My Sympathies to the Hearing Impaired

I'd like to talk for a moment about the hearing impaired in this country.

Now I personally thought I had it bad because I had to listen to Bush ramble and stumble through his speeches, but I have just experienced something that makes me wonder about that assumption.

You see, I've been up at some odd hours lately, and out of respect for my neighbors, I'll often watch TV with the sound muted. Since I have digital cable, that means that when I mute the sound, I see the captioned text which appears for those who are hearing impaired.

Tonight I turned on the C-SPAN, and Bush's lame, rambly press conference was on. I gotta tell you, while it's bad enough listening to Bush butcher the English language or pull off that annoying frat boy laugh, it's nothing to trying to READ his words LIVE.

Sweet Jesus, that has got to annoy the hell out of the deaf in this country.

I'm just saying. Yikes.