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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo does the Orange Turd NOT know how to pronounce Kamala's name?
Or is he just an asshole? FFS, she's only been the VP for four frikken years.
C_U_L8R
(49,394 posts)JanMichael
(25,725 posts)Ocelot II
(130,568 posts)Mispronouncing someone's name is a petty way of disrespecting them.
Walleye
(44,862 posts)I just wish the TV news would call them on it. One of these reporters who loves the gotcha questions so much. Ask one of your Republican guests if they can pronounce her name or if they are capable of saying the Democratic Party. I think our TV news people need to study the British a little more. Making fun of someones name. Its just pure childishness and apparently, it appeals to their young (male) fans. You know how it is when a teenage boy starts with his harangue. Theres no point in continuing the conversation.
FarPoint
(14,777 posts)Just like Limbaugh coined their term " democrat party" as a negative slur... Tom Hartman spoke about this this week on his show.... We all need to correct them when it happens and call out the slur...
Aristus
(72,202 posts)Aristus
(72,202 posts)Its a way of trying to provoke her and get under her skin.
Kind of the way every republican since Newt Gingrich has called us the Democrat Party. They know the name of our party, minus the brain-dead rednecks who are simply thrown off by that last syllable.
Its a childish effort to demean and diminish. A stratagem one adopts when one has nothing substantive to offer to anyone.
woodsprite
(12,582 posts)Same thing with using Democrat vs Democratic.
krawhitham
(5,072 posts)Moosepoop
(2,075 posts)Quite often, he'll pause for a second before saying her name. I think he has to constantly mentally remind himself of how to pronounce it incorrectly, so as not to accidentally say it the correct way in public.
He's an asshole, but in a strange way he's now actually having to work at it a bit.
verargert
(142 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(69,887 posts)OLDMDDEM
(3,188 posts)Gaytano70
(1,234 posts)He's a racist pos, just like everyone else who purposely says it wrong. Saying it wrong disrespects, denigrates, and others her
malaise
(296,197 posts)anything they want
Docreed2003
(18,714 posts)He intentionally mispronounces her name to not-so subtly denigrate her
Midnight Writer
(25,420 posts)Aristus
(72,202 posts)The asshole part, they come by naturally.