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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Phonetic teleprompter

While the right derides and Politico "reports" that Obama can't make speeches without his teleprompter (no shit, every fucking politician has used the teleprompter to make speeches since its invention), I ran across this link in the comment section of a blog. I googled a bit to verify and it turned out to be true.

Apparently, George W. Bush didn't know how to pronounce the names of some countries (except Iraq) and political leaders (except Ahmadinejad, and that's a tough one), so he loaded the phonetic spellings of each word into the teleprompter. Examples include Sarkozy (sar-KO-zee), Mugabe (moo-GAH-bee), and Kyrgyzstan (KEYR-geez-stan).

But if it's a Republican then it's ok.

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