Sharpton Slams Cain For Calling 'Cuban' A Language—Ignores Obama Did Same With 'Austrian'
Say, Al Sharpton: if Herman Cain lacks "intelligence" for colloquially referring to "Cuban" as a language, how about Barack Obama . . . who did precisely the same thing when it came to "Austrian"?
On his MSNBC show tonight, Sharpton mocked Cain for asking in an aside while munching on a Cuban delicacy during a campaign stop: "how do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?" Does Sharpton not know that Barack Obama, in a much more formal setting, addressing a NATO audience, said something virtually identical, wondering how a certain phrase was said "in Austrian"? Video after the jump.
How do you say "hypocritical double standard"--in any language?
AL SHARPTON: Herman Cain was in Miami today. And Herman Cain did it again. I didn't think he could, but he did. He talked about freeing Cuba. Now we all know he's had challenges in foreign policy. Let me show you this.
Cut to a clip of Cain at a campaign event, munching on a Cuban delicacy. A man in the crowd explains it's called "croquetta."
HERMAN CAIN: Croquetta. How do you say delicious in Cuban?
SHARPTON: I mean, how do we, how do Americans take this as a serious process, when you see people like these people. I mean, what are we really, really talking about? In some ways, it's almost making a mockery of the process. I'm clearly not in the Republican side of the train of thinking, but I know some very intelligent Republicans. We try to argue and debate in an intelligent way. This is a mockery of Republicans that have some intelligence and know how to run a campaign.
Here's Obama [YouTube], in that speech to a NATO audience: "It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of, uh, I don't know what the term is in Austrian: wheeling and dealing."
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Al "Resist we much, about
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:07am.
Al "Resist we much, about that" Sharpton is the LAST person on earth who should be making fun of anything anyone says!
Exactly!
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 4:59pm.
His moment in the spotlight will come again. Clowns like Sharpton can't help but screw up.
The Cubans obviously speak
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:18am.
The Cubans obviously speak some form of Spanish, but sometimes I'm not so sure if Natso Sharpton speaks some form of English...............
Killa
Submitted by rockyracoon on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 6:37am.
Me neither!
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
Spanish is not the same in different Countries.
Submitted by Walker01049 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:22am.
Hey look. We have the Cajun language here in America. Combo of dialects. Canadians have the same with their French speaking citizens. Then there's Sharpton's people(s) own English?? language. Can't even understand that crap. Sharpton is an idiot.
And... Obama was in Hawaii which is in Asia. Who knew? Teleprompter was stolen.
Cuban is different ...
Submitted by metaphorsbwithu on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:28am.
Actually, Cuban is different from Spanish.
I once tutored a Cuban-American student in Math who spoke "Spanish" but was flunking Spanish in High School.
I was at first taken aback but he said he was having problems because Cubans spoke diffferently and the Spanish in school was different from the Spanish he learned from his Cuban parents.
I'm sure the same could have been probably said about Sharpton in high school grammer.
Maybe he should release his grades?
Can one develop dyslexia late in life?
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:48am.
At first blush, I thought you said "I once tortured a Cuban-American student in Math..."
Anyway, carry on.
Jer
You asked...and I will answer in a medical capacity.
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:00am.
Yes, it is quite possible to develop dyslexia later in life due to an underlying organic defect such as Huntington's Chorea, certain malignant forms of senile dementia/Alzheimers or certain brain tumors. While it is relatively rare, such dyslexias can also be the result of cerebrovascular accidents (CVA = stroke from blocks or bleeds) and acute head trauma.
Geez, Dr Sam...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 2:49am.
Now I'm sorry I asked.
Jer
Jer,
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 2:54am.
LOL - I think we is in serious trouble. :-O
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Dave...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 3:01am.
I thought it also might have been related to my long-standing belief that my high school Math teacher had it in for me. Now I'll probably start having panic attacks fearing the onset of Alzheimer's. And providing yet more ammunition for the folks around here who already think I'm out of my mind.
Jer
Have faith, Jer.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:31am.
Just believe in Dog, and your lickdikcia will go away, I think?
...abbubsweN
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:27pm.
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ROFL, Jer
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:08am.
That's what I thought I had read, too.
LOL - Maybe I need to start thinking about a new prescription for my 'pooter glasses.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
'LAM' - Mothers against liberalism
Submitted by metaphorsbwithu on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:47am.
Dyslexia, cognitive dissonance, 'RPN' (NPR) ... no wonder liberals believe so many things that aren't true.
I knew a Mexican women and a
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:53am.
I knew a Mexican women and a Cuban man at a previous job. They often used English when speaking to each other because of the difference in dialects.
When I was in the Army, my Puerto Rican friend . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 5:04pm.
. . . told me that he had difficulty understanding Chicano Spanish. The Western Hemisphere dialects of Spanish apparently have significant variance.
Delicioso is pretty much standard Spanish.
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:36am.
Don't know about Cuba since it is considered an anomaly in Latin America, but the word means the same in every other country with Spanish as the official language.
I speak Cuban
Submitted by TempusFugit on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:07am.
Lucy you got some splainin to do!
That's Ricardo Spanglish
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 5:09pm.
It's the only Spanish dialect I can understand. :-)
As a non-Spanish speaker
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:24am.
...but someone who can comprehend quite a bit of it, Cuban is the most difficult, fast, stacatto.
The various dialects of Latin American Spanish are kind of like beans....different flavors, seasoning, and accents....they are all delicioso, but they ARE different. Of course, I probably wouldn't recognize Castillan Spanish, LOL. I can understand Parisian French, but Le Francais de Canada, not so bloody much.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Jeez,
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 2:19am.
Jeez, Blonde............comparing Latin American Spanish-speaking people to beans??? I hope you realize the absolute NON politically correct and 'racist' and 'bigoted' and 'intolerant' and 'right-wingnut xenophobistic' statement that was!!!!! I fully expect you to be reprimended, and possibly interrogated, by the PC police after this disasterous statement!!!!
Beans...........flavors, seasonings, accents...............boy, Blonde, you have REALLY stepped in it this time!!!! I'm even insulted, and I'm a white guy!!!!
Ha ha, Killa!
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 2:54am.
Actually, when I wrote my "beans" comment, I was thinking of all of the different, and fabulous, restaurants in Miami.....where one always gets a side of beans, but they are so different (and wonderful) from place to place....Cuban, Columbian, Mexican, Puerto Rican,.....and the Spanish language, as spoken here, is exactly the same way.
It's the way I am....I think in metaphors.
And if that's not pc, Oh Well (that's the sanitized version).
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Well, make sure that you go
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 4:05am.
Well, make sure that you go to the Miami Coast Guard station, and say 'aloha' to my son, who is now stationed there, and will be running a 165-foot boat early next year. He's about 6'5, very fit, good looking, and professional. He's not a 'beaner', but he does like Mexican food!!!
But he'll be here in Hawaii during December..........so try and catch him before or after that. He'd probably appreciate some of your great home-made cooking, and he'd share it with 'da boyz'..............whether they were 'beaners' or not!!!!!
Tempers fly!
Submitted by Injest on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 5:54am.
If you really want to see a hot debate ask native Spanish speaker what is the proper form o f spanish for anything? Tempers fly!
You should hear some Cajun
Submitted by metaphorsbwithu on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:04am.
You should hear some Cajun French, Blonde - as you probably have.
Have to run but there is a Louisiana French-speaking radio station online.
http://bit.ly/smkpWu
NB, please advise if not it's okay to put up that link.
It'll put a smile in your day, cher.
Someone must have pointed
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:36am.
Someone must have pointed this out to sharpton.Like obama, he isn't that intelligent.
Hey Big Al I speak American And Write That Way Too
Submitted by Avitar on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 2:29am.
, My Homour and Labour does not have U in it Al nor do my “tomato” have an 'e' and I have to tell my computer that. Without being cut off from the world's communications for the last half century like Cuba the language still has drifted
I'd comment on this, but my "F" key would simply not survive
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 2:52am.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
What are the odds
Submitted by Injest on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 5:56am.
What are the odds Cain said this intentionally knowing what the reaction would be in the MSM?
There’s a reason they are called useful idiots
Al Sharpton - # 1
Submitted by helomech on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:00am.
Al Sharpton - # 1 hypocrite
Hey Al,ask Obama about the 57 states, that Asian country known as Hawaii and the rare dialect of Austrian...what a moron
yo al
Submitted by D'saredumbpeople on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 10:20am.
at least the folks can understand what cain says.......
I have heard it said. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:02am.
. . . more than once that in Great Britain they speak English. In the United States, we speak American. At least there IS a Cuban language (yes, their Spanish is different from Mexican, Bolivian, or the Spanish spoken in Spain!). But, there has NEVER been an Austrian language. . .
Dis frum a moe-ron who can't hardly speak English?
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:51am.
"This is a mockery of Republicans that have some intelligence"
You people are going to HAVE to start transcribing what the REV says, correctly. Above is your translation. Below be whut he reely say, yo!
"Dis is a mockery o' RepubliCANs dat have some intelliGENCE"
Cain was right, and da Rev be wrong.
I speak some Spanish, and live among MANY Cubans, and trust me on this one. It might as well be another language, especially when they shift into hyper-drive while speaking. Since most of us slug down a couple of cafe con leche's (or worse) each morning, noon, and night, they are usually in hyper-drive.
Cain asked the right question in Miami. If he had been in Alabama, he would have asked how to say delicious in Southern. If he had been at a New York liberal, socialite deb paaaaty, he could have asked how to say "delicious" with your teeth clinched and faking a smile, daaaaling.
Da Rev, on duh utter han, don't speak but one way, an dat be Ebonic fo' Moe-rons."
Cuban?
Submitted by ruby2ssday on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 3:56pm.
My high school Spanish teacher who had studied and taught spanish for about 40 years when I attended his class, said the "Cuban" is the only true dialect of Spanish that is different enough from main stream Spanish to be classified as a bonofide "dialect". Apparently Cuban is different from Spanish.
Heh...heh...
Submitted by packman on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 6:29pm.
Usually I read the comics daily, 'cause I just like to get a laugh or two. But then I came across this piece, wherein Brother Sharpton is scolding someone about...language...??? Ha-ha, hee-hee, ho-ho...laugh we much!
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