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==Foreign leaders==
==Foreign leaders==
On April 27, 2010 [[Gordon Brown]], prime minister of the [[United Kingdom]], was confronted by an elderly Gillian Duffy, 65, and a life-long member of the [[Labour Party]]. Her question had to do with the massive influx of immigrants to her hometown of Rochdale, the high taxation, the massive British debt, her disappointment in her party, and she wanted answers as to why. After the standard liberal answers, Brown got into his car and - ''forgetting he had a microphone on, which was still recording'' - talked to his aide: ''"That was a disaster...should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that?...she was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour."'' Brown was apologetic almost as immediately as word of his gaffe leaked to the press<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1269486/Election-2010-Gordon-Browns-bigoted-woman-insult-Gillian-Duffy.html</ref>, but the damage was done: Brown's Labour Party lost the election and he resigned from office.<ref>http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/europe/Brown-to-Resign-British-Labor-Party-Leadership-93598409.html</ref> However, the incident had little impact, with the Labour party taking the seat in which it occurred from the Liberal Democrats<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/d71.stm</ref> and polls indicating Labour lost very few voters if any as a result<ref>http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/2653</ref>.
On April 27, 2010 [[Gordon Brown]], prime minister of the [[United Kingdom]], was confronted by an elderly Gillian Duffy, 65, and a life-long member of the [[Labour Party]]. Her question had to do with the massive influx of immigrants to her hometown of Rochdale, the high taxation, the massive British debt, her disappointment in her party, and she wanted answers as to why. After the standard liberal answers, Brown got into his car and - ''forgetting he had a microphone on, which was still recording'' - talked to his aide: ''"That was a disaster...should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that?...she was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour."'' Brown was apologetic almost as immediately as word of his gaffe leaked to the press<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1269486/Election-2010-Gordon-Browns-bigoted-woman-insult-Gillian-Duffy.html</ref>, but the damage was done: Brown's Labour Party lost the election and he resigned from office.<ref>http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/europe/Brown-to-Resign-British-Labor-Party-Leadership-93598409.html</ref> However, the incident had little impact, with the Labour party taking the seat in which it occurred from the Liberal Democrats<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/d71.stm</ref> and polls indicating Labour lost very few voters if any as a result<ref>http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/2653</ref>.
==News reporters==
====Nick McDermott====
The reporter at CBS affiliate KTVA in Alaska left a message in late-October, 2010 with staffers of Republican Senate candidate [[Joe Miller]], "hoping" for an interview. Apparently not familiar with the operation of his iPhone - namely the "on/off" button - he left it on, allowing Miller's spokesperson, Randy DeSoto, to leave a full transcript of a plot to insert a convicted child molester, or, failing that, create an incident of violence, inside of a Miller rally. [http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=221973]
====Dan Rather====
The CBS anchorman became an ex-CBS employee soon after he presented a story on ''60 Minutes Wednesday'' on September 8, 2004; in it he presented "documents" dated in 1972, supposedly written by the commanding officer at a Texas Air National Guard base, which were critical of then-1st LT [[George W. Bush]], and hinting of his refusal to serve in Vietnam. Determined to have been poorly-concocted forgeries - which included a non-existent post office box and a type setting equal to a computer program which wasn't created until years later - the "Killian Documents" were dismissed as an [[October surprise]] meant to thwart the election of Bush that year; in fact producer Marla Mapes had in her possession evidence that contradicted the documents, but buried it instead in favor of Rather's "story". Failure to maintain basic journalistic investigation proceedures resulted in the firing of Rather, Mapes, and a number of other individuals; the tendering of resignations of senior CBS staffers; as well as bestowing a name on the whole episode in Rather's honor: [[Rathergate]].
==Hollywood stars==
==Hollywood stars==