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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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1 posted on 03/19/2009 2:09:40 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Doofus.


2 posted on 03/19/2009 2:11:22 PM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Cringe...


3 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)
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To: Sub-Driver

LOL! I called it! Granted, so did many other FReepers, but I still called it!


4 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)
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To: Sub-Driver

* groan *


5 posted on 03/19/2009 2:11:56 PM PDT by mancini
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To: Sub-Driver

unbelievable. And these nitwits called Pres Bush an idiot.


6 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)
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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)


7 posted on 03/19/2009 2:12:46 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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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....


8 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....)
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To: Future Snake Eater

Isn’t the Stooge supposed to meet with the Queen sometime soon?


9 posted on 03/19/2009 2:13:14 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Sub-Driver
Re-Gifting: You Shouldn’t Have. But if You Did, Here’s How to Get Away With It


10 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)
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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.


11 posted on 03/19/2009 2:14:46 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: Sub-Driver
Seriously, as minor as this is, doesn’t someone deserve to be fired for it?

Yes. Obama.

12 posted on 03/19/2009 2:15:06 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Sub-Driver

tacky


13 posted on 03/19/2009 2:16:35 PM PDT by Jemian (PAM of JT ~~ Michael Steele is a craven squish. -Mark Steyne)
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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.


14 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.)
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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).
15 posted on 03/19/2009 2:16:48 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: Sub-Driver

I thought McCain was the one who was “out of touch”....


16 posted on 03/19/2009 2:17:14 PM PDT by TheBattman (Pray for our country....)
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama picks UNC, warns 'Don't embarrass me' (Oh, the irony)


17 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!)
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To: Sub-Driver

I still want to know if they were “re-gifted”.


18 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)
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To: swain_forkbeard

Even he can’t watch them they’re still better than foreign films.


19 posted on 03/19/2009 2:18:48 PM PDT by exist
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To: Sub-Driver
Hit the overcharge, er, reset button!


20 posted on 03/19/2009 2:18:50 PM PDT by maggief
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