{"id":3421,"date":"2005-01-25T09:29:32","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T14:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3421.html"},"modified":"2005-01-25T09:29:32","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T14:29:32","slug":"lost-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/lost-in-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International observers of American politics are sometimes afraid that the president is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/printedition\/news\/20050124\/a_react24.art.htm\">war-mongering simpleton<\/a>. Other times they&#8217;re afraid he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewbalchannel.com\/news\/4116379\/detail.html?treets=bal&#038;tid=2655447733813&#038;tml=bal_dailyforecast&#038;tmi=bal_dailyforecast_1_06300101222005&#038;ts=H\">worships Satan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President George W. Bush&#8217;s &#8220;Hook &#8217;em, &#8216;horns&#8221; salute got lost in translation in Norway, where shocked people interpreted his hand gesture during his inauguration as a salute to Satan. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what it means in the Nordics when you throw up the right hand with the index and pinky fingers raised, a gesture popular among heavy metal groups and their fans in the region. <\/p>\n<p>Residents of the Scandinavian country were taken aback when they saw the First Family appear to salute Satan during the inaugural parade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m as big a critic of the president as the next guy, but believe me, this is about the <i>least<\/i> scary thing the guy does in a typical day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/archives\/horns.jpg\" alt=\"horns\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to PWalker for the tip)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International observers of American politics are sometimes afraid that the president is a war-mongering simpleton. Other times they&#8217;re afraid he worships Satan. President George W. Bush&#8217;s &#8220;Hook &#8217;em, &#8216;horns&#8221; salute got lost in translation in Norway, where shocked people interpreted his hand gesture during his inauguration as a salute to Satan. That&#8217;s what it means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}