This is not worthy of a diary, and I apologize, but I just noticed something that is driving me crazy. I ask myself, "Why?"
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OK.
I was watching Fox News today (I'm sorry, but it's like watching a train wreck. I can't stop looking). They had Neil Cavuto (the guy on Fox Business who doesn't know the first thing about business) interviewing our national moral compass, Newt. Now, something Newt does that has bothered me since he decided to grace us with his presence as a Presidential! candidate, is that he always mispronounces "Washington." He pronounces it like mid-Westerners - "Warshington," which is odd, since Newt is from Georgia. People from Georgia (believe me, I know) pronounce it "Washington."
I thought it was just some speech tic he picked up from cocaine, syphilis, or maybe it just turns his current mistress on. But in this clip, Newt mentioned the state of Washington. He pronounced it "Washington!" I did a head jerk that almost broke my neck. I don't have the clip, but I swear he did.
So. Is this some Republijerk tactic, like their insisting on calling the Democratic Party the "Democrat Party?" I figured out that they do that because they do not want the Democratic Party to be linked in the Fox News listener mind with the democratic process. If they call it the "Democrat Party," then clearly, to the idiots who listen to them, there will not be a connection with democracy. We are, after all, according to that genius of the Republic Party, Rush "Oxycontin and Young Boys" Limbagh, a republic and not a democracy. (In a republic, in Rush's mind, the little people defer to their smarter and richer elders to make the important decisions, like whether a woman's body is her own.)
What gives? Is that a way he demonstrates he is really an outsider, since he can't even pronounce it correctly? Is it a secret dog whistle code? I hope people (and Jon Stewart) will pick up on this and mock Newrt for the pompous jerk he is. But, of course, there are 25% of the Republic Party who think he is the smartest man in America, simply because he tells them he is. Maybe if he tells them it's really "Warshington," they'll realize they don't have to pay taxes after all. Being sovereign citizens, and all