The gaffe reel was truly the short list. Palin called out Obama regrading his many gaffes:
My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate – from the FBI’s 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. And let’s face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don’t know what the term is in Austrian for that…Tip of the iceberg. Of course, the liberal media ignore the above, and episodes like this: Video: Smartest President in History Barack Obama Confuses Iraq and Afghanistan - Claims Combat Operation Over In Afghanistan. If only the MSM would have reported what Obama was really like during the campaign, he may not be President right now:
How is it again that Palin and Bachmann labeled as dumb in light of the above?The latest of course is what Ed Morrissey refers to as Great moments in journalism: “Are you a flake?”
I can understand why Chris Wallace asked this question. Given his guest’s propensity for gaffes, such as picking the name of a dead hero as a live Medal of Honor winner, botching a toast to Queen Elizabeth II, discussing the high points of the Austrian language, and several references to a military medic as a “corpseman,” it might be hard to take the person seriously.Ed also points these other gaffes out:
Oh, wait — Wallace wasn’t interviewing Barack Obama after all.
And even that is the short list!Did any of the national media ask Barack Obama in the summer of 2008 if he was a “flake”?
- The Selma March in 1965 did not contribute to his birth in 1961.
- Kansas tornadoes in May 2007 killed 12 people, not “ten thousand”.
- Afghans do not speak Arabic.
- Within 24 hours, Obama reversed his assertion that Iran did not pose a “serious threat” to the US to an assertion that the threat is “grave”.
- Declaring that Memorial Day honors an “unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today“
- Saying that his uncle liberated Auschwitz
- Asserted that the Nuremberg tribunals offered habeas corpus and appeal rights
- Referred to “the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor“
UPDATE: From Doug Ross: Chris Wallace's Greatest Interview Questions. To Obama:
"Are you a Marxist? I mean, that's what the rap on you is?"To Joe Biden:
"Are you as stupid as you sound? Let's face it, that's what the rap on you is?"To Harry Reid:
"Are you a mentally unbalanced, barely coherent dimwit? I mean, that's what the rap on you is?"More at the link...
UPDATE #2: Obama Flake