Ford's Slip Up

Ford sounds like an ignoramus here, but as Brinkley says in the textbook, he didn't mean to phrase his statement this way. He says later on that Yugoslavia and Romania don't "consider themselves" dominated by the Soviet Union. This is what he actually meant - too bad he had to say something that sounded foolish beforehand. Alas, the media takes everything at face value, and the slightest slip up (no pun intended, since he slipped and fell a lot) can ruin you. I'll conclude by just saying the way Frankel stutters before responding to Ford is priceless.