Romney: The “sheik temple” and the “sheik people.”

[Ichingcarpenter]

Mitt Romney mistakenly confused the words “Sikh” and “sheik” at a fundraiser here Tuesday night when he offered his condolences to the victims of last weekend’s shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee correctly spoke of the Sikh religion earlier in the day when he observed a moment of silence at a campaign event in Illinois. But at the Iowa fundraiser, he instead talked about the “sheik temple” and the “sheik people.” Sheik is an Arabic honorific, whereas Sikh is a religion with roots in South Asia.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/romney-confuses-sikh-with-sheik/2012/08/07/10beaba6-e0fc-11e1-a19c-fcfa365396c8_story.html

The Moron Religion and the Moron Temple in Utah....opps, sorry about that.

[Drunken Irishman]

1. He was just fantasizing about this guy...

[Berlum]

2. "I really meant to say 'the chic people'" - Willard (R)

"But 'you people' -- you smelly American proles -- just wouldn't know the first thing about us elite 'chic people' so it's all your damn fault that I was made to mis-speak. Now I have to do yet another freaking public Republican Etch-a-Sketch routine. Sigh. You people make me disgustipating."

- Willard (R)

[JHB]

6. The chic people at the shirley temple

Isn't he supposed to have had an education?

[Berlum]

7. "You so cute." - Shirl (R)

WIKIPEDIA - Following her venture into television, Temple became active in the Republican Party in California, where, in 1967, she ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in a special election to fill a vacant seat. She ran as a conservative and lost to liberal Republican Pete McCloskey, a staunch opponent of the Vietnam War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Temple#Political_ambitions

[Fawke Em]

42. Hey! I have a beagle and he's certainly not a member of the tea party!

He's too smart for that and he's still a puppy!

[charlie]

3. It's pretty clear by now

Mitt is too fucking arrogant to be vetted by his campaign handlers. It must be killing him, coming off as dumber than Dubya when he's doing everything right, ie, HIS WAY.

Hey Mitt, you're a Moleman, right? I heard about you guys, you live under a salt lake or something, right?

[SammyWinstonJack]

37. Moleman. LOL!

[JHB]

4. How does a man get to his age and position without knowing that?

He's a CEO. He travels the world. All you have to do is pay attention and... Oh, wait, question answered.

[kitt6]

8. question answered.

America, don't let this happen. The American people have been through enough with W.

[KurtNYC]

16. He rejects all criticism of hmself as invalid.

He sees nothing wrong with impersonating police officers, strapping dogs to car roofs, tripping his children in footraces, etc. The things he does which are selfish and mean spirited he characterizes as "pranks."

This is the true meaning of spoiled -- incapable of empathy.

[nxylas]

25. Spoiled?

It's the true meaning of sociopathic.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. 30 million Sikhs vs 14 million morons worldwide

The religion is also twice as old BTW.

Did I just misspell Mormon again?
Sorry about that.

[truebluegreen]

12. Shriek n/t

[enough]

9. He is an ignoramus, a rube, pure and simple. (nt)

[Douglas Carpenter]

10. Sheik, Sikh, what they hell difference does it make anyway ? Arabs are Arabs

[RebelOne]

34. Sikhs are not Arabs. You are just as ignorant as Romney.

A Sikh (/siːk/ or /sɪk/; Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ, sikkh [sɪkkʰ]) is a follower of Sikhism, a religion that originated in the 15th century in the Punjab region of South Asia. The term "Sikh" has its origin in Sanskrit term शिष्य (śiṣya), meaning disciple, student, or शिक्ष (śikṣa) ("instruction&quot .[24][25] A Sikh is a disciple/subject of the Guru.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh

[mrs_p]

36. Psst. I think it was sarcasm.

[RebelOne]

44. I hope so. n/t

[magical thyme]

38. I suspect he just left off the :sarcasm: icon

it struck me as a pretty blatant snark at Romney/GOP thought processes....

[Douglas Carpenter]

41. Frankly, I lived in the Middle East half my life - it NEVER would have occurred to me that I would

need to use the sarcasm icon for someone to understand the point I was making

[Tanuki]

11. He was too busy assaulting gay classmates,

detaining motorists in a stolen Michigan state police uniform, and counter-protesting in favor of a war he himself actively avoided. He apparently didn't have time to learn anything when he was in school. You can lead a dressage horse to water...

[Odin2005]

13. Another sign of Alzheimers?

[SalviaBlue]

55. I'm starting to get inboard with this explanation.

[Skidmore]

14. Or perhaps he meant to confuse the two groups of

Sikhs and Muslims. Seems like a pretty good dog whistle to his basest base.

[dogknob]

15. Don't forget The Moron Tabernacle Choir (classic Kliban pic)

[sofa king]

17. I wonder if it was a deliberate mistake.

The last schmuck, eh, we all would have known that the guy had no idea what he was talking about and had further garbled it with his inability to speak coherently.

This guy is a much smarter version of the same narcissist. So I am wondering if he did it deliberately to toss some raw meat to the wingnuts.

[dogknob]

33. Out-of-touch white men have been mispronouncing things to indicate disrepect for a long, long time.

Anybody remember Noah Cross in Chinatown?

This tactic is even older than that film, however.

[sofa king]

43. Heh. Winston Churchill did it.

[iemitsu]

54. sofa king, i think that romney's mis-speaking indicates

that he is not a reader. he has heard both words but does not recognize the different pronunciations because he has not seen the words spelled.
if he had seen them spelled he would not have difficulty enunciating them correctly.

one would think that as a member of a minority religion. romney would have shown the respect and interest in the sikh religion to have gotten the name right.

[sofa king]

56. Interesting idea.

That made me ask the question, how does Romney get his information? And then I realized that he's so rich that he's probably got a guy for that if he doesn't like to read.

Now I wonder if he's more like George Bush than I thought he was, and takes in is information from a cloud of insiders who tell him mostly what he wants to hear.

But he's too gifted a liar not to have studied others in detail. So I'm going to guess that he studies the things that fall within the realm of the profitable, and little else.

[iemitsu]

57. i have wondered about romney's educational success before.

i think you may be right that he has others do much of his thinking for him while he has only focused on how to get other's money.

[KurtNYC]

18. Romney just doesn't give a shit.

He is neck deep in lies and the phoniness and he is worn out by this campaign. He has even backed off the 'Just for Men' as we can see by the additional gray showing after his european charm tour.

If he has to comment on something like the temple shooting he knows he has to fake being concerned but he isn't. He didn't bother to learn the name of the religion involved because he doesn't really care.

[magical thyme]

39. this ^^^^

I noticed the newly gray temples, too.

[TrogL]

19. Welcome to another "bozo moment"

We had an election full of them up here and it made a difference. The party the polls swore up and down were going to form the next government never even came close and the opposition party that didn't put their foot in it gained seats.

Hopefully after a diet of Bushisms and now Romneyisms people will understand "not fit to govern".

[spanone]

20. he's just as incurious as george junior

[AtomicKitten]

21. Yah he'd be a wizard at foreign policy. Yikes. nt

[ZombieHorde]

22. When doing many public speaking gigs, mistakes like this are very likely.

All politicians misspeak from time to time. It is not really different than Obama saying he has been to 57 States. The biggest difference is the shooting is more sensitive.

[phm]

23. he said it twice!

that was no "misspoken" comment.. maybe "mittspoken"?

[Don C. Nuttin]

24. aarrrgghhhh

Persona non grata in Italy. Going on India, Pakistan, and the Arabian Peninsula. Guess he's not going to be a "foreign policy" President.

[El Supremo]

26. What a Moroni!

[kestrel91316]

29. That's actually the angel Gabriel blowing his horn atop the Mormon temple in SLC.

[El Supremo]

31. Oh?

Cyrus Dallin sculpted the first angel which was identified as Moroni.[citation needed] This angel was placed on the Salt Lake Temple during the capstone ceremony on April 6, 1892, one year to the day before the temple was dedicated. Dallin's design is a dignified, neoclassical angel in robe and cap, standing upright with a trumpet in hand. It stands 3.8 meters high, was molded in hammered copper from the plaster original, and covered with 22-karat gold leaf.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Moroni

[kestrel91316]

32. How odd. When I lived in UT in the 70s everyone I knew said that was the angel Gabriel.

And virtually everyone I knew was Mormon.

[El Supremo]

40. Did you ever hear this one?

"There stands old Brigham up on his perch, with his face toward the bank and his ass toward the church"

[Cleita]

27. Really? You think it was a mistake?

I think it was dog whistle code expressed to his brain deprived supporters. All they will hear in their minds is "muslim".

[kestrel91316]

30. I think it's a Freudian slip - he probably can't personally see much difference between

Arabs and Sikhs, so why bother to get it right?

[arely staircase]

28. more signs the aliens didnt program their machime perfectly

I think we are probably safe.

[progressivebydesign]

35. I'm sure his campaign folks just happy he didn't say Shrek. n/t

[maxsolomon]

45. I honestly think he'd never heard of Sikhs until he had to comment on this shooting.

If you're a lazy reader your brain's going to put that H where it makes a word you're heard: Sheik.

[sakabatou]

46. *facepalm*

[ProfessionalLeftist]

47. Heard a wing nut co-worker do the same yesterday

Called them "sheik" people. I consider it a winghut slur at this point.

[AsahinaKimi]

48. This sounds like something Sarah Palin would say...

Where did Romney go to College?

"Harvard Business School (1975), Harvard Law School (1975), Brigham Young University (1971), Stanford University, Cranbrook Schools"

Really???....



Masaka!.. sonna baka na

[DFW]

49. Imagine the ultimate "President Romney OH NO moment:"

"OOPS. I sent the military to the Punjab to protect oil production and ordered curry from the Saudis!!"

[marble falls]

50. He meant "chic".

[NRaleighLiberal]

51. first thing I thought about when I heard his error....

[NJCher]

52. how did he pronounce it?

Did he pronounce it "sheik" as in "shake?" Or "seek?"

Sikhs want the name of their religion to be pronounced as "sick," so he's doubly wrong here.


Cher

[LeftinOH]

53. As a devout Mormon, the only religion he knows about is his own..

He probably hasn't the slightest idea what "Sikh" means or where they come from; Joseph Smith didn't mention them, and there's nothing in the Golden Tablets about "Sikhs" (or "sheiks", for that matter).

[patrice]

58. Proof: He can't, as in "is completely incapable", CANNOT. Give. A. Shit.