Patterico's Pontifications

4/2/2009

White House Conference Call Suddenly Interesting

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 6:54 pm



FoxNews.com reports:

Journalists seeking to talk a little foreign policy with high-profile Obama administration officials live from the G20 meetings in London this week were solicited for phone sex instead after ringing up the toll-free number given by the White House.

In a press release, the White House accidentally listed a sex line number for journalists seeking an “on-the-record briefing call with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and National Security Advisor Jim Jones to discuss the NATO summit.”

You can claim all you like that Bill Clinton isn’t responsible for this somehow, but I’ll never believe it.

29 Responses to “White House Conference Call Suddenly Interesting”

  1. Sounds like an improvement.

    Mike K (2cf494)

  2. At least with the phone sex, they’re only pretending to screw someone.

    PCachu (e072b7)

  3. I dunno

    Hillary’s voice is the antidote to arousal… to me anyway.
    Snipers and Yugoslavian models on the tarmac?
    OK
    Pantsuits and that voice… ummmmmmmm nope

    SteveG (a87dae)

  4. At least it wasn’t advertised as a debriefing.

    Karl (3bf5f8)

  5. I blame Bush.

    JD (b9ec92)

  6. The media does not need phone sex. Good Allah, it is a wonder how they do not all have carpal tunnel and lockjaw from all of their Barcky worhip.

    JD (b9ec92)

  7. Phone sex? Man, that’s gotta leave a mark.

    allan (2fb38f)

  8. Did O’Dumbo bring the list to the white house with him or did someone find Slick Willie’s hiding place? They may have accidently gave out the number but it’s no accident they have a list.

    Scrapiron (996c34)

  9. Asked for comment about this mishap, Deputy White House Press Secretary Bill Burton responded: “A corrected phone number on a press release is probably one of the stupider things [this White House has done that] FOX News has covered lately.”

    nk (c2b047)

  10. “Did O’Dumbo bring the list to the white house with him or did someone find Slick Willie’s hiding place?”

    Scrapiron – I heard they had Mel Reynolds doing one of the male voices, keeping it real and keeping that Chicago feel, IYKWIMAIKTYD.

    daleyrocks (5d22c0)

  11. Not entirely at all off-topic. I was gone all evening and all I know is what I heard on the radio but 1) Blagojevich was indicted by a superseding indictment in an existing case against a Springfield power broker and 2) it involves Tony Rezko a lot.

    nk (c2b047)

  12. SHOCKA

    plus 3) his chief of staff Harris is cooperating.

    daleyrocks (5d22c0)

  13. nk – Bill Cellini?

    JD (b9ec92)

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  15. That’s what I heard, JD, but that’s all I know.

    nk (c2b047)

  16. You can claim all you like that Bill Clinton isn’t responsible for this somehow, but I’ll never believe it.

    Meanwhile, I wonder whether his wife, since she’s currently in Europe as a member of the Obama administration — and therefore that much closer to Bosnia — is more jittery than normal from having to relive memories of that dangerous time several years ago when she was dodging sniper fire?

    Mark (411533)

  17. I’m too tired to think, but that superseding indictment has all sorts of implications. And Fitzgerald is not going to show all his cards before trial.

    nk (c2b047)

  18. nk – As my family is from Springfield, it seemed inevitable that he would eventually get caught up in something like this.

    JD (b9ec92)

  19. It will be interesting to watch. Fitzgerald, as DA, exists at Obama’s pleasure. Will Obama use Fitzgerald to cut off the leash of Obama’s Chicago masters, or will he cut Fitzgerald off at the knees if Fitzgerald makes Obama’s associations look too bad for the Unicorn Rider.

    nk (c2b047)

  20. Please remember, the smartest people in the World are now leading us.

    Do not depart from the narrative. Or else.

    Ag80 (d205da)

  21. Didn’t this also happen to the Democrats earlier? Ah yes, it certainly did. What is with that party and phone sex numbers? Perhaps their operatives spend so much time on the, uh, “party lines” (pardon the pun) that they inadvertently confuse those numbers with conference call numbers?

    JVW (bff0a4)

  22. Asked for comment about this mishap, Deputy White House Press Secretary Bill Burton responded: “A corrected phone number on a press release is probably one of the stupider things [this White House has done that] FOX News has covered lately.”

    Right. They’re not stupid for doing it, Fox is stupid for pointing it out.

    If they don’t stop getting churlish every time they’re mocked, it’s going to be an even longer four years for them than for us.

    Mars vs Hollywood (788077)

  23. Holy crap! Comedy gold! What idiots the comedians are to not take advantage of stuff like this.

    Brad (99723e)

  24. Hmmm, and how did WH staffers happen to leave a phone sex number? Could it be because they HAD a phone sex number?

    GM Roper (85dcd7)

  25. It could have gone something like this:

    Gibbs: Mr. President, the press has some questions about the G20 summit.

    Obama: Tell them to go f_____ themselves.

    nk (c2b047)

  26. I heard they had Mel Reynolds doing one of the male voices, keeping it real and keeping that Chicago feel, IYKWIMAIKTYD

    HA! Wonder if the rest of the commentariat here remember that sleazball.

    Dmac (49b16c)

  27. If it were a lesbian sex line, then Hillary’s Office is responsible, straight sex then Bill is responsible. But either way, the message of the Obama Administration is screwing America is at the top of the list.
    Anyway, could anyone imagine that if Reagan’s or Bush’s State Department gave a sex hotline number out for an update press conference, that the press the cable shows, the late night comics would be having a field day, and that in every story coming out of the State Department that listed a phone number, there would be a snarky sentence inserted into the story about the time when the republican State Department gave reporters a sex phone line.
    And because the press is truly unbiased, I’m sure everyone here saw that blanket coverage of the gaffe made by the Smartest State Department, evah.

    eaglewingz08 (e40a12)

  28. HA! Wonder if the rest of the commentariat here remember that sleazball.

    Comment by Dmac — 4/3/2009 @ 7:37 am

    Money quote from Reynolds, upon being told that, not only was this girl only 13, but that she went to Catholic school and wore those plaid skirts –
    What, did I win the lottery?”

    It’s a good thing Clinton pardoned him!

    carlitos (24c940)

  29. It’s a good thing Clinton pardoned him!

    And that Jesse Jackson and Operation Rainbow/PUSH hired him after his sentence was commuted (slight clarification, carlitos, Clinton commuted Reynolds’ sentence but did not pardon him).

    JVW (bff0a4)


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