Oops: Eric Cantor Mistakenly Says It‘s Been a ’Hard Fart Primary’
- Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:31am by
Billy Hallowell
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On Sunday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor made headlines for endorsing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. But following his appearance on “Meet the Press,” some critics found a hilarious portion of his interview that many people overlooked or missed all together. In speaking about the Republican battle for the 2012 nomination, Cantor mistakenly said that it has been “a hard fart primary.”
Now, quite obviously, he was attempting to say “fought” and his accent and/or a slight mistake may have taken him off the rails a bit. Nonetheless, the clip is funny and worth watching if you need a break from the daily grind:
Gawker’s Emma Carmichael, of course, used the opportunity to take a swipe at the GOP candidates, writing, “The representative has a point…The GOP primary race has essentially been one giant, continuous, squelching fart joke.”
Now, it’s one thing to make an error in oration, but it is another debacle entirely to actually pass gas while engaged in an on-air interview. While The Blaze didn’t weigh in on either side of the debate, we did ask readers what they thought about Barney Frank’s alleged gas attack last August (95 percent of you believe that it was, indeed, what critics alleged).
We‘ll leave you with Frank’s moment of infamy, below:
(H/T: Gawker)
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Comments (52)
Arshloch
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 1:03pmSounds like an perfect comment to me.
Report Post »MittensKittens
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 1:00pmCantor mistakenly said that it has been “a hard fart primary.”, he must have seen Barney Frank in the room!
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 5:56pmWow – a politician that can say the truth and not lie. I just wished he had called Paul and Newt for what they are – Leftest liberals making the two runners use up their war chest fighting them rather than save it for Obama. The two front runners should meet and flip a coin – heads or tails. Winner runs as president and the other will be vice president. Then the party couldn’t do all the down and dirty politics under the table and picking the vice president on payback to the party.
Report Post »TexBork
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 12:43pmI don‘t think Cantor was wrong to begin with and I don’t think it’s a mistake either. and it’s still going on…
Report Post »rosecityken
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 12:42pm“ hard fart”? It might have been a mistake on his part….BUT just the other day i was thinking the same thing about this primary season. And that is one of the terms of endearment for seargant schulz (debbie- wasserman) “ol’ hard fart”
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 12:35pmEric Cantor is a communist, too. Just like Romney.
Report Post »Todd P
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 2:12pmAnyone who does not support MY candidate is a Liberal/Socialist/Communist/Athiest Far Left Wing Radical – and so is anyone who does not support him!
Report Post »Simonne
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 12:27pmIt’s funny. We all have a slip of the tongue at times. Just have to laugh & move on.
Report Post »Skytrash
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 12:54pmwhen dealing with all the sheet that the current office spreading around, they’ll always be a hard fart to deal with. A hard fart always precludes the turds that they’re pushing back against, Look at the bright spot, at least it isn‘t an soft squishy one where you can’t fart with confidence! Cantor to interviewer, “can farts have lumps, if not I think I may have just shat myself”
Report Post »hogtrashhd
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 12:04pmi have fox on and carl cameron just said romney has a strong wind at his back.. made me fart while laughing…
Report Post »kapnkd
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 12:03pmStill not as bad as the “Verbal Flatulence” uttered by the left every time they simply open their mouths!
Report Post »kapnkd
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 12:00pmWe are all entitled to a “pheeewww” mistakes now and then.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 12:48pmThe joke…the rancher asks his horse, “how many oats do you want?” & the horse lifts his tail & says: A———–Few!
When we were in grade-school, we always had a “joker” in the class. There was, in my class, an “exceptionally bright student” but once in awhile he would like to “stir-things-up” and slip his hand under his shirt and do the sound when he placed his hand under his armpit and flapped many times….he was “quick-as-lightning” to remove his hand from his shirt when the teacher turned-around. I am still deciding who to vote for but may consider “that candidate” that will do “The-fart- flap“ when a CNN or MSNBC idiot asks a stupid question like ”birth-control-pills”. LOL
Report Post »BigSky
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:56amIt has been a comedy of errors. I mean, we’ve had what seems like 10,000 debates up to this point, with a third on MSNBC, another third on ABC, and the last third on CNN.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:54amNow they have him . Another major Republican gaff for the elite media to focus on , this will probably be the undoing of their chances in the fall elections . What a scoop David Gregory has ,just when the smoke from Rush calling that w h o r e….. a….. s l u t was dying down ,the republicans step in it again with “fartgate”. Well that’s it folks the election is lost.
Report Post »Todd P
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 2:14pm…..because this is the stuff that really matters!
Report Post »MiCurmudgeon
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:53amIf the foo *****.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:53amYeah, they are all a bunch of comedians. They all votes to protect themselves from the public when the SHTF. They are ALL culpable.
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:53amIf Cantor actually thinks Romney with his only cuts to future increases, more war, increasing minimum wage, and his history of raising taxes is a good plan then I believe he has been huffing methane gas.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:52amYeah, I had my share of fax-paus. In a conversation I was talking about 3.5 floppy disk – I will give you three guesses what really followed floppy. Looking at it now, it still cracks me up.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:50amNaw, it was his accent. LOL and Barney did really fart.
What I think we should do is combine the two video’s. When Eric says fart show Barney leaning and farting. Now that would be hilarious.
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:56amBarny was incapable of farting — his butt cheeks were too far apart to make the PTTTTTTTTHHHHHTTTTTTTT noise —-
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:45amEveryone gets a little tongue tied every now and then….This Primary has been funky in it’s own way however.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:45amThe House Leader of the GOP… knows a Hard Fart… working out of a Gas Bubble!
Report Post »txwheels
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:45amWell I have to admit, there has been a lot of hot air coming from the candidates, and I‘m not sure which end it’s been coming from..
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:43amSounds about right to me!
BTW .. BLAZE WHERE ARE YOU???!!!
The Vetting, Part I: Barack’s Love Song To Alinsky
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/04/obama-alinsky-love-song
I can‘t for the life of me understand why this isn’t posted on THE BLAZE as a headline!
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:54amWill you shut up about this. It does not belong here.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 12:01pmNO I will not SHUT UP … this is important … and I want to know why it is not being covered .. what’s the matter … don’t like the truth of who Obama is coming out?
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:42amRick Santorum has always represented everything the Tea Party purported to stand against.
Supporting Santorum Means Rejecting the Tea Party
http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2012/03/04/supporting-santorum-means-rejecting-the-tea-party/
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:59amEven Paul knows ….
ron-paul-on-winning-the-primary-the-chances-are-slim
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:42am“(T)he clip is funny and worth watching if you need a break from the daily grind:”? Really? For many, staring at The Blaze every waking moment IS “the daily grind”.
Report Post »Arminianism
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:40amToo Funny! I don’t know how he kept a straight face after saying it. I would of laughed so hard I might of actually farted……
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:39amCantor…Hes a pretty fart smeller aint he?
Report Post »leonardo44
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 11:37amToo funny !!
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