Watching the rerun of KO tonight... and McLame said something
that hasn't been commented on.
McLame was giving a speech where he said "The chairman of the SEC serves at the APPOINTMENT of the President..."
The phrase should be "serves at the pleasure of the President" (such language would imply that he COULD fire him, if he was President today).
Someone "fixed" McLame's speech to change the language to APPOINTMENT (which is true, but the President can't fire him). But then they didn't fix the next line where McLame said that he would fire the chairman of the SEC.
So they KNEW the President couldn't fire the guy... but they left it in.
Did they think that no one would catch this? And why bother to fix the one word (to be technically accurate) and then leave in the boneheaded lie that the President can fire the guy?
The phrase "serves at the APPOINTMENT" just sounds really clunky and stupid.
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