One British wit asked if "Clueless" was one of the 25 DVDs.
The DVDs President Obama gave British Prime Minister Gordon Brown are the gifts that just keep on giving. At least they keep giving us new stories.
First, the Prime Minister was offended that he had been given a gift he could get down at the corner Blockbuster. Then, the was offended that the Obama administration hadn’t bothered to learn that he’s not a film fan.
End of story, right? Wrong.
One night last week, Brown got home from a long day of doing whatever it is the British Prime Minister does, plopped down in his comfiest chair, and popped “Psycho” into his DVD player.
Instead of seeing Janet Leigh in the shower, he saw the words “Wrong Region” on his TV screen.
Turns out the diplomatic and technological geniuses in the Obama administration didn’t know the DVD format in the United States is different than in England. So those 25 DVDs Obama gave Brown were not only insulting, but worthless.
(As an aside, we didn’t know about the format difference, either. But we’ve never held ourselves out as glittering geniuses. Glittering smartasses, perhaps, but not glittering geniuses.)
Source: Telegraph.co.uk
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I thought everybody knew this…I’ve lived in Europe and the formats are different. How this White House hadn’t checked that out is so unbelievable. But, when you care so little about visiting dignitaries that you’ll let America present crummy gifts like that, why would they research anything, anyway? ……….Did they fire the WH protocol bunch?
Just when this naive, inexperienced couple took over? Just great. Well, we didn’t want Americans to look TOO much more dignifed and classy than any other country any more, right? egalitarians rule these days. SO sad.
The DVDs are in the correct format, just wrong region code. The region codes were added to DVDs to prevent people buying movies, before they were released in their country, from another country, and to prevent counterfeiting.
Nothing to do with the format. The Prime Minister can probably find a region free player in his area, such players are outlawed to sell in America.
This should have happened to Biden. Would have been a bit of retribution for his position with RIAA.
Chalk this up to Obama’s “intelligence” team.
I suppose next classless thing the Obama administration will do is offer to replace them with region correct DVDs if Brown mails them back at his own expense with S&H for the new tapes included.
I heard that Obama was really embarrassed by this and offered to give Mr. Brown an XBox 359. It’s not a 360, but it’s still fairly good.