Comments on: Oh, God: Obama reads “corpsman” as “corpse-man”

By: Palin, Plain as Can Be | Pundit League

Palin, Plain as Can Be | Pundit League — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:02:41 +0000

[...] For proof of her astounding idiocy, just wait until the media reveals all those awful things she stuck into emails after they check them a second time. The release wasn’t quite at all anywhere near as damaging as the media hoped. They had to revel in small victories: as an example, she’s so stupid that she spells it “corpseman” instead of “corpsman.” Just kidding! [...]

By: Wilson

Wilson — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:52:09 +0000

No point putting on airs or indignation, it’s just a mess-up like Bush mispronouncing nuclear as you said, neither is a big deal to me. I remember being mocked once for saying “deaccelerate” and as soon as someone called me on it, I realized what I had said, so maybe I’m just sensitive to public figures who mispronounce words

By: Winslow Wong

Winslow Wong — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:05:23 +0000

Bumbling, bumbling, and more bumbling. You should check out the comments on this on “Barry’s Mad Mambo” page at “http://mamboartstoday.com” which was where I first read about “The Annointed (?) One’s” verbal screw-up. Face it folks, Obama is an empty suit of unimaginable proportions. Less than three more years left of his bungling…that is good news. Never again!

By: Chaz

Chaz — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:58:55 +0000

I can’t understand how this story could even be true. How could you meet a corpsman, and find out that’s what he was without hearing it pronounced? They don’t wear it on their uniforms. Obama’s ignorant about most things military, but how could this story be true and Obama’s never heard the word pronounced correctly? If he would have read the man’s rank off of a roster, it wouldn’t have said “corpsman.” Someone faxed him this story.

But what’s worse is watching how high in the air Obama’s chin is throughout this speech.

By: OLGA

OLGA — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:43:10 +0000

HOW COULD HE KNOW? THEY DO NOT USE THIS MILITARY TITLE IN KENIA OR PAKISTAN. AND WHEN HE GOT OLDER HE WAS ON DRUGS MOSTLY UNTIL SOMEBODY (MAY BE SOROS, MAY BE SAUDI PRINCE: WE HAVE TO FIND OUT) TOOK OBAMA AND PUSH HIM RIGHT INTO POLITICS WITH THE ONE GOAL ONLY: TO DESTROY THIS COUNTRY.

By: Sammy Finkelman

Sammy Finkelman — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:37:04 +0000

This has nothing to do with the word “corps” Obama pronounces almost ALL S’s with an S sound.

(He did use a Z in Elie Wiesel, but he knows that’s a non-English word)

Most people don’t realize this, but “cats” and “dogs” are not pronounced the same. The S of “cats” is pronouinced like an “s” but the “S” of “dogs” is pronounced like a “z”

Not so in the case of Barack Obama.

If you listen a little bit more carefully to the video from the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville from last year you will hear a little bit after “Corpseman” he says “dogs” – with a real s.

He does this all the time. I haven’t checked, but he probably refers to himself as the “precedent” well, probably not quite like that.

You mostly will not notice it. I didn’t. It really has to be pointed out. Jay Nordlinger noted pronounciation of the letter “s” on “The Corner” on National Review Online at the time of the State of the Union Message.

You could call it his Vulcan accent.

Because it is just not logical to write an “S” and pronounbce it differently.

More seriously, he must have learned this many years ago in school from a teacher whose native language was not English. Since then, whenever he has encounted correct pronunmciations he assumed the otehr person is making a mistake and he has always been much to polite to correct it.

So far though Obama does NOT, as far as I know:

Pronounce the “W” in Answer

Pronounce the “L” in Salmon.

Pronounce the “C” Scissors.

Pronouce the “B” in Debt or in Doubt.

I am not sure about the “T” in Often – I haven’t listened for it.

This is confined apparently to the letter “S”

Now the reason he does say Press Corps and Youyth Corps right is that he has actually heard those words pronounced asnd assumed it is an irregular pattern. But an S in the middle of a word is different, and it’s no longer silent with him.

the trith of the matter is, I would not be sure how to pronounce it and I would say corpseman too. And maybe press corpse.

By: Obama, In Charge of Military, Can’t Pronounce Their TITLES | Right Wing News

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:34:40 +0000

[...] not Peace Corpse or Obama Youth Corpse, yet he doesn’t know how to pronounce corpsman properly. He read corpsman as corpse-man in his remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast. Telling.When Bush mispronounced nuclear, the left went bananas. It became someone he was bashed for [...]

By: Chris in NC

Chris in NC — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:14:59 +0000

WE won’t let it die. It just became Obama’s potatoe. Don’t let it die…

By: Steve L.

Steve L. — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:29:04 +0000

I read one news account or blog that speculated that the person who loads the TelePrompTer didn’t know how to pronounce it, and included an incorrect phonetic rendering, which Obama dutifully read.

When Dan Quayle was handed a card by a teacher with a certain word misspelled, did the media cut him any slack?

By: Fort Cannon

Fort Cannon — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:34:53 +0000

” Corps – man” three times in a row on TV yesterday? He was reading the teleprompter and read it like it is spelled. He did not know the difference and was quite secure in the pronunciation. Three times. This is the brilliance that has made the last year so unforgettable. Exactly, like many have all said before, dumber than a box of rocks.