ABC Finds Palin Korea Mix-up Newsworthy
By Mark Finkelstein | November 25, 2010 | 09:01
When candidate Obama bragged of campaigning in 57 states, or Pres. Obama suggested that the national language of Austria is "Austrian," we all remember how ABC flaunted those embarrassing flubs. Or not.
But let Sarah Palin momentarily mention North rather than South Korea as our ally, and ABC finds it newsworthy. Check out the video after the jump, containing the news scroll from today's Good Morning America.
By the way, as Ben Smith has pointed out at Politico, Palin actually correctly identified South Korea as our ally earlier in her Glenn Beck radio interview.
GMA SCROLL: Sarah Palin accidentally mixes up North and South Korea during radio interview, calling North Korea a US ally.
Given ABC's acknowledgement that the mix-up was made "accidentally," what possibly made it newsworthy, other than the network's desire to take a gratuitous shot at Palin?
PS: ironically, the next scroll item noted that ratings for this week's Dancing With the Stars finale were up 25% over last year. GMA didn't bother to mention what caused the heightened public interest.
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I remember the LSM doing the
Submitted by Newsbusterbrown on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 9:19am.
I remember the LSM doing the same thing with McCain a couple of years ago (during the tail-end of his campaign when they decided to hate instead of love him for once). He accidentally referred to Russia as the Soviet Union, an understandable slipup for anyone over 30 years of age. Of course, when you have an agenda, any minor mistake means you're a doofus.
“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)
And the field day they had
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 9:18am.
And the field day they had over his "57 states and one to go" comment....
Or not, as you said.
"57 states and one to go"
Submitted by needle on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 9:31am.
Which, so far as I am aware, Obama never corrected.
BTW, I believe Africa has 57 states (state in the sense of country), one of them being Kenya. Coincidence?
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
OIC
Submitted by xraynova on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 10:17am.
The "Organization of the Islamic Conference" had 57 member states at the time obama definitively thought there were 57, going on to 58 (United) States.
His ignorance of the USA is astounding, and only matched by that of the government-schooled folks who put him into office.
The errors made by this "Constitutional scholar" are much more serious than the occasional missteps in Palin's speeches.
Unfortunately, the LWP extremists' emphasis of minor flubs like Palin's, should be (but are not) responded to, with obama's much more egregious verbal flaws in logic, geography, and economics. The fact that they are not responded to, is the primary reason that the demonization of Palin and other Conservatives is so successful.
Well there are only 54 countries in Africa
Submitted by troglodyt on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 1:28pm.
and only if you include some where there is dispute over statehood. But tell you what: There were 57 jurisdictions for democratic primaries. Coincidence or did he want to become president?
Finkelstein nails it!!
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 10:19am.
PS: ironically, the next scroll item noted that ratings for this week's Dancing With the Stars finale were up 25% over last year. GMA didn't bother to mention what caused the heightened public interest.ABC
Submitted by Forbus on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 10:11am.
ABC could run an hour-long special on Joe Biden's misstatements.
and they would only have to go back a few months.
Submitted by Denny Crane on Fri, 11/26/2010 - 1:47am.
We Are The 53%
All of Obama's "mispeakings"
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 10:25am.
All of Obama's "mispeakings" were because his mouth just couldn't keep up with his lightning intellect.
Mixing up north and south is just plain stupid.
\sarc
It is stunning, but didnt AP hire 10 factcheckers for her book?
Submitted by merly1 on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 10:58am.
She draws media surveillance like nobody else, to be sure! Still, Obama's funniest were the dead people sitting amongst them at the Memorial service, and of course, corpseman which I think he misspoke more than once. Obviously, all t hese people who speak for a living will make errors, so clearly this is an effort to discredit only one person........
They're just left wing bomb
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 11:11am.
They're just left wing bomb throwing douchebags being left wing bomb throwing douchebags. Nothing more, nothing less.
Pretty much, thanks to Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes and all the professionals on the various " FOX NETWORKS " everybody, except these douchebags and the Ass Clown himself knows exactly what is really going on here.
It's actually become quite comical lately how the lame street media still insists upon beating a dead horse. The way they only beat that one red, swollen, puss filled, phallic part is still a bit disturbing though.
Barack_Must_Go.....
Also, I cracked up at the evening news as Palin shot back
Submitted by merly1 on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 11:12am.
at the elder Barbara Bush. They used phrases like "grand old dame" of the GOP
to defend the elder Mrs Bush from Palin's response to the former's snarky comments about Palin. It looks like the media will heap false praise/adoration on Republicans if they are subjected to a Palin response.
Well
Submitted by well99 on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 11:52am.
From the Messiah
"I'm here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis." --speaking via satellite to the Democratic National Convention, while in Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008
"One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the world -- Navy Corpse-Man Christian Brossard." –mispronouncing "Corpsman" (the "ps" is silent) during a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, D.C., Feb. 5, 2010 (The Corpsman's name is also Christopher, not Christian)
"Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee -- which is my committee -- a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon." --referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008
"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."
"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred in our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."
"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." --on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people
Shep Smith On Fox
Submitted by TerryWest on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 2:50pm.
Shep Smith On Fox also gave Palin a snarky kick in the knee yesterday, when giving us the lead in to her comments re the conflict with N Korea he said " you know from the one who didn't even know there are two Korea's" snicker snark....break for commercialShep Smith makes no mistakes?
Submitted by peteydee on Fri, 11/26/2010 - 2:06pm.
Oh,Shep you perfect human being.Many of us remember your comment about J-Lo being given a "blow-j-b,or were you reporting the "news"?
Sarah Responds
Submitted by kch50428 on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 8:49pm.
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=463364218434
Thanks for posting that. An
Submitted by Seashell on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 9:19pm.
Thanks for posting that. An excellent response from Sarah.
lol
Submitted by well99 on Fri, 11/26/2010 - 12:05am.
That was cool.
That was cool
Submitted by Denny Crane on Fri, 11/26/2010 - 2:03am.
and she linked back to NB!!!!
We Are The 53%
I like her more everyday
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Fri, 11/26/2010 - 12:38am.
Sarah Palin may not be a graduate of an elite Ivy League school like oh let's see here -- George H.W. Bush (#41), Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Joe Lieberman, George W. Bush (#43), John Kerry, Barack H. Obama, Michelle Obama -- did I miss any of these "best of the best"? -- but she walks her talk. I like that about her more and more. What about you?
okiehawk---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 11/26/2010 - 1:24am.
The worst thing Sarah Palin has going against her is the unconscionable treatment she has been subjected to by the liberal media and liberals in general; something that is manifestly not her fault.
When I note the actions and statements of the inhabitant of the Oval Office, and wake up each day resenting him more and more, and then hear people badmouth Sarah Palin, it makes me crazy.
All this talk of intellect, experience, gravitas, popularity as it relates to electability, and comparisons out the wazoo reference all the involved politicos, plus observations made, have absolutely convinced me that even if Sarah Palin were not the ideal candidate, now, or at any future point, the Republicans have nothing better, currently, going for them.
As far as measuring up against Obama the individual, even discounting his abysmal record (outside of being on the campaign trail) of accomplishing more against what the heartland of America wants than for what it wants, I believe Sarah Palin is smarter than Obama, that she is definitely better looking than he is, can shoot more accurately than he can, and what's more, that she could kick his ass in a fair fight.
That's what I think.
MD
Me? I'm curious about what
Submitted by yutsnark on Fri, 11/26/2010 - 3:54am.
Me? I'm curious about what people mean, when they say she "walks her talk." Perhaps one example is walking the pro-life talk, by carrying through with her pregnancy.
Of course I agree that her North Korea slip is not newsworthy. Neither are Obama's slips, or Biden's, or McCain's. Unless a gaffe ends up revealing government secrets, I don't want to be bothered with it. That goes for the reporting of left wing as well as right wing media (and both are guilty).
SP's response on Facebook is a GEM
Submitted by DaMav on Fri, 11/26/2010 - 5:18am.
Good humored hilarity -- if you haven't seen it: A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States by Sarah Palin http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=463364218434Scared To Death
Submitted by rammingspeed on Fri, 11/26/2010 - 1:12pm.
These people are dedicated leftists - the worst of them are flat-out Marxists - and Sarah Palin scares the hell out of them. A significant return of free market economics and smaller government - at that's worldwide - will set them back generations. Look what the Tea Party did to them at the polls after only a year-and-a-half; and they know that's just the beginning. They all have to Saul Alinsky her all the time in order to have a chance.
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