I received one of those daily Bushisms calendars for Christmas. You may have as well - stay with me. Every morning while I'm having coffee, I tear off one day to reveal yet another classic flub. My blood pressure goes up and I spend the rest of the day ranting with you (while trying not to get caught at work). Some of you may have received one too - maybe the same one I have. Hang with me here, though. I do have a point (insert Carol Burnett ala Eunice Face).
IT'S THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING!
Each day, I read something that is written in English-meaning I can read and see the words and punctuation-but I'll be DAMNED if I can understand them.
For example, let's look at yesterday, January 13th:
"I'm sure there's a lot of people frightened - biotechnology is a long word and it sounds - they may say, well, I don't know if I'm smart enough to be in biotechnology, or it sounds too sophisticated to be in biotechnology."
WHERE IS THE FUCKING SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT? HUH?
Stay with me.
Now let's look at January 1st - the beginning of this year:
"The servants of this ideology seek tyranny in the Middle East and beyond...they seek to indeminate America into panic and retreat."
DID I FUCKING MISS THE VOCABULARY FUCKING QUIZ IN GRADE FUCKING SCHOOL WHEN "INDEMINATE" WAS INTRODUCED TO OUR YOUNG FUCKING MINDS?
If I did miss the lesson, please point me to it. (Oh, and by the way, Georgie Porgie - YOU are the tyrant in the Middle East and soon to be beyond).
Let's examine January 3rd:
"Maybe between the time I left Camp David and here I'll learn more."
I DON'T THINK YOU'VE EVER LEARNED ANYTHING, YA WILD FUCK, YA! YOUR MIND IS OBSIDIAN - NOT THE SPONGE IT SHOULD BE.
And what about January 5th?
"There's what they call `actionable intelligence,' to which our military has responded on a quick basis is improving."
HE IS BEYOND EMBARASSING.
Last one - today, January 14th.
"She's doing a fine job of coordinating interagency. She's doing what her-I mean-it shouldn'a-the, the, the role of the national security advisor is to not only provide good advice to the President, which she does on a regular basis-I value her judgment and her intelligence-uhh-her job is to also deal interagency, and to help unstuck things that may get stuck-is the best way to put it. She's an unsticker
FOR WHAT JOB IS THIS WASTE OF CELLS QUALIFIED?
51% of our country voted for this? What do all of those rethugs do together? Do they sit around and chant, "We are not a cult (in monotone unison)?" I have HAD IT!
Okay, the point I promised:
This butchering of the English language, I think, has gone beyond the cute calendars and coffee table books. It's an embarrassment. I realize that I am preaching to the choir here but we should really push this. If you see something in the paper or hear it on TV, write a letter to the editor or something. The same wingnuts who want to tell immigrants to either speak the fuckin' language or go back to their own fuckin' respective countries voted for a man who can't coherently utter a complex idea (especially if the words contain multiple syllables).
Language IS important, dammit!
Rant over - need nitroglycerin.