Mandela Ceremony Sign Language Interpreter ‘A Fake’

New York Post ^ | December 11, 2013 | Staff

[lbryce]

A man who provided sign language interpretation on stage for Nelson Mandela’s memorial service, attended by scores of heads of state, was a “fake,” the national director of the Deaf Federation of South Africa said on Tuesday.

The unidentified man seen around the world on television next to leaders like U.S. President Barack Obama “was moving his hands around but there was no meaning in what he used his hands for,” Bruno Druchen, the federation’s national director, told The Associated Press.

[lbryce]

Nicole Du Toit, an official sign language interpreter who also watched the broadcast, said in a telephone interview that the man on stage purporting to sign was an embarrassment.
“It was horrible, an absolute circus, really, really bad,” she said. “Only he can understand those gestures.”
First of all, describing it as a circus applied even before the guy got up to do his hand dance, really, and I do mean, really.
Secondly, Lady, we sympathize with your plight. We've got the aame problem every time the President speaks, nobody understands a damm thing he says.

[silverleaf]

the fraud was standing directly beside Obama

some security, eh

[Berlin_Freeper]

👍👌👏✋👍👌👏✋ 👏✋👍

[anton]

Just as expected. The interpreter conveyed every cogent thought of our childlike President.

[Vigilanteman]

Mandela Ceremony Sign Language Interpreter ‘A Fake’

Sort of like Zer0 and Saint Nelson?

[lbryce]

Fake guy, fake president, fake security.

[Steamburg]

Does this mean that the man gave an accurate representation of the Me, Me, Me crap that these dignitaries spew or does it mean that nothing meaningful was ever uttered by the attending posers?

Before you blame the messenger, look at what he was working with.

[Berlin_Freeper]

The ‘fake’ sign language interpreter at the Madiba memorial did not even know the recognised sign for South Africa, writes Charl du Plessis. The Mandela memorial’s “fake” sign language interpreter is the same interpreter about whom the deaf community had complained to the ANC as early as mid-2012.

[sappy]

in the words of Thunderlips, “all fake meatball. all fake”

[lbryce]

We have a winner. Maybe he was doing a perfect job, after all.

[Red Badger]

I saw that and I didn’t recognize any of his hand signs. I assumed he was ‘signing’ in Boer or Zulu..............

[Gamecock]

I’ve heard of pretending to be a marine biologist…

[haircutter]

drudge has a site posted (UK news paper) that has ton of photo’s published..

USA Media won’t be showing them..michelle was having a really bad wig/hair day...not her normal styles..fake and still phony..

one needs to also see the pic of Chelsea Clinton...say there WHO is your daddy!!!!!

I kept my Television OFF all day until 5pm when the FOX Five came on and then the news...decided ‘enough is enough’

[JoeProBono]

[moovova]

“When a deaf person complains, nobody listens,” said Newhoudt-Druchen.”

[lbryce]

Excuse, me?

[Flycatcher]

"When a deaf person complains, nobody listens,” said Newhoudt-Druchen

Unintended comedy at its finest.

[JoeProBono]

[NY Cajun]

The faux interpretor is actually multi-talented. He was also one of the engineers of the Obamacare website.

[Carpe Cerevisi]