Posted on 07/17/2002 12:14:00 PM PDT by galethus
Bloopers Gone Wild
It's official: KKT's propensity for getting things upside down and backward in her speeches is not a legitimate election issue. So says Towson University professor Michael Vatz in Monday's edition of The (Baltimore) Sun. According to Vatz, ``There are lines that negative criticism should not cross," including ``Ms. Townsend's inarticulateness and gaffes. This is a point that may well be considered by voters, but it is not legitimate as an issue." Nevertheless, the press corps is keeping a growing anthology of ``KKT's Bloopers Gone Wild," including, of course, her famous congratulations to the NFL's Baltimore Ravens for scoring a ``football" (she meant touchdown) and her discovery of a new language, ``Hispanish." On a recent visit to Frederick, she said how happy she was ``to be here in Carroll County," and at a state Chamber of Commerce function, she introduced former House Speaker Clay Mitchell as ``my friend Clarence Mitchell." (Sen. Clarence Mitchell is an African-American supporting Ehrlich. Clay Mitchell is a white Annapolis lobbyist.) Some voters may question a governor who doesn't know where she is, whom she's talking to or what she's talking about. But to Professor Vatz, that's ``negative criticism" that shouldn't become an issue. Funny, such sensitivities never stopped the national press corps from reporting every blooper ever uttered by Dan Quayle or George W. Bush. Are we possibly witnessing a double standard?
Thanks for the report. It's nice to hear some real analysis of our latest democrat governor candidate.
Including the part that talks about her introducing her running mate - Admiral Larson - as Admiral Lawson.
By the way, until a month before the announcement, Lawson, er Larson, was a Republican.
An e-mailer to Ron Smith (WBAL, Baltimore) just mentioned his switch of parties and said that Lawson, er Larson, said that he would become a Black homosexual Jew if that would help.
BTW #2, a local reporter had a story the other day about KKT and Lawson, er Larson. The reporter kept referring to him as Lawson. I believe that it might have been this same newspaper.
They might use Eboñish or Latiñish or Chicañish or Eñglish.
And those who are confused tend to have issues with "meat" so its fitting
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