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How many votes did Obama just lose in Florida?

While speaking at a fundraiser in Miami President Obama congratulated the "Heats" for winning the NBA Finals. Apparently the President, whom the media have built up as a huge basketball fan, doesn't know the actual name of Miami's basketball team.

Let's go to the videotape.



What to make of the President's gaffe (the team is called the Miami Heat)?

ABC News called it an “apparent slip of the tongue,” saying: “At the top of his remarks at the Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami Beach, Obama said his public recognition of dignitaries and special guests would be ‘incomplete if I did not congratulate the city of Miami for having the world champion Miami Heats here in town.’”

But radio giant Rush Limbaugh says while the utterance is getting some coverage today, “I don’t know that they are making the right big deal about it.”

Limbaugh believes it was an intentional insult to Miami Heat fans, likening it to Obama flipping them the middle finger.

“I think what you need to know is, this is how, in certain sectors, you insult people,” Limbaugh explained. “You mispronounce the name of their team. You remember, you’ve seen during the campaign in 2008, Obama would scratch his face only with his flip-the-bird finger while talking about McCain? That’s what this was. He was flipping the bird to Heat fans by calling them the Heats.”

He said because Obama himself is a fan of the game, the incident was completely intentional:

“Barack Obama is a huge NBA fan. His team is the Chicago ‘Bull.’ That’s his team. The Chicago ‘Bull.’ The Bulls. People are asking, does he really not know that the name of the champion, NBA champion, team is the Miami Heat? Does he really not know that? I mean he does think it’s ‘Cominsky’ Park in Chicago. Folks, he knows it’s not the Miami Heats.”

There's never a dull moment on the White House beat, is there?

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Campaign 2012

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:16 PM