NEWS: Finally, There Is Proof!

POLITICS: Finally, There Is Proof!

For many years now, Americans who follow presidential politics have had the sneakin suspicion that our "elected" President, George W Bush, was about as smart as your average sixth grader. And it's not to say that such suppositions were not without evidence; many of Dubya's greatest gaffes were caught on videotape, and lovingly packaged in Top Ten form by the great David Letterman:



And then there are all the things he says, which, as a collective whole, are so unbelievably dumb that they've gotten their own name - Bushisms.

And so on.

But for all those moments, for all those Bushisms, for all those collossal screw-ups in office that prompted a million people to collectively scream at their TV's, "Are you fucking stupid?!" there wasn't any proof. All we were left with was a suspicion and an empty feeling, a feeling that this man would, in the eyes of history, get away with being such a tremendous idiot.

Until now.

Finally, written, recorded proof that Bush is one of the slowest, dumbest fuckers on the face of the Earth.

The first sign that something is wrong is when he needs a pronunciation key for the name of a friend. It would be like me saying, "Hey, uh...dic....dic...shun? Air...airy....girl! _DictionaryGirl_!!!"

This is not a child, you guys. This is a fully-grown, well-educated (Yale!) 61-year-old man. And he cannot pronounce the word "Kyrgyzstan," despite the fact that he is in charge of international relations. The man in charge of the free fucking world can't pronounce the names of the countries and leaders with which he does business. And I can understand having a mite bit of trouble with the name "Mauritania," but Jesus Fucking Christ, this man is the president, it's his job to know these things. 90% of the users on this website are smarter than he is. And now the White House itself has inadvertantly provided us with the solidifying evidence that proves it, once and for all.

I bet any of you could pronounce "Harare" given the chance. Any of you.

In the meantime, Lewis Black has formulated his own theory:



Formus is quite aware that it's a little late to be experiencing these types of revelations, but he feels quite rectified nonetheless.

And here I thought I was stationed in the capital of this proof, Baghdad (BAG-dad).

I dunno ... if I were the president, and knew my linguistic limitations I'd opt for phonetic spellings from the teleprompter as well.

What is totally mind-boggling is to learn about the training wheels, and then realize he still can't keep from plowing his nose into the pavement.

Not to defend the president's intelligence, but this is common amongst all teleprompter copy. This is taught in jouralism and broadcasting. Reading text as it scrolls past on a teleprompter is a learned skill and it is quite easy to mispronounce any polysyllabic words when doing so.

I think Bush has given ample evidence of his stupidity without us needing to clutch at straws to prove it.

Nail on the head. Like someone pointed out on Digg, Conan O'brien has a habit of showing his cue cards and how they spell names out for him some times. It makes perfect sense to me.

Boy, I'm sure glad I skimmed through this article.

It makes the day so much more pleasant if you try to look on the bright side. This is actual proof that Bush is not the antichrist. After all, the antichrist is supposed to be smart and charismatic.

The point here people, is that this president had a fuckin' 2.5 GPA at Yale. Let's please, please, please, just try not to let this kind of idiot get into the White House again. Can we do that?

I never made it to the end, too side tracked by the Bushisms page... I think my fav is "The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for 'entrepreneur." Yes, I know the quote was later denied as a rumour but I wouldn't put it past him, would you?

Lets not forget "Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?" either... Why hasn't anyone assassinated this guy yet?

I actually made this exact point while discussing politics with my mom the other day.

Ha Ha Ha. guys that is sooo funny. you have an idiot for a president. i think y'awl should put him up against a group of 10yr olds in a spelling bee. actually make that a group of 5 yr olds. you do want to see a level playing field.

What's wrong with that?

I dunno about you but if I'm making a major speech i don't wanna be like sally field and go in the middle "I forgot what I was gonna say - derrr - ummm - mumble - oh yeah - THANK YOU!!"

and if you don't say those names every day - wouldn't YOU wanna be reminded? jeez... his brain power is pretty much a given, but to me that's actually a smart thing, not a stupid one....

Because Cheney is intelligent- and very, very evil.

In fact, now that I think of it, why hasn't the neo-con agenda assassinated Bush, now in his second term, so that Cheney could get elected as pres and extend the neo-con reign of terror? Even Republicans are getting sick of the neo-cons, but I think Cheney would have had a good shot if he ran.

Thankfully, this is not materializing.

There's a theory that I somewhat ascribe to myself regarding Bush as an idiot:

Many, many Americans are idiots. Bush's endless gaffes are, in part, a calculated public relations move made by his handlers to make him more endearing to the common (read: idiotic) American. "Hey! Check it out... he's one of us! He can't pronounce foreign names *and* he's gonna give me a $500 tax refund! I'll vote for him!" The other part is that he is, in fact, not so bright.

Priceless. I can't wait until they put his face on the cover of American History for Dummies.

Yeah, our electorate picked a doozy with Bush. But that doesn't mean the Irish should be laughing at us.
We didn't have to wait until 1996 for legalized divorce!

I don't see anything wrong with him wanting phonetic spellings on HIS copy of a major speech. I see something wrong with his staff handing out these same copies to the translators. THAT is stupid. But wanting a bit of a crutch for words like "Harare" (when I first saw this word I thought it was "Ha-rare" instead of "ha-rah-ray"), I don't have a problem with. Now, the fact that he STILL manages to butcher these words despite the crutches...that is just a different level of talent right there.

[Yeah, our electorate picked a doozy with Bush. But that doesn't mean the Irish should be laughing at us.
We didn't have to wait until 1996 for legalized divorce!

that's true. but i think we have a well educated, well travelled population. 80% of the adult population have passports, compared to maybe 5% of americans. downside is the catholic church, but they've lost their grip on things in the last 20 years re scandals on child abuse by priesta and in industrial schools. so guess its slowly changing.

hey its not all bad. her our taoiseach (prime minister) bertie ahern 'alegedly' took a bribe in 1996 of $50000 (from its owner) to repair a house he was renting at the time. he subsequently bought said property at a knock down price from the same said owner. corruption in ireland is rife. kick backs are huge in our property boom.

sorry rant over. so america is not so bad after all.

Heh, read the tags some of the girls get on picture sets. I mean, we're not talking YouTube comment or Yahoo News Talkback standards, but they still get pretty bad.

Though I would say most people who post on the newswire (and have a real profile, otherwise all bets are off) are normally pretty good.

As for the story... I think it's a little silly, but if I were reading a teleprompter, I'd probably want the same thing. Even reading outloud I make mistakes because reading out loud seems to be a lot more linear than reading to myself (if that makes ANY sense at all...)

like, such as is "nuclear (NOO-KLEER)" on that list?

HA! You make jokes, Mr. Formus, but you should have been there at my commencement ceremony. The provost had my pronounce my name into her ear because she could figure out neither my name on the diploma nor my phonetically-articulated cue card.

Awesome.

Bullshit article. Making fun of that asshole for not being verbal seems so... low. And lame. I mean, who cares if he trips and falls, bumps his head or drops a dog.

There´s a million things to say about this bozo´s presidency, but dumbass stories like this one makes just makes it easier to dismiss serious criticism.

Waste of time and space.

why assassinate someone who's the ultimate puppet? from a "presidential family" [nothing like a grandpa people used to call the worst president ever,] who always is on vacation and does whatever the hell you tell him is right? the teleprompter is a tool sure, but it's further proof of this.

the neocons were smart with this one, i have no idea how they pulled it off. maybe before they take away all our rights the american people will remember that this is a constitutional republic and things like the right to bear arms and free speech are in place so that we can oust an unconstitutional leader.

*sigh*