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Media Fawn Over Teacher Who Incorrectly Corrected Letter From Trump

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Posted by badanov 2018-06-04 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Perfectly understandable. Trump is literally Hitler and if you had the opportunity to correct Hitler's grammar, wouldn't you take it and possibly save the World? Er, world.

Of course, if Trump were literally literally Hitler, you would't dare engage in such rudeness lest thick, unsmiling men show up at your door late one night to escort you to some uncapitalized gulag where Oxford commas and social niceties would be the least of your problems.

Posted by SteveS 2018-06-04 01:02|| 2018-06-04 01:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Can't beat 'em? Then pretend to correct their spelling and grammar.

Posted by gorb 2018-06-04 01:04|| 2018-06-04 01:04|| Front Page Top

#3 The MSM are obviously desperate for "More Trump"(TM)

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-06-04 05:14|| 2018-06-04 05:14|| Front Page Top

#4 When it comes to written English, just the fact that the media jumped on this and made it viral illustrates how little they, of all people, know the intricacies of written English.

Posted by Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-06-04 05:45|| 2018-06-04 05:45|| Front Page Top

#5 The desperation of the media (aka, lackeys of the Dems/Clintons/Obama) is beyond words.

Posted by Clem 2018-06-04 07:27|| 2018-06-04 07:27|| Front Page Top

#6 "Grammar Nazis suck" especially if they're smarmy, lefty, elitists trying to be clever. Suppose, Obama used poor grammar? He would be considered cool, clever and cute. Grammar rules would suddenly change to accommodate his jackassitical (is that a word?) manner and grammar faux pas.

Mrs. Malaprop the humorous old dowdy aunt in the comedy "The Rivals" was a woman who was always making up new words or neologisms. These came to be called "malaprops."

Warren G. Harding was savaged for using the word "normalcy." I've got a feeling that many celebs and leaders create neologisms. Depending upon who uses them, they tend to be ignored or smoothed over. However, in hypercritical times, other leaders tend to be excoriated for bad grammar. They are accused of grammatical ignorance. Tweets tend to force new or what used to be considered poor grammar.

Slow news day?

Posted by JohnQC 2018-06-04 08:43|| 2018-06-04 08:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Slow new, no news, lots of news ... it's anti-Trump so they'd work overtime to do it anyway.

Posted by gorb 2018-06-04 11:30|| 2018-06-04 11:30|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm pretty weird and judgemental myself, and my imaginary fiddle was halfway through "Cuckoo in the Wine Box" before I got past the handwriting and a thumbnail portrait. As usual, the news is the news. The newsual?

Posted by Elmagum Glish7832 2018-06-04 16:56|| 2018-06-04 16:56|| Front Page Top

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