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Gary Johnson: What is Allepo?

"First the paper called Aleppo the capital of Islamic State. That's wrong, the black-clad jihadists' stronghold is Raqqa. Then, the story changed Aleppo's descriptor to "the capital of Syria." Wrong again.

Maybe the Times will find it in its heart to go a little easier on the next candidate who "stumbles."

As for Johnson, he issued a correction of his own.
“This morning, I began my day by setting aside any doubt that I’m human,” Johnson said in a statement. “Yes, I understand the dynamics of the Syrian conflict—I talk about them every day. But hit with ‘What about Aleppo?’, I immediately was thinking about an acronym, not the Syrian conflict. I blanked. It happens, and it will happen again during the course of this campaign.”
For Gary Johnson, a major gaffe; for New York Times, a pair of corrections | Fox News

Ah, yes, the NYT and MSNBC. Two straight from the DNC. But, the NYT frequently cut people slack providing they have the right politics.
 
I don't like the gotcha aspect of this. So Allepo escaped his brain for a bit. When clarified, he answered. I also didn't think it was fair for the "news" to pretend like they needed to test GWB back in the day with "who is the president of X country?" Its not their job to be condescending pricks about such things. The important thing for the "news" to find out is how someone would handle a particular issue.
 
Patrickt said:
"First the paper called Aleppo the capital of Islamic State. That's wrong, the black-clad jihadists' stronghold is Raqqa. Then, the story changed Aleppo's descriptor to "the capital of Syria." Wrong again.

Maybe the Times will find it in its heart to go a little easier on the next candidate who "stumbles."

As for Johnson, he issued a correction of his own.
“This morning, I began my day by setting aside any doubt that I’m human,” Johnson said in a statement. “Yes, I understand the dynamics of the Syrian conflict—I talk about them every day. But hit with ‘What about Aleppo?’, I immediately was thinking about an acronym, not the Syrian conflict. I blanked. It happens, and it will happen again during the course of this campaign.”
For Gary Johnson, a major gaffe; for New York Times, a pair of corrections | Fox News

Ah, yes, the NYT and MSNBC. Two straight from the DNC. But, the NYT frequently cut people slack providing they have the right politics.
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The NYT - who were so quick to call this very minor incident fatal to Johnson's campaign - subsequently published an article for the benefit of its readers to answer the question What is Aleppo (apparently NYT readers don't know either) where the NYT made 3 more mistakes about what Aleppo is.

Will this now be fatal to the NYT as a news source?
 
Mark F.: "Will this now be fatal to the NYT as a news source?"

The NYT hasn't been a news source for years. It's as much a news source as was Pravda under the communists in the USSR. And, no, it won't be fatal. Lying in promoting the propaganda isn't seen as a negative by the leftists.
 
cpwill said:
I am

A) a news junkie and
B) follow this stuff professionally (agreeably not by watching television).

Name the last day that Aleppo dominated an American news cycle.
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Moot said:
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Yup, that's been the biggest play in recent history. All these people coming out of the woodwork talking about how it's been in the news cycle continuously for years now aren't really being honest. Aleppo has been in war for some time, it has been reported sporadically over the years. But continued, front page coverage hasn't really ticked up til recently. The picture of the kid was the longest sustained news in American press for some time.

In the end, he made a gaffe, should have known, blanked, admitted it and apologized for it. I don't think you're going to get a more stand up character than Johnson has shown here to admit to his mistakes and try to fix them.
 
cpwill said:
I am

A) a news junkie and
B) follow this stuff professionally (agreeably not by watching television).

Name the last day that Aleppo dominated an American news cycle.
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Not only did Aleppo never dominate an American news cycle, it has barely been mentioned on the very show where this happened. I watch Morning Joe every day. They hardly mention Aleppo. Mika has to spend the first 90 minutes getting her panties twisted because of whatever Trump said the night before or because Paul Ryan isn't coming out calling Trump a disgusting Neanderthal or because she thinks a man gets paid more than she does.
 
Ikari said:
Yup, that's been the biggest play in recent history. All these people coming out of the woodwork talking about how it's been in the news cycle continuously for years now aren't really being honest. Aleppo has been in war for some time, it has been reported sporadically over the years. But continued, front page coverage hasn't really ticked up til recently. The picture of the kid was the longest sustained news in American press for some time.

In the end, he made a gaffe, should have known, blanked, admitted it and apologized for it. I don't think you're going to get a more stand up character than Johnson has shown here to admit to his mistakes and try to fix them.
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It is your right to be blissfully wrong/uninformed. Even a casual purveyor of international news (which you are self admittedly not) would have heard about Aleppo before last week.

I wonder if you were aware that N Korea has been testing nuclear weapons over the years or has it not been in the news cycle till just recently
 
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Ikari said:
Yup, that's been the biggest play in recent history. All these people coming out of the woodwork talking about how it's been in the news cycle continuously for years now aren't really being honest. Aleppo has been in war for some time, it has been reported sporadically over the years. But continued, front page coverage hasn't really ticked up til recently. The picture of the kid was the longest sustained news in American press for some time.

In the end, he made a gaffe, should have known, blanked, admitted it and apologized for it. I don't think you're going to get a more stand up character than Johnson has shown here to admit to his mistakes and try to fix them.
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Someone on this thread made a good point earlier....If Johnson wants to get noticed by the media, he should make more mistakes. After all, that seems to be all we hear about the other candidates.
 
Moot said:
Someone on this thread made a good point earlier....If Johnson wants to get noticed by the media, he should make more mistakes. After all, that seems to be all we hear about the other candidates.
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That does seem to be the way to make your way in the Press these days, unfortunately.
 
Rico Suave said:
Even a casual purveyor of international news (which you are self admittedly not)
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Quote? Or are you just making intellectually dishonest arguments again?
 
Ikari said:
That does seem to be the way to make your way in the Press these days, unfortunately.
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Politics is downstream from culture. Welcome to Reality TV Politics. We'll probably be here a while :(.

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Ikari said:
Quote? Or are you just making intellectually dishonest arguments again?
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you had not heard of Aleppo till last week. Ipso facto and honestly you are not a purveyor of international news.
 
Moot said:
You mean you've never looked at a map of Syria to see where ISIS lives and where or why millions of refugees are fleeing the ME and flooding into Europe? Not even an ounce of curiosity? To be frank...that is kind of disturbing.
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But not surprising Moot. Syria's civil war is the worst humanitarian crisis of our time, (well mine at least). It's not unreasonable to expect that a Presidential Candidate should know where Aleppo is. Regarding others, the anti refugee crowd are pretty vocal about not doing anything to help the refugees and unsympathetic to their plight and have been pretty open in their disdain for these people overall. They care nothing about them so it's not surprising they wouldn't know what has been happening in places like Homs, Aleppo and Damascus or likely never heard of them.

Probably should also go without saying that I find the mockery going on in this thread regarding Aleppo, thus downplaying the very real suffering people are experiencing there, beyond disgusting.
 
Sherman123 said:
Because it's one of the central issues of the Syrian conflict and therefore US foreign policy and international focus. Ideally our President would at least know what it is.
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^^^ Yes, This.

Thank you.
 
MaggieD said:
I've never heard of Aleppo. Never seen it in a post on DP.
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There's been 731 references to Aleppo on the forum in the last 12 months here at DP alone Maggie. Perhaps you have just not participated in those threads.
 
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