[net.politics] Blame

brown@rochester.UUCP (Chris Brown) (12/10/83)

US Newscasters pronounce Lech Walesa's name Wah-LEN-sah.  
Are they mispronouncing it or do the Poles just misspell it?
I'd prefer an answer  from an indisputably Polish-speaking source.
Thanks for the enlightenment...
CBrown