That’s Michael Tomasky’s headline over at the Daily Beast where he’s wringing his hands that The One made a mistake:
For Obama to refer to a “Polish death camp” is just ghastly. How in the world could that happen? Some callow kid in the speechwriting office didn’t know the difference? His or her boss also didn’t know? And what of Obama? I will assume that he does know better. But he said the words.
Assuming he knew it was wrong when it was coming out of his mouth, why didn’t he just stop and say: “You know, Mr. Karski, it says here ‘Polish death camp,’ so that’s what I said, but I want to correct that. We all know that these were German camps.” That’s all. Easy peasy. He really should have just taken charge of the moment there and shown some honesty and candor.
Seriously. With over three years of empirical evidence that Obama’s only compelling talent is reading what has been put before him on a teleprompter, journalists still can’t believe that Obama simply isn’t the man they so desperately want him to be.
But it’s important and it’s embarrassing. Yes–it’s the first time he’s ever embarrassed me as president.
What an ignoramus. Even I know Obama meant “Death Camps in Poland” and not “Polish Death Camps.” But setting that aside, this is the first time Tomasky is embarrassed by Obama? And it’s so egregious that Obama needs to issue a correction?!
I would beseech you people to encouarge [sic] the boss to correct this record. To take a moment to say at an upcoming event, “You know, I said something really terribly wrong last week, and I want to correct it.” And go on to explain why it’s important that he do so. That would actually play very well politically–for people to see a politician admit to an error, in public like that! But that is not why I propose it. I propose it because it’s right.
Yes, he actually wrote, “beseech.” And yes, this is Obama’s only error, ever. And it requires immediate correction. And yes, “critical thinkers” like Tomasky believe they’re objective in covering Obama while they call me racist for my dissent. I have different words for these media elites:
Corrupt. Sycophant. Ideologue. Incurious. And negligent.