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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How can you do a skit when this IS a skit ?
“Steal second. Run on anything. Squeeze play. Steal second...”
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
The software program the generating excuses must be more comprehensive and efficient than the Obamacare website’s.
South African Ebonics? Just askin’.
+1000
The BBC does it when subtitles would work much, much better. It’s just a patronizing PC ploy.
Well, for sure it wasn’t turrets...
LOL
and so it starts...
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.
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.
you cannot make this sh________ up!!! lol
Yes they can! They do it every day and every moment of their lives. Pathological and sociological liars will say anything.
That would be another great excuse - Tourette’s Syndrome!
Gang signs...ebonically speaking.
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