What are people paying attention to? People always pay attention to the gaffes that famous people make. Some people get more attention for others. Some make gaffes that are worse than others and get little attention.

Here is an example.

I did two Google searches.

Google search-Bush gaff 1776

Google search-Obama gaff 10000

When you look at the two searches, you can see that there are a lot more articles on the topic of one than the other. Why would that be?

Do any of you have an opinion on this?

Here is the first gaffe:

Here is the second gaffe:

I know this is kind of a ridiculous topic. I just find it interesting that you can get information from hundreds of sources about what the president said, but there isn't a whole lot about what the front running democrat presidential hopeful said. Which error, if either, has a bigger impact?

 

Neither, but "everyone" knows Bush has intelligence credibility issues. And how can a lefty liberal make a mistake?

 

[QUOTE=CrAz3D]...maybe if you told me WTH a gaff is,


Don't you know what a gaff is? Haven’t you ever been to the zoo???

 

It appears that I've made one of my own.

Here is what Websters says:

I've corrected my original gaff, or gaffe.

 

The President is going to be covered more intensely than is a candidate.

 

One thing that could skew the correlation between the two men and the amount of press given to their verbal mistakes is the fact that one, George Bush, is a second term President and the other, Barack Obama, is a Senator and Presidential candidate. One would expect more media attention on the President.

However, as school children should know, the mass media, by and large, disseminates information as dictated by the interests of the ruling elite regardless of the general public's welfare.

 

Well, if that were truly the case, W would be presented as the Churchill of our times.

 

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W has served his purpose.

 

i don't get what the point is
the media has always made fun of politics

 

Nerveux ?

 

The Queen is 80 some years old.
It is quite humorous to imply (by accident or not) that she was around in 1776. It is worthy of repeating and the only people capable of pulling off that gag would be Bush or Jay Leno.

10,000 dead in a tornado.
No joke there, just a mistake nothing more or less.

It's not like you couldn't verify how many were actually killed.
It's not like you can blame a tornado on Bush.

I mean, get real. Bush is only responsible for hurricanes and third world wars.

 

 

I have to agree with you on the first statement. It is funny.

As far as the second statement, why can't we blame Bush for the tornado? He created global warming. He and his oil buddies run the world.

That darned Bush. Always meddling in our business!

Oh, and CrAz3D, would "faux pas" be a better word. It's french, but more commonly used.

 

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