March 3, 2005

JUST BECAUSE IT'S BEEN BUGGING ME ALL DAY

disenfranchise -- v : deprive of voting rights.

This morning, during a story on Iraq, an NPR reporter stated that the US invasion had "disenfranchised" the Sunnis.

Posted by David Cohen at March 3, 2005 4:58 PM
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I guess Sadam and his sons were disenfranchised as well. Pity.

Posted by: Tom C., Stamford, Ct. at March 3, 2005 5:13 PM

Bet the vapid gimp thought it was a bad thing, too. Little new here. After all, among the brights, isn't the newest group requiring "affirmative enfranchisement" felons?

Posted by: Luciferous at March 3, 2005 5:27 PM

disenfranchise, v: lose an election that you really wanted to win.

Posted by: Brandon at March 3, 2005 6:08 PM

David:

Just be thankful he didn't add that the U.S. invasion was opposed by Iraqi "conservatives".

Posted by: Peter B at March 3, 2005 6:45 PM

It ain't a fair election until the dead vote.

Posted by: Moe from NC at March 3, 2005 6:58 PM

Well, Iraq and Ohio visually have a vague resemblence on a map, plus they both have four-letter names, so no doubt the NPR reporter got the two locations confused. Could happen to anyone at NPR.

Posted by: John at March 3, 2005 7:20 PM

Since when did the Sunni become African-American?

Posted by: ratbert at March 3, 2005 8:46 PM

Our tax dollars at work.

Posted by: Bart at March 3, 2005 10:04 PM

You listen to National Palestinian Radio at your own risk. Me, I have a cd player with Frank Siantra CDs.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at March 3, 2005 10:07 PM

This morning, an NPR reporter said of the 2.5 percentage point decline in child poverty over the last 10 (15?) years "but, that was a result of a growing economy and employment rather than government programs." As though that is a bad thing, or that it therefore doesn't count.

(In fairness, she may have been paraphrasing the UNICEF report upon which the story was based...hard to tell, given that the biases would be the same from either source.)

Posted by: jsmith at March 3, 2005 11:16 PM

They weren't disenfranchised--they were disenfrenched.

Posted by: Noel at March 3, 2005 11:17 PM

Sinatra

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at March 4, 2005 12:36 AM
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