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Fun and games with Obama's lapdog media
By Howie Carr, Boston Herald (MA) December 31, 2014 12:25 pm
Obama has done it again, and the media aren't reporting it -- again!
This time the world's smartest man (we know this because of that crisp crease in his pants, right David Brooks?) said this to a fawning rumpswab from National Public Radio:
"Tehran is a large, sophisticated country that has a track record of state-sponsored terrorism."
Tehran? There's an old joke that one man's Mede is another man's Persian, but have you ever heard of anyone mixing up "Tehran" and "Iran"? It happens about as often as a Christian who mistakenly describes himself as Muslim forgets he's a Christian, or upon landing in Hawaii says he's glad to be visiting "Asia."
What language do they speak in Tehran -- Tehranese? How do you get there -- on the "Intercontinental Railroad?" (Remember when Barack confused "Intercontinental" with "Transcontinental"? Apparently there was no "corpse-man" in the audience to correct him.)
This Tehran faux pas happened Dec. 18, in Obama's end-of-the-year interview with NPR. I assume Fox got one of those too, right? Anyway, NPR sat on the interview until Monday, when they released a transcript.
Not the audio, you understand, the stuff that could be used on TV or the radio to make sport of the guy who thinks they speak Austrian in Austria. They released a transcript. But don't worry, NPR is going to put out the audio -- this morning, on New Year's Eve.
Why would any media outlet sit on audio gold until one of the absolute slowest news days of the year? That's a rhetorical question, of course. We all know the answer -- it's NPR. They're Obama's fellow travelers.
(I will play the audio on my radio show this afternoon, unless of course before it's posted NPR suffers some kind of hard-drive crash like the one that destroyed Lois Lerner's IRS emails ... er, never mind.)
The Tehran misstatement seems to have been first reported not in any U.S. newspaper, but in the Daily Mail of London, which lets the chips fall where they may, Political Correctness be damned.
Good old Obama, the guy who says he bowls like he's in the Special Olympics, who thinks the Packers play at Lambert Field, who believes the team that beat BC at Yankee Stadium Saturday night is the "Nitally Lions," who once wrote on ESPN that the Orangemen play at "Syracus," whose favorite baseball team plays at "Cominsky Field," even though he can't name a single White Sox player of the past or present ....
Nothing to see here, comrades, move along. Just ask NPR.
Hear Howie's radio show this afternoon from 3-7 p.m. on WMEX AM 1510 and WCRN AM 830.
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A 300 word shit fit because the president said 'Tehran' instead of 'Iran'.
Pure audio dynamite, Howie.
Obama has "Palinitis" ;-)
Oh yea!
Mike Hawk
Yeah, whatever. Remember this guy?
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And the one time honey of the GOP Herman Cain:
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What language do they speak in Tehran -- Tehranese?
Since Tehran is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province, I would assume that they speak Persian, Gilaki, and Mazandarani for the most part.
How do you get there -- on the "Intercontinental Railroad?"
I'm pretty sure you can get to Tehran via the Mehabad International Airport located in Tehran.
Is accidentally calling a country by its capital really that big of a slip up? The author of this doesn’t seem to think that Tehran exists, which kind of shows their intelligence level. As CharlieE already pointed out, we would have a novel of this by W.
But, but, but Obummer is sooooo articulate and a master orator.
All fluff...No substance.
I will give him credit though, he's been one helluva snake oil salesman...or is it an elixir that he's been hawking for 6 years now?
Oh yea!
Mike,
O isn't too bad a snake oil salesman but he doesn't hold a candle to the master...St. Ronnie Reagan.
All fluff...No substance.
President Obama has proposed lots of useful legislation over the past six years, including a number of things that the Republicans used to support.
They've blocked all of it.
I don't blame Obama for nothing getting done.
Our media focuses on a lot of political, non-news, nonsense, and this guy thinks they need to spend more time on silliness like the president's misspoken words? I don't think he understands what the job of media is (or should be).
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