41 Replies to “A Most Uncomfortable Gaffe”

  1. Yes, it’s like those words sound so similar and are so easily interchanged! I’ve done it several times myself (LOL)…
    This is an obvious freudian slip, I’m thinkin’….

  2. Billionaires = Jews
    Thus Jews should pay more taxes…
    Dhimmi once, Dhimmi twice…its the “Obama-Nation(tm)”!
    Yep, that’ll have the jewish vote lining up in droves for the GOP.
    Forget the Nobel this guy take the “Gaffe Master” prize.
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  3. I honestly don’t get Jews out of that – it’s more likely he was reading the ‘prompter incorrectly

  4. “Warrior for the working class”! No, guerilla for the “entitled to handouts” crowd.
    I think Obama meant to say,”Jew-nitor” a class of custodians of the Hebrew faith who will work only in short,airplane-immune buildings.
    btw,isn’t Michele getting awfully broad across the beam these days?

  5. You are right Kathy, ‘if George Bush or Rick Perry or Mitt Romney or Stephen Harper said such a thing like Jew-janitor’ as you put it. the years the media reporting on this will be endless. Not that the media give a dam about the Jews which most don’t but it is a form of an act to ‘coverup’ Obama’s missteps.

  6. You are right Kathy, ‘if George Bush or Rick Perry or Mitt Romney or Stephen Harper said such a thing like Jew-janitor’ as you put it. the years the media reporting on this will be endless. Not that the media give a dam about the Jews which most don’t but it is a form of an act to ‘coverup’ Obama’s missteps.

  7. I’ll give Obama a pass on this one.
    There’s bigger issues that Jewish paranoia.
    Continue to make mountains out of molehills if you must.

  8. Bush missteps were thought by many to be due to stupidity.
    The same people assume that O missteps are due to confusion.
    And some think that pointing that difference is making mountains out of molehills?
    Really?

  9. Mark Levin thought it funny, but emblematic of this poser. keep it up Obama . Hopefully you will alienate everyone at the ballot box.

  10. You folks have missed something bigger. It wasn’t the ‘jew..’ comment, it was the fact that he used the word JANITOR at the Congressional BLACK Caucus! Imagine if any white person happened to have picked that occupation in a discussion with black politicians?

  11. Robert, have you ever been called Kathy before? 🙂
    I’m with Erik, maybe give him the benefit of the doubt here. It could just be a random slip.

  12. And he’s supposed to be such a “great orator”.
    Bambam can’t even read a teleprompter properly in front of a friendly crowd.
    Honestly, I’m not sure if it was a Freudian slip, or a dogwhistle.

  13. Ja, I’m minded to give him a pass too, as someone familiar with teleprompters told me “Jan..”itor could be misread a “Jun..” ( junior) and voila, you step in the doo doo.
    What a fabulous Orator! Snrk.
    That being said A. If it were a conservative candidate this would be on high rotation with various talking heads demanding explanation/ accusing etc… and we all know it.
    B. I’d not be shocked to discover, given Rev. Wright et al, that that’s what he believes, but that’s haring off into the inchoate world of conspiracy theory, so let’s not go THERE without at least some shreds of further evidence.

  14. gordinkneehill – And he’s supposed to be such a “great orator”.
    I have to conclude that they confused “is a great orator” with “has a nice voice”. The distinction is obviously beyond the punditocracy.

  15. according to the media, only Bush made mistakes and they jumped all over and even made up ‘Bushisms’…pointing out a ‘bamaism is racist or if you quote him directly you’re using ‘code words’ for racism…and they wonder why their ratings are in the basement…
    AP Labeled “Racist” For Accurately Transcribing Obama Speech
    MSNBC is obsessed with playing the race card
    Paul Joseph Watson
    Infowars.com
    Tuesday, September 27, 2011
    MSNBC has yet again played the race card to demonize not even criticism, but merely unsympathetic portrayal, of Barack Obama as racist after an AP writer was lambasted for accurately transcribing Obama’s Black Caucus speech.
    During his speech, Obama attempted to fool the black audience into thinking he was one of them and not a paid teleprompter reader for Wall Street by dropping the g’s at the end of his words.
    “Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,” Obama lectured the audience. “Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’. We are going to press on. We have work to do.”
    However, after the Associated Press accurately transcribed Obama’s dropped g’s, MSNBC aired a debate segment asking whether the decision not to “clean up” Obama’s words was “racist”.
    “On MSNBC, the African-American author Karen Hunter complained the news service transcribed Obama’s speech without cleaning it up as other outlets did–specifically including the “dropped g’s,” reports Yahoo News.
    “Hunter called the AP’s version “inherently racist,” sparring with New Republic contributing editor and noted linguistics expert John McWhorter, who argued the g-less version “is actually the correct one,” noting that the president’s victory in the 2008 election was due, in part, to how effortlessly “he can switch into that [black] dialect.”
    It goes without saying that Hunter’s claim is completely ridiculous. Obama’s dropping of his g’s was blatantly deliberate. If the AP had “cleaned up” his speech it would have been completely misleading and inaccurate.
    Hunter claimed the AP transcriber didn’t “fix” Obama’s grammar because of the color of his skin, while failing to mention the fact that transcripts of George W. Bush’s speeches were routinely transcribed (accurately) by including dropped g’s and other idiosyncratic styles of speech. She then ventured further into the realms of absurdity, claiming the AP writer was using a secret “code” through which to express his racism.
    “Normally, I lean toward the clean-it-up school of quote transcribing—for everyone,” AP transcriber Mark Smith told Mediaite. “But in this case, the President appeared to be making such a point of dropping Gs, and doing so in a rhythmic fashion, that for me to insert them would run clearly counter to his meaning. I believe I was respecting his intent in this. Certainly disrespect was the last thing I intended.”
    It’s not the first time Hunter has used her platform at MSNBC to imply a failure to observe complete obedience to Obama is racist. Two years ago, she said that people who “disrespected” Obama by being critical of his mandatory health care plan were racist.
    As we have documented on numerous occasions, the establishment likes to play the race card in characterizing any criticism, or even any portrayal that could be considered unsympathetic, of Obama as racist. MSNBC has proven itself adept at this dirty trick.
    During an appearance on MSNBC’s The Last Word recently, talking head Richard Wolffe mused that Republican opposition to Obama making a speech on a date that clashed with a presidential debate was down to “the color of his skin”.
    Back during the Obama Joker poster era, when depictions of the President as the fictional character out of Batman were deemed racist by the establishment media despite identical images being produced of Bush as the Joker for years before, MSNBC host Carlos Watson insinuated that calling Obama a “socialist” to criticize his big government agenda was secret code for a racist slur.
    Of course, the ultimate irony of all this is Obama’s attempt to come across as a working class black man by dropping letters as the end of his words. In reality, Obama’s background is about as ‘black working class’ as the Queen of England. He enjoyed a predominantly white, privileged, middle class upbringing and had none of the hardships of the black working man he tries so desperately to impersonate in a bid to re-connect with black voters who are abandoning Obama in droves.

  16. It’s an honour to be in the company of such perfect people.
    Ever make a spelling error? Ever pronounce a word wrong?
    No matter.
    Just pile on somebody else’s mistakes.
    On both sides of the political spectrum.
    Pitiful.

  17. SYF
    Obama gets a free pass from the media every time he makes a gaff, if you are a conservative you get no such leeway.

  18. but not nearly as bad as this gaffe…
    (ABC News) — U.S. officials had once thought there was little chance that terrorists could get their hands on many of the portable surface-to-air missiles that can bring down a commercial jet liner.
    But now that calculation is out the window, with officials at a recent secret White House meeting reporting that thousands of them have gone missing in Libya.
    “Matching up a terrorist with a shoulder-fired missile, that’s our worst nightmare,” said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D.-California, a member of the Senate’s Commerce, Energy and Transportation Committee.
    The nightmare has been made real with the discovery in Libya that an estimated 20,000 portable, heat-seeking missiles have gone missing from unguarded Army weapons warehouses.
    The missiles, four to six-feet long and Russian-made, can weigh just 55 pounds with launcher. They lock on to the heat generated by the engines of aircraft, can be fired from a vehicle or from a combatant’s shoulder, and are accurate and deadly at a range of more than two miles.

  19. Great orator, my butt.
    “I . . I . . .I . . I. . . I’m a warrior for the middle-class.”
    Even he couldn’t spit the lie out of his own mouth.

  20. Exert from an article examining Parapraxes (slip of the tongue, Freudian Slip)
    Why does Freud claim that the slip has to have a meaning? Why can we not just believe someone when they protest that it was just a slip, unimportant, and that they could just as well have said something else instead?
    Freud says that this would be to ignore the actual fact of what was said. When we are confronted with a slip in which a significant substitute word replaces the other intended one, we cannot just ignore the fact that that word has been used. We have to ask why that particular word was used instead of another- we cannot just ignore the word as unimportant on the basis that it could have been any other. It would be like a chemist weighing something, finding out its weight, but then rejecting his findings and any inferences his might draw from them on the basis that the object might just as well have had another weight! That would be a totally invalid reason to reject the facts in chemistry – why therefore consider it legitimate for a slip? (p.48-49).
    http://www.lacanonline.com/index/2010/05/reading-the-introductory-lectures-on-psychoanalysis/

  21. Like Erik Larsen @ September 27, 2011 12:16 PM, I don’t think Obama said “Jew”. He may have started to say ju … as in junior secretary (Warren Buffett’s).

  22. Posted by: set you free at September 27, 2011 3:49 PM
    Oh, sure. I’ll wager everyone in the 57 states were equally and unfairly biased.
    Er.
    Rather than throwing stones, think about what was mentioned above: had W or rick perry or any conservative said that, would we hear the end of it before election time?
    Give your head a shake.
    mhb23re

  23. syf
    Your words are hollow.
    That’s no ordinary guy who uttered ‘Jew’, just some old traveller, currently inhabiting the WH.
    As said earlier, with the hatred that Jeremiah Wright spews at anything white, its not a stretch that JW also has a thing for Jews, and has said it more than once.
    Maybe Deadfish Emanuel had it right, and left the WH for just such reasons.
    And yeah, if this was Bush, it would be frontpage news for 2 weeks, and the lead story on the MSM talking head circuits for at least as long.
    NOBAMA? Not a mention, of course, he arted the waters, walked on them, and cleared the skies.

  24. Uncle Commie Joe’s last plot before he (was) kicked off by his doctor was the Jewish Janitor’s Plot, as is well known.
    Ask Iberia.

  25. Perhaps the CBC could send down their political speech “cleaners”. Poor souls have been out of work since Jean Crouton left the Canadian stage.

  26. Obamba hates Jews along with Blacks now!
    My my my, No wonder the K.K.K endorsed him during the 2008 presidential elections. They said some gibberish on the news that they felt he’d do such a bad job as president blah, blah blah, now I’m starting to wonder.

  27. Ozero’s standing amongst the Joos has dropped to 45%, Joos, and their money, made just have been on his mind:-))))

  28. Zero also said, “I wear that with a badge of honour”.
    It’s “as a badge of honour”.
    What an utter fraud that man is. (And syf, if you don’t get it, who’d be the least bit surprised?)

  29. Yes, he’s a fraud.
    Yes, he stumbled over a syllable.
    The former is more important than the latter.
    Seems pretty petty to me (mountain out of a molehill) to concentrate on the latter, nay … react to the other.
    There are bigger issues at play here.

  30. I ignored the syllable, syf.
    I was talking about prepositions. Zero gets those and all kinds of other grammatical commonalities quite wrong—and always gets a free pass.
    Fie on him and all his apologists. But we agree he’s a fraud, so I’m not sure what your point is.

  31. lookout:
    My point?
    Keep the debate on the plane of ideas, not personality and character assassination, like some left-wing troll.
    Name-calling over some totally minor slip of the tongue seems pretty juvenile, at best.
    Ju … venile. Ju … nior. Ju … bilation.
    Does the utterance of the first two letters of those last three words, then an abrupt stop to say another word, constitute an attack on Jews?
    Besides, how many Jewish janitors do you know?
    To me, the piling on says more about some of the sheeple here than about Obama, who agreed is a total fraud.

  32. I hear you, syf.
    However, the fact that virtually no one, including the lily-livered McCain, would say, “The Emperor has no clothes” is precisely the reason that this “Midas Touch” impostor has been allowed to do so much damage. He needs to be exposed.
    His speech to the CBC is a complete disgrace. You’ll notice that I didn’t refer to the “Jew” accusation: like you, I’m not sure it stands up. There are, however, lots of other things wrong with his hypocritical, low-life, ugly grandstanding here. I’d be happy to hear Obama’s sinister under—actually, it’s not so “under” these days!—belly exposed. (And when has Obama ever followed his own, empty advice to be civil? It’s time to stop making nice with this dangerous Marxist.)

  33. “Ju … venile. Ju … nior. Ju … bilation.”
    d
    That’s right, the Right should take the high road. One can’t imagine that the left would begin to dissect every syllable, nuance, utterance and blink by W to disparage his character or office.
    Oh, wait…
    mhb23re

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