Stupid Shit in the News

[classicman]

ABC News' Ann Compton reports:

On the President’s first day back in the office from vacation, facing a deteriorating economic horizon, one Internet site is claiming he has returned to a newly redecorated Oval Office, complete with new carpets and drapes.

A White House spokesman tells ABC News the administration will have no immediate comment on the Drudge Report that “workers have been busy installing new carpets, drapes, painting, etc. in Oval Office.” But mediamatters.org, a progressive media watchdog site, has pounced, defending the Obama administration.

Under the headline “BREAKING: President Bush redecorated the White House,” mediamatters.org pre-buts any suggestion that a cosmetic face-lift would be what it calls “some sort of shocking waste of tax dollars.” It recalls the Bush administration upgrades including an expensive sunburst carpet designed by then-First Lady Laura Bush.

When the Obamas first arrived last year, the President declared he liked the carpet and saw no need for immediate redecorating.

The President has a prime time address scheduled Tuesday evening from the Oval Office on the end of combat operations in Iraq, but under traditional White House protocol, the network television camera will be allowed to focus only on the President at his desk, without wider angle views of the office drapes and furniture.

-- Ann Compton

Is that really news? Man must be a slow day.

[Sundae]

My parents' newspaper had a columnist commenting on a photo of Obama
looking stressed and drawn (apparently) while on vacation recently. Apparently Mrs Thatcher blossomed in office - some people even considered her sexy. But poor old Obama is on the brink already - his Presidency is already in decline and he will be out in two years.

In the sort of volte face you only get in tabloids, they also managed to denigrate Hilary Clinton for NOT looking old and wrinkled. Apparently those who lust for power and get off on it (ie meglomaniacs or somesuch) can thrive under those conditions. But it smugly surmised that she was unelectable because of this.

ETA - trying to find the article I was referring to (I couldn't) I came across this one. It made me laugh out loud. What will we do when Prince Philip dies?

Picking up on the theme, Mr Obama told the royal couple: “I had breakfast with the Prime Minister, I had meetings with the Chinese, the Russians, David Cameron...and I’m proud to say I did not nod off in one of the meetings.”

It was then that Philip replied: “Can you tell the difference between them?”

Buckingham Palace officials insisted that he had merely been observing that after such a busy schedule there was a danger that one meeting would merge into another in the President’s mind.

[spudcon]

There may be more wisdom in Prince Philip's question than his mouthpieces at Buckingham Palace gave him credit for. At his age, he probably doesn't give a shit.

[ZenGum]

He never did. He has a long record of saying stupid shit that would get any sackable person sacked. Lucky (for him) he married the Queen.

[casimendocina]

One of the current events programs ran this story a couple of weeks ago.

Click on the link for the full-story-transcript, film, comments etc... but in a nutshell what it amounts to is that the Tanna people of Vanuatu "revere Prince Phillip as the human form of an ancestral spirit from the island, who, according to a prophecy, emerged from a volcano and travelled overseas to marry a queen."

http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story...ing-for-Philip

[jinx]

Is he related to John Frum? Cargo cults are awesome...

[ZenGum]

Wow.

[squirell nutkin]

Originally Posted by jinx

Is he related to John Frum? Cargo cults are awesome...

Have you read Guns, Germs, and Steel? I bet you would love it.

[jinx]

I haven't. I should.

[squirell nutkin]

yeah. y'know when you're busy doing nothing.

[Sundae]

Rooney sleeping with a prostitute.
Right before an important game.

Couldn't they at least have waited until afterwards to release the "story"?
Why do they hate England?

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by squirell nutkin

Have you read Guns, Germs, and Steel? I bet you would love it.

Great book!