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br> -- P. Jeremy Stevens br> Framingham, Massachusetts /p> p> I find you made an egregious error in you article on Barack Obama. It was Senator Ted Kennedy who first referred to the senator as Osama Obama, NOT Rush Limbaugh. Though Limbaugh may now humorously use that in some of his monologues, I find it laughable that you would not credit Teddy Kennedy with using it first! br> -- M. O'Brien br> Fillmore, California /p> p> Mr. Tucker is incorrect in crediting Rush Limbaugh with the term "Osama Obama." Mr. Limbaugh was parroting one of the many verbal gyrations of the soused senior senator from Massachusetts, Edward M. Kennedy, he of "Judge Alioto" fame. br> -- Richard Meade /p>

I know its hard to be fair to Rush Limbaugh -- he invites criticism so regularly, but he 'calls' Mr. Obama "Osama Obama" in a kind of riff on the bumbling Ted Kennedy's Press Club speech, when he pronounced Obama's name every conceivable way -- one of them being Osama. It's more a joke about Kennedy than Obama.

Jane Hall, panelist on Fox News (and I believe a professor of journalism herself), called him "Mr. Barrama" last weekend. I played the tape twice to make sure I had heard the proper Jane correctly. Every journalist and newsperson in the western hemisphere calls Vice President Cheney "Chaney," when he pronounces it "Cheeny." I have heard Lynn Cheney correct people, to no avail.

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