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March 20, 2009

You Have to Ask Yourself

With all the success we've had lately utilizing native languages to impress our allies, do we REALLY want Hillary's Babelfishers at State attempting Farsi captions to impress the Iranians?

President Barack Obama told Iran's people and leaders that the United States wants to engage with their country and end decades of strained relationship, but not unless their officials stop making threats.

Obama on Friday released a video message with Farsi subtitles that urged the two countries to resolve their long-standing differences. His video was timed to the festival of Nowruz, which means "new day." It marks the arrival of spring and is a major holiday in Iran.


What Obama thinks he said:



What the Farsi translates to:

UPDATE: HotAIr has the video.


Posted by tree hugging sister at March 20, 2009 07:22 AM

Comments

I think Obama should use his "lipstick-on-a-pig" line.

I hear that goes over real well with the ayatollahs.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at March 20, 2009 07:43 AM

What Obama said:
"On behalf of the American people, I extend my hand in friendship..."

What Iranians read on TV:
"On behalf of Infidels everywhere, I fart in your general direction..."

Posted by: Eric at March 20, 2009 07:54 AM

What Obama said:
"We should be faithful to our friendship, like dogs faithful to a master."

Unfortunately, THIS was the one phrase they translated properly.

Posted by: nightfly at March 20, 2009 10:24 AM

For veterans, taxpayers and the Special Olympics he has no genuine apologies.

For the Iranian mullahs and their terrorist mouthpiece president he grovels like a professional b*tch.

This moron will get millions of people killed and he probably won't even care.

Posted by: Gunslinger at March 20, 2009 05:43 PM

So these geniuses are too arrogant to learn from their mistakes. Gee, what a surprise! Odd that The Won knows about an Iranian holiday and makes the time to tape a message for the occasion to the country that took and held Americans hostage for more than a year but doesn't know region one DVDs won't play in England? Yeah, I'm sleeping easy at night.

Posted by: Retread at March 20, 2009 07:06 PM