After the sweeping Republican victories in the November elections, the newly elected House members are just today taking their offices in Washington and since Republicans now have a majority in Congress, the Speaker of the House (formerly San Francisco’s Nancy Pelosi) is now Ohio’s John Boehner (R). His name is pronounced “Bainer” because… he said so. which bugs me.
The dude shoulda just changed his friggin name instead of making everyone pronounce it “bay-ner”. NY Congressman Anthony Weiner (D) doesn’t make everyone pronounce his name “Whiner” – well, I guess that would be bad for other reasons – or “Winner”, so why can’t the new Speaker take a que?
These aren’t the only other name silliness I’ve noticed. In the 2004 Democratic Primary election, Joe Lieberman’s campaign chairs last name was Gobush and Lieberman pronounced it “Gobish” instead of “Go Bush” while acknowledging the humor of it in interviews and I thought that was the wrong move. He should have said “Ya his name is ‘Go Bush’. He’s my campaign chair precicely because I’m gonna be the guy to get Bush to Go out of public service and out of a job”. zing. but no…
I hold politicians to a higher standard because – duh – we all do, but Brett Favre is the worst committee of this name-crime. He was just like “everyone pretend that its “Farve” and say it like that, and everyone totally did without question and thats not even pronunciation – thats changing friggin spelling.
Theres a newly elected congressman in Idaho or something named Crapo and he’s saying its “cray-poe”. pleez… People: change your name if you dont like it. just cuz we go along with it for sports heroes doesnt mean we like it.
Here’s Boehner accepting the gavel from an awkwardly wide-smiled Pelosi (her actual speech was hella long):
Here’s Boehners speech:
And here is Liberal radio talk show host Mike Malloy explaining the reason the Boehner cries so much during speeches and interviews (true) is because he’s a drunk. I don’t get the connection so much, but now that this dude is in a higher position of power, you can expect a lot more commentaries like the one below:
Also – I have no idea whether this Malloy video was made by a fan or a hater as there are signs of both in it. weird.