I just Googled “Rspect” (this is Saturday morning — the gaffe happened Thursday night) and the results returned not a single mention of Obama’s gaffe. Not one. But it did have this anti-GOP blurb on the first page of results:
Watch RSPECT in the WRKO Audio … CNN’s Dana Bash accused Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) of “Mean Tweeting” when he sent out a tweet comparing the current Ukraine …
Grrr….. my mistake! Would you believe that I forgot that I’d switched search my default search engine, and Google is no longer it? My apologies to Google Inc. — (but I ‘m not switching back). FYI, it was “iquick.com,” and there’s still nothing there.
…And I also don’t like how you spell respct.
“You must rspect my authoritah!”
– Obama
Well, here’s an odd thing about unbiased Google:
I just Googled “Rspect” (this is Saturday morning — the gaffe happened Thursday night) and the results returned not a single mention of Obama’s gaffe. Not one. But it did have this anti-GOP blurb on the first page of results:
@3 – Odd… I just Googled “rspect” and Obama’s all over it.
Still, I do agree that it’s not still not getting the attention it would if a Republican had said it.
To be fair, though, this is not a Dan Quayle moment. Quayle corrected a child with his wrong spelling.
Although it wasn’t necessarily THAT wrong:
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/01/spelling-can-be-a-hot-potatoe/
The New York Times used “potatoe” in 1988 – 4 years before Quayle’s gaffe.
Grrr….. my mistake! Would you believe that I forgot that I’d switched search my default search engine, and Google is no longer it? My apologies to Google Inc. — (but I ‘m not switching back). FYI, it was “iquick.com,” and there’s still nothing there.