the realm of politics isn’t without its
uncomfortable embarrassing or
disagreeable times I think Japanese
people gonna like to tasted us be
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
ten awkward political moments I’m sorry
it’s including straight yes or no soon
and I was I will give you now if you
threaten to overrule him for this list
we’re only taking a look at personal
incidents in the life of politicians
that become awkward or embarrassing when
seen through the lens of the public eye
and the that means we’re staying away
from larger moments or actions like
policy decisions and sticking but
smaller quirkier moments or when the
president does it that means that it is
not illegal number 10 Vladimir Putin
offers shawl to Chinese first lady
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
intentions may have been considerate and
gentlemanly at the 2014 APEC summit but
social media and Chinese censors thought
otherwise
after his warm gesture on a chilly
beijing night was captured on tape
during the opening dinner putin wrapped
a blanket around while China’s president
and her husband Xi Jinping chatted
politics with Barack Obama
while she graciously accepted the offer
she also attempted to quickly defuse any
potential awkwardness by exchanging the
shawl with one from an attendant
Jinping’s neglect of the cold sparked
fires across China social media with
people criticizing China’s president of
being socially inept and inattentive
luckily for Jing ping he can raise the
Great Firewall of China anytime he wants
and he did just that
pulling the video from the web
number nine Boris Yeltsin antics
Russia’s first democratically-elected
president Boris Yeltsin was known for
living at large he frequently expressed
this through the international
diplomatic language of dense indeed the
dancing Russian bear has been known to
get Footloose in public
perhaps one too many times after
reportedly enjoying a few glasses of
bubbly Yeltsin snatched the orchestra
conductors baton and took over the brass
section while serenading the crowd
yes this man had one of the world’s
largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons at
the time think about that
number eight Gordon Brown calls voter of
bigot I’m mortified by what’s happened
like Richard Nixon before him UK Prime
Minister Gordon Brown made people
uncomfortable with his aloof social
skills and like Nixon Brown fell victim
to a live microphone during an on-camera
street interview Brown had a
conversation with an elderly widow
concerned about debt and immigration and
it’s very nice to see you okay
when Brown left his pin on microphone
was still on and he was overheard
calling the 65 year old a bigoted woman
Oh everything she’s just a solved
bigoted woman while barking at his staff
we’re putting him up to it
she’d never put me with humble that
woman whose idea was that
instead of sounding off Brown probably
wished that it was his mic that had the
sound off especially considering how big
the story became in the media thereafter
and Browns multiple subsequent apologies
I’ve given her my sincere apologies I
misunderstood what she said and she has
accepted that there was a
misunderstanding and she’s accepted my
apology number seven Rob Ford states
that he has more than enough to eat at
home the former crack smoking mayor of
Toronto Rob Ford has been known for
putting his foot in his mouth
on many occasions and apparently a lot
more than that at home to use smoked
crack cocaine exactly yes I have some
look to crack cocaine while the
beleaguered bear was responding to
interrogations outside his office by TV
reporters about prostitution and drug
abuse allegations I don’t appreciate
people calling Atlanta a prostitute Ford
then addressed claims that he had
allegedly propositioned a female policy
advisor
Olivia GaN deck for oral sex and it
makes me sick how people are saying this
his response to clear the air was
masterly and understandably shocked and
disgusted the Canadian City on the last
thing was Olivia gone backed it says
that I want to eat her they
letting gone doc I’ve never said that in
my life to her I would never do that
I’m happily married I’ve got more than
enough to eat at home number six Gerald
Ford falls down leaving Air Force One
twice raindrops kept falling on their
heads as Gerald and Betty Ford arrived
in Austria
during his US presidency Gerald Ford
became known for being a bit of an oaf
the duties of the office on returning
about 2/3 of the office on which I’m
about to enter and he blamed his
accident-prone behavior on an old
college football knee injury this may
explain the first time
Ford fell down a flight of stairs while
he was getting off of Air Force One
after which he’d gone up and shook hands
with a hesitant Chancellor of Austria
but this wouldn’t be the last time he
trip he even fell going up the stairs it
seems a career in college football
prepared for it for two things in
politics to pick yourself up after you
fall and to have a thick skull I’m
Gerald Ford and you’re not number five
tony abbott winks when a woman tells him
she’s a sex worker like Abbott I would
like to ask you if you’d like your
mother or your grandmother to be my
situation while on an Australian radio
program answering listeners questions
conservative Australian Prime Minister
Tony Abbott was berated by an elderly
woman about his austerity policies that
forced her into poverty and working on
an adult sex line I just survived on
around $400 a fortnight after I pay my
rent
appearing amused by the woman’s business
down under add it look to the radio host
off-camera winked and smirk
seemingly in response to the woman’s
profession and I work on an adult six
line to make ends meet
the show’s producer took to Twitter
tweeting that he was totally surprised
by Abbott’s insensitive gesture Abbott
received widespread backlash and was
vilified for being a quote total creep
well look I was looking at John fine he
was smiling at me and I winked back at
him I shouldn’t have done it Cal I
should have been more focused on the
caller and less focused on the
interviewer number four
Bill Clinton falls asleep one day in
2008 former US President Bill Clinton
had a dream just not in the right place
or at the right time bye-bye
taking action to make this world a
better place in which to live while
attending a 2008 memorial to dr. Martin
Luther King jr. Clinton took a little
catnap
while he was on stage in the background
of a speech that was being given on
King’s struggle for racial tolerance in
America not only did Clinton fall asleep
he also quite noticeably woke himself up
midway through the oration while a
packed audience as well as the entire
world watched uncomfortably on TV 3 Joe
Biden asks a man in a wheelchair to
stand up sharp Graham’s state senators
here Chuck old white faithful classy
smokin Joe Biden has been known as a
reliable goldmine of political gaffes
perhaps no other instance perfectly
embodies Joe Biden than this during a
campaign rally in 2008 the VP nominee
asked a Missouri state senator to stand
up to be applauded in a room full of
campaign supporters stand up Chuck
doesn’t see you Oh God love you what am
I talking about
unfortunately Biden didn’t know or had
forgotten that Senator Graham was a
paraplegic in a wheelchair making for
quite an embarrassing incident I tell
you what you’re making everybody else
stand up bow pal thank you very very
much
number two Howard Dean emits primal
scream you know something it was the
most spectacular third-place finishing
speech in the history of presidential
White House races we will not give up
during a 2004 Iowa caucus rally former
Vermont governor and presidential
contender Howard Dean doubled down on
defeat during a monster truck rally
light speech we’re going to South
Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and
North Dakota and New Mexico the media
shortly dubbed it beans I have a scream
speech in it
Dean builds up the crowd and brings down
the house before concluding awkwardly
with a loud high-pitched Yelp and then
we’re gonna wash it in DC to take back
the White House afterward the crowd
faded away and heckles shortly set in
since then the moment has often been
cited as the media gaffe that basically
terminated his campaign
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions it’s three
agencies of government when I get there
that are gone
commerce education and the what’s the
third one there let’s say Julie face on
screen aggressive et me news efficiency
she to vyana vayu yellow I did not even
ruled that aggression to us the Marriott
was not suspended in her threatened to
overrule him
I have accounted for my decision to
dismiss Derrick Lewis did you threaten
to wearing rumors I read most of them
again with a great appreciation for the
press for the media welcomed emissivity
I’m curious thank you um all of them any
of them that have been in front of me
over all these years number one every
George W Bush stuttering speech one two
three four from a shoe being thrown at
him to putting his foot in his own mouth
George Walker Bush would have probably
benefited from a speech therapist like
King George the sixth of the UK did for
his two terms as US president there
would have been a deficit but there
would have been the commiserate baby
baby booties on several occasions George
Bush jr. had fallen victim to speech
impediments and cringe-worthy bushes and
phraseology where screw let me his
speeches almost deserve a top ten list
of their own anybody here got four kids
three kids
cool regardless no other politician has
by far caused as many facepalming
analogies mid-speech mental blanks and
half-baked statements than the 43rd
President of the United States I’d like
to stay here all day but I got a I got
to go to Vegas something about what goes
on there stays there or something like
that you know do you agree with our list
which awkward political moment belongs
on our list
lemmy’s clemmy’s then Lemmy’s for more
awkward top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com there
is nothing that a good defense can not
be a better office
uncomfortable embarrassing or
disagreeable times I think Japanese
people gonna like to tasted us be
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
ten awkward political moments I’m sorry
it’s including straight yes or no soon
and I was I will give you now if you
threaten to overrule him for this list
we’re only taking a look at personal
incidents in the life of politicians
that become awkward or embarrassing when
seen through the lens of the public eye
and the that means we’re staying away
from larger moments or actions like
policy decisions and sticking but
smaller quirkier moments or when the
president does it that means that it is
not illegal number 10 Vladimir Putin
offers shawl to Chinese first lady
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
intentions may have been considerate and
gentlemanly at the 2014 APEC summit but
social media and Chinese censors thought
otherwise
after his warm gesture on a chilly
beijing night was captured on tape
during the opening dinner putin wrapped
a blanket around while China’s president
and her husband Xi Jinping chatted
politics with Barack Obama
while she graciously accepted the offer
she also attempted to quickly defuse any
potential awkwardness by exchanging the
shawl with one from an attendant
Jinping’s neglect of the cold sparked
fires across China social media with
people criticizing China’s president of
being socially inept and inattentive
luckily for Jing ping he can raise the
Great Firewall of China anytime he wants
and he did just that
pulling the video from the web
number nine Boris Yeltsin antics
Russia’s first democratically-elected
president Boris Yeltsin was known for
living at large he frequently expressed
this through the international
diplomatic language of dense indeed the
dancing Russian bear has been known to
get Footloose in public
perhaps one too many times after
reportedly enjoying a few glasses of
bubbly Yeltsin snatched the orchestra
conductors baton and took over the brass
section while serenading the crowd
yes this man had one of the world’s
largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons at
the time think about that
number eight Gordon Brown calls voter of
bigot I’m mortified by what’s happened
like Richard Nixon before him UK Prime
Minister Gordon Brown made people
uncomfortable with his aloof social
skills and like Nixon Brown fell victim
to a live microphone during an on-camera
street interview Brown had a
conversation with an elderly widow
concerned about debt and immigration and
it’s very nice to see you okay
when Brown left his pin on microphone
was still on and he was overheard
calling the 65 year old a bigoted woman
Oh everything she’s just a solved
bigoted woman while barking at his staff
we’re putting him up to it
she’d never put me with humble that
woman whose idea was that
instead of sounding off Brown probably
wished that it was his mic that had the
sound off especially considering how big
the story became in the media thereafter
and Browns multiple subsequent apologies
I’ve given her my sincere apologies I
misunderstood what she said and she has
accepted that there was a
misunderstanding and she’s accepted my
apology number seven Rob Ford states
that he has more than enough to eat at
home the former crack smoking mayor of
Toronto Rob Ford has been known for
putting his foot in his mouth
on many occasions and apparently a lot
more than that at home to use smoked
crack cocaine exactly yes I have some
look to crack cocaine while the
beleaguered bear was responding to
interrogations outside his office by TV
reporters about prostitution and drug
abuse allegations I don’t appreciate
people calling Atlanta a prostitute Ford
then addressed claims that he had
allegedly propositioned a female policy
advisor
Olivia GaN deck for oral sex and it
makes me sick how people are saying this
his response to clear the air was
masterly and understandably shocked and
disgusted the Canadian City on the last
thing was Olivia gone backed it says
that I want to eat her they
letting gone doc I’ve never said that in
my life to her I would never do that
I’m happily married I’ve got more than
enough to eat at home number six Gerald
Ford falls down leaving Air Force One
twice raindrops kept falling on their
heads as Gerald and Betty Ford arrived
in Austria
during his US presidency Gerald Ford
became known for being a bit of an oaf
the duties of the office on returning
about 2/3 of the office on which I’m
about to enter and he blamed his
accident-prone behavior on an old
college football knee injury this may
explain the first time
Ford fell down a flight of stairs while
he was getting off of Air Force One
after which he’d gone up and shook hands
with a hesitant Chancellor of Austria
but this wouldn’t be the last time he
trip he even fell going up the stairs it
seems a career in college football
prepared for it for two things in
politics to pick yourself up after you
fall and to have a thick skull I’m
Gerald Ford and you’re not number five
tony abbott winks when a woman tells him
she’s a sex worker like Abbott I would
like to ask you if you’d like your
mother or your grandmother to be my
situation while on an Australian radio
program answering listeners questions
conservative Australian Prime Minister
Tony Abbott was berated by an elderly
woman about his austerity policies that
forced her into poverty and working on
an adult sex line I just survived on
around $400 a fortnight after I pay my
rent
appearing amused by the woman’s business
down under add it look to the radio host
off-camera winked and smirk
seemingly in response to the woman’s
profession and I work on an adult six
line to make ends meet
the show’s producer took to Twitter
tweeting that he was totally surprised
by Abbott’s insensitive gesture Abbott
received widespread backlash and was
vilified for being a quote total creep
well look I was looking at John fine he
was smiling at me and I winked back at
him I shouldn’t have done it Cal I
should have been more focused on the
caller and less focused on the
interviewer number four
Bill Clinton falls asleep one day in
2008 former US President Bill Clinton
had a dream just not in the right place
or at the right time bye-bye
taking action to make this world a
better place in which to live while
attending a 2008 memorial to dr. Martin
Luther King jr. Clinton took a little
catnap
while he was on stage in the background
of a speech that was being given on
King’s struggle for racial tolerance in
America not only did Clinton fall asleep
he also quite noticeably woke himself up
midway through the oration while a
packed audience as well as the entire
world watched uncomfortably on TV 3 Joe
Biden asks a man in a wheelchair to
stand up sharp Graham’s state senators
here Chuck old white faithful classy
smokin Joe Biden has been known as a
reliable goldmine of political gaffes
perhaps no other instance perfectly
embodies Joe Biden than this during a
campaign rally in 2008 the VP nominee
asked a Missouri state senator to stand
up to be applauded in a room full of
campaign supporters stand up Chuck
doesn’t see you Oh God love you what am
I talking about
unfortunately Biden didn’t know or had
forgotten that Senator Graham was a
paraplegic in a wheelchair making for
quite an embarrassing incident I tell
you what you’re making everybody else
stand up bow pal thank you very very
much
number two Howard Dean emits primal
scream you know something it was the
most spectacular third-place finishing
speech in the history of presidential
White House races we will not give up
during a 2004 Iowa caucus rally former
Vermont governor and presidential
contender Howard Dean doubled down on
defeat during a monster truck rally
light speech we’re going to South
Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and
North Dakota and New Mexico the media
shortly dubbed it beans I have a scream
speech in it
Dean builds up the crowd and brings down
the house before concluding awkwardly
with a loud high-pitched Yelp and then
we’re gonna wash it in DC to take back
the White House afterward the crowd
faded away and heckles shortly set in
since then the moment has often been
cited as the media gaffe that basically
terminated his campaign
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions it’s three
agencies of government when I get there
that are gone
commerce education and the what’s the
third one there let’s say Julie face on
screen aggressive et me news efficiency
she to vyana vayu yellow I did not even
ruled that aggression to us the Marriott
was not suspended in her threatened to
overrule him
I have accounted for my decision to
dismiss Derrick Lewis did you threaten
to wearing rumors I read most of them
again with a great appreciation for the
press for the media welcomed emissivity
I’m curious thank you um all of them any
of them that have been in front of me
over all these years number one every
George W Bush stuttering speech one two
three four from a shoe being thrown at
him to putting his foot in his own mouth
George Walker Bush would have probably
benefited from a speech therapist like
King George the sixth of the UK did for
his two terms as US president there
would have been a deficit but there
would have been the commiserate baby
baby booties on several occasions George
Bush jr. had fallen victim to speech
impediments and cringe-worthy bushes and
phraseology where screw let me his
speeches almost deserve a top ten list
of their own anybody here got four kids
three kids
cool regardless no other politician has
by far caused as many facepalming
analogies mid-speech mental blanks and
half-baked statements than the 43rd
President of the United States I’d like
to stay here all day but I got a I got
to go to Vegas something about what goes
on there stays there or something like
that you know do you agree with our list
which awkward political moment belongs
on our list
lemmy’s clemmy’s then Lemmy’s for more
awkward top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com there
is nothing that a good defense can not
be a better office
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