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gaffe stories: 48 news summaries

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 Clinton 'Misspeaks' Again 
 on Belfast Bombing 

Northern Ireland wasn't the warzone secretary claimed

Oct 19, 09 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton has been caught in another war-zone exaggeration—this time, in Northern Ireland. The secretary of state told regional lawmakers that she stayed at a "bombed" hotel that was still partially boarded up in Belfast in 1995—even though the last terrorist strike there was in 1993... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Northern Ireland • secretary of State • gaffe • Belfast

Reid Ducks the Media as 2010 Fight Looms

Majority leader hopes
to cut down on gaffes with fewer press talks

Oct 15, 09 8:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Reporters are used to getting a press conference from Harry Reid every Thursday, but since the August recess he’s been canceling them, opting instead to get the message out in more controlled environments like Senate floor speeches. A spokesman says Reid’s not intentionally hiding out, but analysts tell... More »

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media • Harry Reid • press conference • gaffe • 2010 election

PROFILE

 Joe Biden 
 Is Obama's 
 Best Gadfly, 
 'Truth-Teller' 


Hardly a joke, veep doesn't mind stirring the pot

Oct 11, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's suave, controlled campaign may have winced when gaffe-prone Joe Biden came aboard, but the vice president has proven himself to be a necessary straight-shooter time and again in the administration's tumultuous first nine months. From Afghanistan to health care, Biden has become Obama's most reliable "truth teller,... More »

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Joe Biden • vice president • foreign policy • gaffe • presidential adviser • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • Obama Cabinet

OPINION

Worst. Blog. Name.
Ever. 

The PETA Files are raising some eyebrows

Sep 22, 09 9:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The fine, no doubt well-intentioned people at PETA have a new blog, notes Chris Matyszczyk of CNET, and they evidently didn’t put too much thought into the name. It’s called (drum roll please): The PETA Files. At least, let’s assume they didn’t put much thought into... More »

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PETA • blog • gaffe • People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

OPINION

 'Great White Hope' 
 Outcry an Overreaction 

Lawmaker's remark clichéd, not racist: Tucker

Aug 28, 09 2:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lynn Jenkins' remark that Republicans are seeking "the great white hope" has been blown far out of proportion, Cynthia Tucker writes in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Sure, the freshman lawmaker welcomed young GOP stars "who are, well, white," but she was just drawing on a cliché... More »

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Kansas • Republican Party • gaffe • Jack Johnson • racist remark • Jack London • Lynn Jenkins • Cynthia Tucker

OPINION

Lighten Up on Presidential Gaffes

Media blowing up slips is harming political discourse: Kinsley

Jul 31, 09 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Saying the Cambridge police acted "stupidly" wasn't Barack Obama's first or even worst gaffe; as president-elect he mused about Nancy Reagan séances, and he still hasn't lived down his awful joke on Jay Leno. But gaffes are okay, writes Michael Kinsley in the Washington Post—we want a... More »

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Barack Obama • politics • gaffe • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley

Bolivian TV's Flight 447 Photos Actually From Lost

News program apologizes after gaffe

Jun 23, 09 2:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - In what was either a bizarre prank or heinous gaffe, a Bolivian TV station broadcast two photographs last week from the ABC series Lost as exclusive photos from the final moments of Air France Flight 447, the Telegraph reports. The first shows passengers in an aircraft cabin using oxygen masks,... More »

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entertainment • television • Lost • ABC • Bolivia • mistake • gaffe • airplane • Air France Flight 447

(Newser) - Billionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg added to a growing store of off-the-cuff comments yesterday when he defended the Obamas’ theater outing to his Big Apple by saying the president “lives on a budget,” the Times reports. Obama, who makes $400,000 a year, “does not... More »

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theater • New York City • Michelle Obama • Broadway • Michael Bloomberg • mayor • billionaire • gaffe • President Obama

(Newser) - A Republican Senate candidate in Arkansas has apologized for referring to Sen. Chuck Schumer as “that Jew” during a county GOP meeting, reports blogger Jason Tolbert of the Tolbert Report. “I don’t use a teleprompter and occasionally I put my foot in my month,” said state... More »

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Charles Schumer • Jews • Arkansas • gaffe • state senate • Jay-ZTV • Kim Hendren

 Biden: Bo 
 Don't Know 
 Nothin' Like 
 MY Dog 

Veep disses his boss's dog in chat with fifth-graders

May 12, 09 6:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vice President Joe Biden may have once again strayed off-message in a question-and-answer session with some Syracuse fifth-graders yesterday, the Post-Standard reports. Asked if he had ever petted a dog, Biden told the kids he had a dog of his own—and that his German shepherd didn't play second fiddle... More »

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pets • Joe Biden • vice president • gaffe • dog • President Obama • Portuguese water hound • Bo Obama

analysis

Chatty Joe Provides 100+ Days of Gaffes

The veep has his
uses, but staying on message ain't one

May 1, 09 8:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - This week perfectly illustrates the yin and yang of Joe Biden, write Sam Youngman and Ian Swanson of the Hill. First, he scores a political coup by helping to convince pal Arlen Specter to defect. Then he promptly inserts foot in mouth with his advice on how to avoid the... More »

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Joe Biden • Arlen Specter • vice president • gaffe • Obama administration • Robert Gibbs • swine flu

(Newser) - Oh, Joe. The vice president's impromptu advice this morning to avoid airplanes and subways has resulted in a daylong series of rebuttals and backtracking, reports the Christian Science Monitor. “To suggest that people not fly at this stage of things is a broad brush stroke bordering on fear mongering,... More »

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Joe Biden • airline industry • vice president • gaffe • swine flu

 Berlusconi's Latest Gaffe: 
 Quake Homeless 'Camping' 

Berlusconi slammed for gaffe as quake toll hits 260

Apr 8, 09 9:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi is drawing fire for reportedly saying the thousands made homeless by Monday's earthquake should see the experience as a "camping weekend," the Guardian reports. The gaffe-prone Italian prime minister, touring an emergency encampment, said the displaced survivors "lacked nothing," although hundreds still didn't... More »

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Italy • gaffe • Silvio Berlusconi • disaster zones • earthquake • L'Aquila

Queen in a Huff Over Berlusconi Boisterousness

Video shows annoyed monarch; palace denies hard feelings

Apr 3, 09 12:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - God save Silvio Berlusconi if he has irked the queen—and that’s just what the Italian premier appears to do in a video that’s become a YouTube sensation, the Telegraph reports. After Queen Elizabeth joined G20 leaders for a class photo, Berlusconi roared, “Mr. Obama!” Bristled... More »

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Barack Obama • YouTube • Queen Elizabeth II • Italy • gaffe • Silvio Berlusconi • G20 • President Obama

Grassley Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot

Alternate headline for long image right layout: Gaffe Machine Grassley Isn't Sorry / Dek: That's just how we talk in Iowa, he insists

Apr 1, 09 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chuck Grassley has been on a roll. First, he told AIG execs to commit seppuku, then he accused the company of "sucking the t— of the taxpayer." Then, in a back-and-forth with Kent Conrad, he had his YouTube moment: "Oh, you’re good," the Senate budget... More »

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Iowa • GOP • Senate Republicans • Charles Grassley • AIG • gaffe • US Senate

Insiders Blame Palin Blunders on Rookie Staff

Allies: Interview gaffes, backing out of events all handlers' fault

Mar 29, 09 11:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin has made her share of missteps over the last few months—dropping invitations from conservative events at the last minute, making snide comments about Katie Couric, and appearing in front of doomed turkeys—and defenders of the governor are happy to blame Palin's Alaska staff and DC political... More »

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Alaska • gaffe • campaign • political action committees • Sarah Palin • SarahPAC

 Prez Trips Up 
 With Special 
 Olympics Gaffe 

Major flak expected for Tonight Show quip on his clutzy bowling

Mar 20, 09 2:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is expected to be zinged by critics today after a quip he made about his bad bowling and the Special Olympics during the taping of yesterday's Tonight Show appearance, ABC News reports. "I scored a 129," the president said when Jay Leno asked him if the... More »

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Barack Obama • Jay Leno • late night talk show • Tonight Show • gaffe • Special Olympics • President Obama

(Newser) - Things aren’t going well for Michael Steele in the media, but behind the scenes he’s undertaken a sweeping restructuring of the Republican National Committee, Marc Ambinder writes in the Atlantic. “He’s become clownish. And that judgment could endure until the end of his tenure,” Ambinder... More »

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RNC • GOP • Republican Party • restructuring • gaffe • chairman • Michael Steele

OPINION




 A-Rod's Top 
 Foot-in-Mouth 
 Moments 

Meet baseball's future home run, and dumb statement king

Mar 5, 09 11:34 AM CST
(Newser) - He has 553 career home runs, and almost as many embarrassing verbal blunders. The New York Daily News counts down its favorite Alex Rodriguez foot-in-mouth moments, Among them:             
  • “I knew we weren’t taking Tic-Tacs.
... More »

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steroids • Alex Rodriguez • Derek Jeter • gaffe • baseball • performance-enhancing drugs

(Newser) - A venerable New York law firm is scrambling to do damage control after passengers on an Acela train heard about planned layoffs before the associates targeted for downsizing, Above the Law reports. A Pillsbury Winthrop honcho "was talking so loudly that I think most people in the car were... More »

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New York City • layoffs • Washington DC • gaffe • corporate law firms • public spaces • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman • mobile phones • Robert Robbins • Acela • commuter train • conversation

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