Someone recently said that if Carter were prez, we'd be speaking Russian

[tuvor]

Or German, or some other half-assed anti-Dem rhetoric.

Had to laugh, then, when discovering this headline:

China's rapid rise spurs Americans to learn Chinese

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/uschinaeducation

[Wetzelbill]

1. lol

[Rufus T. Firefly]

2. It was O'Reilly, and it was 'speaking Arabic.'

But nice to see that * has taken a different path - pictograms instead of letters, even!

[cire4]

3. Hah....Most Americans can't even reach proficiency in Spanish

If they aren't able to pick up an incredibly easy language like Spanish or French, how in the hell do these wingnuts think the country will automatically be speaking difficult languages like Russian, Arabic (By the way, which dialect of Arabic will that be, Mr. O'Reilly?), or Chinese?

The whole "If X didn't happen, we'd be speaking Y" argument is one of the most absurd RW arguments ever. Even the novice linguist or historian could tell you that.

[Swamp Rat]

4. Was?

Ich verstehe die Frage nicht, weil Bush die Wahl gewann. :shrug:

[wake.up.america]

5. In Wirklichkeit hat er die Wahl gestohlen. Aber das...

ist uns schon bekannt.

[Swamp Rat]

8. Das ist korrekt.

He DID steal it... AGAIN! :grr:

[KurtNYC]

6. Nyet!

Da svedanya

[stewert]

7. It Was Bill O'Reilly...........

On his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly said that if Jimmy Carter "were president today, we'd all be speaking Arabic." O'Reilly was responding to co-host Lis Wiehl, who objected to the inclusion of Carter in Bernard Goldberg's book 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken is #37) (HarperCollins, 2005). In the book, Goldberg ranked Carter sixth on his list.

From the July 19, 2005 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:

O'REILLY: Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter screwing up America. Yeah, Jimmy Carter is a second-guesser. And for a guy who was a pretty weak president, I don't know if that's a sustainable position.

WIEHL: But he --

O'REILLY: This is -- wait, wait, wait.

WIEHL: OK. I'm just frustrated. It's Jimmy Carter. I like Jimmy Carter.

O'REILLY: Yeah, I know you do. You know, if Carter were president today, we'd all be speaking Arabic.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200507210002

[SuffragetteSal]

9. O'Reilly - what an idiot 8th grade bully..

I love Jimmy Carter. He is my favorite president and he is still doing humanity work, something O'Reilly cant say about himself. I'd rather be in the 'list' rather than the one O'Reilly is on, the one going straight to hell...

[Why Syzygy]

10. and

butt freakin ugly with nothing but a BIG MOUTH. What morons.

Jimmy Carter screwing up America. What a farce.