[billorites]

Couple of Miami DJ's got Castro on the phone a year or so ago.

Fidel was P.O'd!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I remember that. It was absolutely hillarious!

[Polybius]

Couple of Miami DJ's got Castro on the phone a year or so ago. Fidel was P.O'd!

Well, say what we will about Chirac, at least we have to give him credit for having much more of a sense of humor than Fidel. :-)

[MadManDan]

I remember DJs in Boston a long time got Don King on and he thought it was Mike Tyson. That was a good one. The same guys got Monica Lewinsky's mother's phone number. She got pretty pi**ed off too. Good stuff.

[Mount Athos]

Although he is an appeasement monkey, he did handle this well and with good humor. The castro call was far better.

[ladiesview61]

Hey, the guy's got a sense of humor..who knew.

[lilylangtree]

Just proved Jacky Chiracy was human afterall and that turnabout is fair play.

[raccoonradio]

The Canadian satire show This Hour Has 22 Minutes had one of their "reporters" at a W appearance in Michigan, IIRC, and they told the then-Texas govenor that "you got the endorsement of Canadian PM Poutine". Poutine is "a popular snack consisting of french fries topped with fresh cheese curds and covered with hot gravy." Maybe he was half-listening and thought the man said "Chretien", but he complimented
PM "Poutine". ouch!

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1999-2000 - During the American election campaign of 2000, Rick Mercer approached Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush on a campaign stop in Michigan, asking for comment on the news that Bush had received the endorsement of Canadian prime minister "Jean Poutine". (The then-prime minister's name was Jean Chrétien, and he had certainly not endorsed Bush.)

Bush accepted the endorsement with a short and grateful speech to the 22 Minutes cameras, which aired as part of the show's regular Talking to Americans feature. In his first official visit to Canada four years later, he joked that his "one regret" about the visit was that he'd "hop[ed] to meet Jean Poutine."

http://home.comcast.net/~wwwstephen2/bush.mpg