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June 24, 2004
Abu Gareff

The Daily Show has the clip of the president's press conference yesterday, wherein he refers to the "Abu Gareff... ... uhhh... uhh... situation."

Watch the video.

I'm really kind of confused by this kind of thing. Is it actually possible that the President of the United States hasn't heard the words Abu Ghraib enough times to know how to pronounce them by now? At no point in the past two months has he asked, "Can someone get me an Arabic speaker to teach me how to say this correctly? I don't want to look like an idiot." If this was a big topic of discussion among his people, wouldn't he know that it doesn't have an F in it?

See, to me all of that seems impossible. The man is not a complete idiot, despite popular conceptions. Pure evil, perhaps, but not an idiot. So what other explanation could there be?

It doesn't seem too far-fetched to me that they would have people on staff doing a lot of research into psychology. Who knows what kind of data they have on how people respond to public figures. It's obvious to anyone that people do not respond based on sense and reason, they respond in all kinds of fucked up ways. Is it possible that they've decided that by mispronouncing key words, the president gives people the idea, even subconsciously, that this couldn't be too big of a deal? It certainly minimizes the issue, and at the very least provides a less damaging distraction. "Let them make fun of my pronounciation; let them call me stupid. Meanwhile, I'll be over here destroying their precious Republic."

But seriously, George, it's embarrassing. Brush up.

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