Comments on: In Which I Briefly Defended My President http://xrlq.com/2009/04/07/in-which-i-briefly-defended-my-president/ Politische Kommentare mit Snarkenremarken Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:36:14 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Little Miss Attila (Joy McCann) http://xrlq.com/2009/04/07/in-which-i-briefly-defended-my-president/comment-page-1/#comment-517237 Little Miss Attila (Joy McCann) Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:28:17 +0000 http://xrlq.com/?p=4475#comment-517237 I took it as a misstatement along the lines of his "58 states" gaffe. Both of them were understandable slips of the lip, but what concerns me is that he cannot seem to hear himself when he says stupid things. There's never a follow-up to correct himself. I believe this is related to the telepromptor problem: when the text that is scrolling is wrong, he can't hear how wrong it is, and just keeps reading it. It's like he's autistic or something, and--politics aside--it makes me nervous to have a CIC who cannot think on his feet at all. One of the worst serial gaffes is when he refers to the UK as "England." And as an editor, I despise it when he uses "jealousy" to mean "envy." I thought this guy was at least bright. He isn't: he's an intellectual scarecrow. I took it as a misstatement along the lines of his "58 states" gaffe. Both of them were understandable slips of the lip, but what concerns me is that he cannot seem to hear himself when he says stupid things. There’s never a follow-up to correct himself. I believe this is related to the telepromptor problem: when the text that is scrolling is wrong, he can’t hear how wrong it is, and just keeps reading it.

It’s like he’s autistic or something, and–politics aside–it makes me nervous to have a CIC who cannot think on his feet at all.

One of the worst serial gaffes is when he refers to the UK as "England." And as an editor, I despise it when he uses "jealousy" to mean "envy."

I thought this guy was at least bright. He isn’t: he’s an intellectual scarecrow.

]]> By: nk http://xrlq.com/2009/04/07/in-which-i-briefly-defended-my-president/comment-page-1/#comment-509289 nk Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:55:28 +0000 http://xrlq.com/?p=4475#comment-509289 Entschuldige ... Gott hilf uns. <abbr><em>nk´s last blog post..<a href="http://krites.blogspot.com/2009/04/we-could-have-had-this-and-we-got-this.html" rel="nofollow"></a></em></abbr> Entschuldige … Gott hilf uns.

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]]> By: nk http://xrlq.com/2009/04/07/in-which-i-briefly-defended-my-president/comment-page-1/#comment-509286 nk Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:51:31 +0000 http://xrlq.com/?p=4475#comment-509286 Θεος να μας σωσει. Θεος να μας σωσει.

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