As for Obama, yea, he says dumb stuff too, But Quayle still wins. Here are some of Obama's best:
''UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It's the Post Office that's always having problems.''—Barack Obama, attempting to make the case for government-run healthcare, while simultaneously undercutting his own argument, Portsmouth, N.H., Aug. 11, 2009
''The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.''—Barack Obama, in remarks after a health care roundtable with physicians, nurses and health care providers, Washington, D.C., July 20, 2009
''It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing.''—Barack Obama, confusing German for ''Austrian,'' a language which does not exist, Strasbourg, France, April 6, 2009
''I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go.''—Barack Obama, at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon
Maybe he missed Montana.
Bill Clinton said a lot of noteworthy things, too, With the exception of the times he was lying
- "It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is." –Bill Clinton, during his 1998 grand jury testimony on the Monica Lewinsky affair
- "It depends on how you define alone..." –Bill Clinton, in his grand jury testimony
- "There were a lot of times when we were alone, but I never really thought we were." –Bill Clinton, in his grand jury testimony
most of what he said was funny, rather than just stupid. Some of my favorites:
"You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy" —Bill Clinton, looking at "Juanita," a newly discovered Incan mummy on display at the National Geographic museum
"Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening." –Bill Clinton
"Last year, the vice president launched a new effort to help make communities more liberal." —Bill Clinton, during his 2000 State of the Union Speech. He meant to say "more livable," and then made the same slip-up in a subsequent sentence, drawing uproarious laughter from Republicans
"I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years." –Bill Clinton
Re: mind boggling thought
Dex
5/16/2012 2:32:12 PM
Funny list. Quayle seemed like a nice guy, but geez! One or two misstatements are, well, mistakes. A list this long demonstrates a pattern.
Sure, we all make misstatements from time to time. But who but Dan Quayle made so many, so frequently?
- "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."
- "Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts."
- "Mars is essentially in the same orbit . . . Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
- "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
- "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."
- "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."
- "One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared.'"
- "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."
- "I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."
- "The future will be better tomorrow."
- "We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
- "People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."
- "I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
- "We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe."
- "I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."
- "I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."
@Fred
you really lost me and any sympathy to the argument I might have on Dan Quayle.
Dan Quayle did not get run out by the media because of media bias. He got lampooned because he was consistently doing stupid, funny things!
Re: mind boggling thought
Fred Goodman
5/16/2012 12:13:06 PM
I have absolutely no problem with media bias if it is announced in every story and confined to the editorial pages. My problem -- and it is not boring since it is designed and successfully accomplishes the establishment of poor and dangerous government -- is with media people who are biased but deny it.
My problem is that media is capable of destroying the lives of people, many of whom do not deserve to have their lives destroyed, and they do not announce that they are biased when they defend one rapist and destroy a philanderer.
And yes, it goes back forever. Dan Quayle was destroyed for the spelling of potato while Obama walks on pronouncing the Marine Corps with the "ps."
Heinrich, good point.
Here's a question for someone smarter than me. When Chase or anyone else loses $2 billion, who finds it? Where does all the lost money go -- the same place as socks from the dryer?
@Fred -- don't even known where you want to go with this.
The NYT is a liberal paper. That is fact.
The WSJ is a conservative paper. That is fact.
So what? Who cares?
They both have a respective bias. (personally I find the WSJ more reliable).
But as I stated before, the media bias rant bores me. I used to be a partner in a media operation in which we were constantly accuesed of "bias." Of course we were biased, we ran the operation, and we had ideas about how to run it. But we had that right because we owned the operation.
As I used to speak to the critics: If you don't like what you are reading, go out and start a media company. It's pretty easy in this day and age, and we are still a free country.
This is as old as media itself, go ahead and watch Citizen Kane.
If you look at what is on the Internet there is a wider and more diverse range of viewpoints than ever before. This is good for information consumption.
Re: mind boggling thought
Fred Goodman
5/16/2012 11:56:13 AM
Well @Scott, I think media bias is just too easy to document to need a lot of examples, but there are plenty, easily found by Googling "media bias."
Even your choice of the word "conspiracy" rather than "bias" is in itself a choice that tends to ridicule the concept, since conspiracy is a word charged with inferences to kooks and dangerous people of the past, while "bias" is a word charged with negatives about people who would deny one group of people their rights.
But here's a quicky:
Obama's views on marriage have "evolved," but Romney has "flip-flopped" on abortion. It sounds more like a George Carlin comedy routine.
Re: mind boggling thought
Fred Goodman
5/16/2012 11:41:59 AM
Even if I stipulate to your analysis that it is a matter of where the events occurred, how do you explain that if you Google "Bales massacre" vs "Bales shooting" you get 19% more responses but when you Google "Hasan massacre" vs "Hasan shooting" you get 13% fewer responses.
Why is it the Ft Hood "shooting" and the Afghan "massacre?"
And, while we're at it, since this post has morphed into a discussion of media bias, why does the NYT get away with lead-ins like the following:
"WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked consideration of a Democratic bill to prevent the doubling of some student loan interest rates, leaving the legislation in limbo less than two months before rates on subsidized federal loans are set to shoot upward"
We know that the deadlock has nothing to do with the intrest rate, both sides have agreed to continuing the current reduced rate. The deadlock is over the funding of the continuation of the rate reduction, a vote that is only needed because the Democrats imposed a termination date in the original bill when they controlled both sides of Congress and the Presidency.
Democrats included the termination of the rate reduction to coincide with the campaign for reelection and did so as a strategic measure over which they could campaign. However, the NYT is biased in favor of the Democrats and takes every opportunity to slant coverage in their direction.
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