Posted on 01/30/2007 12:10:40 PM PST by presidio9
This must be one great and understanding country that allows an old nut like Andy Rooney to spew nonsense regularly - and get paid for it.
PS, Andy: President Carter also mispronounced nuclear. I expect you voted for him, didn't you?
Jack Bauer says "nookuler" and nobody messes with Jack Bauer.
Time for a Depends change, Andy...
When Jack Kennedy was president I wished that he could learn to pronounce the word "Cuba" instead of saying "Cubar". Heck that man couldn't even say water, he said "watah".
If I want to hear the words of a senior well into the depths of Alzheimer's laden dementia, I'll go see my grandma. At least there, she may tell a nurse to go "f" herself, which is funny.
Ha! I was going to post the same thing about Reagan. I was dumbfounded when I read 'In His Own Hand' and saw letters and addresses that he'd written in the sixties that were obviously the basis for speeches made in his presidency. And Rooney is old enough to remember that his idol JFK didn't like nucular weapons in Cuber.
Let's get one thing straight: The only reason that you are even CONSCIOUS right now is because Jack Bauer doesn't feel like carrying you.
The random firing of synapses brought to you by Andy Rooney.
I'd read this but, Andy Rooney's an idiot.
I doubt President Bush intentionally mispronounces the word to irritate people. Regardless of who mispronounces the word, it is very annoying.
Also, he continues to mispronounce it say the word democrat majority because he knows that it really, really, really irritates liberal people like you.
"President Carter also mispronounced nuclear. I expect you voted for him, didn't you?"
If President Carter can say nucular, why can't President Bush
From Lieutenant Carter's Navy record.
16 OCT 1952 - 08 OCT 1953 -- Duty with US Atomic Energy Commission (Division of Reactor Development, Schenectady Operations Office) From 3 NOV 1952 to 1 MAR 1953 he served on temporary duty with Naval Reactors Branch, US Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C. "assisting in the design and development of nuclear propulsion plants for naval vessels." From 1 MAR 1953 to 8 OCT 1953 he was under instruction to become an engineering officer for a nuclear power plant. He also assisted in setting up on-the-job training for the enlisted men being instructed in nuclear propulsion for the USS Seawolf (SSN575).
One of the few things I agree with him about is that it's extremely bad form to mispronounce a word as important as "nuclear", especially IMO if you're the POTUS and thus have your finger on the trigger, so to speak. It implies a lack of intelligence and is at best a matter of carelessness. Surely by now he has been told the correct pronunciation. His refusal to get it right shows that he just doesn't care if he comes off sounding like a moron.
He also claimed to have shut down a run away nuclear reaction onboard a submarine. That tid bit was lost pretty quickly. It was too easy to disprove.
Andy Looney may have written this little bit himself, but he stole that nuclear crap from a million other left wing ding-bats.
bleh
He says it the way he does because he's Texan and lots of 'em pronounce it as he does. He is AUTHENTIC, okay? I seem to remember the peanut farmer pronouncing it the same way and never once did the media freak out about it. Besides, I think he has fun sticking it to all our little elitists who think they are so much smarter than he is.
Stand-up hacks have included this topic in their routines since he was the governor of Texas. Trust me on this one: He knows the correct pronunciation. He just doesn't care.
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