And it keeps
fucking happening.
Look, if a newscaster can lose his job over a legitimate slip of the tongue, I can’t accept so many people making this “mistake.”
I’m no believer in the two-party system, and I have little or no preference out of the current candidates, but this is nothing more than an intentional way to associate Obama with “scary foreign-sounding stuff!” on behalf of the corporate/conservative mainstream media.
Barak Hussein Osama.
I’m counting two slips of the tongue here. Was the “Kong” remark something he actually said, or was that a slip-up made by the journalist?
From all evidence, it looks like on-air he said “Coon” and afterward tried to cover by saying he’d uttered “Kong,” something like “King” and, in his thinking, similar enough in sound to him to “Coon” for his contrived excuse.
“Kong” is bad too, though. The whole gorilla thing.
Accident or not, I can’t blame the station for firing him.
As for the Obama thing, unfortunately I have made the slip up. It’s kind of excusable when Obama and Osama are regularly in the news. But Romney really takes the cake.
Two of your links refer to the same Romney incident back in October – maybe a mistake, maybe not. Who knows? But it doesn’t seem to have amounted to much one way or the other. One of them refers to Doug Limerick, an ABC radio news reporter. I’m not aware that he has any specific bias; embarrassing, but probably not intentional. And the other two refer to right wing talk radio blowhards. Neither of them is even claiming it was “accidental.” If this is as big an epidemic as you make it out to be, your links don’t do much in the way of demonstrating it.
I have seen this many times and I still think it is a crock that he got in trouble for this. Seems to me that his tongue got ahead of his eyes on the teleprompter. He sort of slid King and Junior together and it started to come out Kunior but he stopped and tried to correct which made it worse. I might be wrong, I don’t know what is in his head but thats what it seemed like when I saw it.
I agree that this could also be correct. However, he should have just said what you did (“I got tongue-tied”) and left it at that. What he came up with just sounds contrived and, like monstro said, might be just as bad as “Coon.”