In Case You Missed It: Mitt Romney's "AMERCIA"

One of the bad things about being a part-time blogger with a full-time job, is that I often am doing something else when something I'd normally post happens. The Mitt Romney campaign's AMERCIA gaffe is right in my sweet spot: political flubs by graphic artists.

See, I'm a graphic artist, and if I made a mistake like this at work--usually--it would be no big deal. After all, every job goes through stages: concept, options, prototypes, revisions (revisions, revisions, revisions), with client input along the way, finally only producing the final product with the clients' express approval. Sometimes, there are multiple people signing off! So, if there's a typo on the 1,200-piece order, it's the client's fault! Oh, who am I kidding. . .it's the artist's fault, even when it isn't. No matter how many people signed of on AMERCIA (say it with me in your best Jan Brady voice, "Amercia, Amercia, Amercia!"), it is the artist who took this one in the shorts. And not in a good way.

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Romney’s ‘Amercia’ and 7 More Political Gaffes Rooted in Technology

Mitt Romney has a technology problem. Not the sort of problem that Rick Santorum had with Google search results, but with his latest app called With Mitt. Apparently, his developers had trouble spelling the word “America.” Whoops. That’s an important word to know how to spell when you’re trying to become a U.S. president. . .

Read more at: Wired

Sarah Palin Coins Another Word: "Squirmish"

Sarah Palin--if past is truly prologue--will quickly claim this error as a good thing, another Palinism. After all, she has claimed in the past that Shakespere coined words, so why not ShakesPalin? And I'm sure people will lobby for it to be included in the Random House Dictionary.

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Sarah Palin questions whether military attack was a “squirmish”



Here’s how the ultraconservative news site NewsMax.com described Sarah Palin’s Monday night criticism of President Obama’s address to the nation:



“Are we at war? I haven’t heard the president say that we are at war. And that’s why I too [don’t know] do we use the term intervention, do we use war, do we use skirmish?. . .”

Read more at: Chicago Sun-Times

McCain Declares Self the Winner Ahead of Debate

Image from source, Reuters

Ooops! John McCain has declared himself the winner of tonight's debate, as though it has already happened. Who's running this campaign?

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McCain to attend debate, Web ad claims victory already

Ah the Internet world, a place where things move very quickly — maybe too quickly in the political world.

Before Republican presidential hopeful John McCain announced he would attend the debate on Friday night in Mississippi, apparently an Internet advertisement slipped out onto the Wall Street Journal’s opinion page with it declaring he won the contest. . .

Read more at: Reuters

CBS Scrubs Another John McCain Flub?

Image from source, Raw Story

This time on 9/11, of all things. Can we finally dispense with all of the "media loves Barack Obama" criticism? Clearly--at the very least--the media also loves John McCain. Enough to try to cover his butt on the issues he claims to be strongest on.

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CBS scrubs a second McCain flub from interview broadcast

Keeping up with John McCain's foreign policy gaffes is becoming a cottage industry these days, and a progressive radio host has caught another slip-up from the Republican presidential nominee talking about the war on terror.

And keeping those flubs away from viewers is occupying plenty of network news editors' time. . .

Read more at: Raw Story