Why doesn't it bother Repugs that the dipshit Pres speaks like a dumbass?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

"emboldening?"

There's volumes of this idiots mis-speaks and malapropisms as well as just plain ignorant statements.

Do they not see this or are they dumber than he is?



edited because I said it right.

[TerdlowSmedley]

1. Because he's speakin' their language.

[babylonsister]

4. GREAT answer! They don't know the difference? nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Actually, "emboldened" is a real word. Even so,

Bush does talk like a dumbass, always, and I've never understood why they either don't notice or don't care.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

6. You're right. My mistake & I corrected it... it was "emboldening"

Which I checked in the OED and my big Webster's Lexicon...

They haven't heard of it.

[eggman67]

15. So is "emboldening"

It's an inflected form of the transitive verb embolden.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

17. And not yet registered by a respected lexicon.....

But, give Karl a week or two....

[stepnw1f]

3. They Have No Respect for the Position

That's why... as long as they think they are sticking it to you and me, it doesn't matter. They hate us, and would kill us all if it was legal. Soon it will be legal.

[leftchick]

5. he said suiciders today as well...

like that is even a fucking word. The man makes words up for gods sakes!!!

:puke:

[Cha]

7. For the reason they are

rethugs in the first place..they don't think on their own. If the media tells them and kenny-boy melhman tells them that bush is a genius then he must be a genius and no amount of evidence to the contrary for their lyin' eyes and ears will sway them.

How sad to go through life as a toady for someone else's agenda.

[shraby]

8. He's equivalent to a magician using

distraction while he does his magic. The Repugs use shrub in the same way. "Don't look here, look over there."

[Lena inRI]

9. I, too, have been wondering this but. . .

from another angle:

Why, in the first place, did the rightwing PNACers pick such a dumbass to advance their agenda???

Couldn't these puppetmasters pick a better puppet?

My only guess is there was no other Rethug willing to be totally manipulated as GWB can be. . .his chronic incompetence makes him the most MANAGEABLE puppet???

:shrug:

[acmejack]

10. They are "results oriented"

Means are irrelevant, outcome is all that counts. Thats why they don't care about uninsured children, hungry babies, freezing seniors, you get my drift.

[Warpy]

11. The damned fools think it means he's one of them

They have no clue he reverts to (slightly slurred) New England prep school English when he's off camera.

Yes, they really are that stupid.

[Book Lover]

12. Because they confuse "honest" with "folksy"

is my guess. (Actually, I just stole that from a Robert Reich interview I heard a while back. Unlike the President, I cannot tell a lie)

[DemBones DemBones]

13. Because they are dumbasses themselves.

The ones who are not dumbasses are benefiting financially from this administration's actions or are deluded into thinking they are benefiting financially. "Remember, we got a tax rebate!"

:eyes:

[Triana]

14. well, here's one theory by a linguist...

Basically, he seems to be saying people like being blinkered by a bumbling idiot better than they like being blinkered by someone who is coherent and can speak normally. Interesting...

"Decoding the Candidates"
by Steven Pinker

Next week voters will consider two major candidates for president who have spent many months talking to them. The voices and messages are familiar enough by now. But what has also become clear is that one of these two men has fought a long and losing battle with the English language.

George W. Bush has a disconcerting habit of saying things that don't mean anything (''expectations rise above that which is expected,'' ''more and more of our imports come from overseas'') and an even more disconcerting habit of saying the opposite of what he means (''100 percent of the people will get the death tax,'' ''if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness'').


The Bushism is challenging the malapropism as an eponym for lexical near-misses: ''a system that suckles kids through,'' ''quotas vulcanize society.'' Even cliches betray him: ''We ought to make the pie higher.''

Yet as lists of Bushisms circulate on the Internet, Mr. Bush's support seems little damaged. A bit of background on how language works can help explain why Mr. Bush's gaffes don't seem to have hurt him.

First, many people know they can't believe everything they read. Dan Quayle did not say on a trip to Latin America that he wished he had paid more attention to Latin in high school. The story quickly jumped from a comedian's monologue to the ''Quayle quotes'' making the electronic rounds.

Also, anyone who has experienced the horror of seeing his spoken words transcribed knows that speech is meant to be heard, not read. Even among the articulate, verbal give-and-take is filled with false starts, garbles and statements that make no sense out of context. In 1991 the Supreme Court upheld the common practice among journalists of doctoring the wording of quotations, acknowledging that to reproduce a person's words verbatim often is to make him look bad. Transcribed speech can look especially ludicrous when it comes from a sleep-deprived candidate trying to sound lofty enough to win sympathy and vague enough not to tie his own hands.

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/2000_10_31_newyorktimes.html

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

18. Great monograph! Thanks for posting it.

[WI_DEM]

16. because there a bunch of dipshits too?