Oh no he didn’t! Gove just cracked Weinstein gag on R4 Today

[badbadhusky]

Likening it to a politician being interviewed by Humphries. Twat!

[PepeLePew]

What a terrible excuse for a human being he is. Can’t believe he did that. Tosser.

[badbadhusky]

There was follow up comment about Humphries’ style being “worse than a light groping” though it was quick fire and could have been Gove, Kinnock or Humphries.

[Dozer]

Jesus.

[badbadhusky]

I don’t have a Twitter account, but if I did I’d be ripping #r4today a new one.

[CycleHire]

Yep heard it. Was pretty shocked.

[flyingpigsinclover]

I didn't think it was possible for my lack of respect for gove to go any lower. It just did.

[Doggington]

What did he actually say? I was listening but missed it (too many kids arguing over the best spoon).

[badbadhusky]

It was along the line that preparing to be interviewed on R4 Today was like heading up to Weinstein’s hotel room for a meeting. I posted straight away so you should be able to find it easily on listen again.

[Screepy]

What a piece of shit!

[badbadhusky]

Good. People are tweeting on the #r4today hashtag about it. Nick Robinson’s included part of the quote and its worse than I said: mobile.twitter.com/SmithTonyD/status/924176093665472512

[PepeLePew]

I was really disappointed that the audience laughed along. Stunned silence or boos would have been a much better response.

[FlorenceLyons]

The hilarious follow-up quip was Kinnock, I think. I'm sure they thought it was great bants

[qumquat]

Yes Kinnock joined in enthusiastically as well.

[SonicBoomBoom]

Heard this. Was very disappointed.

Can't blame R4 though, it was live (wasn't it) and it was Gove.

[SonicBoomBoom]

^^Although someone should have pulled him up on it.

Wasn't there a story yesterday about how nobody was taking the claims of sexual assault and harassment in Westminster seriously? Wonder why.

[FlorenceLyons]

Gove has tweeted an apology, which is something, I suppose:

'Apologies for my clumsy attempt at humour on R4 Today this morning -it wasn't appropriate. I'm sorry and apologise unreservedly'

Nick Robinson, on the other hand, is busy defending sharing Gove's words in a tweet because he did so 'without comment' - spectacularly failing to see that's that's kind of the point...

[Undercoverbanana]

I can't decide who I dislike the most, him or his partner. I think he might have won with this little gem.

[Moussemoose]

Twat

[coldcanary]

She’ll be all over the place moaning about people being too pc and taking offence over nothing soon no doubt.
I don’t like Gove in the slightest bit I honestly thought he had more sense than to make ‘jokes’ like that.

[badbadhusky]

Yeah, there’s nothing more hilarious than a sexual predator with several decades’ abuse under his belt.

[Battleax]

What is wrong with him?

[CanIBuffalo]

It's what he really thinks. The apology means nothing except that he wishes he'd thought about it first. I think you can tell an awful lot about people by the off the cuff 'jokes' that they make.

[FlorenceLyons]

What I find particularly hard to fathom is that I don’t think this was off the cuff. Gove notoriously prepares meticulously for everything, and this came across as pre-planned to me.

[Knusper]

Ugh. Gove. Words fail me. Just as bad is the the other men's response/non response.

And people wonder why women often don't come forward when sexually assaulted.