Sharpton Slams Cain For Calling 'Cuban' A Language—Ignores Obama Did Same With 'Austrian'

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Say, Al Sharpton: if Herman Cain lacks "intelligence" for colloquially referring to "Cuban" as a language, how about your guy Barack Obama . . . who did precisely the same thing when it came to "Austrian"?

On his MSNBC show tonight, Sharpton mocked Cain, alleging he lacked "intelligence," for asking in an aside while munching on a Cuban delicacy, "how do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?" Does Sharpton not know that Barack Obama, in a much more formal setting, addressing a NATO audience, said something virtually identical, wondering how a certain phrase was said "in Austrian"?

View the video here.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Sharpton mocks Cain for off-handedly referring to ‘Cuban’ as a language—ignores that Obama said something similar about “Austrian” in a NATO speech. Ping to Today show list.

[ColdOne]

resist we much

[A_Former_Democrat]

Who cares? Sheesh, $15 Trillion debt and Tawana Sharpton gets upset over this?

LOL . . MSNBCs token is the biggest dunce of their line up.

[mnehring]

Al, if you don’t even recognize a joke, maybe you should read this.

http://www.livescience.com/13738-trouble-detecting-sarcasm-dementia-sign.html

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[jazusamo]

Sharpton mocked Cain, alleging he lacked "intelligence,"

Hey Al, intelligence? Does Tawana ring a bell?

[stars & stripes forever]

Probably 75% of Americans think Cuban is a language.
Plus, they don’t know where Cuba is on the map.

[Mortrey]

Ya beat me.

(I LOVE Freepers. If only they were congressmen.)

[Mortrey]

Anyone got Sharpton’s contact info?

[thatdewd]

The journalistas are piling it on in a frenzy. They’re such good storm troopers for their master.

[choctaw man]

Alza moron. Why pay him any attention at all?

[Revolting cat!]

The weirdest thing is that they actually speak Austrian in Cuba and Cuban in Austria. It’s a confusing world out there, who is able to keep up? You’d think they speak Paraguayan in Paraguay or Hollaindaise in Holland? Think again! Ich bin ein Berliner!

[ColdOne]

I was surprised I was able to do that before anyone else!

[Iron Munro]

Big Al is mucking two mach uv it.

[MrEdd]

The Brits always insist we speak American.
National dialects of a common language are usually named according to the country. This is common usage and even among linguists.

[CharlesWayneCT]

If nothing else, Cain is going to take away a lot of our fun but juvenile snarks about Obama.

[I see my hands]

Zero deserves to be mocked for Austrian and Cain deserves to be mocked for Cuban. Idiots.

[terycarl]

who the hell cares what Sharpton says about anything....talk about a discredited fool.....

[Trueblackman]

Here that great little gem from out Harvard educated President.