hong
3301
No, he is going to answer with
[indent]I’ll hazard a guess that nobody knows “the area” better than I know my kids, and occasionally I’ll call one by the other’s name.[/indent]
Because if you aren’t, then this is relevant, particularly when combined with previous evidence suggesting that she doesn’t know much about foreign policy.
You didn’t need this trivium to know she doesn’t know much about foreign policy.
Dejin
3302
You probably mix up your kids names because you are used to saying the same things to your kids and speaking to them in the same context. Mark, get in the car. John, get in the car. Sally, did you do your homework.
You do not speak of North and South Korea in similar contexts. North Korea, please stop developing nuclear arms. South Korea, please stop shooting missiles over Japan. See it doesn’t work, because you wouldn’t actually say the same things about South Korea that you would about North Korea. It would be like confusing East Germany with West Germany. Did that happen a lot? If we’ve got evidence that Presidential level leaders accidentally said East Germany when they meant West Germany and were not taken to task for it, then I withdraw my complaint.
Kolonial
3303
I apologize, I didn’t really read the choices the first time around. Nor this time, to tell truth, because I think your hypothesis is flawed. The idea that the likelihood of a slip of the tongue decreases by any significant, measurable amount when familiarity with the subject is increased is a fallacy. Comparing Palin talking about the two Koreas with a Muslim talking about his own faith isn’t illuminating the subject. I have no doubt Palin is aware of which Korea the United States considers an ally. Interpreting this misstatement as evidence she doesn’t seems more a case of hopefulness than a clear evaluation of what actually happened.
hong
3304
Sure you do. You speak of them in the context of that kerfuffle over next to China.
You can go to mediamatters.org right now and discover 10 recent things that are far more outrageous than this slip of the tongue, and it’s possible to do so without providing fodder for the next time a Democrat misspeaks.
You have a flawed standard for this as well. Whether a person is taken to task for a casual error is often irrelevant to whether that error matters. Whether Kennedy had 100% accuracy in referencing North and South Vietnam is less important in the eyes of many historians than whether he correctly assessed the motivations of the former as fundamentally nationalist or communist, a mistake he laid bare in many PR and strategic decisions. I’m sure if he’d flubbed the former even the comparatively tame media then would have had a field day, while the latter remains unexplored at the popular level.
Palin has frequently expounded at length in favor of political ideas that are reprehensible or the product of a naive and ignorant worldview. They have been deconstructed at length and are useful for creating an accurate assessment of what she stands for, or at least which type of handler is currently filling her plate. If you’re looking for examples of her failure as a public speaker, there are plenty of more compelling ones (see: the Shatner reenacted speech). This is just a slip of the tongue, and not a particularly interesting one.
Again, if someone is floating the hypothesis that she is a good public speaker, excels under pressure, or is otherwise impressive in that capacity, congratulations! You’ve got a tiny Nelson Haw Haw to throw their way with this. But it’s probably not something you want to get carried away with.
It’s 100-year-old slang. Comes in handy!
Lum
3308
The last time a leader made a goof that boneheaded was Ford debating Carter in 1976.
He then went on to try to justify it:
MR. FRANKEL: I’m sorry, I - could I just follow - did I understand you to say, sir, that the Russians are not using Eastern Europe as their own sphere of influence in occupying most of the countries there and making sure with their troops that it’s a Communist zone?
PRESIDENT FORD: I don’t believe, - Mr. Frankel that - the Yugoslavians consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union. I don’t believe that the Rumanians consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union. I don’t believe that the Poles consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union.
Which is, of course, news to the Poles, who at the time considered themselves pretty damn dominated thanks in no small part to the Soviet army group stationed on their territory. Ford, even years later, tried to justify it:
Given that Carter only won by about 2%, it’s very likely that gaffe cost Ford the presidency.
What’s sad isn’t that a sitting President didn’t know that the Warsaw Pact maybe contained Poland, but that 30 years later, a candidate can make an even more stupid mistake, as part of a body of work of having literally no clue about any foreign policy and most domestic policy that hasn’t been crammed down her throat as talking points, and still lead the race for the nomination.
I wholeheartedly agree with Gov. Palin’s intellectual fellow traveller, former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, who has blessed us with her thoughts on this worrisome situation:
ShivaX
3311
http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/20101125/ts_dailybeast/11161_cansarahpalinmittromneyoranyoneelsewin2012whitehousenomination_1
The latest polls show Republican Mitt Romney edging ahead of President Obama in a head-to-head matchup in 2012. Good news for the GOP, if only Romney could make it through his own party’s primaries.
The same survey shows Romney drawing just 18 percent of Republican support, trailing Sarah Palin—who clocks in at 19 percent. Rounding out the field: Mike Huckabee, with 17 percent, Newt Gingrich at 15 percent, and Tim Pawlenty, with just 6 percent. Gallup polling this month produces similar results: Romney at 19 percent, Palin at 16 percent, Huckabee at 16 percent, and Gingrich at 13 percent.
Seems like quite a contender to me.
Sarah Palin whines on her facebook page that the left-wing media doesn’t cover President Obama’s gaffes.
“Of course, the paragraph above is based on a series of misstatements and verbal gaffes made by Barack Obama (I didn’t have enough time to do one for Joe Biden),” writes Palin. “Obviously, I would have been…impressed if the media showed some consistency on this issue.”
Palin goes on to say that the Beck interview was one of “seven back-to-back interviews,” and that her past remarks on South and North Korea had been accurate to date.
mdowdle
3313
I think fairness does indeed demand that we acknowledge the gaffes of our own side, if for no other reason than that some are quite amusing. As accessorized by Ms. Sarah, our President’s own gaffes include:
My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate: from the FBI’s 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. And let’s face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don’t know what the term is in Austrian for that…
But I’m still glad I voted for him.
Spam
3314
She rather quickly progressed to the point of not bothering to include faux content. So I’m gonna say born, not made.
Bill
3317
I came across this on a right wing t-shirt site… what the hell is going on here? Is that even supposed to be flattering to Palin?
It also appears that the model has been shooting heroin.
I believe that’s supposed to be Sarah Palin putting Nancy Pelosi in a choke hold, because…conservatives are totally beating up liberals? Or something? Though in practice it looks like Zombie Palin is about to devour Calligula’s brains.
Skipper
3319
Joe Scarborough blasts Palin, and calls on other Republicans to “man up,” and do the same.
God, fuck 2011. I just can’t wait for primary season. I’m downright giddy!
We’ve got Gingrich, Santorum, Huck and Palin all talking about a run and all of them collect a paycheck from FNC. Might we see a civil war at 1211 Ave of Americas? We can only hope!
