I never watch our local news. Never. It's all half assed reporting and puff pieces with whatever 30 second clip of actual news they've chosen for the day. Unfortunately one of the biggest news pieces lately has been Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the US (who decided to let the bastard in anyway? if restaurants have the right to refuse service shouldn't the United States have the same right?)and the speeches he gave while here. Now, one would assume that if you *knew* you were going to have to read something off a teleprompter that may be somewhat outside your realm of commonly used words that you might fit in some time to work on the proper enunciation. Well, you know what "ass"uming does.
So with out much, if any, practice these idiot "reporters" (I use that term loosely) attempt to pronounce Ahmadinejad's name. Live. On air. It ends up sounding something like this-
"Iranian President MyMOOD Akmar....Amaginina.....Ak-MAD-din-E-Gad is set to visit the United States this week."
*sigh*
Now I know that the two dozen people who watch our local news probably couldn't even tell you who OUR president is. So I'm sure they don't know who Iran's president is. But for God's sake if you're going to call yourself a reporter you could at least get on Wikipedia and study the pronunciation.
So I gave them a shot. Now I'm back to Fox, Glen Beck, and Hannity. Sorry i strayed boys, guess I just needed a reminder.
I not even going to go into how Mahmoud got all pissy* because someone asked him a difficult question and actually expected him to answer it. Big wuss. Will someone press the big red button and get this over with already?
*Can someone explain to me why blogger's spell check won't recognize "pissy" as a word but gives me a not so pleasant word for the female anatomy as the first suggestion for replacement?
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The local news, of pretty much every locality in the country these days, is universally worthless.
My person proof? This week my husbands office was evacuated for "a mysterious white powder" found. For hours they ran the "terror in the heartlands" message... over and over.
Sadly, it had been a small open envelope of coffee creamer on someones desk kept for quick coffee breaks.
They still haven't acknowledge the oopsie.
But, at least they didn't fubar the pronounciation of Mahoud's name. Why? This particular bit of news hasn't hit ANY of the local stations.
Sigh.
Seriously? They're scared of coffee creamer but not of a guy with nuclear weapons? LOL OK you're news wins!
President Mad Dinner Jacket? Never heard of him.
(No shit -- that's what a local news anchor called him.)
You've got to be kidding me? Dinner Jacket? LMFAO
"*Can someone explain to me why blogger's spell check won't recognize "pissy" as a word but gives me a not so pleasant word for the female anatomy as the first suggestion for replacement?"
Considering who you were writing about, it actually makes sense...
*gigglesnort* Bob that was baaad....But horribly funny!
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