Duke of Edinburgh's Gaffes on Par with Bush's

[NJCher]

I think it's a combination of being insensitive combined with a desperate need to be funny.


Duke of Edinburgh gaffes by mocking blind boy
The Duke of Edinburgh, who has a well-earned reputation for putting his foot in his mouth, made yet another gaffe when he mocked the sight of a blind boy.


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The family of Stephen Menary, a teenage army cadet who was blinded in an IRA bombing, had been invited to meet the Queen and her husband at a tree planting event in Hyde Park.

After the Queen asked the then 15-year-old how much sight he had left, the Duke of Edinburgh responded: "Not a lot, judging by the tie he's wearing".

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A few of his other gaffes (many more at the link):

On another occasion he asked a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea: 'You managed not to get eaten, then?"

Speaking to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, he asked: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?"

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/6805975/Duke-of-Edinburgh-gaffes-by-mocking-blind-boy.html


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[The_Commonist]

1. Yeah, he's know to be quite an asshole.

One of that family's many dirty little secrets...

[SpiralHawk]

2. "But I am like, a supremer a-hole. Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

"We Republicons are Number One at Number Two. Ha ha ha. Smirk.

"We are a-holier than thou. That's one of our little inside fundie jokes. Bwa ha ha ha. Smirk."

- XCommander AWOL (R)

[Stevenmarc]

3. On par? The Duke of Edinburgh is basically a glorified ribbon cutter not the President of the US

He may be insensitive but at the end of the day his words carry little weight.

[DrDan]

4. wow - looks like he could have taken junior's foot-in-mouth tendency to a new level

[The_Commonist]

5. Um... the Duke was being a jerk...

...when Dubya was still in diapers.

[DrDan]

6. my point was that the duke was offensive and insensitive - junior was simply not too bright

nor articulate. I don't remember any of his comments being that insulting.

[Are_grits_groceries]

7. I agree.

The Duke has said some appalling things. The only saving grace is, as someone said, his lack of the power that Bush had.

[SpiralHawk]

9. "Who cares what you think?" - xCommander AWOL (R)

[DavidDvorkin]

8. The last royal consort with any real influence on affairs

was Prince Albert, and fortunately for Britain and the world, he had brains.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. This is what happens when a gene pool narrows to the point it has with The Royals.