That’s Hillary. Mrs. Clinton if you’re nasty.
Yesterday, in what is the latest in a long, hard series of bungles by the White House, reporters who called for an “on-the-record briefing call with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton” were offered the opportunity to provide a credit card if they felt like “getting nasty.”
According to Fox News, the White House distributed an email to the press announcing a conference call, but included the number for a phone sex line rather than the conference call number. Asked for comment White House Press Secretary Bill Burton said the mistake was “one of the stupider things FOX News has covered lately.” I couldn’t agree more Bill, it is one of the stupid things Obama’s administration has done lately and that the press has subsequently covered or, as in this case, not covered.
This may sound cliché at this point, but fantasize with me for moment. Imagine that this conference call had been scheduled for Condi Rice. Are you there with me, baby? You’re calling for Condi and you get Candi? The press would have gone NUTS. Bush would have been bound, gagged, and whipped for it over the course of days. It would have been a press orgy and, what’s more, the one-time thing would have come back to haunt the Bush team for years after. Every time they sent out a press release about Condi … oh, they’d stick with their own phone numbers, sure. But everyone would remember the other number. From that one time. It would be awkward.
But when this happens on Obama’s watch, only Fox covers it and, when they do, the official response from the White House essentially amounts to “**** you, sweetie.”
You know, someone earlier today pointed out that competence matters, and so it does. But The One has been anything but competent. His administration is fumbling around like it’s prom night and the zipper is stuck. They are new to everything, and they just keep awkwardly getting it wrong. Gift gaffes, tax cheats, you name it. Friendly countries are looking at us with wry, often disapproving smirks that say “first time?” And unfriendly countries are licking their lips and making sure the windowless white van has a full tank of gas.
This isn’t the Age of Obama, it’s the coming of age of Obama, and his pubescent growing pains are pon farr-like in their sudden, lurching, excruciating overtness. It is as disconcerting as it is embarrassing.
But look, hey, don’t get depressed. If you’re feeling down, if you need a pick-me-up, or maybe you just want to escape the Obama reality for a bit, just call the Hillary Clinton Hotline. Look, politicians whisper lies in your ear all the time. The only difference with a sex line is the per-minute cost is dramatically less.
- Caleb Howe, Redstate.com
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youguysarenuts Thursday, April 2nd at 1:03PM EST (link)[A]re you guys blogging serious stuff at all today[,] or is it [just] phone sex and ins[]in[u]ating [that] the [P]resident fellates [S]audi royalty?
[I]f this article was meant to be taken seriously[,] then [I] apologize [A lie, that. - ML] but you[']re also wrong. [I]f this is true [then] it[']s a non-story[;]
second[You forgot a 'first' there, Sparky - ML], no, the press would not have been “whipping” anybody. [I']m sure [that the] [H]uffington [P]ost would have[] like you are [-] but the media gave [President B]ush a pass on everything[.] [I']ll give you [S]arah [P]alin [Hmm. He was able to reference Gov. Palin without attacking her family. That might mean that I should turn on his account again, solely for the novelty value. -ML], but not [B]ush. [I] think [that] you guys should focus more on news[,] and less on being like [M]ichael [M]oore with pictures of people “loving” [A]bdullah [-] and less like the nutjobs that like to say [that] [President O]bama wasn[']t born in [H]awaii. [T]hat[']s just my opinion though[:] you guys can be as crazy as you want, but preaching to the choir too much makes you think [that] you[']re [G]od. [Or 'gods;' I'm confused about whether it's supposed to be the singular/plural 'you' there, but then again so was he. - ML]Good, this bothered you
Bill S (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:06PM EST (link)Mission accomplished.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
Funny youguysarenuts....I saw I President bowing to a Saudi King....you saw POTUS offering fellatio...
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:14PM EST (link)Why the fixation on homosexual acts instead of the actual protocol error of bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia.
You may want to contact your nearest mental health professional and ask about that….pronto.
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat
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That must be why Moe is so often telling trolls to
janis (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:17PM EST (link)“zip your pants” before he tosses them. Also, contrary to what the lefty sites seem to think, conservatives can do news and humor simultaneously.
We’re great at multitasking, you know.
Great job Caleb!
Susannah (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 3:34PM EST (link)Oh, and as for the troll, hey, at least he didn’t say “Linkage Institutions” (when defending the biased MSM) like so many other trolls have before him.
Wow, "the media gave bush a pass on everything"
janis (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:09PM EST (link)That right there is some world class ignorance, little man. Come on back when you learn how to write coherently, which includes complete sentences, punctuation and proper capitalization.
Wouldn’t hurt if you had two consecutive thoughts that made sense either.
Whoops, I could have sworn I hit Reply To, but this was in response
janis (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:10PM EST (link)to the youguysarenuts nut above.
Thanks Caleb for the story...
HsvConservative Thursday, April 2nd at 1:20PM EST (link)Made me LOL! Co-workers think I am crazy, but it made my day.
BTW man the trolls are out in force today…
My co-workers think I
antisocial (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:43PM EST (link)have gone nuts. Imagine calling that line and asking for Mrs Clinton. WOW.
Thanks Absentee.
Obama Doctrine – Boot On The Throat
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What is to be done?
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!
We've seen that OBama & Co is petty.
NickLevi86 (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:24PM EST (link)He’s repeatedly turned the knife in Britain’s back, and most likely in Hillary’s here too.
“Any love letter is incomplete without a Ronald Reagan quote”
–my sophomore year roommate
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I don't even care about the difference in coverage
red4ever (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:24PM EST (link)I just care these mistakes keep happening. The gift gaffe(s). The complete ignorance of any form of proper protocol. The press secretary who doesn’t even know where the president’s bill is in Congress. The wrong number. Etc.
All coupled with amazing arrogance that of course everone loves Obama. the speeches on the Ipod (I did like the 1957 video of the Queen’s visit that was a nice touch). The solo press conference. The expectation that the newest by protocol member of the G20 would just walk in and everyone would fall all over themselves to endorse his “plan.”
The disconnect between his perception of himself and his actual abilities are becoming frightening. The fact that he is President of the United States only adds to how frightening the situation is.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Dante
Who had the sex line phone number?
Strike_Twice (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:24PM EST (link)The issue bothers me more than some of the other examples of imcompetence. I am curious as to the identity of the individual who posted the number, why that person had the number, and whether White House staffers are calling 900 numbers on the taxpayers dime.
spelling correction
Strike_Twice (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:26PM EST (link)“incompetence”
2 Things
mom2oneson (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 1:44PM EST (link)1. It was probably not a “900″ number, just an 800 or 888 number. They might have transposed one digit in the main number and had the other parts correct.
2. With conference calls it is not uncommon for the wrong number, password, time, date, topic and so forth to go around. Even a speaker may have the wrong information sometimes.
Did this unidentified staffer ever work
antisocial (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:04PM EST (link)for Bill? Old habits….
Obama Doctrine – Boot On The Throat
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What is to be done?
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No. You can’t – Moe Lane
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!
Bill Burton and 'stupid coverage'
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:36PM EST (link)Do you suppose that a$$-hat thought all the ‘Bristol Palin is pregnant coverage’ was stupid? How about the ‘Levi’s mom busted for drugs’ coverage? Or the ‘Bristol is really the mother of Trig’ coverage? Or ‘Newt’s book deal’? Or Jack Ryan’s private divorce papers?
What a bag of richards.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
Ding! Spank Me Has Arrived.
Tbone (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 2:56PM EST (link)“Please announce your fetish.”
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Really, Caleb. The Obama Admin is honestly confirming that its mission is screwing.
streetwise (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 4:02PM EST (link)Can’t you understand that?
Made me laugh
angryred Thursday, April 2nd at 4:22PM EST (link)a little humor to a humorless pregnant lady-thanks caleb. Now we need a good photoshop to go with this story…
1-20-13 Hope for Change
Amazingly, NBC has picked this up
zarathustra57 Thursday, April 2nd at 7:25PM EST (link)The WSJ’s online edition, and the NY Post, are now also reporting this….
that is amazing, and what's more amazing
Caleb Howe (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 8:00PM EST (link)Is all the right blogs that did not pick up this story. Neither the original nor my blog. Very weird.
Caleb Howe (formerly known as absentee)
Talk about a "stimulus" package
SteveLA (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 7:29PM EST (link)As Austin Powers put it…..Ya Baby.
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Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests
"Hillary Clinton" and "Sex Worker" in the same sentence..... and IN context.
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 7:34PM EST (link)That’s an image I really don’t ever want to have again.
Glad I wasn’t having dinner when I saw the diary header.
Just let Bubba dream for a while...
Husker (Diary) Thursday, April 2nd at 7:40PM EST (link)reality will set in when the War Dept. comes home from her trip.