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…the Republican nomination in other years. A man whose serial gaffes and willingness to stick his thumb in the eye of the gatekeepers of good taste would be cooked before…

…They’re constantly vacillating between “what about your gaffes?” gotcha journalism and credulously discounting self-interested motivations by preferred politicians. On an individual level, the fact that this I’m-sorry-if-I-offended-you non-admission of wrongdoing…

…sail over the heads of a good chunk of our media that are ready at any moment to revert to a “what about your gaffes?” posture with any and all…

…to renounce him, saying they do not intend to vote for their party’s nominee. Trump’s constant stream of embarrassing gaffes and policy flip flops add more fuel to the fire….

…I’d be dating her.” Grudem writes these off as “careless statements” exaggerated by a “hostile press.” But who can honestly believe all these statements are merely gaffes? A few weeks…

Earlier this week, I published a piece about my disappointment at the Libertarian Party candidates Gary Johnson and Bill Weld over two major gaffes in which they failed to stand…

…reliant on context-free snippets of information and entertaining spectacles and gaffes. “Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without…

…many gaffes Trump continued to commit over the course of his campaign. A lot of journalists opened Tuesday morning believing these efforts had been successful: the electorate was informed. The…

…a political media that has never cared to understand, much less fairly explain, conservative viewpoints, instead running after Republican politicians shouting “What about your gaffes!” Yes, if you rudely dismiss…

…free of scandal. The helpful folks over at Grabien have compiled a list of the Obama administration’s worst scandals and gaffes. So far there are 730 of them, but for…

…bound by the rules that normally restrict the way politicians act and speak. Trump has profited from that same factor, which enabled him to survive a host of gaffes that…

…ego-driven foreign policy gaffes — there’s your Trump, Resisters! Granted, if you want to convince average voters that it’s worth removing Trump from office via military coup, you’ll probably have…

…say.” By this standard, Trump is constantly issuing gaffes. No one was supposed to point out that Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony and various versions of events were riddled with errors,…

…What Vukmir Can Learn for Next Time From her side, Vukmir could have punched harder, but there were no major gaps or gaffes in her self-presentation. She certainly looked like…

…out of proportion with its command of basic facts. Recall Ocasio-Cortez’s epic stream of unforced gaffes this summer, which made her look more like the freshman who comes home from…

…his gaffes and sins as a way of intimating his hypocrisy. “Trump has also admitted to making hush money payments to women alleging affairs with him while he was married…

…gaffes, his self-importance, his oddly dispirited dog, his social media, his very naughty cursing, his edgy adult skateboarding, his sheep costume, and maybe some other stuff.) The mountain of media…

…gaffes, to which he is prone. Joe Biden There is a lot of opportunity in the grouping for Biden to solidify his place as the frontrunner best able to take…

…of answering in one voice, but Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ilhan Omar are. They are capable of gaffes, and saying the quiet part out loud. Much like Cheney and Rumsfeld, they…

…Trump, the past few weeks have been, well, pretty normal. In June he had a very normal state visit to England with no real gaffes. For the Fourth of July…

…“[Biden] misspoke and immediately corrected himself during a refrain he often uses.” Biden is well known for his gaffes. In the previous Democratic debates, he asked voters to go to…

…Democratic nominee at 31 percent. He is 15.2 points ahead of the second-highest Democrat, Bernie Sanders, who is currently polling at 15.8 percent. Thus far, Biden’s gaffes have yet to…

…also made quite a few of his trademark gaffes, doing little to ease concerns about the 76-year-old candidate’s age and sharpness to take on President Donald Trump next fall. Read…

…as she raises her profile). Yet a steady drip of media stories about Biden’s gaffes and misstatements keeps him from sealing the deal with primary voters or earning the confidence…

…cycle. Biden has made a series of back-to-back gaffes in the past month, bringing renewed doubts about the former vice president’s age and sharpness in the race, at 76 years…

…trademark gaffes. Biden’s message of whether people are automatically enrolled or must opt in to expanded Obamacare was unclear. Biden said: The option I’m proposing is Medicare for all —…

…years younger than Sanders. Biden’s consistent gaffes have led people to question his suitability for office, but the same is rarely asked of Sanders. Sanders’ emergency stent surgery is his…

…hall, it is likely Biden was claiming to have gone to school there given his own history of exaggerating his record on civil rights and his summer of gaffes. He’s…

…whether it was the medical school or where the hell I spoke. But it was on the campus.” https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1166035100389142530?s=20 Read a running list of Biden’s gaffes throughout the campaign here….

…about personality than gaffes. Trump says things that people don’t like, but he’s funny, and doesn’t take everything seriously. Bevin, surely a nice guy, came off like a grump. All…

…gaffes have repeatedly shown his age on the trail and raised concerns about his fitness for office. From forgetting California Senator Kamala Harris on the debate stage last month, to…

…hated for the same reason: because they’re successful. Limbaugh revolutionized talk radio and spawned a generation of fierce conservatives. Some people hate Trump and mock everything from his geography gaffes…

…remarkable lack of energy on the campaign trail and a growing penchant for gaffes and lashing out at voters. (On Sunday, he called a woman who asked a tough question…

…it was a typo. Given her now long list of other gaffes, it’s hard not to dismiss her expertise. But Ocasio-Cortez went to Boston University. Perhaps things are looking better…

…the challenges ahead in his old age and has only sewn further doubts by proceeding through the campaign with a series of gaffes and slip-ups raising the anxieties of those…

…some great reporting on the former vice president’s flaws, even from major corporate outlets. But there’s no question the press will stretch to defend Biden’s gaffes while also stretching to…