Posted on 01/12/2010 9:27:50 AM PST by mnehring
This is just too good to add as an update to my earlier Coakley post. Via Jammie Wearing Fool, MassLive pays attention to that disclaimer message at the end of a Martha Coakley ad, and notices a Dan Quayle moment:
On the heels of last night’s final debate between Martha Coakley, Scott Brown and Joseph L. Kennedy, Coakley released a new ad attacking Scott Brown — an aggressive turn that many observers have thought was long overdue.
However the ad’s message might get lost by a spelling gaffe that appears in the ad’s closing seconds. In the fine print appearing at the bottom of the screen, the ad reads:
Paid for by Massachusettes Democratic Party and Authorized by Martha Coakley for Senate. Approved by Martha Coakley.
Close observers will notice that there is an extra ‘E’ tacked onto the end of ‘Massachusetts. It’s a trivial oversight, for sure, but you can bet that the jokes and jabs the typo will inspire will blunt at least some of the impact of the ad.
Here’s the screenshot:
And just to make clear, this came from Coakley’s own YouTube channel — see upper right of this screencap:
Maybe Coakley ought to know how to spell her state’s name before asking voters there to send her to Washington to represent them. At the very least, it’s an answer to Democratic zingers about Dan Quayle, who managed to spell Indiana correctly even if misspelling potato on an infamous occasion.
Update: Coakley has pulled the video — which makes the screen-cap all that more valuable.
Update II: Ha! Fixed my own misspelling. Well, I guess I can abandon my bid for the Senate seat from the state of Very.
I spell it Chokely
Wasn’t it also an issue over an “e” that was used against Dan Qualye?
I just read this in the story on Drudge:
“Coakley supports ObamaCare, opposes the war in Afghanistan, and favors higher taxes on the wealthy.”
OPPOSES the war in Afghanistan! What a frightening disgusting lefty!!!
Thew next sentence says the republican supports Obama on Afghanistan! God this dem woman must be a nightmare!!!
What’s the difference between Martha Coakley and Dan Quayle?
ans. Quayle didn’t live in “Potatoe”.
Kookley sounds like she has a typical leftist IQ, low, trending lower.
Musta gone too a govment skool.
Sounds like a Debbie Stabenow clone.
Dude or dudette?
You be the judge.
There used to be a song about Massachusetts on the “Captain Kangaroo” show. That’s how I learned how to spell it, and it helps me get it right now. Maybe someone could dig up an old tape for her.
M A double-S A C H U S E double-T S
I used to have no problems spelling it, now I’m trying to figure out that song and I’m all confused.. :->
Excellent!
there. fixed it.;-)
Proof that this was the result of Obamas emergency hack political special forces. no one involved in MA politics could do that, but someone from outside may...
Damn! I forgot! It only helps you if you are in the first grade!
Their excuse is that Quayle threw it away and it blew into their ad at just the wrong place and time.
So it’s Quayle’s fault.
No, but he was handed a card by the teacher that had the word misspelled, I doubt one person here would have questioned the teachers answer on the card.
MI crooked letter, crooked letter I Humpback, Humpback, I crooked letter, crooked letter I
This one is easier :)
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