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Oops! Was that mic on?

   November 8, 2011

French President Nicolas Sarkozy apparently did not know that his mic was turned on when he insulted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by calling him an outright liar during the recent G20 summit. President Obama probably didn’t know the mic was on, either, when he answered, “You are sick of him, but I have to work with him every day.”

Which is more surprising, the fact that two world leaders could be so clumsy or that the French media failed to report this for a week, out of respect for “French Media Traditions”? Read more.

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