Of course you do. The media trumpeted Dan’s spelling error over and over. He was a laughing stock because he made an error in spelling a word.
Years later, this same media didn’t dwell so much on Al Gore’s more significant gaffes. In contrast to Quayle’s silly spelling error, Gore revealed ignorance of basic knowledge of the United States and its history.
He asks “who are these people” upon viewing paintings of the some of the Founders.
Gore wasn’t able to properly translate “E Pluribus Unum” either. (Source: January 1994. From a Milwaukee speech to the Institute of World Affairs as quoted in Investor’s Business Daily, October 25, 1996)
Which brings us to the presumptive Democrat nominee and Messiah of the Universe, Senator Barack Obama.
Obama posited — incorrectly — that Arabic translators deployed in Iraq are needed in Afghanistan — forgetting, momentarily, that Afghans don’t speak Arabic.
“We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then its harder for us to use them in Afghanistan,” Obama said.
The vast majority of military translators in both war zones are drawn from the local population.
Naturally they speak the local language. In Iraq, that’s Arabic or Kurdish. In Afghanistan, it’s any of a half dozen other languages — including Pashtu, Dari, and Farsi.No sooner did Obama realize his mistake — and correct himself — but he immediately made another.
“We need agricultural specialists in Afghanistan, people who can help them develop other crops than heroin poppies, because the drug trade in Afghanistan is what is driving and financing these terrorist networks. So we need agricultural specialists,” he said.
So far, so good.
“But if we are sending them to Baghdad, they’re not in Afghanistan,” Obama said.
Iraq has many problems, but encouraging farmers to grow food instead of opium poppies isn’t one of them. In Iraq, oil fields not poppy fields are a major source of U.S. technical assistance.
And let’s not forget Obama’s assertion that the he visited 57 U.S. states with only one left! The audience laughed at his mistake, but Obama still didn’t catch it.
This man, a Harvard Law School graduate, wants to be the next President of the United States.
Tom Blumer at Newsbusters ran a check at the New York Treason Times on this story and got a grand total of ZERO hits.
Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, What Liberal Media? , Al Gore, Barack Obama, What Liberal Media?
You list only one GOP blunderer, Quayle and then you cite Gore & Obama… Do you watch David Letterman at nite? Better yet, do you remember when Gore was going toe 2 toe against Quayle’s partner’s son that identifying leaders out of five international hotspots, how Dubya could only identify two and only those where coups or force was made to hold power…
Dear Bajan,
I do not normally rely on the political genius David Letterman for my news or information.
The focus of my post was the glaring double standard in the media’s treatment of Republican verbal errors of minor consequence vs. the more egregious errors of Democrats.