
Originally Posted by
KerrAvon
Definitely outrage and definitely manufactured.
Johnson was trying to do what politicians try to do, which is to answer a different question to that which is being asked. The reporter was trying to do what reporters try to do, which is to create a story.
It was a very odd thing for Johnson to do to put the phone in his pocket. The easy thing to do would have been to look at the picture and make sympathetic noises, in which case the story would have been that he made sympathetic noises.
Johnson was trying to do what politicians try to do, which is to answer a different question to that which is being asked. The reporter was trying to do what reporters try to do, which is to create a story.