---

• n  a socially awkward or tactless act

• They also enjoy the power of the gaffe to generate stories.
• In other words, this gaffe will ask if the Glenn Becks and Sean Hannitys are uninformed demagogues, if cable news is entertainment, and how intelligent, reasonable and judicious .
• Meanwhile, a gaffe, it has been said, is when a politician tells the truth--or more precisely, when he or she accidentally reveals something truthful about what is going on in his .

• faux pas
• solecism
• slip
• gaucherie

News & Articles

---

• Watch: Texas Gov. Rick Perry Mistakenly Refers to Libya Embassy Attack as Lebanon
  Perry's latest flub during Faith and Freedom Coalition conference, remarked earlier about past gaffe        
  June 15, 2013 - ABC News
• Watch: Texas Gov. Rick Perry Mistakenly Refers to Libya Embassy Attack as Lebanon
  Perry's latest flub during Faith and Freedom Coalition conference, remarked earlier about past gaffe        
  June 15, 2013 - ABC News
• HuffPo’s Self-Delusion On Display With Celebration Of Pelosi’s Horrid Answer To Reporter
  As episodes of embarrassing self-deception go, The Huffington Post outdid itself on Thursday when they celebrated what would be considered a gaffe had it been said by anyone with an “R” after their name.
  June 13, 2013 - Mediaite

Quotes

---

• Barack Obama in Washington Post
  Let's not forget, we had 11 people die, and we have an environmental disaster unfolding and an economic disaster unfolding. Let's not be distracted by saying, you know, Joe Barton made this gaffe or this inappropriate comment. Let's focus on what... Lisa Murkowski http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Murkowski&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGfUU0pjzbEuDwnY81jySj6rKn9pA FOXNews http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/20/barton-apology-bp-turns-oil-spill-political-football/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGSOGetqaw7gCxF2BwB7R1T-853qQ Jun 20, 2010 40783 52286 gaffe Yes, we know what's coming. I'm not naive," Obama said in the North Carolina speech. "We've already seen it . . . pouncing on every gaffe and association and fake controversy, in the hopes that the media will play along."
• Rahm Emanuel in ABC News (blog)
  That's not a political gaffe, those were prepared remarks. That is a philosophy,Emanuel said on ABC's This Week. "That is an approach to what they see. They see the aggrieved party here is BP, not the fishermen."