It seems there is always a hot mic around when someone delivers a cold slap of truth

The Australian, Tuesday:

Is the Brisbane press gallery bowling up softball “Dorothy Dixers” to Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk? The claim came up in a candid exchange between Nine Brisbane political reporter Lane Calcutt and two fellow Brisbane press gallery journalists … picked up by a Seven News hot mike, which kept recording the unsuspecting reporters after the Premier had walked away.

That sinking feeling. A boom mic catches immigration minister Peter Dutton discussing climate change. News.com.au, September 11, 2015:

“Time doesn’t mean anything when … you’re about to have water lapping at your door,” said Mr Dutton, referring to late starts at yesterday’s South Pacific Forum in Port Moresby attended by (prime minister Tony) Abbott.

At least Charles consider journalists to be people. Bristol Post, 2005:

The Prince of Wales hit the headlines when a microphone detected a scathing comment about the BBC’s royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell. “Bloody people. I can’t bear that man. He’s so awful. He really is.”

The wit of Morris. The Sydney Morning Herald, July 2, 2007:

Last year Mr Iemma apologised for any offence that might have been taken when he was overheard telling the Victorian premier, Steve Bracks, that the then Cross City Tunnel boss, Graham Mulligan, was a “f...wit”.

Hands up, who likes Bibi? France’s Arret Sur Images website, November 9, 2011:

French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his US counterpart Barack Obama have come under fire after they were overheard talking rudely about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the G-20 summit. Sarkozy was overheard telling Obama: “I can’t stand him. He’s a liar.” Obama is reported to have replied: “You’re tired of him; what about me? I have to deal with him every day.”

Just between you and me. Straits Times, May 12, 2016:

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and prime minister David Cameron were reminded of making unguarded comments in public when their candid remarks were picked up by hot mics and made world headlines. Mr Cameron’s comments to the Queen that Nigeria and Afghanistan were “fantastically corrupt” and “possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world” … The Queen was not spared, as she was later caught in her own mic slip when she was heard telling a police commander that Chinese officials “were very rude” during China President Xi Jinping’s state visit …

What a duffer. Daily Mail, April 29, 2010:

A TV microphone overheard (British prime minister Gordon) Brown privately attacking Mrs Duffy, 66, as a “bigot” for daring to raise immigration with him — seconds after telling her she was a “good woman” …

Those French are so brave. WQAD-TV, May 12, 2016:

French president Jacques Chirac … was caught out on tape … “The only thing (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease,” he told Russian President Vladimir Putin and German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.

What a pair. Fox News, July 9, 2008:

In the run-up to the 2008 election, veteran civil rights campaigner Jesse Jackson was overheard accusing the then Illinois senator (and future president Barack Obama) of “talking down to black people”. During the taping of an interview for Fox News, Jackson whispered to a fellow pundit: “I want to cut his nuts off.”