Stuttering Foundation attacks Donald Trump
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Jane Fraser, president of the speech disorder non-profit organization, The Stuttering Foundation, lashed out at real estate mogul, Donald Trump, for an offensive slur he made about “Saturday Night Live” star Seth Meyers.
Donald Trump should be ashamed for calling “Saturday Night Live” star Seth Meyers a “stutterer,” according to a support group for stutterers. Stuttering Foundation slammed the “Celebrity Apprentice” star for using the word in a derogatory manner.
The incident began with Meyer roasting Trump in his White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech. The comedian targeted The Donald for his birther conspiracy theories and his desire to run for president next year.
On Sunday, Trump let the people know what he thought of Meyer’s jokes. He phoned in to “Fox and Friends,” saying Meyers’ “delivery, frankly, was not good. He’s a stutterer and he really was having a hard time.”
“Shame on you, Mr. Trump,” Fraser said. “We at the Stuttering Foundation find it discouraging that in 2011, Donald Trump has chosen to use the word ‘stutterer’ in a derogatory fashion, something to be made fun of, to describe Seth Meyers’ speech at the annual White House Correspondents’ dinner.”
“In light of ‘The King’s Speech’ and the new awareness it has brought to stuttering, we had hoped that this kind of unfortunate comment was a thing of the past. When in doubt about the eloquence of those who stutter, Trump should take a look at Winston Churchill, King George VI, and James Earl Jones.”
I have watched Seth Meyers performance at the White House Correspondent’s dinner several times, it was excellent, if he hesitated over any words, I missed it. Judge for yourself.
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As a person who stutters, I find that emotional support is just as important as therapy when it comes to stuttering, so when someone – anyone – makes a comment like this, it’s a blow. To meet other people who stutter who can relate to what we go through helps us accept our stuttering more than anything else. For 35 years the National Stuttering Association (NSA) has connected kids and adults who stutter to other kids and adults who stutter through local chapter meetings, workshops, on-line support groups and annual conferences in which over 600 people who stutter attend each year! Conferences have included such keynote speakers as VP Joe Biden, Arthur Blank (Owner, Atlanta Falcons), Adrian Peterson (Chicago Bears), Annie Glenn, John Melendez and John Stossel. They all shared truly amazing stories. To learn more, visit http://www.westutter.org
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Actually I had – and have a good schoolfriend from teenage years called Boden Buciak.
He stuttered on ‘B’, ‘D’, ‘C’ and ‘K’
If anyone asked him his name it was around 30 minutes before he could tell them…;-)
Is that supposed to be a sense of humor?
Clearly it is a British sense of humour…
Try ‘Monty Python babe….frankly we don’t give a toss about political corectness…we laugh because we aren’t ‘politically correct’ and don’t want to be…it’s so so boring…
…as in seeing a man in a wheelchair…”Are’nt you tired of being pushed around?”….
Welcome to England…the land of the free and the land of the free sense of humour….
We have one.
..in addition Jackie…get a fucking life eh?
…unless you’re blond and beautiful of course…in which case..I agree with you…(assuming you are small and petit…otherwise bollocks)
I take it you have no idea about England?
Your loss babe…we don’t give a toss…except about England…and we’ll die for that and quite possibly will do shortly….
ps –
I assume you’re not dyslexic…I speak ‘English’ here and humour has a ‘U’.
G’nite MMA…and chill your poster’s out a bit eh?…Jeez…
HELLO MMA POSTERS!>>>YOU AREN’T FUCKING RIGHT ALL THE TIME EH?
Actually…piss off Jackie you silly cow…I have better things to do than explain what a sense of humo(u)r is to the likes of you.
Silly silly bitch…freedom of speech babe…it’s called democracy..and in your case get a fucking sense of humour or go piss off someone else. I’m too tired to care.
Nitey nite
What a charming man you are.
You know me so well…;-)
No stuttering–smooth delivery. Trump can’t take the heat, which makes him particularly ill-suited for politics.
Trump is such a humorless dick, that’s what happens when surrounded with yes-men.
Oh look at you, you gave me Colin Firth as a gift today. I watched this on Saturday and saw no stuttering at any time. Duh Donald probably needs to go crawl in the hole where all the rest of them are going to be hiding for a while to get over this.
Johnny Depp or Colin Firth, can’t go wrong can I. Sorry I had to bring Donald Trump to the party.
I have a list if you need that for future reference :). It’s only ten people so it’s short.