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'Fake' deaf Mandela signer had 'schizophrenic episode'
AFP via Yahoo! ^ | 12DEC2013 | AFP

Posted on 12/12/2013 7:12:06 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine

Johannesburg (AFP) - The sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial ceremony denied he was a fraud Thursday, claiming he gesticulated nonsense during the service because he was suffering a schizophrenic episode and hallucinating.

Thamsanqa Jantjie has been branded a fraud by members of South Africa's deaf community, who said his signing for US President Barack Obama and other world leaders amounted to little more than "flapping his arms around."

Jantjie on Thursday insisted he was a qualified signer, but said his behaviour was down to a sudden attack of schizophrenia, for which he takes medication.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: fake; interpreter; mandela; sasl; schizo; sign; signlanguage; thamsanqajantjie
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Speaking of schizophrenic episode....
21 posted on 12/12/2013 7:21:00 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Mikey_1962

Amazing isn’t it...


22 posted on 12/12/2013 7:21:14 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Great. Now posting this pic:

Will be called a hate crime....
23 posted on 12/12/2013 7:21:30 AM PST by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Schizophrenic but managed to realize that there were armed men all around him. It’s funny how “crazy” can manage to be rational when self preservation is involved.


24 posted on 12/12/2013 7:22:25 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Jack Hydrazine

If they don’t, they are crazy. It is hilarious, and is happily putting a silly glow over the Mandela worshiping.


25 posted on 12/12/2013 7:22:49 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“He wasn’t the only fake there.”

Basically, every left winger from around the world at that event was faking it.


26 posted on 12/12/2013 7:22:58 AM PST by Grampa Dave ( Obamacare, “It’s a Wonderful Lie!" Obamaganda is failing 24/7! Soon Obamaganda will fail 24/365)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Let's All Play "Find The Delusional Schizophrenic"


27 posted on 12/12/2013 7:23:26 AM PST by Iron Munro (Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

It would seem a pretty easy thing to prove.

Just get a deaf person familiar with signing to “speak” to this guy in sign and see how he reads it.

Question answered.


28 posted on 12/12/2013 7:23:29 AM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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To: Mikey_1962
Secret Service at top of their game placing overt schizophrenic next to POTUS.

A petit faker next to a great pretender? What's the problem?

29 posted on 12/12/2013 7:23:38 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: All

Isn’t it nice that every liberal/Marxist/socialist/progressive/and the likes foible always has a perfectly reasonable and quickly accepted explanation for the press?


30 posted on 12/12/2013 7:24:48 AM PST by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

The practice of having someone sign next to a public speaker is simply a politically correct gesture designed to demonstrate “concern” for the handicapped. Simultaneous captioning technology is much cheaper and available. Beyond that someone in the Secret Service has a bit of explaining to do.


31 posted on 12/12/2013 7:25:05 AM PST by allendale
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To: Jack Hydrazine

So we have a liar pretending to translate for a liar. What a world.


32 posted on 12/12/2013 7:25:59 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

So two wrongs make a truth?


33 posted on 12/12/2013 7:27:11 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

It’s not metal illness. It’s mental dimness. It’s pretty common in that neck of the woods.


34 posted on 12/12/2013 7:27:56 AM PST by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: Mercat

He was just channeling Mandela.


35 posted on 12/12/2013 7:28:41 AM PST by corlorde (forWARD of the state)
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To: BenLurkin

That photo shows that the guy who sat in the circle smoking Choom is still here.


36 posted on 12/12/2013 7:28:46 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Jack Hydrazine

How appropriate: a phony translator for a phony president.


37 posted on 12/12/2013 7:28:52 AM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: BenLurkin

SNL HAS to do a skit on this one.


38 posted on 12/12/2013 7:29:11 AM PST by sarasota
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To: sarasota
SNL HAS to do a skit on this one.

SNL??
I'm hoping South Park does it!
39 posted on 12/12/2013 7:30:27 AM PST by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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To: Michael.SF.

Lol


40 posted on 12/12/2013 7:31:06 AM PST by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President.)
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