Two people on ABC made wrong-name gaffes just before Biden's press conference

[highplainsdem]

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[Lovie777]

1. What happened?..............

I posted on this thread and it disappeared.

[highplainsdem]

2. I posted it in Editorials & Articles by accident. I added a reply apologizing for the mistake, then self-deleted.

[Jersey Devil]

3. Most famous name gaffe imo was by Pres Jimmy Carter

At the 1980 Dem Convention Pres Carter honored Hubert Humphrey but mistakenly called him Hubert Horatio Hornblower

[highplainsdem]

4. I'd forgotten that. Just found video:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4765085/user-clip-hubert-horatio-hornblower

[Generic Brad]

11. Speaking as a longtime Humphrey supporter, Carter wasn't wrong

[shrike3]

5. Snort!

[DemocraticPatriot]

6. I noticed several miss-spoken words from the press covering the PC...

but I was watching on CBS....

Guess that miss-spoken word thing is rather common,
even among the media, who were not previously noted to have a stutter,

and not only with the President of the United States.....

[wnylib]

12. That message needs to be amplified.

Every time that a journalist mixes up a word or name, or pauses, or stumbles over a word should be noted widely in social media. Special kudos if they catch a Biden naysayer in the act. Start threads asking for the journalist to be replaced.

If one of the Dems who oppose Biden does it, I would not call for them to be replaced, but only because they are Dems. It could be fun, though, to point out the gaffe and ask if they have a cold.

[democrattotheend]

7. Earlier tonight, I told my 3-year-old that "Nana and Bedtime" were going to read him a book

I intended to say "Nana and Bam Bam", which is what he calls my father-in-law. It happens. Was it unfortunate given the stakes, yes, but it happens to everyone.

[StarryNite]

8. Exactly! We all do it.

[GoodRaisin]

9. They should step down for

cognitive concerns.

[Emrys]

10. Just be glad that you don't have a politician called Jeremy Hunt ... NSFW, I guess

We in the UK do:

Here's why people can't stop calling Jeremy Hunt the C-word
...

During a recent debate over who should be the next Tory leader and prime minister, journalist Victoria Derbyshire added herself to a long and distinguished list of broadcasters who have called the foreign secretary Jeremy Cunt. Previous victims of the slip up include BBC Radio five Live host Nicky Campbell, Sky News political correspondent Tom Rayner, and BBC Newsreader Carrie Gracie.

Why does this keep happening? According to psychologists, it is due to a phenomenon called priming, in which exposure to one stimulus influences how a person unconsciously responds to a later stimulus. (A person who sees the word yellow, for instance, will be slightly faster to recognise the word banana.) There is a veritable smorgasbord of stimuli priming the Hunt/cunt substitution, and broadcasters could be influenced by any one of them.

First up: Hunt’s various titles and associations. Hunt is a “Conservative” and his first high-profile office was as “culture” secretary, between 2010 and 2012. Both things are frequently referred to in conversations around Hunt.

“The mispronunciation is almost certainly primed by ‘culture’, as it has the same stressed vowel as ‘Hunt’”, says Leendert Plug, associate professor of phonetics at Leeds University. “There’s a lot of experimental evidence to show that pronunciation errors of this type more often than not result in real words.”

https://www.wired.com/story/jeremy-hunt-mp/

[Wednesdays]

18. Brings to mind the scene from Porky's

"Has anybody seen Mike Hunt?"

[Emile]

13. We all misspeak. Joe has done it all his life and voters

reelected him years after years. Big Deal he misspoke. I think the media needs to stop this and go after Trump with the same nasty vigor they been giving Joe.

[Thrill]

14. They aren't the President

We can’t keep trying to justify these mistakes. Just keeps building the narrative

[bigtree]

15. right, because the free world depends on a gaffe free America

...and now we're in World War Three!!!ll

[Bettie]

16. So, a president isn't supposed to be human?

Because, news flash, no human being is perfect. No human being never makes an error and a slip of the tongue isn't a life or death error, apparently, unless you are Joe Biden who has committed the sin of advocating for ordinary US Citizens instead of sucking up to the wealthy and ultra wealthy.

[Mossfern]

17. The President is human

humans, at times, misspeak.
Did you hear his excellent responses or just the few gaffs.