A Pedantic Nitpick At Michelle Malkin

4:40 pm EST March 20th, 2007 | Politics | 19 Comments

In the course of offering an opinion (and why do people insist on calling people giving opinions “reporting”?) on Mitt Romney’s latest gaffe, Michelle Malkin writes:

The Romney campaign: Not yet ready for primo tiempo.

I took Spanish for four years, and I’m pretty sure it’s tiempo primo. Am I right?

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19 Responses to “A Pedantic Nitpick At Michelle Malkin”

  1. Jay says:
    March 20, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Actually, it goes a little further than that. It should be:

    Not ready for tiempo primero instead of ‘primo’ which means ‘first’ in Italian. Primo actually means ‘cousin’ in Spanish.

  2. Jay says:
    March 20, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    Just to clarify, primero actually means ‘first’ in Spanish as well, but words change sometimes when they are used in phrases. Therefore, prime would actually be ‘prima’ in Spanish, but they would use ‘primero’ in combination with tiempo.

  3. cazart says:
    March 20, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    Perhaps she was being ironico?

  4. Duros62 says:
    March 20, 2007 at 5:01 pm

    No, more likely she is just being muy stupido, as usual.

  5. El Cazarto says:
    March 20, 2007 at 5:41 pm

    El Pedantico es muy humoroso. Me gusta!

  6. August J. Pollak says:
    March 20, 2007 at 5:46 pm

    Actually, it would be “Primer Tiempo” (like the show “Primer Impacto”) seeing how primo is Spanish for “cousin.”

    So she actually said, Mitt Romney: not ready for cousin time. Which if you think about it, is fucking hilarious.

  7. Duros62 says:
    March 20, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    So she actually said, Mitt Romney: not ready for cousin time. Which if you think about it, is fucking hilarious.

    But Rudy is!!!

    Ba-dom ching!

  8. Quaker in a Basement says:
    March 20, 2007 at 6:36 pm

    Malkin hablando en el Espanol?

    Caramba!

  9. Doubting Thomas says:
    March 20, 2007 at 7:28 pm

    Maybe its primo tiempo in Tagalog?

  10. Diamond LeGrande says:
    March 20, 2007 at 9:11 pm

    Duros62: Michelle Malkin es muy estupidA ahoramente. Aunque ella no sabe nada, ella todavía es una mujer.

    Y “tiempo primo” debe ser “tiempo para los primos” para el mismo efecto como “cousin time” tiene en inglés.

    Los errores españoles no me importan mucho. Cuando alquien dice “no problemo,” lo corrijo, pero es lo único que me molesta.

  11. PD100 says:
    March 21, 2007 at 12:27 am

    ¿Puede declararse a favor de ella un juego del tenis de mesa?

  12. Nimrod Gently says:
    March 21, 2007 at 9:47 am

    Sure, if you want to do it the backwards way like those Euroweenies. You know, if you want to be anti-American.

  13. Wellstone says:
    March 21, 2007 at 11:16 am

    I don’t think there IS Spanish for Prime Time, and I’m a native Spanish speaker.

    It is, of course, purely American slang for the main event, Show Time, the headliner’s performance, the most-watched part of the TV or entertainment evening.

    Malkin is truly a merkin to right-wing “intellectuals”.

  14. The Unmitigated Gaul says:
    March 21, 2007 at 11:25 am

    Malkin is a “merkin”, alright (look it up). A beard to her twat of a husband.

    If she had tried to use the correct Spanish (assuming she even knew or cared), the knuckle-dragging chromosomally damaged mouth-breathers that comprise her audience would be even more confused than they already are.

  15. TexasPete says:
    March 21, 2007 at 1:50 pm

    And here’s what Mirriam Webster says re: Merkin/Malkin:

    Merkin . . . Alteration of obsolete malkin, lower-class woman, mop, from Middle English, from Malkin, diminutive of the personal name Matilda.

    If only the lower-class woman Malkin WERE obsolete!

  16. The Unmitigated Gaul says:
    March 21, 2007 at 4:06 pm

    Texas Pete,
    An obsolete trollop is certainly appropriate for Michelle the Malignant, but my favorite definition for “merkin” is from Webster’s 3rd Unabridged: “b: artificial hair for the female genitalia”. ;-)

  17. Duros62 says:
    March 21, 2007 at 4:57 pm

    What the hell? Why would someone need artificial hair for female genitalia?

    Britney and Lindsay and Paris, notwithstanding, of course.

  18. The Unmitigated Gaul says:
    March 21, 2007 at 6:15 pm

    Why would someone need artificial hair for female genitalia?

    It was all the rage in Restoration England, I’m not sure why, maybe something to do with lice or scabies or the other critters inhabiting their nether regions. (You don’t want to know about their wigs, either.)

  19. Duros62 says:
    March 22, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    Well, that makes sense, I guess, but…ewww.