1.5 hours after posting this below, it was brought to my attention that the Atlanta-Journal Constitution (usually it's so liberal that we call it the Atlanta-Journal Constipation) is calling Obama's remarks "Bidenesque." Sweet.
Also, CNN.com is now reporting on the Ticker: Obama makes late night gaffe.
I have to say I'm mildly impressed with the people coming out about this. Now, let's see how long everyone's memories last...
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Amazing.
Project Procrastination first made me aware of Obama's slip-o-the-tongue via this ABC.com page.
If this were ANYONE else, you'd have heard it all over the place.
Let's see who reported it on their homepages, shall we?
Yahoo.com homepage: Yup. Believe it or not, they reported it.
NYPost.com: Yup. They reported it. Too bad their website looks like a celebrity tabloid more than it does actual news.
NYTimes.com: Now, come on. Did you honestly think they'd report it? No. They didn't.
Lenovo.com: Yes. It's my default home page because I keep forgetting to make something else my home page. They DID report the joke, and reported that the White House is downplaying the remark.
CNN.com: Didn't report joke. But did report the astronaut's wake up call as Breaking News (um. okay)
FoxNews.com: Reported "joke."
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CNN's got it under the Ticker.
Just imagine if this was Bush. Or McCain. Or Rush. Or any other Republican. I mean, Laura Ingrahm calls MEgan McCain a "plus size model" and CNN talks about it for hours. This shit makes the View and headlines at CNN.com.
The leader of the free world cracks a joke about Special Olympics and it gets yukked up.
Man, it must be really nice to be an untouchable Democrat. Or is it because they forever perpetrate themselves to be the bleeding hearts that they think they can get away with it?
And one last thing - listen, I don't usually get on the soapbox about this stuff. I think in many ways, this country has become overly sensistive to minor things like this - the difference here is the the man that said this is our President. He's not the uneducated neighbor out in his backyard working on his Chevy that's been on cement blocks for years. HE'S THE PRESIDENT.
He is the highest and (supposidly) most distunguished representitive of our country. So yes, everything he says counts.
It did for Bush.
We must have been looking at CNN.com at the same time... LOL I just saw it under Ticker, too, and edited the post.
You are right - people are WAY too sensitive about stuff. And while I usually never sit here and bitch about the name-calling, it's different when you're the leader of the free world mocking the learning-disabled.
For someone that is so defensive himself ("I inherited all of this mess,") and itching so badly to give to those in need ("You need a few billion for a bailout? Sure!"), you'd think he'd be the first to say that such labeling wasn't in good form.
But he apologized. So everyone can forget about it. I like how someone I know said that the Republicans should tuck this one away and remember it. :)
Totally agree.
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