Stewart Copeland: Keeping It Classy South Of The Border

The Police skinsman was totally busted after an interview with a Chilean newspaper turned into a minor international incident because he questioned the hotness of the country’s (female) president. In Stew’s defense, however, who among us hasn’t found themselves telling a reporter how many beers we’d need to have before we’d be able to bone the leader of a South American country?^*

Copeland told the Mercurio newspaper “Look, the future President of Argentina would be good for one beer; yours (would be good) for four,” thought to mean Chilean President Michelle Bachelet is less attractive than her Argentinean counterpart Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President elect.

Copeland wrote a letter to Bachelet saying “I was mortified to learn this remark reached you and you were asked to comment on such a trivial matter.” The letter was circulated to press by the government, says Reuters.

Note how the careful Copeland doesn’t apologize for making the comment, just that Bachelet happened to hear about it. Now that’s the kind of passive-aggressive “sorry” that comes from a lot of time on a tour bus with Sting. Also, should the guy in the photo above really be commenting on the relative attractiveness of international political superbabes?

Police Drummer Apologizes To Chile President [NME]

^*A variation on “beer goggles” is the best explanation I could come up with for Copeland’s kinda vague comment. Alternate explanations welcomed.