I’m not interested in learning new facts, why would I be interested in learning new words?

She’s a Lefty who promotes the Muslim Brotherhood!

What a blooter .

I love how Mediaite baits the conservatives.

Putting Christiane Amanpour in the headlines….and saying someone uses fancy words….it’s enough to make conservatives froth at the mouth.

I guess it guarantees that the wingnuts will click on it and comment. LOL

For maximum communication effectiveness, one needs to speak the same language as the audience, for a general audience a person should use words understood by the average 10th grader. pseudo-intellectuals like to flex an intellect that does not exist.

Laughed out loud when I was watching this on TV.

So why did Christiane get this job again? cause it ain’t talent.

I wonder if she has weekly meetings with White house staff like Stephanopolis?

Maybe she “thought” of doing this after watching some O’Reilly.

Although, I’m pretty sure he did that one already.

Worp said:
Laughed out loud when I was watching this on TV.

Me, too. I thought it might be Bill O’Reilly’s “word of the day.”

i love that you used the word *fancy*.

and it cracks me up that abc thinks she is too *fancy* for their audience.

TillieGlockenspiel said:
Me, too. I thought it might be Bill O’Reilly’s “word of the day.”

I think you are right, it would explain how I knew what the word meant.

Maybe she still thought she worked at CNN, and is in-line with Fareed’, who thinks people that watch CNN are people who watch NPR and read the NYTimes….or something.

And yeah,pretty sure O’Reily has done that word before.

juan said:
She’s a Lefty who promotes the Muslim Brotherhood!

Juan, Juan, Juan are you an illegal alien? Can you show us your papers. Maybe your parents were baseball fans and named you after juan Marichal. What is wrong with you?

Word .
http://www.billoreilly.com/site/rd?satype=13&said=24&url=%2Ffactor-words-of-the-day

Republicans Are Liars said:
Juan, Juan, Juan are you an illegal alien? Can you show us your papers. Maybe your parents were baseball fans and named you after juan Marichal. What is wrong with you?

race card in reverse……bam ….drink

juan said:
She’s a Lefty who promotes the Muslim Brotherhood!

She’s never met a terrorist she wouldn’t defend!

Republicans Are Liars said:
Juan, Juan, Juan are you an illegal alien? Can you show us your papers. Maybe your parents were baseball fans and named you after juan Marichal. What is wrong with you?

bovine, bovine, bovine

RAL makes a great point… if you’re Hispanic, you have no business voting or supporting a non-Democrat. How dare they think for themselves?! How dare they walk out of lockstep!

Nice job, RAL… you tell those minorities how to think. It’s good they’ve got someone like you to tell them what to do. Oh, and don’t worry… your overt racism and egotism on this issue is hardly noticable.

cjd ohio 1 said:
race card in reverse……bam ….drink

Hey it is you conservatives that want the illiegals thrown out of the country. If Juan is conservative that is what he wants and he is going to have to deal with if you conservatives get your way. He needs to show proof positive he is an american. Hell, if you guys question the President of the US about his citizenship, some conservative nut case on a blog shouldn’t have a problem with it, nor should you.

Bovine:

illegal immigrant n. an alien (non-citizen) who has entered the United States without government permission or stayed beyond the termination date of a visa.

Bovine isa Liars said:
He needs to show proof positive he is an american.

Post the law that says you have to be an American to post at Mediaite, dummy.

The Lantern of Truth said:
What a blooter .

Yes, and she’s obviously bloviating, while also being a ninnyhammer. Heh.

For those that don’t know, amanpour is an Islamic, iranian who has NO vested interests in America. Her well-connected family were buddies with the despotic dictator the Shah of Iran, who, like mubarak, was funded with BILLIONS of dollars of US taxpayer money and was kept in power for decades by that money and the actions of the CIA and other US agencies. When he gave is first “exclusive” interview after the uprising, mubarak clearly wanted somebody he could relate to and who would be supportive and sympathetic to his corruption and dictatorial extremism – and amanpour certainly was the perfect fit, just as she is at the lamestream A(lways)B(iased-socialist)C(lowns) network.

Wow a Mediaite writer think “perspicacious,” is a big word. It figures with the intellectual level found on this blog. The dumbing down of America continues. Look at the list of Republican flavor of the month potential presidential candidates; Palin, Trump and Bachman. Bachman even thinks that graduating from Oral Roberts University makes her a scholar. Hoe pathetic!

Resistance Is Futile said:
Hoe pathetic

Yeah . Sure is .

Resistance Is Futile said:
It figures with the intellectual level found on this blog.

Any mirrors handy?

TillieGlockenspiel said:
Me, too. I thought it might be Bill O’Reilly’s “word of the day.”

It has been O’Reilly’s word of the day, I think more than once. Selfish, self-centered liberals aren’t likely to know the meaning of the word, let alone possess any of it’s attributes.

Republicans Are Liars said:
Hey it is you conservatives that want the illiegals thrown out of the country. If Juan is conservative that is what he wants and he is going to have to deal with if you conservatives get your way. He needs to show proof positive he is an american. Hell, if you guys question the President of the US about his citizenship, some conservative nut case on a blog shouldn’t have a problem with it, nor should you.

well it appears you agree with the policy huh?

Here’s my graphic —>

Christ*iane Aman*pour
\bitch\
Meaning of the Joooooo Haters; fugly elitist liberal scrunt

Republicans Are Liars said:
Juan, Juan, Juan are you an illegal alien? Can you show us your papers. Maybe your parents were baseball fans and named you after juan Marichal. What is wrong with you?

“Republicans are Liars”…? Rev. Wright is that you?? Oh wait, nope. Not all whites are republicans.

Just whites are liars says the good Reverend. Sorry, let me get his phraseology right — ALL whites are Liars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7hA607AidT8

Arkansas Steve said:
It has been O’Reilly’s word of the day, I think more than once. Selfish, self-centered liberals aren’t likely to know the meaning of the word, let alone possess any of it’s attributes.

That comment just showed how selfish, self-centered you are and that you don’t possess any of its attributes.

Actually “perspicacious” is pretty common in french but I never heard that word in english.
In french we say “perspicace” and it basically means clever, or bright I guess..someone who gets the underlying meaning of something or a situation….”smart” would do it too I guess.
I didn’t know it was a rare word in english,but I always forget that French has a lot of words,like,too many.

Revealing isn’t it, the mind of elitists thinking?

Fact: Christiane talks with her mouth packet with a chaw of tobacco. Common coach put me in the game without moderator check!

edisciple said:
Revealing isn’t it, the mind of elitists thinking?

Well if you’re a twit who doesn’t like those big words cause they make your brain hurt…then yea,it is.

It’s not astrophysics man…lighten up..it’s just a damn word.

Mediate, some of us prefer not being stupid and are excited to learn new words.

possibly said:
Mediate, some of us prefer not being stupid and are excited to learn new words.

Agreed.

TeaPartyNation said:
despotic dictator the Shah of Iran, who, like mubarak, was funded with BILLIONS of dollars of US taxpayer money and was kept in power for decades by that money and the actions of the CIA and other US agencies.

And we organized the coup that overthrew their democratically elected government and put the Shah in place, which is why Iran hated/hates us.

Matt Schneider seems to portray Christiane Amanpour as an intellectual genius in this column.

Publius219 said:
And we organized the coup that overthrew their democratically elected government and put the Shah in place, which is why Iran hated/hates us.

Rather a facile and inaccurate rendition of events.

pompous [ˈpɒmpəs]
adj
1. exaggeratedly or ostentatiously dignified or self-important
2. ostentatiously lofty in style a pompous speech

Lib media hacks are decidedly from another planet…hatched and incubated in ‘Academe.’ When things get tough and they start to cry and whine about their failings, you see them flee back to the comfort of the womb…Academe.

As for this haughty ‘rhymes-with-rich,’ I hope her life these next eighteen months is hell.

Arkansas Steve said:
It has been O’Reilly’s word of the day, I think more than once. Selfish, self-centered liberals aren’t likely to know the meaning of the word, let alone possess any of it’s attributes.

Bill O’Reilly has used it dozens of times..
It is one of his favorite words.
Putting the definition on the screen calling attention to it?
CHRISTIANE (mutters) AMANPOUR wants some free prime time
mention /attention from Bill? One way to try & boost a
sleeper of a show..
I hope Bill ignores it completely.

No teabaggers watch her show so she can talk to her audience like adults.

TillieGlockenspiel said:
Rather a facile and inaccurate rendition of events.

Please do correct my errors.

laceyunderalls said:
“Republicans are Liars”…? Rev. Wright is that you?? Oh wait, nope. Not all whites are republicans. Just whites are liars says the good Reverend. Sorry, let me get his phraseology right — ALL whites are Liars. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7hA607AidT8

Yes it is me, the white Rev,. Wright. The good Rev. is embarrassed and sick of idiots like who can not look at this country and know that this entire nation has been based upon bigotry and hatred of any other race besides white Anglo Saxons. This country started out with slavery, then destroys centuries old Indian culture to achieve it’s ends. When slavery was abolished it subjected blacks with discriminatory laws until decent Americans finally moved to abolish voting, housing and work discrimination. But Neanderthals like you think you are in the right. Now you want to demonize the Hispanic population of this country for whatever reason. You make me sick to my stomach, you racists piece of guano.

WOW!…I have innocent comment “awaiting moderation” LMFAO

Did you LIBS miss me? I had procured a prodigious contractual endeavor despite Obama’s capricious and vehement catastrophic economic policies.

What were we talking about again? Oh yeah, how Amanpour’s audience needs graphics and explanations for verbose verbiage.

Well, she does know her target audience well huh?

What’s the story here? I didn’t know what it meant, I would have appreciated it, had I watched.

DavidKramer said:
Did you LIBS miss me? I had procured a prodigious contractual endeavor despite Obama’s capricious and vehement catastrophic economic policies.

What were we talking about again? Oh yeah, how Amanpour’s audience needs graphics and explanations for verbose verbiage.

Well, she does know her target audience well huh?

Why does her audience “need” that? You haven’t quite explained except “Durr CNN watchers R STUPRD cause they RNT LIEK ME, DERP”.

Snowspot said:
Why does her audience “need” that? You haven’t quite explained except “Durr CNN watchers R STUPRD cause they RNT LIEK ME, DERP”.

I was being facetious and slightly oblique.

I was making FUN of her NORMAL viewers, which I am not one. I do not watch the MSM, I listen to my reps directly, I need not interpreters. I also get updates from All of my state reps and both of my National reps. As for Obama, he is the opaque one. He is the only one that lies and does not provide me with information.

I like to call him the fence sitter representative. He weighs the votes and leans either way. Then he demagogues those that ACTUALLY take stands. You know, people with HONOR, INTEGRITY and SUBSTANCE. Exactly opposite of the opaque one.

Of course the choices he does make, like taking over companies, entire industries, declaring war unilaterally without congressional approval, running guns to Mexican drug cartels to install 2nd amendment killing treaties (see comments of his about US supplied guns to Mexico), buying votes through union corruption (see GM Bankruptcy Law thrown out), buying votes through cronyism (ALA GE), destroying the dollar (see QE1 and 2 and decimating our energy production), etc etc etc.

I see Obama losing sooooooo bad, that the 49 states that Ronald Maximus Reagenus won, to be footnote to history.

Yes, Obama may win Illinois, California and Washington, but I see a landslide of EPIC proportions. By the way, SOCIALISM does not work!

How MANY times do they have to try!?

That was a nice way of showing that she believes her audience must primarily consist of morons. I would not argue with her on that point. Bring back Tapper.

Christiane Amanpour might be very smart about a lot of things, just not America, Americans or anything not endorsed by those further to the left. She is called on her mistakes with regularity, but to no avail. I think she’s an embarrassment to anyone in media who hires her.

NonElite said:
I think she’s an embarrassment to anyone in media who hires her.

People from other countries in the world read these sort of comments and think you’re insane.

Ken_H said:
That was a nice way of showing that she believes her audience must primarily consist of morons. I would not argue with her on that point. Bring back Tapper.

Why are they morons? Does anyone ever call you out on your baseless insults? Amanpour’s audience are morons because they learned a new word.. interesting thought-process you have there.

Snowspot said:
People from other countries in the world read these sort of comments and think you’re insane.

Why are they morons? Does anyone ever call you out on your baseless insults? Amanpour’s audience are morons because they learned a new word.. interesting thought-process you have there.

Snowspot? Is that you? Why not address the issues and points I made before you address others? Do you think that addressing an issue without making a point proves your point?

It is hilarious that someone from another country, without the freedoms of the US, addresses such issues. In the US, we allow all viewpoints to be spread, of course we are NOT forced to agree with them. THAT is the US.

Just for YOUR information, Amanpour thought that her audience would not KNOW what the word meant, which means she thought they were NOT intelligent enough to understand or……………….I do not know………..explain it to MEEEEEEEEEEEE~

Christiane Amanpour is a synonym for “harridan”. Interesting.

All you need to know is that Amanpour was born in Iran. Anything she says has to be taken in that context. She is our version of an ‘Infidel.’

She hates America and we hate her.

I wish this infidel nothing but the worst.

ChrisNH said:
All you need to know is that Amanpour was born in Iran. Anything she says has to be taken in that context. She is our version of an ‘Infidel.’

She hates America and we hate her.

I wish this infidel nothing but the worst.

It’s kind of funny you think this is a mainstream view. Psst. you’re crazy and only crazy people think that. Now go hide in the shadows somewhere, freak.

Obviously, ABC knows their audience – Democrats.

Democrats rely on ABC, and the rest of the mainstreet media, to tell them who to vote for, so why is it such a surprise they rely on them for their vocabulary as well?

After all, it relieves so much of a burden when someone else does all your thinking for you!

LOL!

Can I get one of the Democratic posters here to clarify something?

Does your Party’s newly-revealed War on the Constitution now take pecedence over it’s War on God & Religion?

Voters – remember who the people are that share YOUR values, and compare them with the people in today’s Democratic Party.

Snowspot said:
It’s kind of funny you think this is a mainstream view. Psst. you’re crazy and only crazy people think that. Now go hide in the shadows somewhere, freak.

Chris’ enthusiastic hyperbole doesn’t negate Amanpour’s cultural conditioning, or demonstrable bias.

How are we to believe she’s transcended that cultural indoctrination, when she belies that very notion every Sunday?

Someone on the production staff thinks that the viewers are stupid. Thinks that not only would they not understand the word, but they can’t figure out how to look up a word on their own if it’s something that they are unfamiliar with?

It’s like saying ‘hey stupid people, here’s the definition of the word that she used that I know that you don’t know’. Pretty cheeky and insulting.

As to it’s use by Christianne, I have no problem with it at all. Now I have a great deal of issue with her politics, but have no issue with her vocabulary. The only time this gets problematic is if someone is speaking technically about a specific field, using terms/acronyms that make it impossible to follow without translation.

But this wasn’t a dissertation on chemical engineering, and it was coimpletely understandable. However, if someone can’t figure out how to look up a word, then they’re probably not watching that discussion in the first place.

After 50 years, Fidel Castro has FINALLY admitted that Socialism doesn’t work.
Unfortunately for the USA, Amanpour & the rest of the Leftist-educated-fools in America are dumber than Castro.

Only 19 more months ’til we evict the Marxist Moron in the Oval Office & cancel “Amateur Hour” at the White House.

Lenin sure had Liberals pegged when he called them “Useful Idiots”.

NOBAMA 2012

“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.” P.J.O’Rourke

They needed a thesaurus. Which is one of those things people were running from in Jurassic Park.

TfT said:
Maybe she still thought she worked at CNN, and is in-line with Fareed’, who thinks people that watch CNN are people who watch NPR and read the NYTimes….or something.

And yeah,pretty sure O’Reily has done that word before.

Fareed was right. People who watch CNN do read the New York Times. People listen to NPR, you cannot watch NPR and people who know how to speak English well would never write “done that word”. I guess you are a typical Fox News enthusiasts, uninformed and barely literate.

I prefer coloring the news.

Reminds me of that line from Woody Allen to Hugh Grant in Small Time Crooks, “I always wanted to know how to spell Connecticut.”

I watched this program and the ABC ‘school house’ graphic was silly but worth lttle serious discussion.

As to the content, form and substance of the show, it proved interesting with the Time editor referring to the Constitution as just “guidelines” ala Pirates of the Caribbean and making clear that, as written, the Constitution is incapable of serving as the foundation for American government today. He seems to have real issue with the basic concept of the Constitution’s primary power: Protecting the liberty, freedom and unalienable rights from an ever-encroaching government.

The Georgetown professor demonstrated not only the racialist-elite bigotry that runs rampant on the left, but a deep and abiding love of his own voice. He spoke at the audience in that peculiar dialect of the self-absorbed, pseudo-intellectual racialist that amounts to nothing more than the use of as many showy words and phrases as possible to say ‘white people are evil racists’. He is an excellent example of a career racialist who thinks his pretentious vocal spew makes people think he is not only highly intelligent, but profound.. Epic fail of both him personally and affirmative action.

The take-away was that the left is very afraid of the growing focus on realigning our government on the Constitution as written and that they are seeking to derail that effort by undermining American’s belief in the fundamental authority of our Constitution. Watch for more in the same vein as the Time article.

And consider the fact that if this notion of the left’s as presented by the Time editor and Georgetown professor permeates into schools, the judicial branch, Congress and the Presidency (which I think it already has to a non-trivial degree), the nation and it’s people 20 to 30 years from now will not be governed by anything that would be considered Constitutional 50 years prior.

Resistance Is Futile said:
Fareed was right. People who watch CNN do read the New York Times. People listen to NPR, you cannot watch NPR and people who know how to speak English well would never write “done that word”. I guess you are a typical Fox News enthusiasts, uninformed and barely literate.

I listen to O’Reilly, which by the numbers used by Politifact, make me more informed than Stewart’s audience, and NPR’s… I say “listen” pointedly, because as I listen, I’m doing another task, like noticing for someone who likes to insult someone’s literacy, you said,…. “I guess you are a typical Fox News enthusiasts, uninformed and barely literate.” … The correct word in that context would have been the singular enthusiast, rather than the plural enthusiasts….

So which is it? are you uninformed,.. or barely literate?

Without the accent, she would never have been selected for this job. CNN takes pride in finding homes for infidels.

NORBIT Jr. said:
Voters – remember who the people are that share YOUR values, and compare them with the people in today’s Democratic Party.

Thanks, I’ll take a hard look at the Republicans that share YOUR values also.

I’ll keep this simple. Enstein said: “Unless you can explain something in words that anyone can understand,
you really do not comprehend the topic” (paraphrased)

This is the SAME American Traitor B**ch, Christiane Amanpour, who was kicked out of the first Iraqe War by our own military for SIDEING WITH THE ENEMY? Amanpour using a big word is newsworthy only because ABC’s habitual viewer is limited to a four letter vocabulary.

“Amanpour’s use of such “elite” language”
Perspicacious is seventh grade vocabulary, so she is at least smarter than a fifth grader but not by much.

I guess one could charitably say that ABC thought their viewers for whom English is not a first language would have been stumped by the term, but it’s pretty close to disrespecting their audience.

I think some sub-producer might have some ‘splainin’ to do.

The last sentence was stupid. That’s not a word Rosetta would use in teaching English. The writer didn’t have a closing so he./she made one up.

mediadoubt said:
I guess one could charitably say that ABC thought their viewers for whom English is not a first language would have been stumped by the term, but it’s pretty close to disrespecting their audience.

I think some sub-producer might have some ’splainin’ to do.

I think this must be a first for me – giving you a thumbs up. lol

“Perineum”: 1) The portion of the body in the pelvis, occupied by urogenital passages and the rectum, bounded in front by the pubic arch.

If you can use “perineum” in a sentence, you get a cookie

Amanpour obviously signed-up for the’ word of the day’, in order to expand her vocabulary. Quite a few do this. Learning a new word a day is a great idea.

The perineum must be kept scrupulously clean in order to avoid bladder infections.

Thanks – I like white chocolate with macadamia nuts cookie please.

Many times during delivery the Dr. will make a cut in the perineum in order to avoid a tear which can be extremely painful and lead to infections.

Second cookie – same as the first – thanks again! lol

SEEK, LOL

Look up the word “callipygian.” Isn’t in every dictionary and the spelling can vary, but you will add to your repertoire!

purveyor said:
SEEK, LOL

Look up the word “callipygian.” Isn’t in every dictionary and the spelling can vary, but you will add to your repertoire!

That’s a good word!

Has Beyonce written all over it! lol

The infinite wisdom and sagacity, enhanced by Christiane’s perspicacity
Ohmigod the proud progs refrain, we found us a lib with a real working brain!
Never fear cry the cons. it was just for this rhyme
Blind hogs find an acorn from time to time!

Really…Everybody (including you libturd Morons) Have a safe and happy 4th

Amanpour thinks she’s smart because she looks up $10 words and then awkwardly injects them into her pathetic arguments.

Amampour was not making an attempt to clarify her position on the Constitution, but rather talking down to the viewers. I was taught in public speaking classes that this shows arrogance and disrespect for the listener.

Unbelieveable. Someone uses a big word and it’s all the chatter…
I was taught to look up works that I didn’t know. Not to feel offended because someone didn’t dumb down their language.

purveyor said:
SEEK, LOL Look up the word “callipygian.” Isn’t in every dictionary and the spelling can vary, but you will add to your repertoire!

Google it.
cal·li·pyg·i·an/ˌkaləˈpijēən/
Adjective: Having well-shaped buttocks

YES, I am aware of such. I stumbled on the word 20 years ago, I have taken home many a toothless barmaid, by suggesting she was “callipygian.” LOL

There is such a thing as a dic tion ary. Besides, the people who watch This Week aren’t stupid teenagers.

Fox News had to do this one time when Hannity used the word ‘Television’ instead of ‘TV’.

mediadoubt,

I guess one could charitably say that ABC thought their viewers for whom English is not a first language would have been stumped by the term, but it’s pretty close to disrespecting their audience.

Since English is not Ms. Amanpour’s own first language, the charity would be misplaced. And what’s the point of a phonetic guide to pronouncing a word that you’ve literally just heard pronounced?

Er, the first graf just above is mediadoubt, not me. I didn’t realize I couldn’t use HTML itals here.

“We have assembled inside this insane theater,

to propagate our lust for life,

and flee the swarming wisdom of the streets.”

Been using that word for years and many times on this site. She no doubt read one of my posts.

OMG, how embarrassing for us.

Amanpour is a twit…
(tu·i·t)
Noun: aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing

“Either way, if Amanpour herself was truly perspicacious, she might avoid using such fancy language so that viewers in the future don’t mistake her show for a Rosetta Stone class teaching the English language.”

Young media people take note….this is an excellent way to lose viewers!

BatBoy said:
“Either way, if Amanpour herself was truly perspicacious, she might avoid using such fancy language so that viewers in the future don’t mistake her show for a Rosetta Stone class teaching the English language.”

Young media people take note….this is an excellent way to lose viewers!

You’re right on the money. Instead of letting it slide and rebuking Amanpour privately for talking down to the viewers, ABC drew further attention to it.

Perhaps the producer also felt that she was attempting to be a snot and he/she sought revenge. lol

Amanpour is the idiot here. “Perspicacious” means “able to see accurately or insightfully into the future.” Franklin would not be accurately described as perspicacious just because he wished he could be preserved in a vat of Madeira wine to see how the Constitution worked out in 200 years. What accurate or insightful observation is he making? None. If he had predicted some development in Constitutional interpretation which then came true much later, then he might be described as having made a perspicacious remark. Amanpour used the word because she thought it sounded high-falutin’. She does not seem to know the accurate meaning or correct usage of the word. She’s a typical liberal – or radical – intellectual poseur. Look it up if you must. “Poseur” means “pretender” or, more frankly, “fool”.

robspe said:
She’s a typical liberal – or radical – intellectual poseur. Look it up if you must. “Poseur” means “pretender” or, more frankly, “fool”.

Bingo!

robspe said:
Amanpour is the idiot here. “Perspicacious” means “able to see accurately or insightfully into the future.” Franklin would not be accurately described as perspicacious just because he wished he could be preserved in a vat of Madeira wine to see how the Constitution worked out in 200 years. What accurate or insightful observation is he making? None. If he had predicted some development in Constitutional interpretation which then came true much later, then he might be described as having made a perspicacious remark. Amanpour used the word because she thought it sounded high-falutin’. She does not seem to know the accurate meaning or correct usage of the word. She’s a typical liberal – or radical – intellectual poseur. Look it up if you must. “Poseur” means “pretender” or, more frankly, “fool”.

Read the article again. She said he was “perspicacious when this Constitution was signed”. She didn’t call him that for the wine comment.

Those idiots at ABC should have kept Jake Tapper, he was somewhat fair. But, is there anything that this America hating bi–h has to say that we could give a rats a-s about?

O’Reilly has already made fun of this tonight, but will have more of it later in the show!!!

LOL

Poor ABC, what a bunch of dolts.

I disagree with most everyone. How else are us midwest, toothless, gun toten’, bible believers gonna know what the heck she were sayin’…

robspe said:
Amanpour is the idiot here. “Perspicacious” means “able to see accurately or insightfully into the future.” .

I like how you call Amanpour an idiot and then you screw up the definition of ‘perspicacious’ .

That was for the benefit of the tea baggers.

no you dont get it.

amanpour ‘s mother tongue is French.

amanpour simply used the common French adjective “perspicace”, and then englicized it.

Perspicacious may seem a fancy word, but “perspicace” is a very common adjective for french speakers.

I love it when commentators and writers use words I don’t know. I look them up. It’s called a “dictionary,” people!

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
“Easy Money”

It’s difficult. It’s very tough.
I said to the man who’d been sleeping rough
To sit within a fragrant breeze
All among the nodding trees
That hang heavy with the stuff

He threw his arms around my neck
He brushed the tear from my cheek
And held my soft white hand
He was an understanding man
He did not even barely hardly speak

Easy money
Rain it down on the wife and the kids
Rain it down on the house where we live
Rain until you got nothing left to give
And rain that ever-loving stuff down on me

All the things for which my heart yearns
Gives joy in diminishing returns
He kissed me on the mouth
His hands they headed south
And my cheek it burned

Money, man, it is a bitch
The poor, they spoil it for the rich
With my face pressed in the clover
I wondered when this would be over
And at home we are all so guilty-sad

Easy money
Pour it down the open drain
Pour it all through my veins
Pour it down, yeah, let it rain
And pour that ever-loving stuff down on me

Now, I’m sitting pretty down on the bank
Life shuffles past at a low interest rate
In the money-coloured meadows
And all the interesting shadows
They leap up, then dissipate

Easy money
Easy money
Easy money
Rain it down on the wife and the kids
Rain it down on the house where we live
Rain it down until you got nothing left to give
And rain that ever-loving stuff down on me.

As a society, the greatest tribute we can pay to precious little Caylee is to NOT buy the book; NOT listen to the interviews and NOT watch the movie. Caylee is NOT for sale and her memory must not be exploited.

Pastor Etta said:
As a society, the greatest tribute we can pay to precious little Caylee is to NOT buy the book; NOT listen to the interviews and NOT watch the movie. Caylee is NOT for sale and her memory must not be exploited.

What does your statement have to do with the article? This is not about Caylee Anthony.

Seriously??? Once upon a time having a decent vocabulary was considered a GOOD thing!

Can NOBODY understand how it was used in that segment? Amanpour was directly quoting an apparenly published (or previously recorded) statement from Professor Lepore, which was why ABC graphics had the definition onhand to toss onscreen for The Average Viewer. At 0:23, Amanpour says, “Didn’t you say, and you wrote about this…” (and it goes on to the “perspicacious” quote). So, no. Amanpour didn’t pull the word out of thin air, but she’s DIRECTLY quoting Professor Lepore.

If you are talking about Amanpour, then the correct adjective is “Poseuse” and not “Poseur” for Poseur is masculine unless you know something about Amanpour we don’t ):

Where the hell did you get your definition?  Most dictionaries broadly agree on the definition given by ABC.  You, sadly, are the fool.

Well. It’s a semantically canonical usage, hence I have no vituperation towards Madmoiselle Amanpour using the word.  Nevertheless, I confess being somewhat nonplussed that the ABC News Network underestimated its viewers to the point that it had to provide an explanation.

After all, perspicacious is NOT an SAT word… only an elitist, likely liberal, product of a public journalism school would think so (I believe that in order to that _that_ BA degree, a failed attempt at an English BA is required).

It’s not that she used a big word, but rather that ABC has to put a definition box on the screen for the illiterate, moronic American public. Just imagine If the sesquipedalian William F. Buckley were still alive the entire TV screen would be littered with definition boxes.

The definition is correct so far as it goes. But her usage was indeed questionable and wince-inducing.  If he had said, “I would like to be pickled [etc] because I fear that in 200 years the constitution will be an object of hot debate,” that would have been perceptive–perspicacious–of him.  The short quote given literally only expresses curiosity about what the future will hold.  That’s not a perception, so it does not do anything to show that Franklin was perspicacious.  

You can argue that has wish implied an awareness that debate would last 200+ years. In which case, please make that argument, instead of randomly accusing people of being fools. 

In addition, being perceptive is a general quality. Saying he was perspicacious when the document was signed is like saying he was intelligent when it was signed. Perhaps she started to say the statement was a perspicacious statement, then realized, on some level, that it wasn’t?

I’m a flag-bearing liberal, and something of a new deal Democrat.  I prefer not to think I’m a poseur (which does not, BTW, mean “fool.”) But I have to admit she used a “fancy” word awkwardly, when a simpler one would have better said what she wanted to say.  Nothing like the butchering of logic and language we hear from, say, Limbaugh, who too often manages to misuse and misdefine even simple words. But irksome all the same.