suspicious]

5. The Short? The Stunted? Frightening.

[LanternWaste]

3. the appellations we create for ourselves on DU seem a rather irrational basis for determining intell

Nicknames, nom-de-plumes, sobriquets and even the benign appellations we create for ourselves on DU seem a rather irrational basis for determining intelligence or the ability to enunciate foreign names.

I'm confident we'll be supplied with objective evidence supporting your allegation as something more than philippic prattle.

[Atman]

11. You win for the most polysyllabic conneries du jour on DU

Your oh-so-enlightened response does nothing to refute what I originally posted.

[geek tragedy]

4. You know what they call Guzman in Sinaloa? El Chapo nt

[NightWatcher]

6. We give not only hurricanes but now moderate storms get media names too

[NaturalHigh]

7. Your concern is noted.

[JI7]

8. jihadi john was given by European hostages

Because of the British accent.

I think el chapo actually does go by that name.

So these are not American creations.

[Human101948]

9. Do they deserve any better?

I don't think so. These nicknames are also a way of ridiculing and diminishing these people.

Like calling Hitler the Austrian paperhanger.

[DetlefK]

10. How dare you badmouth the in-famous El Guapo!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

14. "This man El Guapo, he's not just famous, he's IN-famous...." nt

[DVRacer]

22. That means he is more than famous right?

[Atman]

12. Hey, sorry. I just think it's funny.

We can't just call out a bad guy in America. He has to have a comic book bad-guy name. It makes it easier for the cable news telepromter reader to pronounce their names and keep us sufficiently afraid.

[Nay]

20. The point is that your "Americans" didn't give the fellow the nickname. The

Hispanic newspaper here in Richmond (yes, all in Spanish, for Spanish-speaking folks) calls Guzman "El Chapo." He's been called that forever. Nicknames like that are common in Central and South America (el flaco, el gordo, el guapo, el feo, etc.), so THOSE are the Americans (not North Americans) who have given him that name.

[B2G]

13. It's "joaquin guzman" and

I doubt Americans have a problem pronouncing either name.

Wah-keen. As in Wah-keen Phoenix.

Guzman. As in Guzman.

[Atman]

15. Yes, I know.

I worked on Joaquin Castro's campaign. I can pronounce it, and occasionally I make a typo on DU. It doesn't change one thing about my original post.

[B2G]

16. Well I think your original post is BS

Don't call Americans stupid because the media insist on pushing something you disagree with.

[Atman]

17. Okay.

Thanks for setting me straight.

[B2G]

18. Just disagreeing

Of course you are entitled to your opinion.

I just get sick of the stupid American posts sometimes.

Stupid media posts I am totally onboard with.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

19. Slow down. I just recently learned how to pronounce "al Qaeda's number two".

[hughee99]

21. When did El Guapo become an "evil bad guy"?

He was a fan favorite in Boston.

[smirkymonkey]

23. We used to call an old boss of mine "El Guapo".

It means "Handsome". Ironically, he was not very handsome. I'm not sure who came up w/ the nickname, but it kind of stuck.