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Mandela Ceremony Sign Language Interpreter ‘A Fake’
New York Post ^
| December 11, 2013
| Staff
Posted on 12/11/2013 6:03:04 AM PST by lbryce
A man who provided sign language interpretation on stage for Nelson Mandelas 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 federations national director, told The Associated Press.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: funeral; handjive; impersonation; mandela; sasl; signing; signlanguage; thamsanqajantjie
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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.
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:03:04 AM PST
by
lbryce
To: lbryce
the fraud was standing directly beside Obama
some security, eh
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:04:23 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
To: lbryce
👍👌👏✋👍👌👏✋ 👏✋👍
To: lbryce
Just as expected. The interpreter conveyed every cogent thought of our childlike President.
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:06:34 AM PST
by
anton
To: lbryce
Mandela Ceremony Sign Language Interpreter A FakeSort of like Zer0 and Saint Nelson?
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:06:49 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: silverleaf
Fake guy, fake president, fake security.
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:07:18 AM PST
by
lbryce
(Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
To: lbryce
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.
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:07:26 AM PST
by
Steamburg
(Other people's money is the only language a politician respects)
To: lbryce
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 memorials fake sign language interpreter is the same interpreter about whom the deaf community had complained to the ANC as early as mid-2012.
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:08:52 AM PST
by
Berlin_Freeper
(👍👌👏✋👍👌👏✋ 👏✋👍)
To: lbryce
in the words of Thunderlips, “all fake meatball. all fake”
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:09:19 AM PST
by
sappy
(criminaldems)
To: Steamburg
We have a winner. Maybe he was doing a perfect job, after all.
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:11:02 AM PST
by
lbryce
(Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
To: lbryce
I saw that and I didn’t recognize any of his hand signs. I assumed he was ‘signing’ in Boer or Zulu..............
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:11:04 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: lbryce; Larry Lucido; F15Eagle
I’ve heard of pretending to be a marine biologist
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12/11/2013 6:11:17 AM PST
by
Gamecock
(There are not just two ways to respond to God but three: irreligion, religion, and the gospel. (TK))
To: lbryce
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’
To: lbryce
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:12:48 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: lbryce
“When a deaf person complains, nobody listens, said Newhoudt-Druchen.”
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:19:06 AM PST
by
moovova
To: JoeProBono
![](http://i40.tinypic.com/6ixo9j.gif)
Excuse, me?
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:19:32 AM PST
by
lbryce
(Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
To: Berlin_Freeper
"When a deaf person complains, nobody listens, said Newhoudt-DruchenUnintended comedy at its finest.
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:20:09 AM PST
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: lbryce
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:29:23 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: lbryce
The faux interpretor is actually multi-talented. He was also one of the engineers of the Obamacare website.
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posted on
12/11/2013 6:30:24 AM PST
by
NY Cajun
To: Gamecock
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