{"id":988825,"date":"2021-11-09T09:28:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T14:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=988825"},"modified":"2021-11-09T09:29:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T14:29:01","slug":"baffled-barack-obama-hails-scotland-emerald-isles-in-glasgow-climate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/baffled-barack-obama-hails-scotland-emerald-isles-in-glasgow-climate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Baffled Barack Obama Hails Scotland \u2018Emerald Isles\u2019 in Glasgow Climate Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbaffled-barack-obama-hails-scotland-emerald-isles-in-glasgow-climate-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=988825&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Former U.S. President Barack Obama seemed confused about his location Monday when he addressed the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, and hailed his presence in the \u201cthe Emerald Isles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Martha\u2019s Vineyard, Massachusetts, resident made the gaffe leading many to conclude he\u2019d mixed up Scotland with Ireland \u2013 the latter of which is often called the Emerald Isle. The term British Isles refers to the island formation that includes Ireland and the UK.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>English playwright William Shakespeare was also referenced as \u201cthe Bard\u201d in passing which was something of a shock to many Scots who tuned in or made up parts of the audience, the <em>Daily Record<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/politics\/barack-obama-trolled-claiming-emerald-25407920\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They would be more likely to hail poet Robert Burns, also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, the National Bard, with that epithet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince we\u2019re in the Emerald Isles here let me quote the Bard, William Shakespeare,\u201d Obama said while addressing the issue of climate change.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c\u2018What wound,\u201d he writes, \u2018did ever heal but by degrees?\u2019\u201d Obama said, quoting from \u201cOthello.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur planet has been wounded by our actions,\u201d he continued. \u201cThose wounds won\u2019t be healed today tomorrow or the next but they can be healed by degrees if we start with that spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long for social media to light up and set the ex-president straight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.7020648967552\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;In Scotland, William Shakespeare is not the Bard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama has been criticised after mistakenly calling Scotland the &#8216;Emerald Isles&#8217; and quoting William Shakespeare during his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COP26?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COP26<\/a> speech.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StormHuntley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StormHuntley<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theJeremyVine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@theJeremyVine<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JeremyVine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JeremyVine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aIEuqv8jwV\">pic.twitter.com\/aIEuqv8jwV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeremy Vine On 5 (@JeremyVineOn5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeremyVineOn5\/status\/1458007870730121223?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jamie Green wrote: \u201cDid Obama just refer to Scotland as the \u2018Emerald Isles\u2019 then quote Shakespeare???\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>@SCDave86 tweeted: \u201cI like Obama. But Emerald Isles? Really?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shirley Weeks said: \u201cBarack Obama is in the Emerald Isles. We\u2019re all in Scotland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time a Democrat has visited the conference and left feeling less than overwhelmed by the reception.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18664770\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1352089695.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18664770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1352089695-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>&nbsp;Former U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech while attending day nine of the COP26 at SECC on November 8, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Christopher Furlong\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/07\/camilla-blown-away-after-hearing-joe-biden-loudly-fart\/\">reported<\/a>, the Duchess of Cornwall has been telling close associates President Joe Biden made his own contribution to global supplies of natural gas when he farted \u201cloudly\u201d in front of her at the Glasgow gathering last week.<\/p>\n<p>Camilla was apparently blown away by the gaseous discharge and \u201chasn\u2019t stopped talking about it\u201d since:&nbsp;\u201cIt was long and loud and impossible to ignore,\u201d she told her friends.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. President Barack Obama seemed confused about his location Monday when he addressed the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, and hailed his presence in the \u201cthe Emerald Isles.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}