L-L-Lay Off D-D-Dubya

January 3, 2007

Now for a political, oral version of…

SHUT THE HELL UP!

Okay, believe it or not, I’m actually about to defend the president, George W. Bush. Don’t get me wrong. I didn’t vote for him. I’m not for this “war” or the Patriot Act or for really any of his policies for that matter, although chances are there might be some here and there I might agree with, but not nearly enough for my support.

So, enough of the part where I tell the liberals to get back in their seats and extinguish their torches, time for some pwning.

Who should shut the hell up? Bush haters who have gotten so lost on negative things to say about him that they resort to making fun of how he talks. Kind of sad for two reasons. First reason being that these anti-Bush folks must be pretty dumb if they can’t find anything worth attacking about him in the huge ass pile of actual stupid or bad things about him. The second reason is that, well, it’s not cool to make fun of a speech impediment.

People practically crap themselves laughing if the president stutters or stammers at all in a speech. You find clips of it all over the place. Making fun of him like “LOL, what an idiot, he stutters!”

Screw off. I don’t like the guy any more than you do, but I do have enough sense to remember he is human like the rest of us, and humans are prone to speech errors they often can’t help. And, get this, speech imperfections don’t have SHIT to do with intelligence!

A lot of people don’t quite get just how cruel it is to make fun of a speech impediment. Usually you or someone close to you has to have one for you to understand. Speech is such a vital form of communication, and when you are just unable to do it right, it is very frustrating. Knowing you’re trying to talk to someone but you’re still stuck on the first couple of syllables, knowing the person you’re talking to must be getting annoyed and just does not understand what you’re saying. Knowing they probably think it’s funny as hell. Knowing they probably think you’re a fucking idiot.

These things are hard as hell to get rid of or at least abate to the point of being able to communicate somewhat okay. They are caused by all kinds of things, too, whether it just plain happens that way or something went wrong when you were little and first learning to talk or maybe even traumatic events. In Bush’s case (granted I haven’t actually looked this up, I’m going by what my grandma said she read in a Barbara Bush biography), his sister died when he was real little, and his stutter came on from the grief over that. Something like that. Understandable, though. Sure enough, it has affected him his whole life. He’s managing with it, clearly. After all, for good or bad, he’s the damn President of the United States!

He does a lot of stupid shit, definitely, but his inability to speak as well as he apparently should has nothing to do with that! Speech ability and intelligence have nothing to do with each other. Those of you whining about how much you hate the man would scream bloody murder if someone made a very cliche remark or observance about gays or foreigners, yet here you are making some stereotypical remarks about a man’s speech impediment meaning that he’s stupid. Yes, he is stupid, but that’s a separate matter altogether. Everything to do with the Patriot Act and No Child Left Behind and abstinence-only education. Nothing to do with the stammers and stutters.

That impaired-or-no-speech-equals-stupid idea is sadly a long held belief, whether people realize it or not. Just look at old movies and cartoons. The one who doesn’t talk is always the stupid one. Look at Dopey from Snow White. Okay, that’s the only example I can think of off-hand, but you get the idea. Thank God for the Simpsons, anyway. The one that doesn’t talk on that show is by far the smartest person in Springfield, her sister and brother ranking second and third respectively. Hell, even the word describing someone who doesn’t talk is a synonym of stupid!

A clear, concise speaker does not a smart person make. A stuttering, choppy speaker does not a stupid person make. Look at parrots. They can speak pretty clearly. Think they’re smart?

Now, I’m sure some of you totally missed the point of all this and are going to run yelling all like “oh, noes, you defend teh eval Dubya!” Probably going to ask why I’m protecting his speech impediment when he killed like 100 billion Iraqis or something, asking if I would defend Hitler if he had a speech impediment. All of which would prove my point that you make a ball of steel wool look intelligent. First of all, if Hitler had a stutter, I think that’s the least of anyone’s concerns. If instead of “Kill the Jews!” he said “K-K-Kill the J-J-Jews!”, honestly, I’d be more worried about the fact that he plots genocide of the Chosen People than “OMG, Hitler can’t speak! He’s stupid!” And the thing about the idea of “all the Iraqis he killed”, somehow twelve times the world’s population at that, just further supports what I’m saying. If this guy is responsible for all this horrible shit happening, well, WHY THE HELL ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT HIS SPEECH IMPEDIMENT, ASSFACE?!

Making fun of G.W. Bush’s speech impediment as one of the reasons you say he’s stupid and you hate him tells me two things: you don’t give a shit about the Iraqis or our constitutional rights going down the tubes, and you think people with speech impediments are stupid. You’re disgusting.

11 thoughts on “L-L-Lay Off D-D-Dubya”

  1. :b:

    Back when I was involved in NYRA-VT, a few times I said “voting age” instead of “drinking age” (and vice versa) without intending to or even realizing that I had done it, and yeah, it can be frustrating as hell.

  2. I’ll make fun of what I want to make fun of, Kat. Not that there isn’t plenty else, but I like everything I can get.

  3. He doens’t have any fucking “speech impediment.” He’s a MORON, that’s why he can’t talk!

    I give no quarter for idiots! He doesn’t have some fucking disability! Save your pity, Kat! The man is responsible for the death of so many innocent people, who gives a shit about his stuttering? NO QUARTER SHALL BE GIVEN TO THAT MURDERER! :doitnow:

  4. Thank you very much, Ms. Moncure. I’m interested, about this National Youth Rights Association deal. I’m willing to go along with it. But you have to promise. Stop cussing, and it’s on. All ages remain, but for whatever the age, children will be given a test to pass.

  5. I agree with not calling Bush an idiot for stuttering. But something like, “When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.”? THAT IS STUPIDITY, NOT A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT!

  6. I under stand what hes going thogh. It sucks ass to when something gets in the way of comucation, also if that was the presdent WHY DIDNT YOU SAY SOMETING

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