Wednesday 28 April 2010
Brown and the "Bigoted" Woman
Gordon Brown has made the classic mistake today of forgetting to turn his microphone off after a difficult public encounter in Rochdale. Clearly frustrated, he described her as a "bigoted woman" but his comments were quickly out in the open. You can hear his comments and pretty painful public apology on the BBC site here, while the Guardian live blog gives a fascinating insight into how a "gaffe" story can turn into a media frenzy. Scroll down until you get to 12.56.
PS: Fast forward to about four minutes on the video above to hear the end of the conversation and Brown's unfortunate comments.
PPS: Nick Robinson's comments on the incident are here
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hahaha, that's hilarious - well done brown for losing some support!!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe people make such big deals about this kind of thing... why should Gordon Brown being a human being affect support for his party? Everyone gets annoyed and frustrated at times, especially when you're trying to stick up for something that you completely believe in.
ReplyDeletePeople will have forgotten about this by Friday.
no actually that isn't 'hilarious' at all.
ReplyDeletewish this could've happened to cameron instead
"people will have forgotten about this by friday"
ReplyDeleteand indeed most people had.
although it was just human error, and we all do things like that, he should really have been a bit less stupid, and perhaps could have turned off his microphone...
poor brown...