Cain’s Latest Gaffe: Thinks ‘Cuban’ Is A Language

[LoneLaugher]

That damned liberal media! Why do they have to make Cain look so stupid?

 

[uscitizen]

I could maybe take Newt as a VP.

Maybe, I will have to ponder on that for a while.

I have no doubt that Newt as VP would poison the ticket - which is fine by me. I think you'll soon see just how disliked this man is.

I am not saying I like the guy at all. He is after all one fo the founders fo the movement that contributed greatly to getting us where we are today.

However he is not a fool (unlike Cain) and is smarter by far than any of the other candidates except maybe Mitt.
Perhaps he has learned a bit from his past mistakes, but I am not counting on that. With a good president he might make a decent Vice president.
Again, might..... Still thinking on that.

 

[Sunshine]

That damned liberal media! Why do they have to make Cain look so stupid?

That's tongue in something............cheek maybe?

 

[del]

Oh well, Sarah Palin thought Africa was a country.

and obama thought they speak austrian in austria

*shrug*

 

[Jackson]

As a former supporter of Cain, these gaffes are too troubling for me. He reminds me too much of Obama. I know Cain would make inroads into our problewms with the economy, but his foreign affairs naivete' scares me.

 

[GHook93]

Ou know there are different phrases for each country in Latin America and I am sure think progress is not biased, slanderous and outright lying on stories.

 

[Stephanie]

Well thank gawd he doesn't think Hawaii is in Asia. we'd have to laugh him out of the white house.
Oh wait, that wasn't Cain was it...

 

[Jackson]

Oh well, Sarah Palin thought Africa was a country.

and obama thought they speak austrian in austria

*shrug*

And thought he was in Asia when he should have known he was in the 57th state! LOL! What a guy!

 

[Sunshine]

Well thank gawd he doesn't think Hawaii is in Asia. we'd have to laugh him out of the white house.
Oh wait, that wasn't Cain was it...

I understand that on a clear day you can see Russia from Alaska, but let's not confuse the poor guy!

 

[tinydancer]

Oh well, Sarah Palin thought Africa was a country.

liar liar pants on fire

MSNBC retracts false Palin story; others duped
Nov 12 11:33 PM US/Eastern
By DAVID BAUDER
AP Television Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday.
David Shuster, an anchor for the cable news network, said on air Monday that Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, had come forth and identified himself as the source of a Fox News Channel story saying Palin had mistakenly believed Africa was a country instead of a continent.

Eisenstadt identifies himself on a blog as a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy. Yet neither he nor the institute exist; each is part of a hoax dreamed up by a filmmaker named Eitan Gorlin and his partner, Dan Mirvish, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

The Eisenstadt claim had mistakenly been delivered to Shuster by a producer and was used in a political discussion Monday afternoon, MSNBC said.

"The story was not properly vetted and should not have made air," said Jeremy Gaines, network spokesman. "We recognized the error almost immediately and ran a correction on air within minutes."

Gaines told the Times that someone in the network's newsroom had presumed the information solid because it was passed along in an e-mail from a colleague.

The hoax was limited to the identity of the source in the story about Palin—not the Fox News story itself. While Palin has denied that she mistook Africa for a country, the veracity of that report was not put in question by the revelation that Eisenstadt is a phony.

Eisenstadt's "work" had been quoted and debunked before. The Huffington Post said it had cited Eisenstadt in July on a story regarding the Hilton family and McCain.

Among the other victims were political blogs for the Los Angeles Times and The New Republic, each of which referenced false material from Eisenstadt's blog.

And in July, Jonathan Stein of Mother Jones magazine blogged an item about Eisenstadt speaking on Iraqi television about a casino in Baghdad's "Green Zone."

Stein later realized he'd been had.

"Kudos to the inventor of this whole thing," Stein wrote. "My only consolation is that if I had as much time on my hands as he clearly does, I probably would have figured this out and saved myself a fair amount of embarrassment."

 

[Lakhota]

Palin Didn't Know Africa Is A Continent, Says Fox News Reporter (VIDEO)

 

[uscitizen]

Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, had come forth and identified himself as the source of a Fox News Channel story saying Palin had mistakenly believed Africa was a country instead of a continent.

Fox huh?

That will teach the other networks not to believe Fox.

 

[Stephanie]

Well thank gawd he doesn't think Hawaii is in Asia. we'd have to laugh him out of the white house.
Oh wait, that wasn't Cain was it...

I understand that on a clear day you can see Russia from Alaska, but let's not confuse the poor guy!

I lived in Alaska for 17 years..facts are your friend..


Fascinating Facts: Alaska & the Russian Far East
Alaska and Russia are a mere snowball’s throw away. On a clear day, you can see from here to there, from today to tomorrow – and you can even walk!
At their closest Alaska and Russia are 2.5 miles apart – the distance between Little Diomede Island, Alaska, and Big Diomede Island, Russia. The two islands straddle the U.S.-Russian maritime border in the middle of the Bering Strait. In mid-winter, when the Bering Strait freezes, it is possible to walk between the two islands – from American to Russia, from today to tomorrow, or from Russia to the United States, from today to yesterday.

Alaska Division of Trade and Development

 

[Political Junky]

Cain Gaffe: 'How Do You Say Delicious in Cuban?' - Herman Cain - Fox Nation

 

[uscitizen]

Yeah on ice, one can also walk to greenland on ice as well.

I know a few who walked to Siberia. Which it actually is not Russia.
Strange that no one caught that.

 

[Sunshine]

Well thank gawd he doesn't think Hawaii is in Asia. we'd have to laugh him out of the white house.
Oh wait, that wasn't Cain was it...

I understand that on a clear day you can see Russia from Alaska, but let's not confuse the poor guy!

I lived in Alaska for 17 years..facts are your friend..


Fascinating Facts: Alaska & the Russian Far East
Alaska and Russia are a mere snowball’s throw away. On a clear day, you can see from here to there, from today to tomorrow – and you can even walk!
At their closest Alaska and Russia are 2.5 miles apart – the distance between Little Diomede Island, Alaska, and Big Diomede Island, Russia. The two islands straddle the U.S.-Russian maritime border in the middle of the Bering Strait. In mid-winter, when the Bering Strait freezes, it is possible to walk between the two islands – from American to Russia, from today to tomorrow, or from Russia to the United States, from today to yesterday.

Alaska Division of Trade and Development

Cool!

 

[asterism]

Onetime GOP presidential front-runner Herman Cain has been stumbling recently from a series of scandals and foreign policy gaffes. Campaigning today in Miami’s little Havana, Cain asked the crowd, “how do you say delicious in Cuban?” National Confidential points out the obvious: there is no “Cuban” language. Cubans speak Spanish. Perhaps more importantly, Cain was totally unfamiliar with the U.S.’s immigration policy towards Cuba. The so-called “wet foot, dry foot” policy dictates that Cubans can stay in the U.S. if they make it to dry land, while those caught at sea are returned, but he seemed to have no knowledge of it. Watch it:

Cain's Latest Gaffe: Thinks 'Cuban' Is A Language | ThinkProgress

Cain cuban language - YouTube

Are you unaware that there are dialect differences?

Put it this way, "coche" is the Spanish word for "car." Don't ever use that word when talking to someone from Mexico or Puerto Rico. It is or sounds similar to a vulgar term. It is completely appropriate to ask someone how to say a word or phrase in a dialect.

Your criticism shows your ignorance because Cuban immigrants don't identify themselves as "Spanish," nor even "Hispanic." It would have been rude to ask, "How do I say this in Spanish?" Based on my growing up among Cuban immigrants it's best to either ask "How do you say it in your language?" or "How do you say it it Cuba?"

Good on Cain for not offending the crowd.

 

[tinydancer]

Palin Didn't Know Africa Is A Continent, Says Fox News Reporter (VIDEO)

What part of everyone was duped don't you get? It was a freaking hoax. MSNBC had the decency to retract the story.

Here's from USA today reporting on the retraction.

MSNBC retracts false Palin story; others duped

NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday.

David Shuster, an anchor for the cable news network, said on air Monday that Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, had come forth and identified himself as the source of a Fox News Channel story saying Palin had mistakenly believed Africa was a country instead of a continent.

Eisenstadt identifies himself on a blog as a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy. Yet neither he nor the institute exist; each is part of a hoax dreamed up by a filmmaker named Eitan Gorlin and his partner, Dan Mirvish, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

The Eisenstadt claim had mistakenly been delivered to Shuster by a producer and was used in a political discussion Monday afternoon, MSNBC said.

"The story was not properly vetted and should not have made air," said Jeremy Gaines, network spokesman. "We recognized the error almost immediately and ran a correction on air within minutes."

Gaines told the Times that someone in the network's newsroom had presumed the information solid because it was passed along in an e-mail from a colleague.

Link here:

MSNBC retracts false Palin story; others duped - USATODAY.com

 

[Rocko]

My opinion is Cain simply misspoke, but I think Obama was ignorant enough to think Austrian is a language, but I could be wrong.

 

[Trajan]

Best case scenario.........Cain switches party and gets on the ticket with Obama!

Shit, if he is nominated this may be the year I vote green.

for real, he can bring some genuine blackness to the ticket.