off-mike

In the 2008 race, Barack Obama learned to modulate his pandering after the blowback from what he presumed were off-mike comments to a liberal San Francisco audience -- he said that some frustrated small-town Americans "cling to guns or religion" -- handed Hillary Clinton and later John McCain a powerful talking point.

Michael Sigman: Pander-monium Breaks Out Among 2012 GOP Hopefuls Michael Sigman 2011

Still, the music, even with Se or Klein himself singing (sort of) off-mike, is worth the tumult.

Latin Blues and a Song for Mary Lou 2010

(Unfortunately, they're being drowned out by trivia such as Jesse Jackson's off-mike comments.)

Obama Raises $52 Million In June 2009

For a fair reflection of the proportionality of the debate you would need 98 experts reminding of us the dangers of AGW and the need to act, and 2 arts grad bloggers noisily (and ineffectually) harrumphing off-mike.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Coming up, the media jump on Jesse Jackson's off-mike insult against Barack Obama and a "New Yorker" magazine cover that depicts Obama and his wife as Muslim terrorists.

CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2008 2008

The proudest, most positive, perhaps the only proud, positive moment in the Kerry campaign of 2004 occurred when he thought he was off-mike.

Obama is getting creamed. 2008

I always get the impression that he's being interrupted or distracted by someone off-mike.

Sound Politics: Schram it! 2006

The five-minute video, which has been posted on the MiamiHerald. com website, shows Ros-Lehtinen seated at her desk, listening to an off-mike question and welcoming the opportunity of being in a free Cuba "whether that meant that somebody killed Fidel Castro or whether somebody toppled his government."

December 2006 2006

BLITZER: You heard the complaints from Dennis Kucinich when Hillary Clinton and John Edwards were talking, at least off-mike -- they thought they were off-mike -- about limiting the forums, limiting the debates.

CNN Transcript Jul 22, 2007 2007

Meanwhile, the Republicans are all twitterpated about Kerry's "off-mike" comments about the Republicans.

March 2004 2004