How would the US and UK media report this sort of "mistake" if it had been made by George W. Bush or John McCain?

That's Barack Obama saying he had visited 57 US States so far, had one more to visit and would unfortunately be unable to visit Hawaii or Alaska. Not a peep from CBS, ABC etc. in the US and certainly nothing from the BBC in the UK. Can you imagine the sheer joy these media outlets would have taken if this had been a Republican politician making the same mistake? Remember the constant broadcasting of the video of Dan Quayle misspelling "potato" and of George Bush trying to exit through a locked door after a press conference. Surely all Americans know how many States there are in the Union, 50. I await Barack Obama's explanation for this piece of video; maybe like Hillary Clinton he "misspoke", maybe he's actually an idiot or maybe (like so many left wing politicians) he's so used to exaggerating statistics that he does it automatically now.


The media "narrative" is that Republican politicians are stupid and so anyone who votes for them must be stupid, whereas Democrat politicians are good honest people as are people who vote for them A verbal slip by a Republican shows stupidity, a lack of knowledge by a Democrat shows tiredness or just isn't worth mentioning.





Thanks to Instapundit for the spot.