He says his most embarrassing moment was interviewing the golfer Justin Rose and forgetting to switch the recording equipment on (to Justin's eternal credit he did the whole interview again).
The BBC's correspondent in Colombia, Jeremy McDermott, says the incident is embarrassing for both the Colombian and US governments - President George W Bush is increasing aid to what is already the third largest recipient of US military aid after Israel and Egypt.
"It was horrific and embarrassing, " says Gendron, a sales manager in the Boston area.
The BBC's business editor Robert Peston says the profits warning is embarrassing for Mr Daniels.
"It's embarrassing, " says Dannenberg, who had heard all about bog as shelters.
But the rock star may have been growing tone-deaf long before his embarrassing revelation, says Mr Page, who has followed Mr Jackson's political career for 30 years.
The declared aim that it will assert the nation's territorial integrity comes a day after the president said the state no longer controlled the entire territory of Nigeria, a somewhat embarrassing admission, says the BBC's Will Ross in Lagos.
BBC: Nigeria declares 'massive' military campaign on borders
"I used it the wrong way and it was kind of embarrassing, " she says.
Such stories are embarrassing, Mr Rasmussen says, but a necessary evil.
The BSA says stammering can be so painful and embarrassing that people withdraw into a shell so they can avoid situations where they have to speak.
"The reason ESPN.com doesn't talk revenue is it's embarrassing for them, " Levy says in a Florida twang.
That's why Senator Hagel, Republican, says, you know, beyond pitiful, beyond embarrassing, in the zone of dangerous.
There have been embarrassing instances under Estrada where a minister says one thing, only to be contradicted hours later.
"It's embarrassing to have them out there, " says Rick Ferri of investment manager Portfolio Solutions in Troy, Mich.
It was so embarrassing that "I never skipped school again, " says that daughter, Marilyn Ruberry, now a bookkeeper in Raymond, Alberta.
Isabel Hardman, writing in a blog for the Spectator, says "he could have clung on a lot longer, but a series of embarrassing rebellions would have eventually shown him up", referring to an earlier story by the political publication claiming Mr Mitchell's own team of whips no longer believed he had authority.
"It's embarrassing if your mom knows you aren't walking enough, " he says.
But even that charge is not too embarrassing for the chancellor of the time, Alastair Darling, because the NAO says the oversight has not led to any significant additional costs for the state.
The BBC's diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus says a revision of Lisbon would create major domestic political problems in many EU states, with referendums or embarrassing parliamentary votes.
"It's so embarrassing, the amount of money that was wasted because I acted like a big company, " she says.
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