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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: sarasota

How can you do a skit when this IS a skit ?


41 posted on 12/12/2013 7:32:27 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

“Steal second. Run on anything. Squeeze play. Steal second...”


42 posted on 12/12/2013 7:33:46 AM PST by VideoPaul
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To: Mikey_1962
Secret Service at top of their game placing overt schizophrenic next to POTUS.

What difference does it make?
43 posted on 12/12/2013 7:34:31 AM PST by Old Yeller
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To: Arm_Bears

It is a historically funny moment but unsurprisingly there are many humorless individuals, starting with self-important ‘world leaders’ and now this idiot who lack the humility to laugh at themselves.

On one serious note, when the US president visits a US city every attendee and especially anyone sharing the stage is given a Secret Service colonoscopy - they even X-ray band instruments. He visits a foreign country and security is a joke, an afterthought.


44 posted on 12/12/2013 7:35:42 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The End)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

NBC News: “Jantjie later told The Associated Press that during the memorial he saw “angels” and had been violent in the past. He said he tried not to panic on Tuesday because there were “armed policemen around me.””

Yes, armed. As in weapons and guns.


45 posted on 12/12/2013 7:36:37 AM PST by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

‘Do you think SNL will do a skit on this?”
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Does a frog have a watertight a$$? If they don’t they are missing a huge chance.


46 posted on 12/12/2013 7:38:51 AM PST by mongo141 (Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

The only way to test this is to use Roman Numerals. Here goes..

I + I = II

II? My father-in-law was in the Navy and he assures me that ii means yes, so yes is the answer.


47 posted on 12/12/2013 7:38:58 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Jack Hydrazine

The software program the generating excuses must be more comprehensive and efficient than the Obamacare website’s.


48 posted on 12/12/2013 7:40:19 AM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: Jack Hydrazine

South African Ebonics? Just askin’.


49 posted on 12/12/2013 7:42:44 AM PST by duckman (I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
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To: allendale

+1000

The BBC does it when subtitles would work much, much better. It’s just a patronizing PC ploy.


50 posted on 12/12/2013 7:48:23 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The End)
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To: Mercat; All
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51 posted on 12/12/2013 7:48:41 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Well, for sure it wasn’t turrets...


52 posted on 12/12/2013 7:49:53 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: New Perspective

LOL

and so it starts...


53 posted on 12/12/2013 7:51:27 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: sarasota

About a dream sequence akin to Scrooge, where he sees himself in state and all the people he thought respected him turn out not to — but are laughing and taking selfies during the eulogy.


54 posted on 12/12/2013 7:52:06 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Obviously, the ‘schizophrenic’ interpreter was a prop used to fake concern for the deaf. PC on steroids. However, the pretense of ‘signing’ and weird ‘explanation’ for it shows how much of leftist PC gestures are completely phoney.


55 posted on 12/12/2013 7:53:23 AM PST by Jim Scott
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To: Jack Hydrazine

you cannot make this sh________ up!!! lol


56 posted on 12/12/2013 7:54:53 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw

Yes they can! They do it every day and every moment of their lives. Pathological and sociological liars will say anything.


57 posted on 12/12/2013 7:56:12 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: Vendome

That would be another great excuse - Tourette’s Syndrome!


58 posted on 12/12/2013 7:57:07 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: duckman

Gang signs...ebonically speaking.


60 posted on 12/12/2013 7:57:56 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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