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Dan Quayle moment? Obama flubs spelling of 'respect'
Fox News ^ | 7 Mar 2014

Posted on 03/07/2014 2:51:03 PM PST by mandaladon

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Zero get no respect
1 posted on 03/07/2014 2:51:03 PM PST by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

The media made a huge deal about Dan Quayle, what a dunce he was, etc.

I predict the media and comedians will not be all over Obama on this. They think he is the most brilliant man ever to be president, so the mmisspelling, of course, was someone else’s fault

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2 posted on 03/07/2014 2:56:03 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego (t)
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To: mandaladon

If Zer0 was a Republican, this would be the lead story on every one of the alphabet networks, New York Times, etc. Since he’s the Omnissiah, though, it’ll go straight down the memory hole.


3 posted on 03/07/2014 2:57:09 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: mandaladon

Quayle had been relying on the cue card provided him BY THE SCHOOL whose spelling bee he was judging —he didn’t want to embarrass them. He was being CLASSY.

The two situations are totally different.

Remember when Bush senior looked at a grocery scanner and “was amazed”? It was a lie —they’d been demonstrating to him that EVEN IF THE BAR CODE WAS TORN UP there was an algorithm that would unscramble it and make it good.

THEY LIED.


4 posted on 03/07/2014 2:57:22 PM PST by gaijin
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Plus I think Quayle’s spelling of “potatoe” is an acceptable alternate spelling?


5 posted on 03/07/2014 3:00:14 PM PST by Williams (No Obama)
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To: mandaladon

Spelling is racist.


6 posted on 03/07/2014 3:01:55 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Dilbert San Diego
The media made a huge deal about Dan Quayle, what a dunce he was, etc.

My recollection is that Quayle did not misspell anything, nor did he think that the U.S. was comprised of 57 states. The only mistake Quayle was guilty of was being a Republican.

7 posted on 03/07/2014 3:02:04 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: mandaladon
Quite possibly the biggest lie about a politician after the Bush I "Hey look! I didn't know freaking grocery stores had scanners!" crap.

Quayle was given the mis-spelling by a teacher. And yes, "potatoe" was the old English spelling of the word.

Also The Won mis-spelled Syracuse when filling out brackets.

8 posted on 03/07/2014 3:02:15 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (15 years of FReeping! Congratulations EEE!!)
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To: gaijin

Great minds...


9 posted on 03/07/2014 3:02:53 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (15 years of FReeping! Congratulations EEE!!)
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To: mandaladon

Nobody outside Fox or FR will even know. The media butt-kissers will do anything to protect their God. But the same commies were out to destroy Quayle over the smallest thing. Just like they did when they twisted Bush 1’s remark about supermarket scanners or Palin’s entirely fictitious remark about seeing Russia from her house. The MSM are purely evil people.


10 posted on 03/07/2014 3:04:21 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: gaijin
Hussein speaks a form of non-standard English as well, close to Ebonics, but certainly not the language used for centuries by educated Americans of all regions. As a case in point, he constantly refers to Massachusetts as "Mass-a-TWO-chets". And in the SOTU a few years back, he repeatedly spoke of "EEE-lec-tron-ix", placing the emphasis on the wrong syllable.

In contrast George W. Bush's arguable mispronunciation of nuclear is one that I've heard frequently from all manner of well-spoken, articulate men, including my very wise coC preacher who hails from out in the western part of Texas.

11 posted on 03/07/2014 3:06:30 PM PST by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: mandaladon; Dilbert San Diego

Growing up in Indiana in the 50s, I too was taught the now archaic spelling of potato as potatoe.


12 posted on 03/07/2014 3:06:33 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“Also The Won mis-spelled Syracuse when filling out brackets. “

Yup. This imbecile spelled it “sycacuse”.


13 posted on 03/07/2014 3:07:11 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Mastador1

Exactly right. The media decided from day one that he was a buffoon and apoor choice for Bush Sr. Running mate.

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14 posted on 03/07/2014 3:07:24 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego (t)
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To: GreyFriar

Under the Core Curriculum the Brown Clown gets an A because he was close to the correct answer.BTW, He is STILL an A$$HAT


15 posted on 03/07/2014 3:08:26 PM PST by Renegade
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To: mandaladon
Destroy a country? that's ignored or forgiven if you are a liberal.

Misspell the word Potato? Hell brought down on you if you are a republican.

16 posted on 03/07/2014 3:11:47 PM PST by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: re_nortex

In contrast George W. Bush’s arguable mispronunciation of nuclear


He pronounces it the same way as Former President Carter, a former nuclear engineer.


17 posted on 03/07/2014 3:15:59 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: mandaladon

I figured he spelled it, with a lithp;
R-E-Eth-P-E-Thee-T


18 posted on 03/07/2014 3:17:56 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: mandaladon

Zero gets no “rspect” because he doesn’t deserve any.


19 posted on 03/07/2014 3:18:58 PM PST by Bob
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Great minds indeed:

The way they did it was pretty sly —a low, medium shot with Bush Senior and the archetypal grocery checker behind the checkout counter, with CEO types behind, smiling.

It was down low enough from a child-customer’s perspective, so the audience would have no idea the bar-code was torn pretty badly:

The checker appears to slide a totally unremarkable pacakge of baloney or whatever across the scanner platen, and the TV audience hears the familiar, “Beep!” indicating a successful product scan, and “we” see the proper price displayed.

And Bush, surprised, exclaims something like, “Wow...!” and he’s all happy.

And yes, if the TV executive were really, really dishonest (which means ANY TV executive) any reasonable viewer would absolutely be disgusted and view Bush Senior as stupid or elitist, or both of those.

And I mean, I don’t really even like Bush Senior, really.

But it was all a really slick LIE.


20 posted on 03/07/2014 3:19:32 PM PST by gaijin
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