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- noun Plural form of
gaffe .
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The mainstream media ruthlessly and endlessly repeat any McCain gaffes while ignoring Obama gaffes.
Archive 2008-09-01 Not a sheep 2008
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If we seem a little heavy on McCain gaffes this week, maybe thatâs because for Mr. Obama, itâs more what he forgot to say this week than what he did say.
A Week of Malaise and Many Gaffes - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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CNN – START REPORTING SOME REAL NEWS, Like the McCain gaffes on Iraq for starters and his claim he would be the CHIEF NEGOTIATOR of Isreali/Palestinian settlements – without even being asked to play such a role!
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I really don't like describing McCain gaffes in that way.
Eschaton 2008
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Kate Phillips … actually, what jumped out at me was not that you were “heavy on McCain gaffes …”
A Week of Malaise and Many Gaffes - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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I'm looking forward to the McCain gaffes on Letterman!
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The Les Jones Blog details continuity gaffes from the film.
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The Les Jones Blog details continuity gaffes from the film.
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But some of the things people are calling gaffes - his climate change position, for example - probably did him no harm with voters.
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It seems to me that each of Biden's "gaffes" - except for the one where he demands that a paraplegic stand - are not so much gaffes as subliminal messages.
Latest Articles 2008
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