He did express curiosity about the filming of a chase scene in “North by Northwest,” Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 classic starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint that included a death-defying scramble over Rushmore’s presidential faces.
“How did they get up there in the first place?” he asked ranger Wesley Jensen.
“They didn’t. It was a movie set,” Jensen told him.
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How many times did Quayle misspell potato before the American media and popular culture proclaimed him an idiot? We can add this to Obama’s existing list of gaffes and blunders:
- The Selma March in 1965 did not contribute to his birth in 1961.
- Kansas tornadoes in May 2007 killed 12 people, not “ten thousand”.
- Afghans do not speak Arabic.
- Misunderstanding Memorial Day, and then claiming to see “fallen heroes” in the Memorial Day audience.
- Same day: putting Auschwitz in western Germany, not Poland.
- “57 states”.
DKK
Ed Morrissey -- Hot Air -- One potatoe, two potatoe, three potatoe, four
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