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(ABC)   Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Hangs up on the president-elect twice from fear of being Punked   (blogs.abcnews.com) divider line 53
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2008-12-03 11:23:41 PM
And yes, her office misspelled the names "Barack" and "Emanuel."

Wow.
 
2008-12-04 12:33:25 AM
Awkward.
 
2008-12-04 12:37:15 AM
FTA: 'you are either very gracious to reach out in such a bipartisan manner or had run out of folks to call if you are truly calling me and Saturday Night Live could use a good Obama impersonator like you.'

Uh, what?
 
2008-12-04 12:39:28 AM
They must have strong weed in Florida.
 
2008-12-04 12:40:23 AM
Dig a canal from the Atlantic to the Gulf along the northern border of that state.

Then cut all roads, rails, power and water. Kill all that attempt to flee. It must be done for the human race to survive.
 
2008-12-04 12:40:24 AM
www.computersupport.ca
Proud.

/shamelessly hotlinked.
 
2008-12-04 12:41:22 AM
Bhruic: FTA: 'you are either very gracious to reach out in such a bipartisan manner or had run out of folks to call if you are truly calling me and Saturday Night Live could use a good Obama impersonator like you.'

Uh, what?


The fact that SNL has a crappy Obama impersonator just sneaks it's way into every conversasion these days. Cut that part of the sentence out and it mostly makes sense.
 
2008-12-04 12:42:28 AM
Bhruic: FTA: 'you are either very gracious to reach out in such a bipartisan manner or had run out of folks to call if you are truly calling me and Saturday Night Live could use a good Obama impersonator like you.'

Uh, what?


I said the same thing. I think in Florida this could probably be a compliment.

But I wouldn't know, I won't go to Florida... I don't want that stamp in my passport.
 
2008-12-04 12:45:43 AM
Wow, she needs a new press release writer. That thing reads like you're talking to a twelve year old girl who won't stop and take breaths between sentences.
 
2008-12-04 12:48:12 AM
i22.photobucket.com

"Of course I'm Barack Obama, baby. Did I ever tell you about the time I rushed for 300 yards against the Toluca Lake Sabre Dogs?"
 
2008-12-04 12:48:47 AM
maybe it was really French President Nicolas Sarkozy!
 
2008-12-04 12:52:23 AM
Look, I only live here. But I'm not from Florida. I'm from up north. Really.
 
2008-12-04 12:55:45 AM
simpsonfan: Ashton Kucher, unavailable for comment.

thank god for that
 
2008-12-04 01:06:16 AM
For what it's worth, she hung up on Rahmboner too.
 
2008-12-04 01:22:19 AM
Her husband Dexter has a voice similar to Obama's, and is a notorious practical joker. Once he made up his face to look like he'd gone right through the windshield. Just to spite him, she didn't react, and just to spite her, he's kept it that way ever since.
 
2008-12-04 01:25:30 AM
Barack's not here, man
 
2008-12-04 01:49:36 AM
Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: Dig a canal from the Atlantic to the Gulf along the northern border of that state.

Then cut all roads, rails, power and water. Kill all that attempt to flee. It must be done for the human race to survive.


Project foreman: Lorena Bobbitt?
 
2008-12-04 01:49:39 AM
Hang up the phone. Then dial 456-1414. When you get the White House operator, give her your name and tell her you want to speak to the President.
 
2008-12-04 02:00:50 AM
Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: Dig a canal from the Atlantic to the Gulf along the northern border of that state.

Just have Bugs deal with Florida.(p)


/I miss banned cartoons....
 
2008-12-04 02:13:33 AM
They must have asked a high school intern to write that "release." Or, Jake Tapper is making this shiat up. That was horribly written all the way through.
 
2008-12-04 02:19:10 AM
stevie1der: Wow, she needs a new press release writer. That thing reads like you're talking to a twelve year old girl who won't stop and take breaths between sentences.

Yeah, I'm starting to think that the press release was written by a radio DJ prankster.

Or possibly a 419 artist.
 
2008-12-04 02:37:41 AM
oldebayer: Her husband Dexter has a voice similar to Obama's, and is a notorious practical joker. Once he made up his face to look like he'd gone right through the windshield. Just to spite him, she didn't react, and just to spite her, he's kept it that way ever since.

that's batshyt crazy love
 
2008-12-04 02:41:56 AM
I bet her puss is wet cause she's about to be in Obamas cabinet
 
2008-12-04 02:46:27 AM
That prank shiat is funny..if you're 12.
 
2008-12-04 02:48:25 AM
Roger Arseways: maybe it was really French President Nicolas Sarkozy!


My god. That woman. The more she's out of the the picture the less I hate her, but get inversely overwhelmed by her stupidity.
 
2008-12-04 03:03:04 AM
Dear Life in These United States,

I am a congresswoman from Florida, and the other day, I got a prank call from a radio DJ claiming to be president-elect Barack Obama. Knowing how common these sorts of prank calls are in Florida, band being the savvy politician that I am, I hung up on him. Then I got a call from another radio DJ claiming to be Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, whom I hung up on as well. Then I got a call from Howard Berman, who told me information that only he and I would know, and he told me that I hung up on the real Barack Obama!
--submitted by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Would have saved the wholseale slaughter of the English language that was that press release.
 
2008-12-04 03:19:04 AM
She's dumber than a box of bricks. But hell, all you have to do to be elected to office down there is hate Castro.
 
2008-12-04 05:24:20 AM
What is really funny is that Obama was only calling to ask if her Refrigerator was running.

/tip your waitress
 
2008-12-04 07:12:13 AM
I have listened to a lot of C-span and while the Republican Party has some colossal dumbasses (including most of its California delegation) I think I can speak without contradiction in saying no one more routinely says jaw-droppingly stupid things than the Gentle Lady from Florida
 
2008-12-04 08:07:58 AM
Why was Obama calling her, anyway?
 
2008-12-04 09:11:10 AM
That's pretty funny. I'm glad the Obama-messiah has a sense of humor about it.
 
2008-12-04 09:26:45 AM
I heard a quick interview with her on the radio about this. Just a funny experience all around. Glad nobody got all pissy about it on either side.

And yeah, the SNL guy who impersonates Obama sucks.
 
2008-12-04 09:26:56 AM
McManus_brothers: Why was Obama calling her, anyway?

Something about Cuba, but ignore that. Laugh at the funny!
 
2008-12-04 09:44:28 AM
Coco LaFemme: They must have strong weed in Florida.

No, some people there are just born that way. If they used weed they would become negative stupid.
 
2008-12-04 10:04:31 AM
IXI Jim IXI: Glad nobody got all pissy about it on either side.

Yeah, it was very nice of Republicans not to get mad at President Elect Obama for calling one of them on the phone.

Is your bar really that low?
 
2008-12-04 10:05:29 AM
She might be dumb, but she didn't get caught in a prank like Palin did.
 
2008-12-04 10:08:47 AM
The Why Not Guy: Is your bar really that low?

Yes (new window)
 
2008-12-04 10:19:39 AM
Bacontastesgood: Coco LaFemme: They must have strong weed in Florida.

No, some people there are just born that way. If they used weed they would become negative stupid.


I'd like to point out that this fool, like nearly all the idiots in my beautiful home state, wasn't born here.
 
2008-12-04 10:22:35 AM
BFletch651:
I'd like to point out that this fool, like nearly all the idiots in my beautiful home state, wasn't born here.


Florida's greatest exports: Orange Juice and stupidity
Florida's greatest import: stupidity?
 
2008-12-04 10:33:12 AM
IXI Jim IXI: BFletch651:
I'd like to point out that this fool, like nearly all the idiots in my beautiful home state, wasn't born here.

Florida's greatest exports: Orange Juice and stupidity
Florida's greatest import: stupidity?


Mostly the stupidity stays here; hence the natural multiplier effect.

When folks are kicked out of the real world, they come to Florida. When they're kicked out of Florida, they go to Miami.
 
2008-12-04 10:37:41 AM
"NOAH..."
"Who is this?"
"IT'S THE LORD, NOAH."
"Riiiiiiiiight."
 
2008-12-04 10:51:24 AM
BFletch651: Mostly the stupidity stays here; hence the natural multiplier effect.

Elections nonwithstanding :D
 
2008-12-04 10:54:05 AM
IXI Jim IXI: BFletch651: Mostly the stupidity stays here; hence the natural multiplier effect.

Elections nonwithstanding :D


A case in point, in fact.

Katherine Harris, though, is a home-grown stupidity.
 
2008-12-04 10:54:55 AM
MasterThief: "NOAH..."
"Who is this?"
"IT'S THE LORD, NOAH."
"Riiiiiiiiight."


Who is this really?
 
2008-12-04 11:05:53 AM
I really should stop the prank calls now that I have been elected.
 
2008-12-04 11:20:00 AM
Whore.
 
2008-12-04 11:26:47 AM
If you want a clear and concise account of the story, read the Fox News transcript:

Link (new window)


" So Republican congresswoman billion that roughly in -- Florida gets a call from someone claiming to be the president elect announced call. She hangs up on hand thinking it's a joke not once but twice. And then you know very surprise ending here with a full story is kind of performances roughly in she joined now by on time for -- be not up."

" pet food well my -- that I blow it big guy a little bit I think. That it was a million IBM because. -- all of our radio station all over the United States but especially here in south Florida they wicked bad. They always -- The the yellow politico. And Sarah Palin even got a call think that you speak -- that Sarkozy of France until. It just -- Every day with the date April I -- I think I'm a little -- on the planet why would Obama be calling me and so. He's sounding just like Obama and I say they have you know you are better impersonator and that guy. -- the bomb on Saturday Night Live that he left because. This is Barack Obama and I could not -- you're so good but honestly am -- jaded critic I -- that great prank I let I'll let let me do it to everybody including me. Thank you very much -- How can I convince you that this is Barack -- like it like that yet here have. A great they block I hang up and then a minute later Ron Emmanuel is chief of staff. It is because Ileana. Barack Obama is on the line -- yeah yeah I'll be bought back and I could. Yeah like you rob Emmanuel you can economy that the that would give him a -- against it. This -- Barack Obama and it cat sound like illness that guy it's that great -- Lilja I love it but I'm not -- I'm again and that role they're trying to put me at the same time. And then finally get a third call Howard Berman the chairman of blackboard affairs committee and he says. Ileana this -- Howard Berman that says okay give me the private jet that we share. And I can't say that -- on the air. Out -- calculated -- that that oh my god -- issue he that he at an Iowa Obama. Twice. Well I hate profound presumption is that clean kill president elect Obama that Ileana patiently await his call and I will accepted. And how coming back help and we get lap and I need to pay in Chicago. I'm radio a radio stations projectors that they do these. Called all the time and and he that day not my idea that we'll get a kick out of it whenever they think. My ego is too big. They'll remind me that. Even a lowly congresswoman hang up on him not once but twice. And that we thought the butt -- an issue like Cuba Israel but we'll get settled up on crime waited and it and that. Embarrassing story for me but I it. I think each -- you want to work in my pocket."

" Your level that I -- that you're -- would have all have a healthy sense of humor I don't know -- it -- and -- lawmaker congresswoman thank you so much for coming up until those historic walk in the same idea the only Angel might say but I'll mountain time exact right thank you I don't think anybody can help you can't pay you to check -- you know hey Derek Anderson and in -- in that. Great supposedly story that's."
 
2008-12-04 11:28:00 AM
Why not her too ??

... the remainder of the US got punked about a month ago . .. . ..
 
2008-12-04 11:35:18 AM
Obama told her that in Chicago they also have prank calls.

Brain Ball #2: The Elders tell of a young ball much like you. He bounced three meters in the air. Then he bounced 1.8 meters in the air. Then he bounced four meters in the air. Do I make myself clear?

Kissinger: Mr. Ambassador, our people tell the same story. Oy.

Anyway, why exactly is this rep's primary concerns Cuba and Israel? Is she representing a Florida stereotype or what?
 
2008-12-04 12:21:10 PM
simpsonfan: Ashton Kucher, unavailable for comment.

Look, it was late and...screw it. My first greenlight and I missed the easy lay-up. Nice one.
 
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