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Opinions/Editorials Title: Bachmann, Palin should just admit gaffes, then move on It’s the scramble-back that makes you look insecure, stubborn and not all that bright. Does it really matter that Michele Bachmann got her John Waynes mixed up and said she shared a hometown with John Wayne when in fact it was John Wayne Gacy? “John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That’s the kind of spirit that I have, too.” In fact, it was John Wayne Gacy who lived in Waterloo, whereas John Wayne, the actor, was born about 150 miles away, in the Iowa town of Winterset. Not a sane person in the world jumped on the gaffe to say, “Oh my God, she’s trying to align herself with the Killer Clown!” But the mainstream-lamestream media pounced on the gaffe with unbridled glee, just as they did when Sarah Palin couldn’t name the periodicals she consumed. The day after Bachmann’s verbal misstep, she appeared on CNN and said, “People can make mistakes and I wish I could be perfect every time I say something, but I can’t.” Not a bad way to deflect the minor distraction. But Bachmann didn’t stop there. She opted for the scramble-back defense, in which the candidate and the candidate’s team scramble back, huddle up and scour the Internet for research that kinda-sorta backs up an erroneous claim. “John Wayne’s parents’ first home was in Waterloo, Iowa, and he was from Iowa,” said Bachmann. Um, OK. This is the same sort of scramble-back tactic employed by Sarah Palin after Palin said Paul Revere “warned the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms by ringing those bells and making sure he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed.” Of course, Palin meant Revere warned the American colonists, not the British — and the rest of those ad-libbed comments hardly consist of rock-solid history — but it’s not the blunder of all time. It’s not as if Palin had said Paul Revere “not only warned the British but was a member of the greatest rock and roll band of the Sixties, Paul Revere and the Raiders.” But instead of correcting the record, Palin scrambled back and came out sounding as if she’d just emerged from an all-night study session with a high school history teacher. “I didn’t mess up about Paul Revere,” she said. “Here’s what Paul Revere did. He warned the Americans that the British were coming. Part of his ride was to warn the British that were there that ‘hey, you’re not gonna succeed.’ ” Countered James Cross Giblin, author of The Many Rides of Paul Revere, in an interview on ABC News: “She was basically wrong. . . . His mission certainly was not to warn the British. It was to get the message to the revolutionaries in Concord.” Asked if Palin did not get the basic facts right, Giblin replied, “No she did not.” Some Palin fans even tried to revise history on Wikipedia. Better to alter the facts than to admit our gal is wrong! Now that’s a real scramble-back. A founding youngster? When ABC’s George Stephanopoulos challenged Michele Bachmann’s claim that the Founding Fathers “worked tirelessly to end slavery” and noted that “Jefferson and Washington were slaveholders and slavery didn’t end until the Civil War,” Bachmann countered that John Quincy Adams “tirelessly worked throughout his life to make sure we did in fact one day eradicate slavery.” Not a good scramble-back, considering John Quincy Adams wasn’t one of the Founding Fathers and was all of 9 years old when the Revolutionary War began. When Barack Obama made his infamous “57 states” gaffe in 2008, he owned up and made fun of himself later the very same day, noting, “I understand I said there were 57 states today. It’s a sign that my numeracy is getting a little, um . . . ” It was better for Obama to just admit the mistake than to scramble back and say, “Look, there ARE 57 states. We have the 50 states, plus we’re in a state of confusion, a state of anguish, a state of concern, a state of uncertainty, a state of economic crisis — but also a state of hope and a state of change, and I state right now I’m gonna bring that hope and change to America!” Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 25. When Barack Obama made his infamous “57 states” gaffe in 2008, he owned up and made fun of himself later the very same day, noting, “I understand I said there were 57 states today. It’s a sign that my numeracy is getting a little, um . . . ” That's how you handle it.
#4. To: go65 (#1) So has the idiot apologized for all these dumbass moments, too? “The Bomb” that fell on Pearl Harbor “The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.” 10,000 People (A Whole Town!) Died in Kansas ~ Oops, Overstated by 9,988 Admits His Plan would Necessarily Cause Energy Prices to Skyrocket Air Raiding Villages a la Yankee Air Pirates: Destroys Whole Afghan Villages! ATMs Cause Unemployment Blames Hugo Chavez’s Election on (ta da) BUSH! Oops. Blows off the Salute To Heroes (MOH) Inaugural Ball Botched Toast ~ Babbles over “God Save The Queen” Bowls like a Special Olympian Bows to the Chicom President Bows to the Emperor of Japan Bows to the Saudi King Burns up 9,000 gallons of Jet Fuel on Earth Day Can’t Keep MOH Recipients Straight Confuses “his” Christianity for “his Muslim faith” Cops Acted Stupidly (@ 1:30) Date Nights at a Quarter of a Million a Pop Did He REALLY just call Palin a "Pig"?????? Disrespects the Flag and the National Anthem Doesn't Know How Old His Daughter Is Exaggerates about Military Small Unit Methods, Weapons, and Tactics in Afghanistan Expects to be President for “Eight to Ten Years” Faux White Sox Fan Can't Name Favorite Players, Loves "Cominskey" Park Flippantly Answers the "When Does Life Begin" Question ~ Above His Pay Grade Forgot to Duck ~ Too Busy Waving Gins up the Reason for his Birth In Selma (Bonus…Jive Accent) Gives the Queen an iPod Gives Thoughtless Gifts to Brit PM Brown and his Children Had an Imaginary Assignment to the Senate Banking Committee Had an Uncle who Liberated Auschwitz Has Visited 57 States Harvard Degree ~ Mechanical Engineering? No, Definitely NOT! Hates Old People Identifies a Whole New State (Eau Claire) If I Can't Dazzle Them With Brilliance, I'll Baffle 'em With BS Inhaled Frequently. That was the Point. Israel is a Strong Friend of Israel’s ~ Whilst being Perfectly Clear Makes a Nasty Joke about Nancy Reagan and Seances Medical Genius (Off Prompter) Mistakes a Window for a Door Mocks Joe the Plumber Navy Corpse Man Oaf of Office Ogles La Derriere Like a Frenchman Oh Wait…Robots Create Jobs with Unions (@ 1:35) Pitches Like a Girl Whilst Wearing Mom Jeans....Wheeeee!!!!! Refused to Visit the Troops Because No Media Was Allowed Scares the Crap out of New Yorkers Scares a Marine Guard by Shaking His Hand Screw Our Allies ~ I'm going with Hugo and Ortega on This One Seeks Greater Inefficiencies in the Health Care System via Obamacare Sees Dead People Signs the Wrong Year in Guest Book at Westminster Abbey Snubs Brits by Returning the Bust of Winston Churchill Someone Waging a KMA can’t Spell “Libya” (h/t our own Warner Todd Houston) Staff Incompetence ~ Obama’s Limo Gets Stuck Thinks “Victory” is a 4 Letter Word Thinks Austrian is a Language Throws Out the Honored Guest with the Trash We are the Ones We've Been Waiting For When in Ireland, Do as the Irish Do....NO WAIT....BYOB (non-alcoholic) Will Halt The Rise of the Oceans Wouldn't "Punish" His Daughters with a Baby AND Equates Pregnancy to an STD You Might be a Filthy Rich Cretin If....Oh Never Mind, the Math Doesn't Really Work And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. A partial list of The Stupidity That is Obama. http://newsbusters.org/forum/topic-discussion/handy-reference-guide-obama039s-gaffes-and-goofs
#5. To: no gnu taxes (#4) I don't see any need for him to apologize for the spin of others, but when he does make an actual mistake, he is quick to admit it and apologize for it; unlike Palin & Bachmann.
#6. To: go65 (#5) I don't see any need for him to apologize for the spin of others, but when he does make an actual mistake, he is quick to admit it and apologize for it; unlike Palin & Bachmann. Carlin: There's a Big Club and you're not in it. BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA 8D I KNEW Strauss Kahn wouldn't go to jail. Die maybe. Not Jail. Cause the ELITE don't go to jail. The ELite Fail-WAY TO GO BROWNIE--and move up to their nect assignment. IN WWI Imperial Russia made the serfs get off the train and march the Final 25 miles to the Front. To get them into shape. 9-11 and 7/7 were False Flags to make you serfs understand your place... Now GET BACK TO WORK.... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA 8D
#8. To: mcgowanjm (#6) I KNEW Strauss Kahn wouldn't go to jail. Cause the ELITE don't go to jail. He DID go to jail. He spent a week at Rikers Island. I'm pretty sure they don't cater French rapists there either.
#10. To: Thunderbird (#8) He DID go to jail. He spent a week at Rikers Island. I'm pretty sure they don't cater French rapists there either. A drunk tank sentence. Isolated. What. For a week? I guess that's major for the Top 50 000. Time served? And what about DSK's sordid Room Service history. Sounds like the President of Israel antics. But that's not admissible. The Maid's life away from the hotel is? Her account of how DSK's sperm got on her is the story. There's a Big Club. And you and I aren't in it. If this stands then future Hotel Maid Responses to rape should be: 1) Don't let the rapist get out of the room alive. 2) Maid's should be issued pepper spray. ;}
#11. To: mcgowanjm (#10) Considering that the "maid" is a part-time hooker and a pathological liar, a week in Rikers seems...excessive.
#18. To: Thunderbird (#11) Considering that the "maid" is a part-time hooker and a pathological liar, a week in Rikers seems...excessive. I would hope a manager of so much money would show a little more prudent behavior then just jumping in bed with whoever's convenient.
#20. To: mininggold (#18) (Edited) I would hope a manager of so much money would show a little more prudent behavior then just jumping in bed with whoever's convenient. I don't disagree, but it also seems likely that Strauss-Kahn paid for sex with the maid and perhaps got a little rough with her when she didn't perform to his expectation. If this arrangment had been made known to the police beforehand, I doubt he would have been arrested, much less held for a week on Rikers Island without bail.
#22. To: Thunderbird (#20) I don't disagree, but it also seems likely that Strauss-Kahn paid for sex with the maid and perhaps got a little rough with her when she didn't perform to his expectation. And THAT"S just mad eup on the fly Bull Shit. The Maid's Story of the attack has never waivered. And what 'arrangement'? That DSK promised not to come in her mouth? How exactly are those arrangements carried out, TB. How do you proposition the maid?
#25. To: mcgowanjm (#22) The Maid's Story of the attack has never waivered. False.
Replies to Comment # 25. The Maid's Story of the attack has never waivered. True. And where did that semen come from. And how Does a multimillionaire approach a third world maid for consensual sex. Is it the same way he rapes the maid's home country? "http://www.cps-news.com/wp-content/misc_pdfs/Citigroup_Plutonomy_Part_1_Oct162005.pdf http://www.cps-news.com/wp-content/misc_pdfs/Citigroup_Plutonomy_Part_2_Mar52006.pdf The second one took a very long time to download, but it's there. Update on Monday, May 30, 2011 at 03:34PM by Registered CommenterSkeptic Picking up on the advice in the plutonomy memos, advertisers are being urged to give up on the middle class and target the 1-2% with the highest incomes because the middle class can no longer afford much of what they are selling. Sam Pizzigoti discusses and links to the recent Ad Age story, with this lede: The American middle class, concludes a new study from the ad industry’s top trade journal, has essentially become irrelevant. In a deeply unequal America, if you’re over 35 and your income hasn’t yet topped $200,000 a year, you don’t matter.
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