Obama the Cheapskate: 25 DVDs for Gordon Brown?
(Hot Air) - The British have begun to worry about the “special relationship” in the Anglosphere since the election of Barack Obama. First, the visit from Gordon Brown failed to get the usual Rose Garden joint-presser treatment from the White House this week. Now the Daily Mail reports that Obama cheaped out on the traditional gift exchange, rustling up some DVDs in exchange for a thoughtful gift from Brown:
Gordon Brown has been given a collection of 25 classic American films on DVD as his official gift from Barack Obama.
The Prime Minister flew home from his successful trip to Washington this morning with the ’special collector’s box’ of films hidden in his luggage.
No 10 had tried to keep the present a secret, refusing to answer reporters who asked what President Obama had given to mark the reaffirmation of the special relationship.
posted by BP News Bureau | 3:18 PM
1 Comments:
A search of ABC, NBC, CBS, the Huffington Post, the NYT, the Chicago Sun Times, the LA Times, MSNBC, etc. have absolutely no mention of this whatsoever. A tactless gift of DVDs that won't play on European DVD players and plastic toys is apparently not news to the main stream news outlets. Funny, only months ago a misspoken word by Bush would have been splashed all over the headlines by these same outlets calling him an idiot. Obama and Michelle - cheapskates, skin flints, tactless, etc. How much do you want to bet that when they leave the White House they'll do a Clinton and clean out the place before they leave?
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