You really have to give Barack Obama for sticking to his claim of being a diehard White Sox fan. Most guys might back off a little bit after botching the name of the home ballpark where the team called home for 100 years. But Obama was back on the bandwagon on Friday, crowing this to a crowd after Mark Buehrle’s no-hitter:
“Today everybody is a White Sox fan. I was up on the North Side and all these Cubs fans were all like what about Buehrle. And I was like that’s right. That was extraordinary. I spoke to Buehrle on the phone, on the Air Force One, one of the privileges of Presidency. You can call up a guy after he pitches a perfect game. I told him that he had to buy a big steak dinner for that center fielder Weiss because he saved that perfect game.”
Notice anything in that last sentence?
Obama identified White Sox outfielder DeWayne Wise as “Weiss“. (audio link)
So in the last two references to his *favorite* team, Obama has had a little trouble getting his facts straight. Sense a pattern developing here?
6:57 pm on July 25th, 2009
Typical politician. Clinton claimed to be a big Razorback fan, and he was full of sh*t too.
7:34 pm on July 25th, 2009
You probably voted for McCain.
7:44 pm on July 25th, 2009
I’ve never heard of a black man with the last name ‘Weiss.’
9:08 pm on July 25th, 2009
O.K. We get it. You dont like him.. Quit swinging on the dictionary’s nutz and move on .. What time is Rush on?
9:11 pm on July 25th, 2009
Sorry guys. The evidence is mounting. If he’s not into sports… big deal… who cares? But if he pretends to be a good ole boy for political advantage, that’s pretty offensive.
9:20 pm on July 25th, 2009
He’s probably a Cubs fan in reality, but didn’t want to associate himself with them during the campaign.
1:58 am on July 26th, 2009
who cares? I just want the dude to fix the economy….
2:19 am on July 26th, 2009
Who cares it’s baseball.
6:14 am on July 26th, 2009
Barry’s a politician, He’s expected to put his foot in his mouth. When politicians speak, there are 3 outcomes, but not equally distributed; it’s the truth , it’s a lie (strategically misrepresented )or it’s wrong. The later two are the norm with most. At least they are humorous and frustratingly entertaining……
3:07 pm on July 26th, 2009
I think it’s just Obama imagining a fantastic new world in which we’d never heard the name DeWayne Wise.
3:48 pm on July 26th, 2009
At least he can pronounce ‘nuclear’…
1:30 am on July 27th, 2009
Reminds me of John Kerry’s favorite Red Sox player from years ago… “Manny Ortez”. What a dork… both of them actually. He shouldn’t leave home without his teleprompter.
2:29 am on July 27th, 2009
You’re right… thing is, I call myself a Braves fan… but I’ve lost interest in baseball, so I’m not sure I could name two players on the team now. Doesn’t mean I’m phony… just means me being a “fan” is relative… if they went to the series, I’d be watching big time.
12:06 pm on July 27th, 2009
… so you took the transcription from the link you provided and ran with it? If you take the time to listen to the audio, you know he got it right. Instead, you go ahead and take the transcription of some guy (girl?) who probably doesn’t know there are two Sox teams in baseball.
By the way, here in good ol’ Chi-town, most people say “Cominskey” or “US Comiscullar”.
5:28 pm on July 27th, 2009
I can’t really explain why Obama might be having straight fact problems, but I highly doubt his proclaiming to be a White Sox fan is a political ruse. Being from Chicago I can tell you we have a name for people who claim to be fans of a baseball team but really have no clue, they’re called Cub fans
10:06 pm on July 28th, 2009
Obama is an idiot.
11:52 pm on July 29th, 2009
He’s just pretending to be a Sox fan to lock down the Illinois vote.
10:57 am on August 2nd, 2009
No he didn’t- he got it wrong, just like the story says.. I couldn’t care less about whether his professed love for sports is true or not- & I REALLY don’t care about the White Sox OR the Cubs- but the above statement is WRONG.. The audio clearly shows, in both instances, him messing up the names.. And yes, I did actually “take the time to listen to it”..
9:51 am on August 3rd, 2009
The President has a speech “tic” or impediment or whatever you want to call it.
Listen to him give a speech or answer a question at a news conference. Whenever there is a “z” sound at the end of a word, Obama pronounces it as “s”.
Instead of fam-uh-leez (families) he says fam-uh-lease. Instead of tax-iz (taxes) - he says tax-iss. Instead of nay-shunz (nations) he says nay-shunsss.
And so instead of Wize - you heard Obama say Weiss. That’s just how he pronounces the guy’s name.
Please youtube an Obama speech and listen for 5 minutes. Listen closely. You will hear exactly what I’m talking about.