He sounds like a dyslexic reading words.
Fucking dumb piece of shit.
Stupid fucking dumb Republicans.
As Rachel Maddow put it on Friday, this issue might not had gotten much attention outside Washingto[del]o[/del]n but in toon town Kevin McCarty’s feet were put over the coals for his ESL like speaking abilities and his gift to Hillary by admitting that the Benghazi hearings were this long because of partisan politics.
Well, he’s stupid enough to please the TP. I’m sure Clothahump and Magellan listen to him talking and nod.
Kennedy was only fumble mouthed when drunk… hence the reputation 
The source would have been the station where the interview first appeared. Wasn’t that Faux News?
Interesting that his mis-speaking hasn’t been more widely cited by other news outlets. Except for Maddow it’s almost a cover-up.
More recently, Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran.
I use those or Eye-talian when trying to be funny.
At some points in those clips, I thought the poor guy was stroking out.
I feel for the guy because I have word salad issues myself, and it is embarrassing to hear yourself speaking incoherently. Which is why I would never run for public office–let alone Speaker of the House.
What I don’t get is why he sounds that terrible when he’s clearly reading from notes. That means not even a teleprompter can help him.
yeah, that was kind of amusing
Used to be, Republicans had a highly paid cadre of professional cynics advising them. A little prep work this could have gone over OK. A few well placed stories about the civic leader and family man who shreds his word salad. Hell, if they could sell Marlboro America on a guy who busts into tears over CBO reports…
Whoosh?
Common parlance uses third, but if Obama is zero, then Biden is 1 and the speaker 2.
If so, then common parlance is wrong. Obama is already president; he’s not in line for anything.
Yes - this and the complete absence of any recognition of things going awry. Most people, when they start struggling with garbled communication will either self-correct or will at least show some kind of recognition that something might have come out wrong. They’ll pause, or get a funny expression on their face, or stammer a bit. In my opinion, the thing that makes this guy seem so weird is the complete lack of any expressions or mannerisms like that.
I’ve always said Eye-ran and Eye-rack, going back to the seventies. That’s also how I a always heard it. I was highly amused when I heard people in the media saying Ee-rahn and Ee-rock many years later.
And Kennedy must have been pretty much always drunk then because he always sounded like that. Agreed, one of the great Doonesburys ever was the verb one quoted above.
At the moment, I’d imagine that the GOP would prefer he’d remained inarticulate:
Coming from a certifiably conservative pundit, the last strikes me as a remarkable statement. And while I’m not as sanguine as Ms Parker as to the long-term effect of McCarthy’s inadvertent truthfulness — and his singularly ham-tongued attempt at retraction — it appears certain that he has indeed taken a good deal of momentum from Benghazigate/Benghaziscam and emailgate/emailscam. Quelle dommage.
Heh, you should meet my family. They pronounce Italy = Itly all the fucking time. It drives me crazy. Even my younger brothers. WTF? Where does that come from? And the It part is pronounced like it.
Always makes me chuckle.
But can I still pronounce Italy as EHT-all-lee like Sgt. “Big Toe” Hulka in* Stripes*?
The vowel there is usually quite elided in English. So much so, that the pronunciation in at least this dictionary doesn’t even include an explicit vowel sound there, just the “l.” I pronounce it something like “it’ll-ee.”
Now see here! Inarticulate doofusi deserve representation too!
That should be doofi.