Love’im or loathe’im, President Bush made a verbal gaffe or two. In todays intense media scrutiny of every cough or hesitation by a politician on television this will only increase. The MSM jumped on Bush for not remembering the name of the then President of Pakistan and replayed the clip at every opportunity. Bush trying to open a locked door on a state visit to China was replayed endlessly, but if you watched the U.S. news of the clip of Obama trying to walk though a White House window…blink and you would miss it. John Redwood never recovered from trying to sing the Welsh anthem and failing to get the lip-sync right. You could argue that it cost one of the most talented economists in Parliament the rest of his career.

But let’s just guess that B Hussein Obama inventing “Austrian” as a language will never see the light of day in the U.S. media.

Question: Sonja Sagmeister from a little country, Austria, from Austrian Television. Mr. President, you said you came here to learn and to listen. So a quite personal question — what did you learn from your personal talk with the European leaders? And did this change in a certain way your views on Europe and its politics?

OBAMA: It’s an interesting question ….. It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There’s a lot of — I don’t know what the term is in Austrian — wheeling and dealing — and, you know, people are pursuing their interests, and everybody has their own particular issues and their own particular politics.

This is a very mild example of TheOne not being able to cope without a teleprompter – there are many others. His teleprompter even has it’s own blog. The media need to apply a level playing field on this. If you are going to lampoon a politician then hold TheOne to the same level of contempt dished out by the liberal media to Bush or Redwood and many others.