Who needs wikileaks?

[bibblebub]

http://www.guardian.c...yahu-gaffe-microphone

Discussing the Israeli PM Netanyahu:

"I cannot stand him. He's a liar," Sarkozy told Obama who responded with "You're fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day".

This exchange happened immediately before a press conference, headphones for the translation sets had not yet been distributed but the politicians' microphones were already switched on, and so reporters just needed to use their own headphones to hear all this.

Any fun and games going to happen as a result? It's quite direct so they can't claim that the words are taken out of context.

[emmie]

caught red handed, don't you just love it when they are, and no one can back pedal and get out of it by saying i was misquoted. The poison dwarf is so up himself, and the comments between these two show how little regard they really feel for not just Netanyahu but i expect other political leaders as well.

[emmie]

as to that odious berlusconi, his comments about angela merkel shows just what a chauvinist he is.

[bazwillrun]

but the response a few weeks ago on camera at some conference by merkel and sarkozy when asked what they thought of berlusconi....priceless...the looks said it all, no words were needed

[emmie]

baz, i saw that on have i got news for you, as you say, priceless

[AlBags]

The French will brush it off in their usual belligerent manner ..
and they will sell a few less guns and armament to the arab countries.

Obama will probably come off worst : )

[bibblebub]

One suspects that this back-stabbing goes on all the time - A denigrates B to C, then B about C to A, and C about A to B - no matter how many handshakes and smiles they use in public.

[emmie]

Obama is a dead duck, don't see him being re elected, as to sarkhozy, he is only hanging on by a thread, and if France isn't careful it will end up with a very far right party, agenda, and then the merde will hit the fan.

[bibblebub]

Don't write Obama off yet - none of the Republican candidates declared so far has done anything to suggest that they can stir the electorate to get rid of a sitting president. But there is still a (very) long 12 months to go yet.

[emmie]

there isn't in American political terms, i haven't so much written him off, as the American public, disenchanted with their perceived lame duck president. Though i haven't seen anyone on the horizon as yet who looks as though could make it, but these things can turn on a penny. I like Obama, for all his faults, and perhaps another term would see him pull things round, but facing an economic meltdown, and a most unpopular war in Afghanistan.

[BertiWooster]

A Gordon Brown moment .

Anyway , arent there any lip readers around in these get togethers - i'm suprised there arent more instances of these moments reported