From the start it was obvious that Romney was joking when talking about Anne’s minor incident when her plane’s cabin filled with smoke and government regulation forced the pilot to make an emergency landing.
Unless it’s Biden or his wife - THEN it’s probably true.
So, let this be a lesson to us all: When a gaffe seems too good to be true, it probably is.*******
That is unless it’s the wonder child musing about the Austrian language while in Austria.
A search of Google news shows dozens of news sources reporting (before this news story) that he was serious about the statement). Folks are tittering about it on social media.
“Journalists” are lower than lawyers and prostitutes.
This is right out of the “Karate Kid”...use a person’s strength against them. What Romney did was use the joke to show how much the MSM is biased that they can’t even see the joke when it’s there. The only fools in this episode are the idiots who call themselves journalists.
So the “gaffe” was by the idiots that took this story and ran with it.
Reminds me of a group I oversaw years ago. One of my staff would dutifully write anything and everything he heard in the meetings in his notes.
One day I clued in the rest of the team that I was going to see “if Jim was listening or just writing”, so in the middle of a discussion, I said something that, on the face of it, sounded normal, but was utter gibberish. About 30 seconds later, I “got distracted”, then asked Jim what I had just said. He read the gibberish, WORD FOR WORD, then turned bright red as soon as he realized it.
I think we cured him of his “write first, think later” phase...
Hey, maybe Obama was joking about the 57 states...
It must NOT be treated as a joke, but as a true statement to show that Romney is not competent to be President of the United States. It must be used to show that Obama is more competent in EVERY WAY than Romney, to include building and creating businesses.
(Sarcasm off)
When you tell jokes so badly that people can’t tell whether or not you’re being serious, maybe you should just not tell jokes any more.