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But many also say the conceit of the episode--that a film crew is documenting life in an emergency room--was a cheap ploy to cover up gaffes.
… An article accuses the press of overlooking John McCain's domestic-policy gaffes.
La Repubblica of Rome said Monday that she failed to make a widely anticipated speech because she has made so many gaffes lately and that her decision to sit in on the conference as a nonparticipant resulted in a special program for the leaders' wives being canceled "at the last moment with zero warning and zero courtesy."
But a softer Dick Armey is a tall order, and it's resulted in more verbal gaffes and more unseemly backpedaling.
Other recent gaffes include: "The question we need to ask: Is our children learning?"