Gordon Brown even spun the quotation from Earl Warren

Brown said that events over the weekend reminded him of Earl Warren's preference for the sports pages because they described achievement whereas the front pages dealt with criticism.

If you look at Wikiquote you will see that Earl Warren's actual words were one of the following:

1) I always turn to the sports page first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures.

2) I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

3) I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

What all of these possible variants have in common is hat the last word is "failures", Gordon Brown couldn't let that stand so he plumped for "criticism".

What is odder is that Gordon Brown was all but word perfect last week when he made a speech to Alan Greenspan that included the same quotation that he was suddenly reminded of.

I have also started to notice that Gordon Brown seems to learn a few phrases and then use them over and over again in an interview or press conference. Today it was all "vision" and "aspirations", does anyone else think he might be operating above his level of competence?