Is anyone surprised that the DVDs that the president gave Gordon Brown don’t work in British players?
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.
Me, neither.
[Update a few minutes later]
Iowahawk called this a week and a half ago.
[Friday morning update]
Barack Obama, unplugged — it’s a Special Olympics presidency.
And more from Mark Steyn:
I haven’t run into Gordon Brown in over a decade, but my memory of the last time I met him in a TV green room is of a glowering misanthropic type who enjoys nursing a grudge. What doesn’t go around (in the DVD player) comes around. When the President and his Teleprompter visit London for the G20 summit in a couple of weeks, it would be a tragedy were Barack Oprompta to rise for his big speech to find nothing but the words “Wrong Region” flashing on his screen (although I’m sure the Queen would be very polite and string along and make all the swells stand up and join the toast to “Ron Region”, whoever he is).
But don’t forget, folks: Somewhere in Texas a village has been reunited with its idiot, and we now have the whip-smartest administration of David Brooks’ lifetime.
The sycophancy of the press is truly disgusting, particularly after the way they bashed George Bush for eight years.
So, whose words were the “Special Olympics” line, his or TOTUS’? Or is Joe Biden writing his material for him now?
[Off to check…]
Heh. TOTUS says “Don’t blame me, I didn’t do it.”
Okay, I see the bus coming right at me, so let’s be clear: this was His ad lib.
It’s OK, we believe you. Hang in there. You have a tough job.
[Late morning update]
More from Powerline:
Can you imagine the Democrats’ reaction if the Bush White House had given a European head of state a set of DVDs that can only be played on North American machines? It would have been conclusive proof of Bush’s provincialism, lack of sensitivity to our allies’ sensibilities, ignorance of the wider world, techno incompetence, failure to appreciate the superiority of European civilization, blah blah blah. That’s how it would have been reported and editorialized on in every newspaper. So let’s check tomorrow’s papers and see whether that’s how Obama’s gaffe is covered. Or whether it’s covered at all.
I’m not going to waste my time looking.