Bloopers

This section will contain a collection of amusing bloopers and malapropisms:
Ø Malapropisms and Word Mangling
Ø No President Left Behind
Ø Oops, they really did know better
Ø Post Headers they Never Meant to Say
Ø Spell-checkers write the darndest things!
Ø Spell-checkers miss the darndest things!
Ø World Hysteria

Palindrones

Yes, I did mean to write palindrones.

We need not have feared that Republican bloopers and malapropisms would end with Dubya's term.

"There’s no question that Bill Ayers, via his own admittance, was, um, one who sought to destroy our US Capital and our Pentagon. That is a domestic terrorist." ~ Sarah Palin, when questioned whether those who bomb abortion clinics are terrorists.

"...via his own admittance"??? Through his own conferring the right to enter??? Through his own being permitted to enter???

Clearly, she meant to say, "by his own admission."

Interesting that aside from the malapropism, Sarah tried to shift the question from the bombers of abortion clinics (scarcely liberal activities) and onto the irrelevant case of a left-wing activist in the early 1970s.

"During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, a controversy arose regarding Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama's contact with Bill Ayers, a Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a former leader of the Weather Underground.[1]" [wiki]

Her handlers had presumably primed her with this information. She would not want to alienate Republicans by coming out against anti-abortion extremists, and could scarcely pass up the opportunity to impugn Obama by association. Compared to attempting to incite hatred against Obama through the deliberate telling of lies, this is mild stuff.

Neologisms

We love neologisms and those new phrases that pop into the language to describe evolving trends. This site will also contain bloopers, malapropisms, puns, and quotes.