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The Spectacle Blog
With 2011 drawing to a close, people are writing up year end lists. I am no exception to this and have just finished up a year end list of my own concerning the worst of President Obama in 2011 which I hope will be up on the main site either tomorrow or Thursday.
In this vein, CBS News has come out with a year end list of its top fifteen political gaffes of 2011. Of the fifteen gaffes CBS chose to highlight, eleven of them were committed by Republicans. President Obama only makes the list once for “accidentally” signing the Westminster Abbey guestbook with the year 2008. Former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner makes the list for obvious reasons as did Vice-President Biden for claiming that murder and rape would increase if President Obama’s jobs bill wasn’t passed. French President Nicolas Sarkozy also made the list for being overheard calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a liar at the G-20 Summit in Cannes. Yet Sarkozy said this to Obama and yet Obama isn’t faulted for his part in the conversation in which he said, “You’re fed up, I have to deal with him everyday.”
Now, of course, there are Republicans that deserve to be on the list (i.e. Rick Perry’s brain freeze and Michele Bachmann claiming the shot heard round the world was fired in Concord, New Hampshire rather than in Concord, Massachusetts.)
But I think President Obama stating during the APEC Summit that he met with world leaders “here in Asia” when he was standing in Hawaii is a pretty significant omission. If any of the GOP candidates for President had made that statement it would have made the list, if not the very top of it.
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Occam's Tool| 12.27.11 @ 6:31PM
Paul and Obama are getting free rides---Paul because the MSM would love to see him take on Obama---he would be ground to a pulp. His baggage from the Newsletters he made tons of money from while not editing them (or editing them with the skill of a chimpaNAZI), will get him destroyed. The boy can claim 20% of 1/2 of the electorate, and he's the ionly republican candidate who can make Republicans vote for Obama instead.
Fortunately, the weather outlook is good for January 3rd, and we are 7 days out.
Clint| 12.27.11 @ 8:04PM
Do Your Homework Israel Firster Smear Bund Boy, Tool Job.
" The survey finds Paul’s small government attitudes and straight-talking approach are his clearest strengths. More than half of all Republicans and GOP-leaning independents say his views on limited government are a major reason to support him; fewer than one in five hold such views against him."
The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here And In Iowa.
Wayne| 12.28.11 @ 12:09PM
Too bad he will be 78 next year. His son would be far better.
SpiralArchitect| 12.28.11 @ 3:45PM
Ham Sandwich would be much better.
albert constantine jr.| 12.27.11 @ 7:02PM
I guess Biden's latest about the Taliban not really being our enemy didn't make the cut, but Romney's "$10,000 bet" is one of his two entries.
Dave | 12.28.11 @ 7:58AM
Admittedly, "Brain Freeze" Biden's "Open Mouth-Insert Foot" comments ought to top anyone's "best of" lists. And while it wouldn't qualify for the 2011 rankings, B.F.'s invitation to a man sitting in a wheel chair and asked to ... "stand up" far surpasses any slip-ups ol' Dan Quayle might have made. But the Obama bu-t boys at CBS, et al wouldn't DARE list those in their annual stack of stuff. Too icky for "their" guy.
I kind of long for the day when the NBC's and the rest of the alphabet networks find the integrity to renamed their (alleged) news coverage what it actually is: Spin, opinion and filtered commentary.
What was it the bandito in Bogy's Treasure of the Sierra Madre yelled at him? Oh, yeah. "Real nooz? We don't got to geeve ju' no stinkin' real nooz."
For now, though, I'll just keep watching for that pink pig to come flyin' over my house. I think it's name is Scott or Diane. Oh, Brian? Yeah, that's the one!
Bob Miller| 12.28.11 @ 1:47PM
CBS News itself is gaffes-to-go.
AVCurmudgeon| 12.28.11 @ 2:01PM
Not only does CBS reveal its bias by inserting the word "accidentally" re the Westminster signing (by definition, all "gaffes" involve some element of "accident"), but they completely ignore Obama continuing with his toast to the Queen as the band starts to play the British national anthem.
And in a better time CBS might also have noted Obama delivering a Thanksgiving address without mentioning God.