jimnyc
09-29-2016, 03:53 PM
There sure are a lot of foreign leaders! I'm betting even my son could rattle off 5-10 of them with ease. I think this guy is so keen on isolation that he barely remembers the names of such leaders. PUTIN, MERKEL, NETENYAHU. Good thing he has someone with him to drop some answers for him. :)
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Gary Johnson: I'm Having an 'Aleppo Moment' on Foreign Leaders' Names
Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson, admitting he was having an "Aleppo moment," drew a blank Wednesday night during an MSNBC town hall when he was asked who his favorite foreign leader is in a gaffe coming during an event he'd called a "consolation prize" he was given for being left out of both the presidential debate and a network Commander in Chief Forum.
"It was put to us that, look, you weren't in this initial program," Johnson told The Washington Post last week. "Here's what we'd like to offer in lieu of being with the two major-party candidates. And I said, 'An hour of prime time Chris Matthews? I'll take it.'"
But, reports the Post, the evening soured when Matthews asked him to name a foreign leader from "anywhere in the continents . . . any country. Name one foreign leader that you look up to."
Running mate William Weld attempted to help, saying he's "with Shimon Peres," the Israeli leader who died early Wednesday. Matthews, though, pushed for a living world leader, from "any continent. Canada, Mexico?"
"I guess I'm having an Aleppo moment," Johnson replied, before settling on "the former president of Mexico."
But he couldn't name which one, telling Matthews he was "having a brain freeze."
Weld then began naming the country's former presidents, "Fox? Zedillo? Calderon?" and Johnson finally settled on Fox, calling him "terrific."
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/gary-johnson-aleppo-moment-foreign-leaders-name/2016/09/29/id/750783/
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Gary Johnson: I'm Having an 'Aleppo Moment' on Foreign Leaders' Names
Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson, admitting he was having an "Aleppo moment," drew a blank Wednesday night during an MSNBC town hall when he was asked who his favorite foreign leader is in a gaffe coming during an event he'd called a "consolation prize" he was given for being left out of both the presidential debate and a network Commander in Chief Forum.
"It was put to us that, look, you weren't in this initial program," Johnson told The Washington Post last week. "Here's what we'd like to offer in lieu of being with the two major-party candidates. And I said, 'An hour of prime time Chris Matthews? I'll take it.'"
But, reports the Post, the evening soured when Matthews asked him to name a foreign leader from "anywhere in the continents . . . any country. Name one foreign leader that you look up to."
Running mate William Weld attempted to help, saying he's "with Shimon Peres," the Israeli leader who died early Wednesday. Matthews, though, pushed for a living world leader, from "any continent. Canada, Mexico?"
"I guess I'm having an Aleppo moment," Johnson replied, before settling on "the former president of Mexico."
But he couldn't name which one, telling Matthews he was "having a brain freeze."
Weld then began naming the country's former presidents, "Fox? Zedillo? Calderon?" and Johnson finally settled on Fox, calling him "terrific."
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/gary-johnson-aleppo-moment-foreign-leaders-name/2016/09/29/id/750783/