Posted on 08/23/2012 5:43:25 AM PDT by chessplayer
Imagine for a moment, if you will, Sarah Palin attending an event at Ohio State University. She casually greets college aged supporters, and a group of excited, young students decide to spell out the word “Ohio” using the old YMCA routine. The group is in place, arms readied, fans surrounding them armed with their cameras and cellphones. Then this happens…
OIHI.
It is inarguable that the media, in all their smugness and ‘we are intellectually superior’ attitude would have ripped her from the California coast to the glaciated plains of … well … Oihi.
Oi. Hi.
More like oy vey.
The smartest President ever to grace us with his intellect, the man who was destined to lead us to a better America, who was to lead the nation out of the doldrums of the Great Recession, couldn’t lead three college kids to the proper spelling of a four-letter state.
The photo was tweeted by the Director of Mitt Romney’s Ohio communications team, Chris Maloney, who added:
A word of advice to @BarackObama: it's "O-H-I-O" that has 18 electoral votes, not "O-I-H-O".
Maloney sees an ‘O’ at the end, I see an ‘I’. You spell ‘potatoe’, I spell ‘potato’.
Admirably, a reporter from the Washington Post quickly tried to rescue the phonetically challenged President, claiming without much in the way of evidence, that the image was photoshopped, and thus a hoax.
Post reporter Rachel Weiner, wrote a piece originally titled, Yes, Obama Can Spell Ohio. It included a second image which showed the President and his college buddies eventually getting the spelling right. And the Washington Post tweeted out a link to her segment which included the following message:
Don't be fooled. This photo of Obama is photoshopped.
Instead of viewing the White House image and entertaining the possibility that there were two photos, Weiner jumped the gun and assumed that the spelling error was so improbable that it simply had to be photoshopped.
Turns out that Weiner and the Post were the one’s looking rather foolish. A short time later, they acknowledged the existence of two photos, renamed the piece, “Can Obama Spell Ohio?”, and issued the following correction:
Correction: There are different photographs of Obama’s attempt to spell Ohio from a similar angle. We incorrectly stated the first one appeared photoshopped.
Even in their correction, the bias shows. The Post did not say the photo “appeared photoshopped”, they said it isphotoshopped. Here was the original tweet again:
Don't be fooled. This photo of Obama is photoshopped.
Covering for the President’s embarrassing mistakes can’t be easy, but you have to give the Post and their reporters credit for trying.
I think you mean BOINGO!
Goober is from Chicago and they don't know these things.
This is one reason libs aren’t ashamed not to have at least one conservative moderator sitting on the presidential debates panel. All one would have to do to prove Hussein is completely unqualified to be president is give him a list of simple words to spell, such as, Chevrolet, Iowa (I imagine he might spell it ‘Iwa’), apple, baseball.
They want him in the race to "Give Claire A Chance".
Obviously it's the Ebonics term for spouse.....
Oi Ho
There, You fixed it. zer0 was right all along. He is one smart cookie !!!!
“O-I-H-O”
That must be the .... 57th state.
And they . along with Florida , will vote on Nov 2nd according to Michelle Obama.
Voting is scheduled for November 6 Michelle......
Source: weekly standard
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/michelle-obama-get-polls-november-2_650573.html
Michelle Obama, speaking yesterday at a campaign event in Florida:
So that one new voter that you register in your precinct — think about it — that one neighbor that you get to the polls on November the 2
I want you to understand, that could be the one that makes the difference. That one conversation, that one new volunteer you recruit, that could be the one that puts this over the top.
Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that OHIO was spelled right from the spellers' perspective. When you look at them from our perspective, you see the mirror image.
This looks like more of a case of a mirror image mistake rather than Obama not knowing how to spell Ohio.
Now let's get back to hammering his race-marxist a** for who he is, not for some petty mistakes.
If people from the midwest talk funny, then why does everyone on TV and radio speak in a midwestern way? Huh? Are you thinking of southerners, not midwesterners?
Years ago I worked in a shop where we had to return a gross of Ohio State t-shirts because Ohio had been spelled O-I-H-O.
And they were Made in USA. Could not even blame Koreans for that.
http://www.cnn.com/search/?query=OIHO&sortBy=relevance
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/default.aspx?id=11881780&q=OIHO&search=p&1=st&1
http://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=OIHO
http://www.cbsnews.com/1770-5_162-0.html?query=Oiho&tag=srch&searchtype=cbsSearch
In other words, according to the MSM, this didn't happen.
Maybe they weren’t Made in the USA but in the UAS.
clever observation
Since he’s the greatest intelligence in the universe, the rest of us have been spelling it wrong, obviously.
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