Faux News lectures Americans on how to spell. The comedy

[Democrat 4 Ever]

just writes itself. Posted on Crooks and Liars, a clip too pathetic to be believed. According to Douchey and friends, "People have been speaking English for thousands of years" and the soon to be classic "soldier is hard to spell because of the "i" before the "e" and the dumb airhead female adds in "and there is no "d" in soldier. Folks these people are main news source for so many people it is scary.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/10/open-thread-833/#comments

I don't know how to post a video, if anyone thinks it is post worthy, please have at it!

[nickyt]

1. Okay, I'll bite:

"solejer"?

[meow2u3]

11. Try the ghetto spelling

Soulja

[DS1]

2. In other words "It's okay to be dumb, everyone. You're with us, now

Fox News. Stay here and we won't use any big words, because we know you don't like them."

[unhappycamper]

3. lol

I posted to the Video forum.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

4. Thanks, it is too funny to let it get away. nt

[Fuzz]

5. Yikes.

"So many people are trying to dumb down America."

WTF? And this after "For thousands of years people have been speaking English." ??????????????

Again. WTF?

[slampoet]

13. wow. English as it is has only been around for 800 years.

What an effin idiot.

[Javaman]

6. brain hurts, head expanding...huh...huh...BOOM!

It's people like this that I want to eat a double cheese burger, chew it up, then take a long swig on a chocolate milk shake, mix it in, then look at them with my mouth full and yell, "shut the fuck up". Coating them with the same type of filth and slim that they puke up at us.

:)

[SpiralHawk]

7. Faux news propaganda kneebenders been eating to many potatos...

and BushCo FDA-approved samonella-infested tomatos*


* In deference to the Homland, I have used Republicon Homlander spelling

[TexasObserver]

8. For Fox, it's important that the people not be smart or knowledgeable

They are idiots!!

Steve Dookie may be the dumbest man on television. ED Hill is the dumbest woman. Those two had to be separated, because their dumbness was becoming a black hole of stupidity, sucking in all light and thought.

[Gormy Cuss]

9. This comment made me laugh

#379, after stating:
Because English has been borrowing words from other languages the rules for spelling in English have a great many exceptions. For many years now scholars have been trying to come up with a way to solve this problem and have yet to find one. English spelling is difficult, live with it. What is needed is better ways of teaching English that acknowledges these difficulties.

the commenter writes this:

In closing I leave you with these two following thoughts….
Some languages borrow from other languages. English follows them down dark allies, knocks them over there heads and goes through there pockets for loose syntax.”

Anyone else see a problem "their?"

It's a case of classic grammar/spelling cop syndrome.
:rofl:

[gratuitous]

17. Not to mention that the plural of alley is alleys, not allies

But it's a rule of journalism that any column written about typos will contain one itself. The rule apparently holds true for broadcast pieces as well.

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. "Speaking English for thousands of years"

They also rewrote history with that line.

[ColbertWatcher]

15. Since the planet is only 6,000 years old...

...and "we've" been speaking English for "thousands" of years does that mean cavemen and dinosaurs also spoke it?

[KharmaTrain]

12. Did They Interview A Body Language "Expert"?

Seems like the new crutch this whorehouse uses to get to the "real meaning"...wink wink.

Doochey better watch it...if he gets too smart, he'll become elitist. :rofl:

[ColbertWatcher]

14. WTF! LOL!

FOX is phunny.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

16. kick for the soldiers