The Daily Rundown | March 27, 2012
Deep Dive: Presidential open mic gaffes
Chuck takes a look at President Obama’s recent open-mic blunder as well as those made by former Presidents Bush and Reagan and former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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>>> to explore the perils of an open mike . republicans pounced and the president had to do damage control. but he was joking about it by the end of the day . these kinds of comments seem to take on a life of their own. president biden dropping the f-bomb onep ].
>> thank you.
>> the obama campaign is now embracing that moment. you can actually buy this shirt on the campaign's website for the low price of 30 bucks. we don't want to just pick on this administration. although they have a history of picking the wrong place and wrong time of telling the world what really they are really thinking.
>> what they need to do is get syria and hezbollah to stop doing this [ bleep ]. and it's not just here in america, then prime minister gordon brown had his own crash and burn moment when a hidden camera recorded his own opinion about a voter.
>> should never put me with that. ridiculous.
>> timing is everything.
>> that was just before the british people voted for a different party and brown lost. perhaps the mother of all, ronald reagan kidding around about the soviet union before a live radio address in 1984 except the president was already live.
>> my fellow americans, i'm pleased to tell you today that i signed legislation that allows russia forever to begin bombing in five minutes.
>> those comments were broadcast worldwide. needless to say, the soviets were not pleased. the lesson here, always assume that someone is listening at that instance or any point in time.