If someone misspeaks does it always mean that they are revealing what they were trying to hide?

[LoZoccolo]

[Bluebear]

1. What a shock that you would jump into this one.

[arcane1]

2. Is this about Obama saying "my Muslim faith"?

:silly:

[Sinistrous]

3. Some folks are infatuated with the notion of the "Freudian Slip".

Each instance of misspeaking should be evaluated in its own context.

[Posteritatis]

4. Ahhh, DU polls. (nt)

[Iggo]

5. 'Misspeak'...that word needs to go away.

The people who use it as an excuse look like bigger idiots than they would if they'd just said "Look, I'm a big fucking idiot."

[CTyankee]

9. It should be replaced with "my words were confusing and/or contradictory and I apologize. Here's

what I meant to say."

At least, in the Dick Blumenthal context, I think that is what happened. For instance, in one speech he is talking to Viet Vets and he says "When we came home from Vietnam..." I think he meant "we" in the collective but since he was not really a part of that collective he should have expressed it more clearly. But he IS a Vietnam era veteran so he is speaking as a veteran here. This is where it would be better to change the wording around that acknowledges the difference, while still legitimately a veteran of that era's war and someone who lived thru that era...

[mmonk]

6. No.

[cbdo2007]

7. It doesn't matter what someone says, it's how they're heard.

[Curmudgeoness]

8. I sure hope not, since I am guilty all the time of this. My brain

moves way faster than my mouth, or the other way around.