Read more gaffe stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/11909/gaffe.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 9:42:31 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72009/clinton-misspeaks-again-on-belfast-bombing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHillary Clinton has been caught in another war-zone exaggeration—this time, in Northern Ireland. The secretary of state told regional lawmakers that she stayed at a "bombed" hotel that was still partially boarded up in Belfast in 1995—even though the last terrorist strike there was in 1993 and the...http://www.newser.com/story/72009/clinton-misspeaks-again-on-belfast-bombing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 19 Oct 2009 7:28:15 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71772/reid-ducks-the-media-as-2010-fight-looms.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagReporters are used to getting a press conference from Harry Reid every Thursday, but since the August recess he’s been canceling them, opting instead to get the message out in more controlled environments like Senate floor speeches. A spokesman says Reid’s not intentionally hiding out, but analysts tell the Hill...http://www.newser.com/story/71772/reid-ducks-the-media-as-2010-fight-looms.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Oct 2009 8:38:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71419/joe-biden-is-obamas-best-gadfly-truth-teller.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama's suave, controlled campaign may have winced when gaffe-prone Joe Biden came aboard, but the vice president has proven himself to be a necessary straight-shooter time and again in the administration's tumultuous first nine months. From Afghanistan to health care, Biden has become Obama's most reliable "truth teller," and...http://www.newser.com/story/71419/joe-biden-is-obamas-best-gadfly-truth-teller.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 11 Oct 2009 13:20:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69958/worst-blog-name-ever.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe fine, no doubt well-intentioned people at PETA have a new blog, notes Chris Matyszczyk of CNET, and they evidently didn’t put too much thought into the name. It’s called (drum roll please): The PETA Files. At least, let’s assume they didn’t put much thought into it, because if that...http://www.newser.com/story/69958/worst-blog-name-ever.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 22 Sep 2009 9:42:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68046/great-white-hope-outcry-an-overreaction.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLynn Jenkins' remark that Republicans are seeking "the great white hope" has been blown far out of proportion, Cynthia Tucker writes in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Sure, the freshman lawmaker welcomed young GOP stars "who are, well, white," but she was just drawing on a cliché. She likely doesn't even know...http://www.newser.com/story/68046/great-white-hope-outcry-an-overreaction.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 28 Aug 2009 14:08:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65727/lighten-up-on-presidential-gaffes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSaying the Cambridge police acted "stupidly" wasn't Barack Obama's first or even worst gaffe; as president-elect he mused about Nancy Reagan séances, and he still hasn't lived down his awful joke on Jay Leno. But gaffes are okay, writes Michael Kinsley in the Washington Post —we want a president who...http://www.newser.com/story/65727/lighten-up-on-presidential-gaffes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 31 Jul 2009 9:12:22 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62580/bolivian-tvs-flight-447-photos-actually-from-lost.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn what was either a bizarre prank or heinous gaffe, a Bolivian TV station broadcast two photographs last week from the ABC series Lost as exclusive photos from the final moments of Air France Flight 447, the Telegraph reports. The first shows passengers in an aircraft cabin using oxygen masks,...http://www.newser.com/story/62580/bolivian-tvs-flight-447-photos-actually-from-lost.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 23 Jun 2009 14:23:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60784/bloomy-obama-doesnt-get-paid-that-much.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBillionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg added to a growing store of off-the-cuff comments yesterday when he defended the Obamas’ theater outing to his Big Apple by saying the president “lives on a budget,” the Times reports. Obama, who makes $400,000 a year, “does not get paid that much,...http://www.newser.com/story/60784/bloomy-obama-doesnt-get-paid-that-much.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 02 Jun 2009 12:07:17 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59021/ark-lawmaker-apologizes-for-calling-schumer-that-jew.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Republican Senate candidate in Arkansas has apologized for referring to Sen. Chuck Schumer as “that Jew” during a county GOP meeting, reports blogger Jason Tolbert of the Tolbert Report. “I don’t use a teleprompter and occasionally I put my foot in my month,” said state Sen. Kim Hendren. Told...http://www.newser.com/story/59021/ark-lawmaker-apologizes-for-calling-schumer-that-jew.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 14 May 2009 15:31:47 CDT