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'Fake' deaf Mandela signer had 'schizophrenic episode'
AFP via Yahoo! ^
| 12DEC2013
| AFP
Posted on 12/12/2013 7:12:06 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine
Johannesburg (AFP) - The sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial ceremony denied he was a fraud Thursday, claiming he gesticulated nonsense during the service because he was suffering a schizophrenic episode and hallucinating.
Thamsanqa Jantjie has been branded a fraud by members of South Africa's deaf community, who said his signing for US President Barack Obama and other world leaders amounted to little more than "flapping his arms around."
Jantjie on Thursday insisted he was a qualified signer, but said his behaviour was down to a sudden attack of schizophrenia, for which he takes medication.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: fake; interpreter; mandela; sasl; schizo; sign; signlanguage; thamsanqajantjie
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Speaking of schizophrenic episode....
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:21:00 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Mikey_1962
To: Jack Hydrazine
Great. Now posting this pic:
Will be called a hate crime....
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:21:30 AM PST
by
RandallFlagg
(IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Schizophrenic but managed to realize that there were armed men all around him. It’s funny how “crazy” can manage to be rational when self preservation is involved.
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:22:25 AM PST
by
glorgau
To: Jack Hydrazine
If they don’t, they are crazy. It is hilarious, and is happily putting a silly glow over the Mandela worshiping.
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:22:49 AM PST
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“He wasn’t the only fake there.”
Basically, every left winger from around the world at that event was faking it.
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:22:58 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
( Obamacare, “It’s a Wonderful Lie!" Obamaganda is failing 24/7! Soon Obamaganda will fail 24/365)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Let's All Play "Find The Delusional Schizophrenic"
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:23:26 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
(Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
It would seem a pretty easy thing to prove.
Just get a deaf person familiar with signing to “speak” to this guy in sign and see how he reads it.
Question answered.
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:23:29 AM PST
by
Venturer
(Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
To: Mikey_1962
Secret Service at top of their game placing overt schizophrenic next to POTUS.A petit faker next to a great pretender? What's the problem?
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:23:38 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: All
Isn’t it nice that every liberal/Marxist/socialist/progressive/and the likes foible always has a perfectly reasonable and quickly accepted explanation for the press?
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:24:48 AM PST
by
Turbo Pig
(...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
To: Jack Hydrazine
The practice of having someone sign next to a public speaker is simply a politically correct gesture designed to demonstrate “concern” for the handicapped. Simultaneous captioning technology is much cheaper and available. Beyond that someone in the Secret Service has a bit of explaining to do.
To: Jack Hydrazine
So we have a liar pretending to translate for a liar. What a world.
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:25:59 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: blueunicorn6
So two wrongs make a truth?
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:27:11 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
To: Jack Hydrazine
It’s not metal illness. It’s mental dimness. It’s pretty common in that neck of the woods.
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:27:56 AM PST
by
Count of Monte Fisto
(The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
To: Mercat
He was just channeling Mandela.
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:28:41 AM PST
by
corlorde
(forWARD of the state)
To: BenLurkin
That photo shows that the guy who sat in the circle smoking Choom is still here.
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:28:46 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Jack Hydrazine
How appropriate: a phony translator for a phony president.
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:28:52 AM PST
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: BenLurkin
SNL HAS to do a skit on this one.
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:29:11 AM PST
by
sarasota
To: sarasota
SNL HAS to do a skit on this one.
SNL??
I'm hoping South Park does it!
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:30:27 AM PST
by
RandallFlagg
(IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
To: Michael.SF.
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posted on
12/12/2013 7:31:06 AM PST
by
Mikey_1962
(Obama: The Affirmative Action President.)
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