How did the president come up with the Toledo error? It’s a mystery, because he was allegedly reading, but the teleprompter had the correct info. (See below.)

5 thoughts on “Toledo?

  1. Or to be more cynical. It is happening so often and frequently that it is hard for anyone to keep track. I often joke that we should keep the flags at permanent half mast until two weeks go by without a tragedy

  2. Having made the same kind of error and based on the teleprompter – I’m willing to bet the T in Texas, and Ohio led to the Toledo comment. These kind of errors are unfortunate when it involves a tragedy, but I agree with Creeder that too big of a deal is being made.

  3. The media and political opponents on both sides make way too big a deal out of ordinary slips of the tongue. I’ve worked with high level political and showbiz figures and have done a lot of public speaking myself. Sometimes the wrong word just slips out. Doesn’t mean you’re stupid or senile. It can happen to anyone, particularly if you’re tired, distracted, nervous, under pressure or have given the same speech so many times that the words have lost all meaning.

    Hell, I write for a living and type all day long, but when I finish, I have to do very careful proofreading because I’ve often been thinking of one word but typed another (in the first paragraph of this post, I initially typed “dead” when I meant “deal” and “pubic” instead of “public.”) If the people who try to make a federal case out of this were forced to keep track of all the times they do it themselves in a day, maybe they’d knock off the harping about it. Wait, did I type “harping?” I mean “carping.”

    1. Some people have suggested that he has vision problems, but is too vain to wear his glasses when the camera is on him reading from the teleprompter.

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