Why the hell can't our idiot President get it through his head that he is mispronouncing this word?
Why is there not ONE single staffer who knows how to pronounce it correctly?
The answer is, of course, that there IS a staffer who knows he's pronouncing it wrong, but they can't tell him so.
Thirty years ago Connie Chung got in front of us as a new anchorwoman and the most highly paid news anchor in the country, and talked about this composer named "Moe Zart".
Okay, how many people don't know the correct pronunciation of "Mozart"? If you don't know, shame on you, but it's roughly equivalent to "Mote-zart". (If you're under 30 there's a good chance you don't know, and the shame is on your culture and your school teachers.) Back then, the answer to the number of people who didn't know how to pronounce the name was "precious few", and Chung was making a fool of herself.
Bewildered, I asked some friends in "The Industry" (Hollywood) why no one corrected her. They told me it is not kosher for anyone on a production crew to correct The Star. So she'd prefer to look like an imbecile rather than suffer the indignation of having someone pull her aside and whisper in her ear the correction of her error? Evidently so.
And this apparently is what's going on with Obama. It's not wise to correct the king. You could get executed if you call out, "The Emperor has no clothes!"
Note that he mispronounces a lot of words. For instance, all the derivatives of "redistribute", Obama pronounces as "ree-dis-trih-BYOOT" which is just ignorant. Then there was "Marine corpse-men".
I'm sick to death of being told that because this idiot went to Harvard, we're obliged to consider him a brilliant genius. Now suppose he had gone to Yale Business School and made all the same flubs...
The double standard is kind of scary.
