A simple typo, or has all the bleeping news out of Chicago liberated ABC to start using some salty language its own? Check out the screengrab from this morning's Good Morning America.
As correspondent Jim Avila came on to narrate a segment about Blago's wife Patty and the conflicts among her, her powerful Chicago pol father, and her husband, the screen graphic read, as you see, "GOVERNOR'S FAMILY FUED." Reading the transcripts of Blago and Patty's colorful conversations, I'll say they did! But surely GMA could have found a more G-rated way of reporting that ;-)
You'll note that by later in the segment, the spelling had been changed. So, was it a typo from word one, or had the work of some wag in the control booth been overruled?
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This is funny but probably a total accident
December 11, 2008 - 08:13 ET by c5thenYou see, the schools today are so busy with political indoctrination that they have no time to teach spelling or even grammar. Let's not even talk about History, Math or Science.
Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!
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fued?
December 11, 2008 - 08:14 ET by Mica the MagnificentWhat's a fued? Am I a fued? Is there a government program to help me overcome my fuedness?
Okay so what does FUED mean?
December 11, 2008 - 08:15 ET by Dee BunkI tried Googling and only thing I could find was "First Unit Equipped Date"
I know, Dee
December 11, 2008 - 08:18 ET by Mica the MagnificentIt must mean that on your first date, bring your equipped first unit with you. I always did.
Think of it as FU'ed, in the
December 11, 2008 - 08:19 ET by Mark FinkelsteinThink of it as FU'ed, in the sense that, as per the transcripts, they said FU frequently!
Thanks Mark - get it now
December 11, 2008 - 08:44 ET by Dee BunkI'm so slow sometimes ; )
The best I can come up with
December 11, 2008 - 08:19 ET by dvdaughtryThe best I can come up with is given Blago's favorite four letter word the misspelling of feud looks like:
F-U'ed. Do I have it right?
You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?
reading too much into typo
December 11, 2008 - 08:21 ET by SouthJersey1953I think it was a stretch to read FUed into that obvious typo...
Luke 23:34
PALIN/Jindal '12
I was banking on people
December 11, 2008 - 08:24 ET by Mark FinkelsteinI was banking on people noticing the ;-) at the end of the third paragraph and realizing I was writing very much tongue in cheek.
sorry...
December 11, 2008 - 09:39 ET by SouthJersey1953Missed the ;-)
Luke 23:34
PALIN/Jindal '12
I got it!
December 11, 2008 - 08:49 ET by sshuffield70They read one too many game show forums online. "Feud" is frequently misspelled as FUED.
I was Fued once.....
December 11, 2008 - 08:59 ET by JTPBut I payed a lawyer to get me out of it....
"I need more cowbell!" SNL
They will Blame Dan Quayle
December 11, 2008 - 09:14 ET by legacyrepublicanCertainly they will blame Dan Quayle somehow.
Yea, the poor guy doing the typing for the kyron was the student Dan asked to spell Spud with an "E".
→ Is there a "K" Pat
December 11, 2008 - 11:16 ET by Cool ArrowI'd like to solve it.
Oh my God.. I cant stop laughing at that one!!
December 11, 2008 - 14:08 ET by JTPThat is good!
"I need more cowbell!" SNL
Taht's vary funy
December 11, 2008 - 10:32 ET by eugeneromeroI work in the graphics dept. for a News station in Austin. Fortunately, I don't type stuff up on chyron. I do all the cool animated opens and such. But what I hate more than anything else is bad spelling or typos. But I also find it funny to see the major networks make a mistake.
Mac Vs. Pc: The Fued To End All Fueds
December 11, 2008 - 11:13 ET by Rush FanI didn't know what the word "fued" meant either. In searching for the word, I came across this professional Apple vs PC commercial YouTube video titled: The Fued To End All Fueds.
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What I don't understand is
December 11, 2008 - 12:02 ET by marpelWhat I don't understand is why people are so horrified at Blago's language. It's not unusual for these guys to use that language. The people who are reporting these story use that language.
ABC, I think, made an error, but it was ironic that it happened on this story. Thanks for the observation, Mark!
all that expensive technology
December 11, 2008 - 12:16 ET by katainkentand no spell-check?
I noticed the ;-) right away. Good to have a sense of humor this early in the morning. I am married to a sailor and when he came back from sea he always required a bit of 'retraining' to get the F out of his vocabulary so I am not too enormously surprised at the language. I was a bit surprised Ms. Blago also seemed to suffer from a bit of the F-bomb, herself.
I thought all those upper crust people had more expansive vocabularies than that. All that upper learning stuff or whatever. ;)
"part of what I'm hoping to introduce as the next president is a new ethic of [government enforced] responsibility" - B. Obama
With all I've heard about Rahm Emanuel's
December 11, 2008 - 21:51 ET by Cape Conservativeextensive 'blue' vocabulary, I wonder how they will be able to determine whose FU was whose in that two-hour conference call.
By the way, I 'got it' right away, Mark ;-) Great catch!
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