Oops! US State Department misspells name of Syria’s president; Correction: More than one way to spell it

http://twitter.com/#!/RichardGrenell/status/288053924450140160

Grenell is right:

https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/288044347868463105

https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/288044658951602176

https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/288045021360422912

https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/288045571615379458

https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/288046307740876802

https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/288046678039212033

To some it may seem nitpicky. We all make spelling mistakes, after all.

But Grennell’s point about double standards is spot on:

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/288060651555917824

If you don’t believe him, you must be too young to remember this:

A minor slip-up by Vice President Dan Quayle hatched a frenzy and a long-running joke. Quayle led a spelling bee for sixth-grade students while visiting an elementary school in New Jersey in 1992. Working from an inaccurate flash card prepared by a teacher, he corrected William Figueroa, 12, when the child spelled “potato” on the blackboard – making the boy add an unnecessary “e” at the word’s end.

Quayle would never hear the end of it. The media assault for this goof was truly relentless.

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Correction: While the “Asad” spelling is unconventional in the US, it has been used by others and has been used by the U.S. Department of State for many years.  We’re no experts, but we now think there is more than one way to spell the name. We believe our original post was in error. We apologize.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/01/06/oops-us-state-department-misspells-name-of-syrias-president/

Feminism? Amanda Marcotte can’t handle the truth, calls Michelle Malkin ‘brutish and stupid’

http://twitter.com/#!/AmandaMarcotte/status/205779751212814340

Nice feminism! Boo-hoo. Amanda Marcotte doesn’t like the fact that “feminists” only faux denounce attacks on conservative women as a ploy to pat themselves on their smug backs and cover their own behinds while trying to desperately cling to relevance. The denunciations are never meaningful and, instead, are back-handed and empty.

She didn’t like when Twitchy pointed that out earlier today and called her on it. Stompy foot tantrum and name-calling commences.

http://t.co/dcQ9Sge9 Any hope that conservatives are learning anything about misogyny with the SE Cupp thing can be abandoned.

— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) May 24, 2012

Last link was a marvel in trying to excuse misogyny against liberals while retaining the right to outrage when it's conservatives.

— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) May 24, 2012

What is truly a marvel is how someone could come to that conclusion. Pot, meet kettle. Every time “feminists” faux denounce something, they then excuse it by saying “well, her politics are atrocious and she is super icky. What do you expect?”

Only conservative women are allowed to use S.E. Cupp to declare themselves targets of misogyny. cc @AmandaMarcotte http://t.co/gwjs5kW3

— Jesse Taylor (@jesseltaylor) May 24, 2012

@katiathemick @jesseltaylor A day without a wingnuts yelling at me for having a vagina while saying "fuck" is a day w/out sunshine.

— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) May 24, 2012

Missing the point yet again. And, yet again, all about her.

@NewsCat_in_DC Because they are intent on finding a way to make misogyny okay as long as it's aimed at liberal women.

— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) May 24, 2012

Nope. We fight against misogyny, including the systematic misogyny of the Left who treat women as helpless and hapless victims, needing to be tethered to and enslaved by Big Daddy Government for life.

@NewsCat_in_DC I particularly am amused at the attempts to preserve "you have sex" as an insult, because it's so useful against feminists.

— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) May 24, 2012

Huh? No one cares about how much sex you or anyone has. The Hustler attack was not about sex at all. It was a vile attack aimed at shutting a woman up and making her submit.

It's depressing to see conservatives downplay, dismiss, and discredit feminists who are defending S.E. Cupp, but not unexpected.

— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) May 24, 2012

Your pathetic attempts at feigning concern in order to further the lie that you speak for women is not unexpected.

@KatiePunkin Certainly Twitchy's reaction was pure sexism, denying that it's the same when it happens to liberals, using sexist stereotypes.

— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) May 24, 2012

Oh, our aching sides! A site run by a woman, employing many women and giving countless more women a voice. Michelle Malkin has empowered more women than the “feminist” movement ever has.

Feminists stand up for the rights of all women, including conservatives all the time.

— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) May 24, 2012

Now you are just trying to be funny. Right? Well, it would be funny if it wasn’t so disgusting. You stand up for all women? Is that why you think a form of genital mutilation is “just a nick” and that marriage is far worse? And that other atrocities committed against Muslim women aren’t so bad because at least they don’t think an unborn baby is a life? Tell us again who is ‘brutish?’

Feminists get spat on instead of thanked for this, but that doesn't really matter. We stand up for all women, because right is right.

— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) May 24, 2012

Stop! We will be unable to pull ourselves up off the floor, in fits of giggles!

Way to be For the Women ™. “Brutish and stupid” — you’ve come a long way, baby.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2012/05/24/feminism-amanda-marcotte-cant-handle-the-truth-calls-michelle-malkin-brutish-and-stupid/