Friday, June 8, 2012

Romney gaffe

  • If you were running a major presidential campaign that just got slammed for misspelling America as "Amercia," you might ask your staff to go through your campaign literature with a fine-tooth comb.
  • (Mashable)
  • Its the typo that has the Twitterverse buzzing. Just as Mitt Romney scored the GOP presidential nomination last night, his campaign released an iPhone app called With Mitt — only to discover it had one major error.
  • (PC Magazine)
  • This post was originally published on Mashable. If you were running a major presidential campaign that just got slammed for misspelling America as Amercia, you might ask your staff to go through your campaign literature with a fine-tooth comb.
  • (Sydney Morning Herald)
  • During a speech at the New Amsterdam Theater in Times Square, the president mixed up his Republican opponent with former Michigan Governor George Romney while contrasting their economic policies.
  • (Daily Telegraph)
  • Forget the American dream for a moment. It's time you knew about the Amercian dream. The true tale of the Amercian Dream begins with a father and son.
  • (Mashable)
  • President Obama infuriated the leaders of Poland on Tuesday while honoring Jan Karski with the Medal of Freedom. He said Karski smuggled into a "Polish death camp" to see the Holocaust. (Um, no, that's a Nazi death camp located in Poland).
  • (News Busters)
  • A Chinese man may soon be much wealthier thanks to a recent gaffe by the Romney campaign. John Chen bought Amercia.
  • (KFDA)
  • Is it Mitt Romneys Dukakis moment? His campaign is in clean-up mode after a little spelling mistake in a big social media push. The campaign released a new smartphone app letting you overlay a slogan over a picture of your choice. One problem..
  • (Romney gaffe goes viral - MyNorthwest.com)
  • News outlets need to get creative on slow news days. This Memorial Day weekend is no exception. But it sure seems odd that BuzzFeed used the occasion to dredge up a minor Mitt Romney gaffe from 1994 for its readers.
  • (Big Hollywood)
  • Finally, as my Post colleague Greg Sargent has pointed out, respected economists have said that Romney's jobs plan would do little to help the economy in the short term, and could even do harm in the long term.
  • (Washington Post)

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