Poor Gordon Brown. He got caught calling Gillian Duffy a bigot when he forgot to take off a microphone as he drove down the road in his fancy limousine. It was televised live. And now it’s all over the web. You have to feel for the man.
Or not. Because it turns out he is incapable of admitting his own mistakes — incapable of apologizing.
“I apologize if I said anything like that,” he later said.
Excuse me? You didn’t say something like that; you said exactly that. You called her a bigoted woman.
“Of course I apologize if I said anything offensive.”
If indeed. If he said anything that might perchance to be offensive, I say.
“I would never put myself in a position where I would want to say something like that about a woman I’ve met.”
For god’s sake, man, you were caught on tape. You’ve heard it yourself. Just fess up and apologize!
But you see, he can’t. He’s a politician. They don’t know how. It’s not in their DNA.