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Confirmed: DVDs that Obama gave Gordon Brown are the wrong format
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Posted on 03/19/2009 2:09:40 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Confirmed: DVDs that Obama gave Gordon Brown are the wrong format posted at 4:50 pm on March 19, 2009 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly
Via Media Blog, one final cringeworthy indignity from the gifts that keep on giving. Until now I thought Obama’s team had spent about five minutes brainstorming on what to get Brown. I was wrong. It was more like two minutes.
What’s that term The One’s been using for his foreign policy? Ah, right. “Smart power.”
Alas, when the PM settled down to begin watching them the other night, he found there was a problem.
The films only worked in DVD players made in North America and the words “wrong region” came up on his screen. Although he mournfully had to put the popcorn away, he is unlikely to jeopardise the special relationship – or “special partnership”, as we are now supposed to call it – by registering a complaint…
A White House spokesman sniggered when I put the story to him and he was still looking into the matter when my deadline came last night.
By the way, when Obama’s unlikely gift was disclosed, a reader emailed me to ask if Clueless was among the films. Funnily enough, it was not.
What’d he get the Irish PM for St. Patrick’s Day, a kilt? Exit question: Seriously, as minor as this is, doesn’t someone deserve to be fired for it?
TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bho44; dvd; gaffe; gordonbrown; oops
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snort.....
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
03/19/2009 2:11:22 PM PDT
by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
03/19/2009 2:11:28 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Tax the rich" fails if the rich won't play)
To: Sub-Driver
LOL! I called it! Granted, so did many other FReepers, but I still called it!
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posted on
03/19/2009 2:11:32 PM PDT
by
Future Snake Eater
("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
03/19/2009 2:11:56 PM PDT
by
mancini
To: Sub-Driver
unbelievable. And these nitwits called Pres Bush an idiot.
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posted on
03/19/2009 2:12:43 PM PDT
by
sofaman
(Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to the one place in the ME with no oil - Golda Meir)
To: Sub-Driver
LOL. Maybe he should send him the Books on Tape version of his two insipid books instead (written by Bill Ayers, mind you)
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posted on
03/19/2009 2:12:46 PM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: Sub-Driver
Well, live and learn.
Now he knows better, and he’ll make sure to present Queen Elizabeth with the correct format “Madea” DVD box set during his visit next month....
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posted on
03/19/2009 2:13:02 PM PDT
by
Mac from Cleveland
(How to make a small fortune in the Obama era--first, start off with a big fortune....)
To: Future Snake Eater
Isn’t the Stooge supposed to meet with the Queen sometime soon?
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posted on
03/19/2009 2:13:14 PM PDT
by
unkus
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
03/19/2009 2:14:07 PM PDT
by
WVKayaker
(Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. -Mark Twain)
To: Sub-Driver
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Yes, I’m so glad the people voted for the guy pushing “smart diplomacy” to solve all our problems in the world.
To: Sub-Driver
Seriously, as minor as this is, doesn’t someone deserve to be fired for it? Yes. Obama.
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
03/19/2009 2:16:35 PM PDT
by
Jemian
(PAM of JT ~~ Michael Steele is a craven squish. -Mark Steyne)
To: Sub-Driver
Obama is a complete moron, masquarading as a genius and aided in this total fraud by the JournList cabal of mainstream media midgets.
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posted on
03/19/2009 2:16:39 PM PDT
by
FormerACLUmember
(When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
To: Sub-Driver
Aaaah, but zero doesn't care about Britain. He only cares about Muslim countries that want us dead. Sad state of affairs. (I'm sure he never gave it a second thought about a gift for the British PM and wife).
To: Sub-Driver
I thought McCain was the one who was “out of touch”....
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posted on
03/19/2009 2:17:14 PM PDT
by
TheBattman
(Pray for our country....)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
03/19/2009 2:18:13 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: Sub-Driver
I still want to know if they were “re-gifted”.
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posted on
03/19/2009 2:18:39 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: swain_forkbeard
Even he can’t watch them they’re still better than foreign films.
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posted on
03/19/2009 2:18:48 PM PDT
by
exist
To: Sub-Driver
Hit the overcharge, er, reset button!
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posted on
03/19/2009 2:18:50 PM PDT
by
maggief
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