Mitt’s continuing floggyqueefers included Poland where a member of his team told reporters to kiss his ass. A perfect trifecta! Leave no country un-insulted. Actually Jon went easy on him but I have rarely laughed so hard.
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Not getting much traction in the media…..sorry. Had to dig for the “KMA” thing. Sounds like the Romney aide got mad at a Howard Stern bit-guy.
Actually the Poland thing is all over the news. Rachel Maddow said probably most people were feeling sorry for Romney being bellowed at by the press. Then Mr. Groka shot off his mouth and it started all over again. They were in a parking lot NEAR the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Gorka should be turned into a verb meaning reversed public sentiment midstream.
“The crowd gave Judy amazing sympathy until her press aid Gorka’ed her and then they saw her for the bitch she was.” SDomething like that. Borked, Gorka’ed. etc
Hearing more about Obama flying into a closing base (not sure why that’s such a big deal either).
Actually, having a guy on staff that tells NYT and WP reporters to kiss his tush is an asset, not a liability. They should give this guy a raise.
If only someone other than Gorka had done it, perhaps you might have a point.
I like Jon Stewart most of the time. We’ve discussed him on MH before. He’s a political satirist and humorist, and does his job well. He’s often very funny and politicians of all views should expect to get skewered by people like him sometimes. However, I’m disappointed that he’s been so biased as to not have given Obama the same treatment he’s giving Romney now.
Here’s a top-ten list of Obama gaffes from “Time.”
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1887005,00.html
My favorite Obama floggyqueefer, which is not on the “Time” list is when during the 2008 campaign, Obama said: “I’ve now been in 57 states – I think one left to go.”
It’s all over the news / Rachel Maddow. Anyone who spot the problem with this scenario gets an “A”. I’m in no particular mood to defend Romney. I am, however, wondering what might happen if a reporter yelled out a question like that to the One at, say, our Tomb of the Unknown, and a member of Obama’s staff said the same thing. The left would be calling for the reporter’s hyde and building statues of the Obama aide.
Here’s a really good Obama blooper reel by Sean Hannity. Before anyone gets mad, I watch Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow (voluntarily) to hear what they have to say. It’s OK to ask Obama supporters to give Sean a listen too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-6bOm6hmZo
Moon, I’ll admit that Jon Stewart’s stuff is funny, but I know you are laughing when you watch one this too.
Note that Hannity did not even have to include anything by Biden, the ultimate source of bloopers, to make this funny. Obama stands on his own as a source of gaffes with no help from Biden. I would guess that “you didn’t build that” and “the private sector is doing just fine” will appear in the next round of Obama favorites.
Michelle Malkin says it best in the Hannity video I linked. All candidates, Romney, Obama, all of them, misspeak sometimes under the pressure of public appearances. The problem comes when an Obama-leaning media skews the reporting to make Obama look infallible and others look like dunces. That’s not really the fault of Obama or Romney, but of a hypocritical media that purports to provide objective news when they are just spinning their own points of view.
We expect bias from humorists like Jon Stewart and pundits like Hannity and Maddow. No surprises there. But we expect better from organizations that purport to offer objective news.
From the UK press.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100173449/white-house-issues-humiliating-apology-to-charles-krauthammer-over-churchill-bust/
The Obama presidency is fond of issuing apologies for America on the world stage, but very rarely makes them at home to Americans. White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer has just issued one to Washington Post columnist and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer, who last week wrote an op-ed berating the Obama administration for removing a bust of Sir Winston Churchill from the Oval Office when it came to power. Pfeiffer had issued a stinging attack on Krauthammer, alleging that his Churchill bust reference was “100 percent false.” Krauthammer was of course 100 percent correct, and the British Embassy in Washington even issued a statement contradicting Pfeifer’s remarks.
The Churchill bust was moved to the Oval Office by George Bush. The Obama administration substituted a Lincoln bust and moved Winston to the residency. It is there. Do a FOIA.
There’s a good reason why we shouldn’t believe everything that is on blogs.
The statue in question was a loaner. We really don’t owe the Brits anything as far as displaying statues of their PMs. Interestingly enough, I would say the British people rejected Churchill long before this kerfuffle-twice even. Once in 1945 and again in 1955.
There was confusion over which of the statues was sent back. There is a bust of Churchill in the WH residence. The loaner was sent back after Bush left the WH.
Its a huge so what in my world, even though I like Churchill as an historical figure. I don’t think we owe him anything.
@Need to Know
I have never found anything Malkin or Hannity said to be funny. I have found that they repeatedly lie but its not funny.
Stewart and Colbert I find funny. They also have no sacred cows.
Maddow can make me smile but I don’t usually find her funny.
The bloopers….I smiled. I usually just feel sorry for people when that happens. I felt very sorry for Rick Perry when he forgot who he was going to eliminate. I do that now…and also call out 6 names before I get to the person I really want. (I used to laugh at my grandmother for doing that.) I am paying for those snickers now.
Moderates don’t usually find pleasure in other people’s discomfort or mistakes.
@SlowpokeRodriguez
I don’t defend reporters who do that.
I don’t even particularly care that Gorka yelled to kiss his ass. He just sounded stupid with the admonition about being in the sacred zone of Poland or whatever it was he said.He should have stopped with “kiss my ass.” He ended up sounding like Margaret in Dennis the Menace.
Wait. What? If that’s the case why did the White House appologize and the British Government put out a release saying that the reporter got it right?????
Someone needs to call up the WH and tell them they should retract their appology because a FOIA would’ve cleared it all up.
Who says they apologized? Link?
I saw pictures of someone from UK looking at it.
We don’t owe anyone any apologies for what’s in the Oval Office. It really isn’t any of the Brit’s business. In fact, I need one good reason why we owe them anything as far as representation in the Oval Office?
Now if it were I, Churchill would be right back in the OO, upstaging Lincoln, but alas, you are stuck with Obama and not MH as president.
yum yum, gotta love that crow….blick!!!
Wrong bust.
Here is the story. My apologies to Marin on this one. I stand corrected.
However, we don’t owe the Brits JACK. They don’t get to decide what goes in the Oval Office and what doesn’t. The bust of Churchill was a loaner. There is still the other bust of Churchill in the residence.
This is another one of those divide and conquor stories….
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/after-dustup-over-churchill-bust-an-apology-from-the-white-house/
There were two busts of Churchill – one loaned to GWB, and in the Oval office during his Presidency (after 9/11) – it was returned at the end of the GWB term. The original bust is still in the private residency of the White House.
57 States – have you ever watched it?? If you watch it (meaning, not just the sound bite), you will see that Obama just misspoke.
Terrible when the media takes things out of context, worse when people just keep repeating untruths.
Palestinians have now called Romney “racist”. Couldn’t see that one coming, huh?
What would you have called it? @pokie
What is the word for being prejudice against a certain nationality or ethnic group? Is there a special word?
What he said was very insulting, regardless if you agree with him or not. That really isn’t the issue. Most of us have opinions about certain groups of people that we know better than to say in public. If running for office at any level, it becomes more important NOT to say these things.
Is this where I say , DUH!!!!!
Hey, I’m all for it! The more people overuse and abuse the term, the quicker it will lose its meaning! I say everything and everyone is racist! The lunch I’m about to eat? Toootaly racist!!
Slowpoke, I agree the term racist is overused, especially by kids, oddly enough. However, what do we call it when racism really does exist? What do we call it when we are speaking of cultures or nationalities?
“Why did you buy a white iPad when everyone knows the black one runs faster!” There, that’s racist!
@SlowpokeRodriguez
Black beans on white rice?