[kellynla]

Did a search and didn't see this already posted, so here it is...btw, all you self-appointed "posting police", if this has already been posted, save me your snipe and just have the admin moderator remove this thread...shezzzzzzz

[Stepan12]

I didn't know the european PAL system of video meant that for dvd, also.

I tried to burn a PAL dvc to dvd with poor results because of the difference in American and European systems.

[Don Corleone]

Obama and staff are idiots!!!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

A bit touchy in advance, aren’t we this morning??

Oh, thanks for posting. I hadn’t read this one. Spot-on and scathing, as usual.

[autumnraine]

“Movie stars who wanted to fly in were told by his minders that he didn’t want any other celebrities deflecting attention from him.”

IS THIS TRUE?????

Making of a furher indeed. Dear God help us all.

[ILS21R]

Gordon Brown was hoping for a little more than: “I feel your pain. And have you ever seen The Wizard of Oz? It’s about this sweet little nobody who gets to pay a brief visit to the glittering Emerald City before being swept back to the reassuring familiarity of the poor thing’s broken-down windswept economically devastated monochrome dustbowl. You’ll love it!”

Now that is just beautiful. I wish I had come up with it.

[KirbDog]

Great article...typical Steyn.

[Dudoight]

Even tho I am not a fan of Brown....I can’t believe 25 American movies is an appropriate ‘diplomatic’ gift to the representative of Britain. I am embarrassed. It’s tacky for sure.

[goldstategop]

Its funny. The MSM/Drivebys told us Obama would heal our relations with Europe. Turns out he's even more of an insular cowboy than the much derided Bush!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[snowrip]

What the article didn’t mention was that Onazi was talked out of his original gift idea: an authentic Chicago meatball sub and a year-long membership to the “40 of the Month” club.

[yazoo]

“those relations will be much worse.”

They not only won’t like us, they won’t respect us.

[Iron Munro]

Mr. Brown - if you want to give Obama another whirl you will have to take a number.
The media have all the prime spots locked up.

[COBOL2Java]

...btw, all you self-appointed "posting police", if this has already been posted, save me your snipe and just have the admin moderator remove this thread...shezzzzzzz

LOL! I share your disdain for the "already posted" balabustas...

[P.O.E.]

oligarchic industrial-scale kleptomania in Russia

Coming soon to a Congress near you >

[carmody]

And then a few days later our great ally from the media rich state of Hollywood, Mr. Brad Pitt, came in to town to great fanfare.

[GOPJ]

British prime minister Gordon Brown thought long and hard about what gift to bring on his visit to the White House last week. Barack Obama is the first African-American president, so the prime minister gave him an ornamental desk-pen holder hewn from the timbers of one of the Royal Navy’s anti-slaving ships of the 19th century, HMS Gannet. Even more appropriate, in 1909 the Gannet was renamed HMS President.

The president’s guest also presented him with the framed commission for HMS Resolute, the lost British ship retrieved from the Arctic and returned by America to London, and whose timbers were used for a thank-you gift Queen Victoria sent to Rutherford Hayes: the handsome desk that now sits in the Oval Office.

And, just to round things out, as a little stocking stuffer, Gordon Brown gave President Obama a first edition of Sir Martin Gilbert’s seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill.

In return, America’s head of state gave the prime minister 25 DVDs of “classic American movies.”

Our narcissist in chief gave the finger to our best and oldest friends. Ping.

[opus86]

Thank you, America, for putting a fool in the White House. Had Bush done this the MSM would be all over it, declaring how embarassing this was, how crude it was of Bush to have done such a thing. But of course we cannot criticize our first black president, especially since he’s so busy implementing hope and change for the country.

[Woebama]

If the US is not the dynamic economy that climbs out of the downturn in a big enough way to pull the other economies out with us, then it will have to be China or India. I don’t think they are big enough yet to do it — and everyone else is too “European” in the way they run things (read “socialist”).

[PGR88]

“...whose timbers were used for a thank-you gift Queen Victoria sent to Rutherford Hayes: the handsome desk that now sits in the Oval Office....”

Obama couldn’t give a rats-ass about history or tradition in this country. He sees no value in it, even sin.

That is why we are in deep trouble.

[rightwinggoth]

“I’ll be interested to know if Mr. Brown has anything to play the films on back home, since U.S.-format DVDs don’t work in United Kingdom DVD players.”

With the level of thought put into that “gift”, it is virtually guaranteed that they are encoded for the wrong region.

[agere_contra]

I am more and more impressed by Gordon’s gifts every time I hear about them. Literally nonesuch gifts, perfectly matched to the office of the recipient: a real compliment.

Unfortunately, when choosing a gift for a guy like Obama an immense rose-tinted mirror with “I AM THE GREATEST” written on it would have been more appropriate.