Did the team that promised to bring diplomatic glory back to the USA misspell Chinese President Hu’s name on the White House web site? Here is a screen cap grabbed at 11:30 PM ET (click on it for full-size view):
With hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens browsing the internet in the middle of their Thursday work-day hoping to see the pageantry of a White House state dinner honoring their President, this blunder is not just embarrassing, it’s insulting. It smacks of a demeaning “oh, all those names sound alike” kind of arrogance that can’t help our already strained relationship with China. “Chu, Hu, Fu, Lu, what’s the difference?”
Considering this Administration strutted into the White House behaving as though they were the most competent team of Internet geeks who would use digital media and social networking like never before, a simple thing like this really calls into question the oversight and attention to detail one should expect from our first Internet-President.
To use the Twitter vernacular: #EpicFail
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Hu?
Who Hu Chu?
It is ironic.
Obama hosts a State Dinner for Premier Hu at the White house tonight; just as Congress votes to hand Obama his head on a platter as it pertains to his health Care scam. The Chinese pay great attention to these subtle nuances.
Wasn't the world sold a bill of goods, that Obama was the smartest man since Eisenstein? What happened?
Gosh, I can't help but think this is in some way Sarah Palin's fault.
"It's just some Chinese guy, who cares?"
I wonder if that is what they were thinking?
Really though, all they do is take a bunch of photos and give vapid happy feel-good speeches then go back to plotting each other's demise. Ah, politics!
Also: this administration was supposed to be full of geeks? They sure flubbed up on that promise! *laughs*
No. That was supposed to be: "the Chinese president chewed at the state dinner."
Why NORTH KOREAN and SOUTH KOREA can't get along…..
Bang Dai-Ho?
No, Yoo Dai-Ho.
Woo Dai-Ho?
Yoo Dai-Ho.
Mi Dai-Ho?
No, Yoo Dai-Ho!
Woo Dai-Ho?
Yoo Dai-Ho!
Mi Dai-Ho?
Wut Dai-Fuk…..
At least they didn't type President Ah Chu.
Right?
Hu's on 1st?…a dictatator, Whats on 2nd?… Where's our industry?.. the Unions stole 3rd
Knock knock.
Hu's there?
Hu.
F***k Hu.
He's a Chicom dictator.
This is just the sort of thing that makes deranged people in Tucson want to shoot 20 people in the local shopping centers.
lol!
Everyone is trying to put a fork in the US dollar. Think about it.
Who gives a flying fig about a Goldman Sachs senior executive getting promoted to the Securities & Exchange Commission? EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!
Tucson was very convenient for Squidly. "Eileen Rominger has been named to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Investment Management Division."
OUTSTANDING AMERICA. OUTSTANDING USA!!!!! Future EX-PATS are dismayed.
The person who mis-spelled Hu's name was an affirmative-action hire from Chicago. He or she will have to take a self-esteem (not a spelling) class.
Anyway, spelling in English is a relative thing. Formerly, under the white colonial and slave-owning systems, people thought there was a correct way to spell English words. We know that's not true now. America has moved beyond that. Now we understand that there are many different ways to spell a word. In fact, "Chu" is the correct spelling of Hu in Ebonics' (Chicago dialect).
And you just revealed the #1 story on COUNTDOWN tonight!
I'm sure some smart-a$$ed intern punk at the White House thought that very same thought.
2013 can't come soon enough, BRING BACK THE GROWN UPS!
But really, Hillary is turning pale.
And you forgot Fu King Ug-Lee!
First items on Obama's next National Security Council meeting:
1. "Horton misspelled a 'Hu.'"
2. Oh! What to do? What to do?!
Since it seems one of Breitbart's eight employees, the one who is in charge of the Open Thread being posted
at Big Government each morning has failed to do his job once again, I'll post a little story I found on my agricul-
ture related sites last night here.
The grain trade experienced a nose-dive yesterday, so I was reading ''up'' on the speculation as to the reasons
for it last night. Not reported to have anything to do with the grain pits being down, but a side story to the trade's
watching Hu Jintao's ''visit'' for news of future grain sales to China was a little info on trade.
It seems that o signed some agreement with the Chinese leader enabling the Chinese to buy $19 Billion worth
of aircraft "something-or-other". Wonder what that would be, exactly? Could it be some tech the Chinese
lack in their quest to be able to send missiles our way? Or perhaps they are making copies of some of our cut-
ting edge passenger airliner tech, so as to be able to duplicate (copy) it to a tee. They are very good copiers, you
understand. Whatever it was that o gave away to our economic competitor, he received absolutely nothing in re-
turn.
There was some pathetic attempt to make it sound as though China in return for the aircraft ''something-or-other"
agreed to buy more US grains. Problem with that smokescreen is that the Chinese have been buying the HELL
out of US grains for almost a year, already. NO value was assigned to the grain deals. Why would that be? Be-
cause it is a joke, and the oRegime knows it's a joke so why bother. The Chinese have been stocking their larder
with OUR grain products at an unprecedented pace. Why? Is it because grain is worth more and is more stable
than US currency? Probably. At least grain will not evaporate before your very eyes as US currency is predicted to
do by some.
Some sources ''close to China'' believe that they may be 100 to 150 million bushels short on feed grain stocks
this year. The Aussies just cashed in on a big feed-wheat sale to China, causing speculation of China's expected
announcement of further US grain buys this week to wane. So the Chinese come to DC and poke their finger in
the eye of the US Guv. For this honor o gives them something they want badly related to aircraft, for which we
receive NOTHING in return… Sounds about right to me…
heavy on the sarc, in case you didn't notice.
Well finally Obama can make an international apology on his OWN behalf instead of ours.
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If John Bolton was President, we wouldn't have these kinds of embarrassing international incidents.
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The 'Stache has my cash for 2012!
This is obviously Sarah Palin's fault. If she would just stop with the violent rhetoric, there would not be these hateful misspellings.
Surprised they didn't use the Dalai Lama trash walk as a backdrop on Chu's invite.
"The Chinese pay great attention to these subtle nuances. "
They also pay great attention to not so subtle nuances like:
Sen. Reid calling President HU a dictator.
Sen. Schumer proclaiming that if the Chinese don't revalue their currency "we will make them do it".
A mega scale debtor announcing they intend to raise their debt ceiling.
Amateur Hour doesn't even begin to describe the diplomatic sTRAGEDY of the current Democrat "leadership".
On the part of the WH, it must’ve taken a great deal of restrain not to write: Comrade Hu.
Hell, I'm just thankful that our dear leader didn't try to toast him in Chinese…
Who knows how that would have turned out…
Looks like Obama's next act will be to declare Chinese the official language of America. What a stupid suckup! of a president. Thought he was going to kiss him on the lips.
Proof that "Educated Illiterates" are on the rise …can't spell (or write), can't speak proper English, can't read. SIGH.
"HU" is in English. How would i spell it in Chinese? And which Chinese alphabet? And how would it be pronounced in Chinese? Remember Mao tse Tung? Now it's Mao Zedong! English spelling of Chinese and even Arabic words is whatever someone wants it to be. You can't misspell a Chinese name in English.
That's what happens when you don't monitor the kids computer time.
Cant be, it must have been Bush again.
"With hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens browsing the internet in the middle of their Thursday work-day hoping to see the pageantry of a White House state dinner honoring their President, this blunder is not just embarrassing, it’s insulting."
Chinese people aren't worried so much about the spelling of Chu's name, it's the fact that Chu is eating surf and turf and they get their one bowl of rice and monkey meat.
Hu's on first.
It is akin to the class sissy telling his "girlfriends" he is going put his foot down kick the school jocks arse.
Aint a gonna happen.
Why do I feel i am caught in an endles loop of a Red Hot Chilli Peppers hook
Give it away give it away give it a way now,
give it away give it away give it a way now,
give it away give it away give it a way now,
give it away give it away give it a way now,
Not to worry they just changed Mao's name to help young commies pick up chicks.
"Hey ladies,check out ZE DONG"
works every time I bet
Oh, I'm sure it is. We just aren't seeing the connection yet.
The Chinese President chewed out Obama during the state dinner because Biden didn't bow upon greeting him at the airport.
However it is appropriate to be consistent once a spelling is used in an official capacity.
English "Hu" to Chinese (Traditional) translation 胡錦濤
English "Chu" to Chinese (Traditional) translation 楚
Wa's on second.
Bulk food is always a good purchase. Check it out on a time value of money chart.
I think the original spelling is a transliteration of a word pronounced in one of the Chinese dialects or regeional accents, the "correct" spelling is in another. For example: "Beijeng" and "Peking"
These would be masters of the world misspelled a TWO letter word … fortunately they also carry the nuclear launch codes .. which hopefully have many more characters than Premeir Hu's last name ..
Can't spell a last name with only two letters. Hilarious.
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