Would you vote for a Pressroom Cyst?
I never paid much attention to closed captioning on TV until I started going to the gym. Since there’s not much else to do while I’m working out I’ve been struck by a couple of things as I watch. First, how much skill it must take to keep up with the talking heads as they blather on about this or that… And second, how funny it can be when the captioner messes up, which is often. Usually it’s just badly butchered spelling, which I struggle constantly to ignore. Today’s closed-captioning gaffe was different. By far the best yet. I hadn’t been paying much attention and I looked up and caught the tail end of something on Hannity & Colmes. Across the screen scrolled the perfectly spelled phrase WHITE PRESSROOM CYST.
Pardon me?
I kept watching. It turns out they were discussing a remark that Barack Obama’s new pastor (or somebody like that) had said about Hillary Clinton. I still didn’t get it… I scanned every word now, transfixed by the conversation, hoping I could piece it together before they went onto something else.
Then I got it… Hillary was being accused of being a WHITE SUPREMACIST!
Funny, but not anywhere near as funny as being a White Pressroom Cyst. I always knew Ms. Clinton had a dark side.
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May 30th, 2008 at 1:33 am
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