NBC’s Jansing on Obama Meeting African Leaders: Helps That ‘He’s from Kenya’

[Garthem]

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I'm not sure whether to or

[bravenak]

1. I laughed when i heard it.

So hard. Then i facepalmed. I never liked her show.

[stone space]

2. Meh...sounds like she just misspoke. It's minor.

It would escape attention entirely and pass without notice were it not for the teabaggers/birthers having raised our attennas for such comments.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

[Sherman A1]

4. Perhaps she did just misspeak, however

she is allegedly a professional and this is what she does for a living.

Makes her look just rather silly at best or rather uniformed at worst.

[stone space]

7. I'll go with looking silly. But not with misinformed.

What she did was to use a fairly common colloquialism in a situation where it was likely (and rather predictably so) to be taken hyper literally due to the preexistence of teabaggers and birthers.

Her professional training should have alerted her to this in advance, but in fairness to her, she was not doing a story on teabaggers or birthers, so it seems perfectly reasonable to me that her mind didn't make the connection when speaking into the microphone in real time.

I wouldn't want a job that involves speaking coherently into a microphone on TV.

Hell, my own professional training doesn't always prevent me from making silly assertions like 2+2=5 on the board in front of 200 calculus students, either.

[PatrynXX]

28. misspoke

I'm not gonna harp on her about that.

like okay knee jerk. war on whites?? ahem no but there might be a war on white men hahaha. still a much bigger war on women

[AlinPA]

32. She said "The fact that he is from Kenya..." does not sound like she misspoke. She had to be

corrected, so she believes it. Fox 'news' is her next stop after that audition for them. Cable TV is full of idiots like her.

[stone space]

37. I get corrected by students when I misspeak while teaching calculus.

She had to be corrected, so she believes it.

I don't see how this is any different.

[bigdarryl]

3. As an African American Shits not funny to me shows still how some white people are ignorant

when it comes to the current President

[stone space]

40. White people make mistakes. Guess what? Black people make mistakes, too. (nt)

[CJCRANE]

5. I'm pretty sure that people in Africa

see Obama as American and understand that he's working in the best interests of America.

They're not naive.

But I'll give her a pass on this one as it is a point of interest that Obama's father is from Kenya.

[jakeXT]

6. Maybe now, before that Qaddafi called Obama 'son of Africa' multiple times, look where it got him

In a letter to President Barack Obama on Wednesday, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi called for an end to airstrikes on his forces and addressed the American leader as “our son,” apparently referring to Mr. Obama’s African heritage.

Colonel Qaddafi also assured Mr. Obama that he has not taken the American military action personally, and even endorsed his campaign for reelection in 2012.

As White House Press Secretary Jay Carney reminded reporters on Wednesday, the letter was “not the first,” from the Libyan leader to the American president. In a previous letter sent on March 19, just before the first international airstrikes, Colonel Qaddafi assured Mr. Obama that “even if Libya and the United States enter into war, God forbid, you will always remain my son.”

Colonel Qaddafi also referred to Mr. Obama as “a son” of Africa in a Webcast to an American audience in 2010 (embedded above).

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/text-of-new-qaddafi-letter-to-obama/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&

[Cooley Hurd]

8. The difference between Chris and Fox News is...

...she quickly corrected herself.

[LittleGirl]

19. Yes, she did. eom

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24. No, either Joy Reid or someone in her earphone corrected her

This woman is supposed to be a professional journalist and she makes such a stupid, glaring, dumb-downed teaparty mistake — inexcusable.

[stone space]

38. I wish that I had somebody to whisper in my ear when...

...I misspeak while teaching calculus.

Where did all these perfect people come from?

[brush]

50. You don't have to be perfect . . .

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to know that the president of your country is from Hawaii, USA — and couldn't possibly be born in a foreign country (that's in the Constitution).

We're not talking a grade school student here who might not have learned that. She's a professional journalist commenting on national TV for God's sake.

She's got to do a lot better than that.

[AlinPA]

33. One of the other people on the show corrected her. Jansing called it a fact that he is from Kenya.

[liberal N proud]

9. She obviously failed civics

[stone space]

41. Do you have evidence for this? Her high school transcripts, perhaps? (nt)

[liberal N proud]

42. I believe the video is just that.

[stone space]

43. I watched the video, but didn't see any mention of her hs grade in civics. (nt)

[liberal N proud]

44. Then she must be a birther

And all birther's missed something in civics.

[stone space]

45. I don't know her, but you seem to be just making this up.

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I don't understand why you are so keen to attack her.

Maybe you know something about her that I don't?

[liberal N proud]

46. She is the one that said Obama was from Kenya

That is the whole premise of the this thread, you must have missed that in the big bold letters at the top.

Now anyone who took civics and PAID ATTENTION, would understand that if Obama was from Kenya, he could not be President. Something that Birthers seem to fail to understand.

You want to call me out for pointing out stupid?

[stone space]

47. Does it make you feel superior when others make mistakes? (nt)

[liberal N proud]

48. You make me laugh

MISTAKE?

[heaven05]

10. It is obvious many on here

want to give her a pass on her 'misspeaking'. BS!!!!! That was an inexcusable misspeak from a 'professional'. I wonder why the excuses...................hmmmmm

[stone space]

39. Why the exxuses? Because I don't want folks coming down on me like this...

...every time I misspeak in front of a calculus class, that's why.

We're not all as perfect as you.

[rtracey]

11. He is

He is from Kenya, he did live there at one time, and Hawaii, and Chicago, and went to school in MA, and I believe live at one time in Malaysia?.... BUT..... BUT he was BORN in the USA, and basically thats all that matters.....

[tom_kelly]

12. I lived in Germany for 2 years. Am I from Germany? n/t

[rtracey]

16. was your parents and family living there?

if they were living there as a family unit, you could say that, but it really is not the point......

[TBF]

15. His father is native Kenyan - he is not.

Why is this so hard to understand?

[rtracey]

18. why is it such a big deal

Really, everyone is all wacked over this...President Obama is an AMERICAN....end it, relax people, she misspoke, EVERYONE has misspoke, professional or not. Authors have misspelled words, photographers have double exposed, and yes on-screen news casters have misspoke. If this story is the big talking point of today, wow, get up and move around....

[TBF]

22. It's a big deal because he is the president of the US

and certain folks, not naming any names of course, insist on treating him like shit.

At the very least show some respect for the office.

[Thinkingabout]

23. This is a RW talking point, why does the many in the GOP believe Obama is from Kenya.

Welcome to DU but we don't like RW talking points.

[AlinPA]

34. How can you say she misspoke when she actually said "The fact that he is from Kenya..."?

She said it was a fact. IMO, that's not misspeaking, she is just spreading the lie like all the birthers, teabaggers and Fox 'news'.

[AlinPA]

35. Please give your definition of "misspoke".

[PADemD]

17. President Obama is not from Kenya.

As an adult, he visited his family there. He was born in Hawaii; and, from ages 6-8, lived in Indonesia with his mother and step-father.

[rtracey]

20. great

Thanks, now I can sleep better, knowing this....WHO CARES really......Tea baggers and right wingers have been using this crap since 1/2009, and will never stop, even when he is the Former President, so time for us as Progressive, liberal, democrats, independents...whatever you are to just let it go......

[PADemD]

21. People who value truth CARE

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26. So we can count on you from now on . . .

to stop repeating right wing talking points?

[TBF]

29. Well the juries sure aren't going to stop it

so persist they will ...

[TBF]

30. "for us as Progressive"

There's my laugh for the day right there ...

[brush]

25. He's not from Kenya.

He's from Hawaii. Got that?

His father was from Kenya. Stop spreading stupid misinformation.

[KamaAina]

49. Well, either way, he's not from 'Murka

[orbitalman]

13. This is Why the Media has No Credibility, to Me. n/t

[MarianJack]

14. I believe that she mis-spoke, but...

...this is the exact type of horseshit that the tabaggers/birthers will latch onto like hungry pitbulls and never let go.

PEACE!

[ballyhoo]

27. You are right as rain. Also, it looked like a

slip but these days you never know.

[jtuck004]

31. Another white person "mis-speaks" about a black person. How unusual.

Wonder what she calls him when she's not on the air.

[stone space]

36. "President Obama", I would imagine.

Wonder what she calls him when she's not on the air.

[jtuck004]

51. Imagination is a wonderful thing. There are whole political parties built on it. n/t