For most people, misspelling a crucial word in a promotional application wouldn’t completely ruin your career. But if the word is “America” and the promotion is for Mitt Romney’s 2012 Presidential campaign, you can be sure heads will roll.
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Well, an error on this scale has spurred the Internet to create a fresh breed of new memes as well as lots of ridicule and delight from users on Twitter and Facebook. Already, someone has set up a Tumblr blog dedicated to creative uses of the overlay photo feature. (We’ve displayed the most creative one we found in the image above.)
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Politics aside, someone is getting fired over this screw up.
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