I'm Sorry, But This Countdown Political Blunders Hall Of Fame Is Fucking

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

Hilarious!!!!

:rofl:

[colinmom71]

1. Where can I find that? (nt)

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

2. MSNBC RIGHT NOW! lol

[liveoaktx]

14. VIDEO

Political Bloopers

[tridim]

3. The "Rushmore" music is perfect!

:D

[Fenris]

4. HW on Reagan: "...we've had a lot of sex..."

:rofl:

[Catherine Vincent]

5. It was.

I was waiting on something from Clinton but I guess they didn't have any. :)

[SharonRB]

8. Yeah, I noticed they couldn't find any bloopers from Clinton

Or at least they didn't include any.

[jayctravis]

19. Wasn't that Clinton falling down after catching a football?

Might be the compression artifacts on WMP, I couldn't actually tell who that was.

[TomInTib]

6. liveoktx will feed us this one and I'm gonna send it to everyone

I know. Friend and foe.

[ourbluenation]

7. no matter how many times ya see the fool me once thing it don't

matter - I still laugh and laugh and laugh!!!!

[MelissaB]

9. I thought so, too!

:rofl:

[Berry Cool]

10. If all else fails,

people can always catch the midnight ET reair!

[KarenS]

11. JFK "I am a jelly donut"

:rofl:


I hadn't heard about that one before

[VPStoltz]

15. I think he was supposed to say "einer Berliner" instead he

said "ein." There can be a huge difference in something like that - obviously.

[ROH]

16. JFK was correct according to...

http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/jfk_berliner.htm

Linguist Jürgen Eichhoff, writing in the academic journal Monatshefte, confirms there was no flub on Kennedy's part. "'Ich bin ein Berliner' is not only correct," he says, "but the one and only correct way of expressing in German what the President intended to say."

An actual resident of Berlin would say, in proper German, "Ich bin Berliner." But that wouldn't have been the correct thing for Kennedy to say. The indefinite article "ein" is added to a statement like this, Eichhoff explains, to express a metaphorical identification between subject and predicate. In fact, "ein" is required in a sentence such as this unless the speaker wants to be taken literally.

For example, the German sentences "Er ist Politiker" and "Er ist ein Politiker" both mean "He is a politician," but they're understood by German speakers as different statements.

The first means, more exactly, "He is (literally) a politician." The second means "He is (like) a politician."

[Orangepeel]

24. Keith O explained it at the end. It was like being in Frankfurt

and saying, "I am a Frankfurter." If "Berliner" meant both "someone from Berlin" and "a type of jelly donut" then what Kennedy was not wrong, just funny.

[ROH]

25. During the clip, the box displayed onscreen just reads...

Translation: "I am a jelly donut."


JFK used the "Ich bin ein Berliner" phrase twice in his speech:

* Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was "civis Romanus sum." Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner."

* All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner."

In both cases taken in context, "Ich bin ein Berliner" means "I am one of the citizens of Berlin." (In a different context, it would mean "I am a jelly doughnut.")

[VPStoltz]

27. I figured Kennedy was intelligent enough to know what he was saying

in any language!

[Ladyhawk]

18. Me either. LOL!

Kennedy then followed up with, "Beißen Sie mich!" :)

Tomorrow marks a sad day. I hadn't been born yet, but what happened affects us all. I wonder what would have happened had Kennedy not been assassinated? Very sad.

[ROH]

23. "Ich bin ein Berliner" is correct...

http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/jfkberl.htm

http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/jfk_berliner.htm

[Ladyhawk]

26. Woah...Olbermann spreading misinformation. Whoops! n/t

[HysteryDiagnosis]

12. Agreed..... Keith is sumthin else.... he has a set. nt.

[Catchawave]

13. The show will repeat at midnight EST on MSNBC....

Worth staying up for if you missed it.....also, the Worst Person in the World segment is pretty delicious too :hi:

[seabeyond]

20. so 11 central? what part of show, beginning, middle end?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

21. Hall of fame is always at the end n/t

[seabeyond]

22. oh good.... thanks. appreciate it n/t

[DanCa]

17. lol yeah now matter how many times i see ford falling off the airplane

I laugh :rofl: