January 29, 2008
English
The award-winning Borowitz Report recently broke the news that the White House had announced that the President’s State of the Union address would be simulcast in English. When OoN’s investigative reporter enquired of this, she was told that this breach with precedent is apparently to show support for those who are urging that English be made the national official language.
Previously, the Administration had resisted this growing movement arguing that the such last minute translations would impose an undue burden on the presidents’ speech writers and voice coaches. Watching the speech last evening and as it turned out, apparently the announcement was a fig leaf of somebody’s imagination, as there was no evidence of any use of English at all, save, perhaps in the rebuttal following.
As well, a late news item reported that the frequency of sitting and standing reps throughout the address, especially on one side of the aisle, gave all those who so participated a free pass to skip all other congressional gymnastics in hopes that until Valentine Day when their heart rates should be back to normal.
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