CNN Critiques Palin's Phonetics While King Fumbles 'Misogynistic'

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Since Sarah Palin was tapped as John McCain’s running mate, everything from her family to her hair to her glasses has been scrutinized. Today, CNN targeted her phonetics.

The network pointed out the word “nuclear” was spelled phonetically as “new-clear” in the text of her convention speech. While a camera shot caught the text of Palin’s speech in the prompter, CNN says the script handed out to the press still had the phonetically spelled out word in it.

It is not uncommon for broadcast writers to script words phonetically for talent.  In fact, news personalities are known to get angry at writers and producers who do not phonetically spell out words which are easy to fumble when reading a prompter during a live broadcast.  However, CNN portrayed the phonetically scripted word “new-clear” as a way Palin would spell the word herself.

 Seemingly anxious to connect the Alaskan governor’s pronunciation of the word to President Bush’s famously mocked pronunciation, CNN’s Jeanne Moos showed how Palin could not pronounce “nuclear” correctly either without a phonetic guide.  Anyone who reads a teleprompter needs a little help now and then. Just ask Larry King.

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 The evening before Moos criticized Palin’s pronunciation of the word “nuclear,” King became confused when he attempted to read the word “misogynistic.”  King invited left wing filmmaker Michael Moore on his program and discussed campaign issues.  He read a question for Moore from an e-mailer:

 KING: And we have an e-mail question from Rebecca in Jackson, Tennessee: “Michael, I’m a fan. I’m glad you brought attention to so many important issues, but why didn’t you support Hillary?

 If more media people like you had supported Hillary instead of being — I don’t know. I don’t know what this word is, misogynistic — a new word for me — “maybe we would have a Democratic president in 2008.” I was reading it the wrong way.

 MOORE: It’s never too late to learn a new word, or a new behavior.

 KING: I know the word. I was reading it as — like some sort of disease.

 MOORE: Well, it is a disease.

 KING: OK.

The irony drips away.  A phonetic spelling in the teleprompter could have saved King from such a gaffe.  Audience members would have never known, because who allows outsiders to see an anchor’s phonetic aides in a script?   Moreover, would CNN ever question if Joe Biden or Barack Obama could “go nuclear on the opposition?” The media, however, has different standards for someone like Sarah Palin.


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Here is a Teleprompted word for CNN....."Bi Ass"

And it is not a good looking gay guy.

CNN is way off message on this one, they should be pointing out that in ALL the 57 states that Obama has visited,  the Messiah has NEVER made mistakes.

The Republican Revolution will not be Televised

LOLOL!

LOLOL!

Good one JayTee!!!

LMAO!!! 

"If a man does his best, what else is there"?

General George S. Patton Jr.

This play by MSM is

This play by MSM is bad...here's why, NO one wants their own text to be misspelled and people reading this article will see the spelling (incorrectly) and attribute the spelling error to the writer concluding he is the dummy and not the person he is referring to.

he also let the cat out of the bag that people in the news might not be bright enough to read a real script. I've found news people dumb enough for 40 years this just adds another straw to eventually break the camels back

In good conscience...

That's it! I'm done with McCain-Palin! I'd rather turn the country over to an anti-American, anti-Semitic, racist with terrorist ties than to someone who used phonetic spelling!

BTW, I heard that they have to put telepromters in every bathroom of the buildings in which Obama speaks in case he has to call for more toy-let paper.

hope they include directions

hope they include directions for him how to use the TP..

OK, I started to comment on

OK, I started to comment on that, but my self-censor caught me in time.

I will say this, though, maybe Barack should either have someone holding up flash cards for him when he speaks, or rehearse out loud ahead of time.  Then he wouldn't have been caught the other day at Penn State calling their team the Nittaly Lions. (h/t Rush)

MB

First time I met my brothers new wife, we were watching a football and game and she thought their name was the "Nifty Lions". When she said it the room got completely quiet for a few long seconds and everyone looking at her to see if she was serious ( she was) before it erupted into laughter.

You mean

how to use his ONE square of TP. LOL

MSNBC and the DNC (I know

MSNBC and the DNC (I know the same group) recycled TP at the DNC conv, after the first use they had an approved picture ID for access.

CNN would never have do this

CNN would never have do this to Obama. What hypocrites.

An exact quote from BO - LMAO

"It costs ... when ...  if you ... they just gave ... you gave 'em ... treatment early ... and they got ... some treatment ... and uh ... a breathalizer ... or ininhilator not ... a breathalizer ... hahaha",  Barack Obama as seen in the video "Hype:  The Obama Effect."

 

http://www.hypemovie...

And don't forget this 

And don't forget this  stumble-fest

 

Evening mb... Thanks for

Evening mb...

Thanks for the evening laughs...I knew the msm would make nada of that...glad you brought it out again...it was priceless, plus a keeper...

By the way, Jesse Jackson was once a candidate...who could understand half of what he was saying then, or now!

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Buenas tardes, bt.... I

Buenas tardes, bt....

I have watched that video several times, and no one in that audience is saying anything, yet he keeps acting like they are interrupting him.

LOL!

A couple of montages from

A couple of montages from Barack O'Gaffinator:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap2Cg_FDRy4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5R6kVry4_c&feature=related

Kindergartners spend more days preparing for first grade than Barack Obama spent in the Senate before running for president.

(H/T to a fellow NB for the great line!)

Did she skip over a comma too?

As they say in Indiana and the East Coast ... see you in "Warrshington". I wonder what percentage of Americans pronounce the word nucular instead of nuclear? Let me redirect the question - I wonder how many presidents who went to nuclear power training school can't pronounce it correctly?

 The answer 100%. That's right Jimmy Carter went to school to study the subject and to date he still can't get it right. Now lets move on to more "impordant" news stories. 

 The answer 100%. That's

 The answer 100%. That's right Jimmy Carter went to school to study the subject and to date he still can't get it right. Now lets move on to more "impordant" news stories. 

That's the thing that kills me. Carter must have said "nucular" a thousand times, yet he gets a pass. Funny, huh?

“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)

If I'm not mistaken, Carter

If I'm not mistaken, Carter actually pronounced it  Nukier.

I've been trying to find a video, but can't

Thanks, NewsbusterBrown!

When I saw this piece the first thing I thought of was that NOBEL-PEACE-PRIZE winning Jimmy Carter, nutjob extraordinaire and liberal icon, used to pronounce the word nu-cue-ler.  It drove me NUTS!!!!!  But the media simply ignored it.  Of course, Carter used to take foreign relations advice from his "little daughter Amy" too and they gave him a pass for that as well...

Actually most of them say

Actually most of them say "Warshin" without the "ton."

I go nuts when I hear the "Present of the United States" too.

Oh, and don't forget the "Constootion."

OK, I'm done now. :-)

 

You left out the entitlement

You left out the entitlement meant to drag us all down,  "Sossasecurity."

Yes I did...how did I

Yes I did...how did I forget that one????

You have an extra syllable in there...it's sosecurity

Thanks for the assist.

Given the number of Dems who call Obama...

..."Osama", among whom is his running mate and the drunk from Massachusetts, perhaps CNN could prepare some cue cards so that they know how to say his name.

OMG...You have got to be

OMG...You have got to be kidding!

How low are these peole going to sink...

May as well pass them all another shovel, they are busy digging their own graves...along with their messiah. 

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Fif-tee seh-vin states.

Fif-tee seh-vin states.

"CNN is way off message on

"CNN is way off message on this one, they should be pointing out that in ALL the 57 states that Obama has visited,  the Messiah has NEVER made mistakes."

It`s now 58 states. The One thinks the town of Eau Claire, Wisconsin is a state.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJKT8M5QnV8

 

 

Six Degrees of Desperation

So I'm watching phony baloney Barack on Fox News earlier as some fake "town hall" format, where he's wandering around the stage, mike in hand, shirt sleeves, giving his usual stumble bum appearnce.

And every few seconds he looks down.. and I'm wodering WHAT THE HECK IS HE DOING... he's constantly breaking eye contact with his audience.

Then I remembered. He has a load of teleprompters surrounding him so he can gives the appearance of speaking "off the cuff" whne all the while he's being fed his lines in a constant loop.

Man... this guy is the biggest phony since that guy who convinced the "elites" of Manhattan he was Sidney Poiier's son. Six Degrees of Desperation, indeed.

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Oh, yeah, Jack, gotta have

Oh, yeah, Jack, gotta have those white shirt sleeves rolled up...a real working man!

Electronic crib sheets. you gotta love it.

I am

old enough to remember hearing President Kennedy pronounce the name of the island nation located southeast of Florida as CUBER.  I didn't think any less of him for it (or for referring to himself as a jelly doughnut for that matter.)

The MSM is grasping at straws in their desperate attempt to find something, anything, to take down Sarah.  However they have overplayed their hand since 51% of voters think they are being unfair to her and that they are in the tank for Barry.

 

MSM: Teleprompter

MSM: Teleprompter professionals.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f92_1218064672

ER.... LOL...that was

ER....

LOL...that was mooooo-ving....

...that was really funny....thanks.

Speaks volumes about anchors, prompters/phonetics ect. 

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

At least he could laugh at

At least he could laugh at himself, more then can be said for the NY / DC blowhards when they screw up.

Yeah...I agree...he was

Yeah...I agree...he was priceless.

You are right about the others..it is always someone elses fault.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Let us be honest

This nice lady (Palin) could cure all cancer, prevent world hunger, stop all war, clean up crime and cure aids...

And the media would still have us believe she killed Christ, slapped Mother Theresa and eats baby hearts for breakfast... 

NOBAMA 08 !!!

Olbermann

As soon as Governor Palin concluded her speech, I switched from Fox to MSNBC and was greeted by Olbermann's way-too-much-make-uped face almost in a sneer.

He was remarking that Governor Plain's teleprompter had malfunctioned, and, Keith couldn't quite believe it, she handled it without a hitch.  Olbermann said most people lose it and stammer and stutter when the teleprompter goes awry, even Keith.

He made mention, several times, that Governor Palin in no way wrote the speech, of course she had to have help, but then, Keith said, most people on television have their words scripted, even Keith.

He mentioned that several words had to be spelled phonetically for the Governor, but, Keith said, most people on television have their scripted and telepromptered words spelled phonetically, too, even Keith.

The whole Keith-blather commentary was quite...  curious.

That Governor Palin is a former successful sports broadcaster must really get under Olbermann's skin.

So, is this Olberblown's

So, is this Olberblown's admission that those Kwazy Kos Kids write his copy?

Alaskan Troopergate FACTS

Perhaps CNN and Oprah should quit being twits disgracing themselves and actually cover a story that Sen. Barbara Boxer is now championing and the Obama democrats are spreading the Alaska Troopergate story.

Obama would have you believe like Boxer that this little trooper is being persecuted by Gov. Palin.

I ask people to visit the like below in a PDF file, but if you don't care too here is what the official Alaskan investigation concluded to Col. Julia Grimes who immediately suspended Bull Wooten, I kid you not this thugs name is Bull Wooten and the picture I found of him online has him posed as a psycho robo cop with his chin jutting out deliberately like a 1950's Army DS.

Bull Wooten was married to Sarah Palin's sister, Molly. This Bull is bully literally in character.
In dismissing the drinking the guy did on duty, the real meat of this is this:

People will remember that old guy who is Sarah Palin's dad from the convention. Well, he was going to get an attorney for his daugther for a divorce, Bull Wooten yelling stated he was going to shoot Warren Heath while fondling his gun.

His exact words were, "If your father gets in
the way I will kill him. He'll eat a f*cking lead bullet. If the
old prick gets an the attorney to help you, I'll shoot him."

While Sarah Palin and other witnesses heard the murder threat, under Alaska law as long as her father was not present, it was not something Wooten could be arrested for.

Wooten also threatened Gov. Palin after her husband asked Wooten to act civil in the divorce for the children's sake.
Wooten later threatened the Gov. to her sister in, "Put a leash on your sister or I will put Sarah Palin down."

Sustained charges were found by the Alaskan investigation in Bull Wooten tasered his 11 year old stepson, who is Molly's, Sarah Palin's sister.
Wooten admitted to doing it as a "training exercise".

OK to explain the events in the "training exercise", this is a little boy not over 120 pounds wet. Wooten who is huge is yelling at the boy's mother and the boy refuses to leave her side.
Wooten then tasers this child with 50,000 volts. Tasers last time I checked were those things with wires that implanted and they knock 250 pound men to the floor where they shake in convulsions.

That is Bull Wooten's training exercise in a little boy who was trying to protect his mother from a lunatic.

Divorces are messy, but this one was life threatening and no one who has a sister going through this is going to stand around and do nothing.
As a public code of conduct note, it is Gov. Palin's responsibility to address any issue involved law enforcement which comes to her attention family or not, especially when an Alaskan state trooper is threatening to murder old people and tasering children.

There are more files elsewhere in 11 seperate charges he is under investigation for and a really interesting racial aspect is Bull Wooten hates Inuits which Mike Palin is. Wooten refers to them as drunken lazy welfare cheats.
The sources indicate he never stops a native American without ticketing them.

What is it with Obama, Maher and these people in their hatred of "eskimos"?

So there you have the legal papered facts in the attack going on by a thug in Bull Wooten, being carried out by an Alaska DEMOCRATIC STOOGE, being spread by the Obama people and their chief DEMOCRATIC SPOKESWOMAN to counter female Sarah Palin in Barbara Boxer.

Now ask yourself in the racism of Oprah, the absolute political sexual rape the Palin family is being subjected to by Campbell Brown, Bill Maher etc..., the attacks on native Americans and now we have actual Alaskan State Troopers official papers where Bull Wooten is a poacher, is threatening to murder Sarah Palins elderly father for getting a divorce attorney for his daughter and he tasered an 11 year old boy who is Sarah Palin's nephew.............

and who is condoning and defending this criminal abuse?

Barack Obama and his cat scratch queen of Barbara Boxer.

These Obama democrats are like some psycho torture crowd from a B grade movie.

So the next time you hear of some ranter lying about what went on in Alaska with Gov. Palin in removing that trooper, set people straight in a real Newsbuster post that matters.

This is probably something Greta at FOX doesn't think is a news either as she and all the media are too afraid of exposing any of the Obama people to all the criminal garbage they are implementing and condoning.

Barck Obama's plan for teaching school children how to behave when their mothers are being abused, taser them.
They're defending this Bull Wooten and attacking Sarah Palin, so it is their policy of protecting child abusers.

Hillary Demcrats are you going to wake up and stop being tarnished by this Chicago thug brigade who savaged you in the same way?

 

 

God bless

 

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Lame Cherry.... Exactly

Lame Cherry....

Exactly what happened too...and the hypocrisy from the left knows no bounds.

Zilch.

They are nothing but evil political people with an agenda at all cost...they are walking talking plastic molds of Saul Alinsky...winning at all costs.

This is the main problem I have worried about with the msm if Palin was named VP...I knew they would do this, and they are just beginning.

By the way...has anybody seen that over-grown pretense of a man Wooten in live action...he was on CNN last night.

America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Don't forget the phonetic spelling of Obama.

  How many Dems and Journos have said Osama. Might want to put Oh-Bahm-Ah up there.

  Or Obama/Biden not Osama Bin Liden

These gifted wordsmoths never seem to miss a chance.

These gifted wordsmiths never seem to miss a chance to zing those of us among the vulgar many. The talking and writing class are supposed to know the language and how to use it. Many are smug, petty people who don't know what to do with the words when they have them.