Pants on fire - Zimmerman trial

Reading more on the Zimmerman trial and came across this lil' nugget from ABC News:

George Zimmerman Witness Can't Read Letter She 'Wrote' About Shooting
A teenage friend of Trayvon Martin was forced to admit today in the George Zimmerman murder trial that she did not write a letter that was sent to Martin's mother describing what she allegedly heard on a phone call with Martin moments before he was shot.

In a painfully embarrassing moment, Rachel Jeantel was asked to read the letter out loud in court.

"Are you able to read that at all?" defense attorney Don West asked.

Jeantel, head bowed, eyes averted whispered into the court microphone, "Some but not all. I don't read cursive."

Christ on a corn dog -- if I was nineteen and could not read, I would spend the next month or two learning. What kind of fscking idiot would not consider that something to be remedied at the earliest possible moment. Considering that these people vote, it is no wonder we are suffering through another four years of Obungler...