Yes, it did look quite bad. Didn't seem to be a brain fart, seemed he genuinely didn't know what the city was after they repeated the question. Johnson is far from perfect, but he also isn't evil in the "lesser of evils" question. Alex Jones paleo-conservatives may think he's a pawn for Hillary's victory, but I think he is just an imperfect Libertarian-Lite that is a step in the right direction.

Plus, he might not have trivially memorized every major city of conflict in Syria like others have and checked that box, rather he understands the deeper implications of such intervention. This is much more important than name-dropping cities and key words to fool people into thinking you know what you're talking about, like the cast of Morning Joe does all the time.