You would think that they would've added the words "barack" and "obama" to their spell-checker dictionary by now.

Cyberluddite: You would think that they would've added the words "barack" and "obama" to their spell-checker dictionary by now.

Or come up with something funnier than Burka Abeam if it's meant to be funny. I bet they had a spellchecker, but someone misspelled so badly that all the spellchecker could make of it was Burka Abeam. Spelling that painful reminds me of some of our headlines...

Maybe writer has him confused with Abe Beame who was NYC mayor in the 1970's : Link (new window)

St_Francis_P: I bet they had a spellchecker, but someone misspelled so badly that all the spellchecker could make of it was Burka Abeam. Spelling that painful reminds me of some of our headlines...

I tried typing "barack obama" in MS Word (Office 2007 version), and both words showed up as misspellings. "Abeam" was one of the options offered for "obama," but I couldn't come up with any misspelling of "barack" for which "burka" was given as an option (with autocorrect turned on, it automatically changes it to "barrack"), so whoever wrote that caption must've really farked up "Barack."

abeam
Pronunciation:
\ə-ˈbēm\
Function:
adverb or adjective
Date:
circa 1836

: off to the side of a ship or plane especially at a right angle to the middle of the ship or plane's length


Obviously more of the "Obama needs to govern from the center-right" editorializing.

didn't they outsorce this stuff to india?

"Barack Obama" IS hard to spell. Give them abreak.

If it was some southern news paper, I'd say it was probably some freeper that was so use to seeing Obama as a Muslin (sic) that they didn't think there was a mistake.

They probably typed Barack Obama, spell checked the article and since Barack and Obama aren't words, it came up with the closest match "Burka" and "Abeam"

Cyberluddite: St_Francis_P: I bet they had a spellchecker, but someone misspelled so badly that all the spellchecker could make of it was Burka Abeam. Spelling that painful reminds me of some of our headlines...

I tried typing "barack obama" in MS Word (Office 2007 version), and both words showed up as misspellings. "Abeam" was one of the options offered for "obama," but I couldn't come up with any misspelling of "barack" for which "burka" was given as an option (with autocorrect turned on, it automatically changes it to "barrack"), so whoever wrote that caption must've really farked up "Barack."

Try Burak or phonetic spellings when phrases or names have been burgled by spellcheck.

On a related note spellcheck seems to be the thing to blame for so many typographical mistakes. Whatever happened to the whole editor/human spellchecker anyways?

How is this headline fascist? It is simply pointing out the flub. It would be fascist if the article was insinuating anything beyond the typo. Fake fascism on fark.

Burka Abeam was the Fiscally Incautious Goth Jedi party's candidate this year. He only received one vote, which was disqualified when election officials discovered it was made by a trained chicken. Obviously the L.A. Daily News just enjoys rubbing his face in his failure. It's a bit cruel, really.

Haha! Your medium is dying!

You guys are all missing the point. That's how Obama's name is really spelled where he comes from. Wherever that is.

Cyberluddite: I tried typing "barack obama" in MS Word (Office 2007 version), and both words showed up as misspellings. "Abeam" was one of the options offered for "obama," but I couldn't come up with any misspelling of "barack" for which "burka" was given as an option (with autocorrect turned on, it automatically changes it to "barrack"), so whoever wrote that caption must've really farked up "Barack."

Is "burka" in the spell checker's dictionary?

BURKA BURKA MUHAMMAD JIHAD

Notabunny: You guys are all missing the point. That's how Obama's name is really spelled where he comes from. Wherever that is.

Well there ARE only 11 letters in the hawaiin alphabet. True story. Arabic has like 64 counting all the dongles and crap.

Cyberluddite:I tried typing "barack obama" in MS Word (Office 2007 version), and both words showed up as misspellings. "Abeam" was one of the options offered for "obama," but I couldn't come up with any misspelling of "barack" for which "burka" was given as an option (with autocorrect turned on, it automatically changes it to "barrack"), so whoever wrote that caption must've really farked up "Barack."

I tried typing in Barack Obama in QuarkXPress (which a lot of newspapers use for doing their layouts) and Barack was suggested to be Barrack and Obama didn't have any suggestions.

/Burka wasn't even in the spellcheck either.
//Someone should try this with InDesign.

Nice to see that Melanie "You're going to look great in a burka" Morgan has a new gig.

approves

youl100: Cyberluddite:I tried typing "barack obama" in MS Word (Office 2007 version), and both words showed up as misspellings. "Abeam" was one of the options offered for "obama," but I couldn't come up with any misspelling of "barack" for which "burka" was given as an option (with autocorrect turned on, it automatically changes it to "barrack"), so whoever wrote that caption must've really farked up "Barack."

I tried typing in Barack Obama in QuarkXPress (which a lot of newspapers use for doing their layouts) and Barack was suggested to be Barrack and Obama didn't have any suggestions.

/Burka wasn't even in the spellcheck either.
//Someone should try this with InDesign.

I just tried it. "Barack" corrects to "barrack" and "Obama" corrects to "abeam". "Burka" isn't even in InDesign's dictionary. I don't know how the hell they managed to do that to his first name.

Britney Spear's Speculum: If it was some southern news paper, I'd say it was probably some freeper that was so use to seeing Obama as a Muslin (sic) that they didn't think there was a mistake.

If it helps any, the newspaper (if I remember correctly, it's the one I'm thinking of that comes from the San Fernando Vallen and it hasn't changed) leaned pretty far to the right. I think it used to be called the "green sheet" because way back when the front page was printed on green paper (not that there's anything wrong with that).

This is the first time I've ever seen spellchecker blamed for getting something RIGHT and it being wrong. Usually it's the other way around. I guess next time it will be Boris Abadunov.

Gyrfalcon: This is the first time I've ever seen spellchecker blamed for getting something RIGHT and it being wrong. Usually it's the other way around. I guess next time it will be Boris Abadunov.

Would this make Palin and McCain "Moose and Squirrel"?

burka burka abeam jihad

glad the technical debate is over and won.

/dumbfounded

Doublek111: How is this headline fascist? It is simply pointing out the flub. It would be fascist if the article was insinuating anything beyond the typo. Fake fascism on fark.

Very few of the the ratings are at all accurate. The system is totally useless.

Note however that Obama's name is spelled correctly in the bottom left corner of the scanned newspaper.

Spell check typo my arse.

/That's racist.
//And hilarious all the same.

Spill chucking cane sum tines git sings wrung.

How about giving some love to our new president Brak Obama

Seriously.. who cares if some idiot misspelled his name. I doubt it will distract from the absolute failure Osbama's one and only term will be.

Doublek111: Fake fascism on fark.

I was unaware of the huge demand for real fascism on fark.

Burak (Burack?) Obama --> Burka Abeam?

Xerxes99: Seriously.. who cares if some idiot misspelled his name. I doubt it will distract from the absolute failure Osbama's one and only term will be.



Can you give me tomorrow's lottery numbers too?

/yes, you're an asshat
/I would say FOAD, but I think you'd probably enjoy it

decabox: How about giving some love to our new president Brak Obama

Heh...now that, my friend, is comedy.

On a related note: Saw this on Leno's Headlines the other day.

Yar! Lady in a bathrobe off the port bow!

Xerxes99: Seriously.. who cares if some idiot misspelled his name. I doubt it will distract from the absolute failure Osbama's one and only term will be.

Duly noted. Any other predictions?

PerfectlyCromulent: "Burka" isn't even in InDesign's dictionary. I don't know how the hell they managed to do that to his first name.

They've probably added "burka" to their spell checker manually; being a news outlet and all, they've probably had to use the word before.

Wasn't Burka Abeam of of Obama's major campaign contributers from the Gaza strip?

PirateKing: Yar! Lady in a bathrobe off the port bow!

Belay that!

'Tis merely a Hijab, and 'tis clearly abaft the beam.

Bucky Katt: "Barack Obama" IS hard to spell. Give them abreak abeam.

Auto-corrected that for you.

svegle:
On a related note spellcheck seems to be the thing to blame for so many typographical mistakes. Whatever happened to the whole editor/human spellchecker anyways?

Sometimes, I don't think they exist anymore. Or its been outsourced. Or something.

/bought too many different fiction books with atrocious editing.
//there is no way 'oic' should have made it past human editing
///read one author (not the 'oic' novel) apologies, p.o.'d because even after humans checked and rechecked, novels still came back with errors which weren't there when it went off for printing
///re, outsourcing, the phillippines are worse than India