View Full Version : WH Says Obama Misspoke; Apology Demanded over Polish Death Camp Gaffe
What do you expect from somebody who pronounces Corpsmen "Corpse Men"?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/30/white-house-says-obama-misspoke-after-poles-demand-apology-over-polish-death/?test=latestnews#ixzz1wL8L8gTr
US President Barack Obama's description of a Nazi German Holocaust site as a "Polish death camp" shocked Poland, whose leaders insist the record be set straight 67 years after World War II.
Obama on Tuesday labeled the Nazi facility used to process Jews for extermination as a "Polish death camp." The White House later said the president "misspoke" and expressed "regret".
The linguistic faux pas overshadowed Obama's posthumous award of the highest US civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Jan Karski, a former Polish underground officer who provided early eyewitness accounts of Nazi Germany's genocide of European Jews.
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday Obama's words had hurt all Poles and he expected more from Washington than just "regret".
"I am convinced that our American friends can today allow themselves a stronger reaction than a simple expression of regret from the White House spokesman -- a reaction more inclined to eliminate once and for all these kinds of errors," Tusk told reporters in Warsaw.
"Today, this is a problem for the reputation of the United States," the prime minister said.
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greenberetTFS
05-30-2012, 10:40
What do you expect from somebody who pronounces Corpsmen "Corpse Men"?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/30/white-house-says-obama-misspoke-after-poles-demand-apology-over-polish-death/?test=latestnews#ixzz1wL8L8gTr
US President Barack Obama's description of a Nazi German Holocaust site as a "Polish death camp" shocked Poland, whose leaders insist the record be set straight 67 years after World War II.
Obama on Tuesday labeled the Nazi facility used to process Jews for extermination as a "Polish death camp." The White House later said the president "misspoke" and expressed "regret".
The linguistic faux pas overshadowed Obama's posthumous award of the highest US civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Jan Karski, a former Polish underground officer who provided early eyewitness accounts of Nazi Germany's genocide of European Jews.
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday Obama's words had hurt all Poles and he expected more from Washington than just "regret".
"I am convinced that our American friends can today allow themselves a stronger reaction than a simple expression of regret from the White House spokesman -- a reaction more inclined to eliminate once and for all these kinds of errors," Tusk told reporters in Warsaw.
"Today, this is a problem for the reputation of the United States," the prime minister said.
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Not so much the U.S.,but big O's mouth(:rolleyes:) going before he thinks about what he should be saying first.........:mad:
Big Teddy :munchin
Destrier
05-30-2012, 10:57
Somehow, it's Bush's fault.
Badger52
05-30-2012, 11:19
"Today, this is a problem for the reputation of the United States," the prime minister said.I heard those very same words from several ex- eastern bloc compatriots on January 20, 2009. Imagine that.
Look for the First Teleprompter to be added to the "Kill List" in the near future...
lol This gaffe almost puts The First Gay Black Marxist Unifier up there with Stand Up Chuck Biden. :D
"Today, this is a problem for the reputation of the United States," the prime minister said.
Meh - our apology for this faux pas is enough as far as I'm concerned...and the Polish PM can go pound sand.
And so it goes...
Richard :munchin
Meh - our apology for this faux pas is enough as far as I'm concerned...and the Polish PM can go pound sand.
And so it goes...
Richard :munchin
He was referring to the perpetrator of the gaffe, not the gaffe itself, maybe? :D
Destrier
05-30-2012, 14:33
Didn't Obama state his Grandfather liberated death camps in World War 2 before?
As far as telling the Pm of Poland to pound sand. Poland is one of the few countries I actually think are allies. It would be nice if the White house speech writer, his aid, his co writer, the reviewer, and maybe Obama could up their game a little.
Amateur hour
Didn't Obama state his Grandfather liberated death camps in World War 2 before?
As far as telling the Pm of Poland to pound sand. Poland is one of the few countries I actually think are allies. It would be nice if the White house speech writer, his aid, his co writer, the reviewer, and maybe Obama could up their game a little.
Amateur hour
Alternate ending:
As far as telling the Pm of Poland to pound sand. Poland is one of the few countries I actually think are allies. It would be nice if the White house speech writer, his aid, his co writer, the reviewer, and maybe Obama could pound sand.
:D
I guess the annointed one is not too concerned about the Polish people "Liking us."
There seems to be an epidemic of misspeaking going on with the demwits:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- D.C. Councilmember Marion Barry says he misspoke when he referred to the Polish community with the disparaging term "Polacks."
Barry made the remark when he was meeting with Asian-Americans. That meeting was set up after Barry made two offensive statements last month about Asians. He later apologized.
Barry was asked Thursday about racial tensions in the United States and he said: "The Irish caught hell, the Jews caught hell, the Polacks caught hell."
In a seven-word statement Friday, Barry says he misspoke and should have said Polish.
http://www.thehour.com/news/nation_and_world/marion-barry-i-misspoke-when-i-said-polacks/article_8e6c4313-dabc-5034-8635-00a765693ee6.html
Pat
Red Flag 1
05-30-2012, 18:14
lol This gaffe almost puts The First Gay Black Marxist Unifier up there with Stand Up Chuck Biden. :D
A classless pair.
RF 1
TrapLine
05-30-2012, 18:45
Alternate ending:
As far as telling the Pm of Poland to pound sand. Poland is one of the few countries I actually think are allies. It would be nice if the White house speech writer, his aid, his co writer, the reviewer, and maybe Obama could pound sand.
:D
I hope that along with pounding sand they are soon packing bags;).
This must get old in Poland....remember when Jimmy Carter had some dipshit interpreter that told the Poles...
"I want to get to know you carnally and I've come to Poland never to return"...
Then you smile and wait for the response....
lol This gaffe almost puts The First Gay Black Marxist Unifier up there with Stand Up Chuck Biden. :D
A classless pair.
RF 1
Ah yes, that leftest, elitist comedy duo ..... Biden and Obama and their classic stand up routine .... "Who's on Food Stamps".
BO: Say Joe, could you tell me about all these different government programs I've got people on out there out there ???
JB: Sure. Let's see, we've got Who's of Food Stamps, What's on Unemployment, and I Don't Know is on Welfare ....
BO: Wait .... that's what I'm trying to figure out.
JB: Like I said, we've got Who's on Food Stamps, What's on Unemployment, and I Don't Know is on Welfare ....
BO: Aw com'on, throw me a bone here. Have we got people on Food Stamps ??
JB: Who
BO: On Food Stamps
JB: Who
BO: On Food Stamps
JB: Who
BO: Damn it man, I'm trying to figure out What we have on Food Stamps.
JB: No, What's on Unemployment and Who's on Food Stamps.
BO: I Don't Know
JB: Oh, they're on Welfare.
BO: WAIT !!!! What ????
JB: Is on Unemployment
BO: What is on Unemployment
JB: Exactly
BO: Exactly
JB: Exactly
BO: Now, Who's on Unemployment
JB: No, What's on Unemployment and Who's on Food Stamps
BO: I Don't Know
JB: No, they're on Welfare
BO: Who's on Welfare
JB: No, Who's on Food Stamps and I Don't Know is on Welfare
BO: What
JB: .... on Unemployment
BO: HOW THE HELL DID I GET ON UNEMPLYMENT !?!?!
JB: You mentioned the people on Unemployment
BO: Who
JB: No, they're on Food Stamps
BO: What
JB: Welfare
BO: I Don't Know
JB: Unemployment
BO: *sigh* ... okay, enough of that shit. We got a Military?
JB: Tomorrow
BO: What
JB: Unemployment
BO: Who
JB: Food Stamps
BO: I Don't Know
JB: Welfare
BO: So help me Allah, I'll punch you in the nose if you don't tell me if we have a military.
JB: Tomorrow
BO: What, you don't want to tell me about our military
JB: Tomorrow
BO: Joe, you gotta tell me if we have a military so I can send out SEAL team 6 to kill some "bad guys", and then take credit for it. My numbers are starting to sag.
JB: Tomorrow
BO: Tomorrow
JB: Tomorrow
BO: Okay, what about our health care
JB: Yesterday
BO: What
JB: Unemployment
BO: Who
JB: Food Stamps
BO: I Don't Know
JB: Welfare
BO: OKAY THAT'S IT .... I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT !!!!! So let me get this straight. Me being a great President, IN MY OWN MIND, I send a long winded Bill, full of frivolous crap and filled with loopholes, that will destroy this country from within, up to the Hill. It gets stopped in committee and dies on the House floor. But in the mean time, I've got Who's on Food Stamps, What's on Unemployment, and I Don't Know is on Welfare, and quite frankly .... I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ANYMORE ... I JUST WANT TO GO ON ANOTHER VACATION, AT THE TAX PAYERS EXPENSE !!!!
JB: Wait ... what was that last bit ???
BO: I SAID, I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ANYMORE .... I JUST WANT TO GO ON ANOTHER VACATION, AT THE TAX PAYERS EXPENSE!!!!!
JB: Oh, that's what your Wife says ......
:munchin
.... I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ANYMORE ... I JUST WANT TO GO ON ANOTHER VACATION, AT THE TAX PAYERS EXPENSE !!!!
JB: Wait ... what was that last bit ???
BO: I SAID, I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ANYMORE .... I JUST WANT TO GO ON ANOTHER VACATION, AT THE TAX PAYERS EXPENSE!!!!!
JB: Oh, that's what your Wife says ......
:munchin
You won't have to wait long for that to happen. Isn't it about time for summer vacation for the Obama girls?
How's this one for a gaffe? :eek:
In the most recent German translation of the Mickey Mouse comics, the word "Holocaust" accidentally appears as a congratulatory word. The German publisher attributes the mishap to a printing error and immediately recalled the issue, blacking out the word by hand.
And so it goes...
Richard :munchin
Printing Error Causes Donald Duck Chaos
DerSpiegel, 29 May 2012
The word "Holocaust" is not some new way to say "Congratulations" in Duckburg, home to Donald Duck and his comic cohorts. But in the most recent German translation of the Junior Woodchucks comic from the Mickey Mouse universe, that is exactly how it appears. In the episode titled "Where is the Smoke?" a dignitary honors a team of firefighters, with the German words, in the bubble above his beak, boasting of the "awards to our brave and always alert fire lookouts! Holocaust!"
The original comic, written by Carl Barks and appearing in 1972, used the word as a synonym for "inferno" or "blaze." The duck dignitary gives plaques to the fire lookouts for pinpointing the "awesome Holocaust."
German publisher Egmont Ehapa, which brings the Mickey Mouse comics to the country, says the mistake was not a translation error. The word didn't appear in the translator manuscript, spokesperson Elke Schickedanz told SPIEGEL ONLINE. The mistake came up during production, when the English text in the word bubbles was not thoroughly removed, she said.
The comic book, which was supposed to appear on May 8, was promptly recalled. The word "Holocaust" was blacked out by hand and the new edition should be available in stores this week. There were still a few copies of the original German comic sold in May before the recall.
Donald Duck Takes On The Nazis
Schickedanz says that Ehapa is very careful about avoiding sensitive terminology. In Barks' comic "April Fools," a copy of Hitler's tome "Mein Kampf" repeatedly shows up in a Duckburg trash dump.
When the publisher printed the German version it reduced the number of times that the book appears in the comic. Still Ehapa came under fire about seven years ago for translating comic books that attempted to make the horrors of the Holocaust more accessible to young readers.
It's also not the first time that Donald Duck has been mixed up with the Nazis. During World War II the US enlisted Walt Disney, creator of the comics, in efforts using Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Bambi and others to spread anti-Nazi messages. In 1984 Donald Duck was awarded the rank of sergeant by the US Army for his wartime service.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/printing-error-mixes-donald-duck-up-with-the-holocaust-a-835691.html
Badger52
05-31-2012, 10:48
How's this one for a gaffe? :eek:
In the most recent German translation of the Mickey Mouse comics, the word "Holocaust" accidentally appears as a congratulatory word. The German publisher attributes the mishap to a printing error and immediately recalled the issue, blacking out the word by hand.
And so it goes...
Richard :munchinInteresting sir. 'Holocaust' is one of those words that used to be more versatile and is now doomed to only have one meaning. (Like all facial tissue is 'kleenex' in jargon.) In finding subsitutes perhaps folks will now be forced to look up 'conflagration' or substitute 'disaster' or 'catastrophe'. But it's clear that 'holocaust' has been co-opted for the duration.
PedOncoDoc
05-31-2012, 11:54
The German publisher attributes the mishap to a printing error and immediately recalled the issue, blacking out the word by hand.
And the German publisher took it upon himself to correct his mistake. Apples and oranges IMHO.