Plus it SMELLS!
Seems ODDLY APPROPRIATE when it comes to Gordo!
"Prime minister’s blunder has Britain twittering; Brown goes to woman’s home to apologize" by Sarah Lyall, New York Times | April 29, 2010
LONDON — Maybe it was proof of the maxim that a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. Or maybe it was evidence that Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for all he tries to be nice, might actually be kind of mean.
Yes, they FINALLY FIND "truth" when they INSULT a VOTER!!
Don't you LOVE WESTERN DEMOCRACY?
Or maybe it was a fatal blow to the Labor government’s chances of staying in power after next Thursday’s election.
However you look at it, Brown’s irascible characterization of a member of the public as a “bigoted woman,’’ caught on a live microphone after the two had discussed immigration policy, dominated the political discussion yesterday and proved to be seriously unfortunate for him and for his party.
The tone of the article makes it clear which side the NYT is lining up with on this.
Yup, POOW POWITICIANS and POOW BANKS!
That is what I have been reading the last few days.
“People often talk about political gaffes in terms of car crashes,’’ BBC correspondent Gary O’Donoghue wrote on the network’s website. “But this was no car crash. This was a multilane, multivehicle pileup of enormous proportion.’’
Yeah, especially because she is a LABOUR SUPPORTER!!!
The incident was important because Brown has been trying hard to counter his reputation as arrogant, bullying, and bad-tempered.
Reputed because IT IS TRUE! He's an ARROGANT and ELITE SCUMBAG!
Related: The MSM and the Meal
Message: He cares.
He has smiled early and often on the campaign trail, looked on with apparent sincerity as people have shared their long and complicated problems, and met knots of dissatisfied potential voters with surprising equanimity, at least in public.
More than that, the exchange thrust the awkward issue of immigration — a topic that raises deep passions in Britain but that the Labor Party has done its best to tiptoe around — into a prime spot in the pre-election debate.
Oh, the Brits are a bunch of racists, too, huh, MSM?
Labor has said it sympathizes with voters’ concerns about the influx of outsiders, but Brown’s remark seemed to suggest that such sympathy might be more opportunistic than heartfelt. The incident caused the Internet to go instantly into overdrive.
:-)
Then I think I will leave this at the top for a while as I work on other things.
The tape of Brown’s remarks, and audio and video recordings of his subsequent efforts to dig his way out of them, proved irresistible material for the 24-hour, schadenfreude-filled news cycle.
If that isn't the AmeriKan MSM pot hollering kettle!
Suffice to say that few commentators were convinced by Brown’s return to the house of Gillian Duffy, the aggrieved Brown voter, later in the day for a long crow-eating session. Nor were they impressed by his description of himself as a “penitent sinner’’ who had “simply misunderstood some of the words she had used.’’
The encounter began mildly enough, when Brown, who has been advised by his handlers to get out and do a better job of meeting ordinary people, went on a walkabout among voters in the depressed community of Rochdale, outside Manchester.
OOOPS! That NEVER WORKS for STINKING ELITES!
It just EXPOSES THEM for what they REALLY ARE!!!
There, directed by his minders, he met the 65-year-old Duffy, who brought up a number of familiar issues before turning the conversation to her fears about immigration.
“All those Eastern Europeans what are coming in, where are they flocking from?’’ she asked.
And she WASN'T EVEN COMPLAINING about tertorists, 'er, MUSLIMS?
Brown answered courteously before clambering into his waiting car, where he failed to turn off his microphone.
OOOOPS!!!
“That was a disaster,’’ he groused to his waiting aides. Saying that his staff “should never have put me with that woman,’’ he described Duffy as “just sort of a bigoted woman’’ who had talked about “ugh, everything’’ in the encounter.
Watch for yourself: Gordon Brown calls Labour supporter a 'bigoted woman'
Now I know why my impression of politicians is that of double-talking, two-faced liars.
Brown, later confronted with the audio recording of the remarks while doing a radio interview for the BBC, buried his head in his hand as he realized the extent of the disaster.
Translation: He will be finishing third in the vote.
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