{"id":196600,"date":"2008-04-09T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/09\/the-bobblespeak-translations\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T01:27:00","slug":"the-bobblespeak-translations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/09\/the-bobblespeak-translations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bobblespeak Translations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OMFG!!!!  This is funny.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a translation of <a href=\"http:\/\/moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com\/\">the polite circuitous language of political discourse into more plebeian language.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One sample:<a href=\"http:\/\/moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/60-minutes-with-doug-feith-april-6-2008.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;\" ><a href=\"http:\/\/moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/60-minutes-with-doug-feith-april-6-2008.html\">60 Minutes with Doug Feith &#8211; April 6, 2008<\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">60 Minutes<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">April 6, 2008<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Guest: Doug Feith<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">*******************************************<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Kroft: why did we invade iraq?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Feith: Saddam had a very scary mustache<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Kroft: but he wasn&#8217;t involved in 9\/11<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Feith: but he could have been<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Kroft: but he wasn&#8217;t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Feith: but he could have<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Kroft: but he wasn&#8217;t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Feith: we had to attack someone<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Kroft: so why Saddam?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Feith: he once attacked Iran<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Kroft: you&#8217;re f$#@ing kidding right<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8230;.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The translation of Krugman may cause physical injury from excessive laughter. (<a href=\"http:\/\/moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/krugman-corrupted-by-hippies.html\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMFG!!!! This is funny. It&#8217;s a translation of the polite circuitous language of political discourse into more plebeian language. One sample: 60 Minutes with Doug Feith &#8211; April 6, 200860 MinutesApril 6, 2008Guest: Doug Feith*******************************************Kroft: why did we invade iraq? Feith: Saddam had a very scary mustache Kroft: but he wasn&#8217;t involved in 9\/11 Feith: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1100,1002,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-good-writing","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}