Liz Goodwin
Liz Goodwin is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast. She has written for the New York Sun, GothamSchools, the Tico Times, and Fodor's Travel Guides.
Posted on 06/29/2010 2:37:01 PM PDT by lt.america
I will never live this shame down.
Offensive? How?
I guess I'll have to admit now that I thought Eureka College was in California, too. Oops.
Mare?
Interesting websites there ~ literally hundreds of them, making what seems to be a mistake.
Compounding it Eureka college in Eureka CA has had more than one tour to CA to see Ronald Reagan stuff.
You could fact check this thing until the cows came home and you'd run into problems not immediately resolvable on the internet.s
People who want to laugh at Sarah make me sick ~ I am puking now!
Liz Goodwin
Liz Goodwin is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast. She has written for the New York Sun, GothamSchools, the Tico Times, and Fodor's Travel Guides.
From Obama to Bush: Worst political gaffes
It mentions Obama's "special olympics" joke on Leno, but fails to mention any of his overlooked campaign gaffes like the "57 states" comment. It also mentions Biden's propensity to gaffes but only gives one example. OTOH is lists several of W's and even Dan Quayle. But what I found most ridiculous was this little gem:
But sometimes, gaffes are just bad, bad jokes gone awry: On August 11, 1984, then-President Ronald Reagan made an off-the-cuff remark while preparing for a radio address. Unaware that his microphone was on, Reagan jokingly said, "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." Whoops.This characterization of Reagan's joke is bullSH*T. Perhaps the author is just ignorant, but either way, the account is inaccurate. Reagan was NOT unaware that his microphone was on. The joke was actually a microphone check, which up until this occasion had ALWAYS been treated by the media as an off-the-record comment. But on THIS OCCASION, the reporters present decided to report the comment rather than treating it as an off-the-record comment.
It’s an honest mistake. Perfectly understandable and easy to make. Quick — where’s Indiana University (IUP)? Where’s Virgina City? Where’s Kansas City? Where’s California University, founded in 1852?
I remember the first time I realized there was a new Mexico , and I was still using to the old one.
When college football season starts, I have to ask my husband where some of the not so well known colleges are. He doesn’t always know.
When college football season starts, I have to ask my husband where some of the not so well known colleges are. He doesn’t always know.
It was classic.
It was classic, but it was not a gaffe.
Mike-checks were always off-the-record, and Reagan was not the first to entertain the audience with a joke for a mike check. It was the media that decided to break decorum and report the off-the-record mike check as if it were a newsworthy comment.
Mitt Romney-Sarah Palin in 2012? You betcha! ZOT!!
The poster of the thread supports a person who will never be nominated and a routine Sarah Palin basher
Thursday, April 15, 2010 3:57:43 PM · 105 of 420
lt.america to sweetb
Palin is a political opportunist plain and simple. For those of you who haven’t figured this out yet, time to grow up lest you spend the rest of your days trying to run away from this reality.
On another note, how long until we see her on dancing with the stars?
LOL!
Reagan was well aware of mikes. Doesn’t matter he was wonderful and had a sense of humor to match.
FYI, the Sun was a conservative paper.
That song should be the Hillary for President campaign theme song if she decides to run in 2012.
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