Priceless: Pat Buchanan owns himself at English Only 'Conferenece'

[gravenewworld]

The panelists pressed on with their anti-bilingualism diatribe without noting the irony of the obvious misspelling on the banner:

PAT BUCHANAN: Judge Sotomayor is up there at school in New York, she gets a scholarship to Princeton, she’s graduated with all these big honors and awards they said she never won. What’s she doing there in the summer? They said her adviser told her to read children’s classics so she can learn English better. How do you graduate number one in Princeton if you’re in the summer and you’re reading Rumpelstiltskin and Snow White? [laughter] [...]

Mocking Sotomayor’s struggle to learn English has become a habit for Buchanan. On CSPAN a few weeks ago, Buchanan tried to undermine Sotomayor’s qualifications by saying she had read Pinocchio as a part of her “college work.” Buchanan was referencing a New York Times article, which talked about how hard Sotomayor had to work to graduate at the top of her class from Princeton. The article stated that she “spent summers reading children’s classics she had missed in a Spanish-speaking home and ‘re-teaching’ herself to write ‘proper English’ by reading elementary grammar books.” Sotomayor never read children’s books as part of her “college work” and the books consisted of classics such as “Huckleberry Finn” and “Pride and Prejudice” — not Snow White, as Buchanan contends.

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/buchanan.jpg

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/22/misspelled-english-buchanan/Hilarious self-ownage

 

[Alfi]

Too funny.

Thanks.

 

[fleem]

i dont' see anthyningn wrogn

 

[Blenton]

There is an extra e towards the end in conference.

 

[Topher925]

i dont' see anthyningn wrogn

Conference is spelled "conference", not "conferenece".

EDIT: I just realized you were making a joke.

 

[Saladsamurai]

What a D-bag. That's great.

 

[fleem]

Yo dudes I was kidding with the typos. Thanks for not laughing though :)

 

[arunma]

Hmm, the even worse ownage seems to be the picture of him with the white nationalist guy. Much of his base, while into political conservativism and other nutty stuff, doesn't support white supremacy. This could cost him.

 

[edward]

Look at the banner. It is the correct size and has the spacing to include the extra letter.:rofl:

 

[BobG]

Look at the banner. It is the correct size and has the spacing to include the extra letter.:rofl:

By the 21st century, most cloth banners and T-shirts were designed using one of several available software programs. Almost all of these automatically center your text (if desired) or, alternatively, left justify, tab, etc - generally, all of the functions normally available in power point.

Some of these programs also come complete with spellcheck software, but using it can be quite difficult - requiring the user to click on an icon in order for the spelling to be checked, for example.

 

[gravenewworld]

Hmm, the even worse ownage seems to be the picture of him with the white nationalist guy. Much of his base, while into political conservativism and other nutty stuff, doesn't support white supremacy. This could cost him.

I think Peter Brimelow would call you a racist for calling him a white supremacist. He would probably try to argue white nationalist=something like a Black Panther.

 

[LowlyPion]

Look at the banner. It is the correct size and has the spacing to include the extra letter.:rofl:

Probably manufactured by non-English speaking workers in an offshore sweat shop.

These are the same people that hate NAFTA no doubt.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

This is small potatos (potatoes?) Buchanan wrote a book in which he argued that the US should not have declared war on Germany. He apparently was unaware that it was Germany that declared war on the US.

 

[arunma]

I think Peter Brimelow would call you a racist for calling him a white supremacist. He would probably try to argue white nationalist=something like a Black Panther.

And who said that black panthers aren't racists?

I think I see what you're saying. In the twenty-first century, even racism has been sexed up and politically corrected. As David Duke says, "we're not so much anti-black as we are pro-white." As bad as these guys are, they do (if inadvertently) correctly point out that all forms of excessive racial pride can turn into racism. A black nationalist isn't any better than the white supremacist.