Posted on 02/11/2022 3:17:13 AM PST by MtnClimber
I’d better open this post by saying that I think Marjorie Taylor Greene is not just intelligent, but also that she’s one of the most principled and courageous people in Congress. America would be a better place if every Republican had her virtues. Having said that, though, it seems clear that she may suffer from a form of dyslexia, that sees her scramble words that sound similar. Democrats, rather than acting with the compassion they insist is their monopoly, crudely and cruelly attacked her for this obvious verbal slip.
What happened is simple: While appearing on a news show, Greene scrambled “Gestapo” and “Gazpacho.” For people like me—and, apparently, like Greene—the circuits in her brain knew one of the words was correct and sent the wrong word to her mouth:
Just to clear things up, @RepMTG
Gazpacho: a vegetable-based Spanish cold soup Gestapo: Nazi Germany's secret police pic.twitter.com/T9q76r706G
— The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) February 9, 2022
As readers of my posts (and those who speak with me) know, I do this all the time. If words start and end with the same sounds—for example, starting with a hard “G” and ending with a long “o”—I’m going to have a problem distinguishing them. It gets worse if they have similar internal consonant and vowel sounds (for example, “p” and “a”).
SNIP
Despite my word soup problem, I don’t consider myself stupid and, frankly, I don’t think anyone else considers me stupid. They may disagree with me but they’re not going to question my intelligence.
Yet that’s precisely what leftists did when Greene, who quite obviously knows the difference between soup and Nazis, got the words wrong. Indeed, they did what mean people have always done when someone displays a minor cognitive slip-up: They mocked, insulted, and tried to humiliate her.
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Have they ever heard the leader of their own party speak?
I would put MTG up against Joe Xai-Dung any day.
Amazing how the dems never let go of word gaffes by Republicans, and NEVER say a word when one of their own mangles words.
Dan Quayle potatoes. Trump covefe.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Democrat.
Phonics have had a comeback at many elementary schools.
A female “Norm Crosby”!? She’s got my vote!
It’s all they got! Says much more about them, then her.
Autocorrect always F’s with my ...:-)
Ipso fatso.
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