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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Ben on December 11, 2013, 08:04:28 PM
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A "sign language interpreter" at the Mandela memorial was apparently a fake, making nonsense gestures with his hands. Pic at the link has him standing right next to Obama. Fine security they got going there. :)
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/11/mandela-memorial-interpreter-deemed-fake/
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I'm sure Obama's Whitehouse had him vetted.
I have gotten a kick out of all the feigned outrage about the "news' outlets ridiculing the fake interpreter being taken as ridiculing hearing impaired people.
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I'm sure Obama's Whitehouse had him vetted.
It's his cousin's sister's nephew's kid.
And meanwhile, all over the middle east, AQ guys are beating their heads on cave walls.
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Today's nooz has him saying 1) he's schitzophrenic, 2) he was hearing voices, and 3) he's sorry.
As for #2 above - :facepalm:
Oh, wait! Maybe he meant he was hearing voices from his schitzophrenia. Given the setting, I would think ot kind of difficult to tell if the voices in your head were real or not.
Neither he nor the company that hired him are releasing any details about his qualifications as an interpreter.
And the world is all atwitter about how the Secret Service slipped up and allowed this nutjob to stand right next to the Prez. Why, the guy might have turned around and killed him. How did our background checking system fail? Heads need to roll!
stay safe.
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I'm sure Obama's Whitehouse had him vetted.
I have gotten a kick out of all the feigned outrage about the "news' outlets ridiculing the fake interpreter being taken as ridiculing hearing impaired people.
No, South African government.
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http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/12/world/africa/mandela-memorial-fake-intepreter/ (http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/12/world/africa/mandela-memorial-fake-intepreter/)
Apparently the guy has his own private sign language, since no one else seems able to understand it. Maybe it's just a thick accent? In any case he seems to think he knows what he's doing. Even if nobody else does.
Just goes to show delusion knows no bounds.
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According to the ABC news, the interpreter now says he has schizophrenia and was hallucinating. He had been used as a signing interpreter before by the SA Government.
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The Emporer has no clothes.
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If Obama had an interpreter, he'd look like this guy.
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According to the ABC news, the interpreter now says he has schizophrenia and was hallucinating. He had been used as a signing interpreter before by the SA Government.
And he was totally making it up then too... :rofl:
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Who cares what Obama has to say anyway? ;/ :P
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at least the interpreter has a job! =D
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I'll just leave this here...
(https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1507955_462826957157426_1444612766_n.jpg)
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If Obama had an interpreter, he'd look like this guy.
Made me laugh out loud, disrupting my class during test time.
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Is it me, or did that guy just flip obama off behind his back???
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Is it me, or did that guy just flip obama off behind his back???
He was just interpreting for the voices in his head.
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Actually, he interpreted everything Obama said quite accurately. It's just that Obama never makes any sense.
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He didn't mean to sign nonsense. He was accurately interpreting what all those politicians were saying.
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Found a replacement interpreter, watch the videp (http://www.buzzfeed.com/maycie/watch-this-kindergartener-sign-her-class-holiday-concert-as)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoE2cLSjUmo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoE2cLSjUmo)
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The movie will be produced in Hong Kong by John woo. "The replacement killer interpreters."
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Something about our President-in-Chief is Fake? Tell me it isn't so!
This is a distillation of the whole history of 0.'s administration.
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Found a replacement interpreter, watch the videp (http://www.buzzfeed.com/maycie/watch-this-kindergartener-sign-her-class-holiday-concert-as)
Awesome!
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My first thought when the story broke;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Q0cyJSs04
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There's some noise that gang-sign guy has had contact with the legal establishment regarding, among other things, murder.
I am well aware that the greater responsibility for vetting anybody that gets near the dignitaries, let alone onto the stage next to any political personage, rests with the other USA. But, as some few pundits have been inquiring, were our SS guys out chasing hookers again instead of either cross-checking or pulling the guy off the stage when it became apparent he was not legit?
And just because I'm lazy, would someone answer this question that's been gnawing at my frontal cortex ever since the story broke: Was gang-sign guy on stage just for Obama's speech/oration/eulogy/bragfest?
stay safe.
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From what I have seen, he was there for the entire thing.
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If Obama had an interpreter, he'd look like this guy.
Literally LOL
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My first thought when the story broke;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Q0cyJSs04
That is fitting!
Ah, the golden age of SNL. I remember hearing that bars were losing a lot of money on Saturday nights because of that show.
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It's all, somehow, Dubya's fault.
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That's what I thought he said.
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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/16/bogus-sign-language-interpreter-at-mandela-memorial-was-in-group-that-burned/?intcmp=latestnews
(http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/16/bogus-sign-language-interpreter-at-mandela-memorial-was-in-group-that-burned/?intcmp=latestnews)
A relative and three friends of the bogus sign language interpreter at the Nelson Mandela memorial service say he was among a group of people who accosted two men found with a stolen television and burned them to death in 2003.
They told The Associated Press that tires were placed around the men's necks and set ablaze. Unlike two other suspects who went to trial in 2006 for the killings, the four said on Monday that Thamsanqa Jantjie never did because authorities determined he wasn't mentally fit.