Shrug, Bush Jr once called our previous prez “Ansar,” something over which the Spanish press laughed for years (it happens to mean “duck” - quack, quack!).
I put it in the pile of “another American who can’t find Canada with both hands, boy do I hate it when stereotypes walk”. It’s sad when the guy in question is POTUS or a POTUS wannabe, though.
The problem for me is that if you call him a puta (which you can), you have to call him a puta estúpida, you have to be consistant on your choice of gender. What hurts my eyes is the mismatch.
The liberal media seems to ignoring this story. It can’t matter if it’s not reported.
I got the impression that not only did McCain not know who they were talking about, he didn’t really seem to grasp the concept that Spain is in Europe either.
Can you imagine the size and duration of the hedlines over this if Obama had answered the same exact question the same exact way? There would be editorials demanding he step down from the ticket.
In McCain’s defense (I think), it sounded like he misheard “Europe” for “you”
which accounted for his non-responsive response “What about me?”
I think it’s being ignored because it takes more than 10 seconds to explain. Besides, it involves Spanish-speaking people, and who gives a rat’s ass about them except that they’re taking all our jobs and clogging up our emergency rooms and sucking off welfare and, and, and…
HEAAAAAAAAAAAAVE
pant pant pant
Okay, I’ve expelled the Limbaugh miasma from my frontal lobes.
Yea my grammar needs work badly. I’m learning my spare time though. My current job has a large monolingual Spanish speaking population so now I figure is the time to learn. I’m 1/4 Latino from my dad’s side but I’ve met him for maybe a whole 10 minutes in my life. So as my Peruvian friend says I sound very “white”. To her white means anyone with a US passport (don’t matter if they’re Black, Native American, Latin, Asian, ect.).
I’m getting so I can understand enough to piece together what they’re talking about at work sometimes but my grammar and vocabulary need work.
Anyway thanks for the feedback. Silly mistake.
tl;dr: I’m working on sounding less “white”!
PS:speaking of english speakers screwing up genders there’s writing on the bathroom wall at work about how some dude wants to fuck Latino pussy. It paints an interesting image.
I reported this incident to my (American living in Spain) friend and this is what she had to say:
It is quite scary really that the guy who might be invading some country just for shits & giggles cannot tell countries apart and might end up invading the wrong country. Sometimes The Onion just doesn’t seem so funny: The Onion | America's Finest News Source.