A gaffe this week by failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ranks right up there with Sarah Palin’s “I can see Russia from my front porch” line.
…except Hillary actually said it, whereas Palin never did — it was actually actress Tina Fey, in Sarah Palin persona, who uttered the infamous phrase.
Doing the media rounds to plug her book, Clinton was in the comfortable environs of “The Rachel Maddow Show” when she criticized President Donald Trump’s handling of the threat posed by North Korea.
“The president has basically insulted and attacked South Korea. South Korea is literally, you know, within miles of the border with North Korea,” she told Maddow, who nodded in agreement.
“They would be so at risk if something were done by Kim Jong Un.”
‘South Korea Is Literally Within Miles of the Border With North Korea’
Hillary Rodham Clinton#ctot @HillaryClinton @msnbc pic.twitter.com/tASmj8K9z0
— BoogieFinger (@boogiefinger) September 16, 2017
The embarrassing remark is comical, given the two countries border one another. And it comes from a woman who went on to call Trump “a clear and present danger to our country.”
Clinton’s comment about insulting South Korea was a reference to a tweet earlier this month by Trump that read: “South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/904309527381716992
The unmerciful ridicule directed at Palin by much of the media over the “front porch” remark from Fey was quick to come to mind for social media users.
Here’s a sampling of responses from Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Murphyms73/status/909077434951139329
And they talked about @SarahPalinUSA from a "quote" she never made. https://t.co/eXEpPjjCFl
— Rick Shaftan (@Shaftan) September 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/WhoWolfe/status/908766150036779008
The smartest woman in the world said "South Korea is, literally, you know, within miles of the border with North… https://t.co/NAnn6uNj54
— Father Peter West (@fr_pwest) September 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/TrumptasticUSA/status/908727721332678656
https://twitter.com/AFutureFree/status/908727267932721152
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The longest-tenured writer at BizPac Review, Tom grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills.
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