• Romney iPhone app misspells 'America' to Web's delight
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Source: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/30/tech/mobile/amercia-romney-iphone-app/index.html[/url] [quote] It's probably not the kind of thing voters will use to choose the leader of the free world. But the Web was taking no shortage of presidential potshots Wednesday over Republican candidate Mitt Romney's new mobile app, which embarrassingly misspelled "America." Yes, Internet. Welcome to AMERCIA. "Sorry about the shaking California, that was just the rest of America laughing at Mitt Romney running for Pres. of #Amercia," wrote a person behind a parody President Obama account on Twitter (referencing a minor earthquake late Tuesday). The gaffe, presumably by some poor developer hired by the campaign, appears on "With Mitt," the campaign's newly released iPhone app. The app invites users to photograph themselves with their choice of 14 pro-Romney slogans such as "I'm a Mom For Mitt," "Obama Isn't Working" and "The America We Love," and then share them on social media. But one of the slogans reads, "A Better Amercia." Oops. Somebody didn't observe the "I-before-C" rule. The "With Mitt" app was still available in Apple's App Store on Wednesday morning. The Romney campaign has submitted an update to the app and was waiting for Apple's approval Wednesday morning. No one with the campaign was speaking on the record about it, but staffers were downplaying its importance in the run-up to November. Slips of the tongue by political candidates are, of course, not uncommon. In 2008, then-candidate Obama got grief for saying he'd visited "all 57 states." And Vice President Joe Biden's free-speaking nature has gotten him no shortage of headlines. But the Web's politically minded (many of whom, presumably, don't consider Romney their top choice), were noting that when a mistake appears in writing, it shows a lack of attention to detail. "If you're applying for a job, and you misspell the name of the company you want to work for, you won't get that job. #Amercia," wrote a Twitter user. "#Amercia" was a trending topic (meaning it's one of the most discussed terms) on Twitter late Tuesday and again Wednesday morning. The typo has already also inspired its own Tumblr blog, "Amercia Is With Mitt." It features photos created with the app and, as of Wednesday morning, included a group of spelling bee champions, Beaker from "The Muppet Show" and Rich Uncle Moneybags, the Monopoly mascot, among its subjects. And numerous images were popping up on Instagram -- one highlight being Bart Simpson having to write the correctly spelled "America" during his iconic chalkboard gag from the intro to "The Simpsons." To be honest, the Romney camp is probably more pleased at winning enough delegates in the Texas primaries Tuesday to make him the unofficial GOP nominee than it is worried about a spelling gaffe. And it's worth noting that lots of folks who support Romney probably only learned that the app exists because of talk about the typo. [/quote] Amercia huh? Either way, it's hardly Romney's fault.
A Better Amercia... :v:
Amercia...sounds like a form of Italian bread
God Bless Amercia [img]http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-911.gif[/img]
amerCIA proof of a new world order! RON PAUL 2012
Who the hell cares about a gaffe made by a third party programmer of an app most people haven't even heard about till now though honestly Just your typical CNN filler
Communists
this just in presidential candidate mitt romney finds yet another hilarious way to look bad
Yes, because no one's fingers have ever twitched and transposed two letters that are right next to each other while typing.
The irony is that he is running for president. Also why the hell don't people read messages before they send them? Do they just slam the keyboard/keypad and mash [POST]?
[QUOTE=Walrus.;36136098]The irony is that he is running for president. Also why the hell don't people read messages before they send them? Do they just slam the keyboard/keypad and mash [POST]?[/QUOTE] I would nevre do that.
[QUOTE=Forumaster;36135884]Yes, because no one's fingers have ever twitched and transposed two letters that are right next to each other while typing.[/QUOTE] C is pretty far from I on a QWERTY and in alphabetical order.
[QUOTE=Forumaster;36135884]Yes, because no one's fingers have ever twitched and transposed two letters that are right next to each other while typing.[/QUOTE] But the only letters next to each other in america on QWERTY are E and R. Which weren't the ones that got misplaced.
[QUOTE=Anti Christ;36136974]But the only letters next to each other in america on QWERTY are E and R. Which weren't the ones that got misplaced.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=XD!;36136645]C is pretty far from I on a QWERTY and in alphabetical order.[/QUOTE] I mean right next to each other in the word. He had his left index finger over "C" and right index finger over "I" and used them in the wrong order.
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