Wonkette
Florida Republicans are a very special breed of morons. They will pay you $20 to give you a blowjob in the bathroom, they will keep you up at all hours on the Instant Message Blonker if they think you are a hot pimply teen, and they will hang up on you if you are the President-elect. Florida Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen got a call from Barack Obama and hung up on him, twice, because if she learned one thing from Sarah Palin it’s that world leaders will never call Republicans in earnest.
This dingus Ros-Lehtinen is apparently the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs committee, so you would think she’d be used to taking phone calls from important people, but perhaps not! Because she hung up on Barack Obama, and then she hung up on Rahm Emanuel, and then finally after the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee called her she agreed to talk to this “Obama” character.
She thought the whole thing was a radio station prank, because usually when she gets a call from an important politician they’re demanding illicit bathroom sex or whatever.
She’s not entirely to blame, the purpose of Obama’s call was to talk about upcoming legislation that would require people to check if their refrigerators were running.
Maybe the collection agents are buggin’ her a lot. I don’t answer the phone at all.
Palin-Plumber2012: I heard it was about the Prince Albert Liberation Act.
Ha, ha! What a loser. I totally took the call when Barry called me.
It was probably a robocall about his fleece.
I’m having another; “Jeebus, why do I live in this fucking state?” moment….
And she will continue to refuse to take his call until he produces an authentic birth certificate.
Let me be the first one to ask, “Is that a toupee?”
Cape Clod:
Win
3rd attempt
“Bitch, you hang up on me one more goddamned time, I’m gonna knock the pink off your ass!”
Florida: America’s Wang.
It may have been about the conduct of Representative Coholic. First name Al.
The RNC says the hangup was after half a minute of heavy breathing.
One Ringy Dingus. Two Ringy Dinguses, or Dinghii. (snort, snort)
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, this is Barack Obama’s switchboard operator calling. If you do not take this phone call, we will have to send a huge burly bespectacled ex-Attorney Floridian General over to your office to rip your phone out of the wall. I advise you to lock up your liquor. She can get mean at times. Snort, snort.
It’s Elton John with a Jennifer Aniston wig.
…she was probably over her minutes!
I remember a Rose Lehtinen who was a stripper in Helsinki back in the days. Any relation?
Cape Clod: I see that Alan Keyes is behind the subpoena in Hawaii for Obama’s birth certificate. Normally I would just chalk it up to bitterness, but because it’s Alan Keyes, he just needs to keep his name in the news to continue his ‘career’
That jacket she’s wearing looks like something from “The Prisoner”.
http://www.crimetime.co.uk/images/prisonerlarge.jpg
Darehead:
Lily Tomlin was friggin’ great.
dano:
Dano, you rock! Nice eye.
I see a bunch of you watched The Colbert Report last night. I prefer the Simpson’s angle:
Moe: “Amanda Huggenkiss? Why can’t I find Amanda Huggenkiss?”
Barney: “Maybe your standards are too high?”
freakishlystrong: Why do you think they named the state Flori-duh?
Servo: win
dano: Sweet catch!
Ileana should’ve known that if “The Morning Zoo on Z-95″ is going to prank you, they’ll do it as Sarkozy.
I had no idea Tracy Flick had been elected to congress.
What I want to know is– why does this bitch (or this bitch’s staff) think anyone would care if SHE got pranked? Ileana WHO? I’ll bet she’s got a big red star on her office door.
Servo: Elton John with a Jennifer Aniston wig.
Damn you’re right! If you stare at the picture and think that, it freaks you out a little.
SEE all you people from OK who were sobbing about being called stupid and hicks and stuff?
you will always have Florida.
Well, maybe if he hadn’t asked if she had Prince Albert in a can…
dano:
Excellent! You’re my favorite now.
In her defense, I understand that Barry has been putting pressure on everyone to buy Girl Scout cookies. Can you blame her?
Servo: Haha!
I’d like to see her in the ring with Reno too! Whose wig would fall off first?
Servo: My favorite Ernestine line:
“Oh, Mr. Veedal, blackmail is such an ugly word. Let’s just call it a vicious threat. (snort)”
ARRRRGGGGHHHHH! Leave my dumbass state alone!
BTW, Sara, not to criticize but for future reference you misspelled “morons.”
ha, i dont blame her, what with Obama answering the fone with a car scam response: hello, do you need to extend your car warranty?
http://www.charlietueats.com
As I fellow Miamian (albeit the Liberal variety), I don’t think she was being moronic. It’s dangerous down here, crawling with scam artists of every variety, hence we can be a skeptical bunch. I would have hung up on him too! Over and over again! Forever! Just like I hang up on anyone who calls my house who I don’t know, never answer my door to anyone I don’t know, just like my mama taught me.
Watch, though, this will make her an instant Republican folk-hero; the Rosa Parks of 2008.
Did the caller beat her up, tell her to be an Obama supporter and carve a B on her face? (she looks coordinated enough not to make it backwards…the secret is to look into 2 mirrors!)
P.S. We made fun of Palin for falling for those French-Canadian guys pretending to be Sarkozy. Ileana got a clue.
P.P.S. I still hate her politics.
Perhaps when Obama’s offspring are pimply teens, they can act as go-betweens with the Florida crowd.
Uncle Al: It’s because “Hey, Erin Moran called - she wants her last name back!”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Moran
Wow there’s a weird photo.
To be fair, Ileana is famous for not knowing her ass from a hole in the ground. Her entire office is full of numb nuts. Trust.
At least she was aware of how irrelevant she is. That stunning lack of narcissism is refreshing in a politician.
She didn’t hang up. Obviously, the DHS is having a problem with their equipment.
I’d hang up on Hopey, too. He’s only been asking for money. Damned, aptly-named ‘fleece’ jackets.
This is what happens when your state is shaped like a penis. Everyone who lives there is a dick.
For a nerd you would think that Barry would have thought to unlock his caller-ID blocking when making the call.
Ileana: (frustrated that the phone has now rang, twice.) Hello?
Barry: Hello, this is President Elect Oba(click)ma….Hello? Hello? Cracka Ass Bitch!!
I like that she was so up on the local antics of the DJ’s of the morning zoo crew that her first assumption after told the President was calling to talk to her (a fucking elected rep), was that it was the same people she goes to for Fart Joke Fridays. And to prove that she’s no Sarah Palin, she’ll hang up on him and his staffers multiple times until someone calls to talk her off the “I’m getting Punked” ledge. Good job, Florida. Start electing perverts again.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Phone calls to solipsists always end badly.
“Hello?”
“Hello, Congresswoman, it’s Barack Obama.”
“How do I know this is Mr. Obama?”
“Um — because I’m standing right next to you.”
“Wait a minute — how do I know you’re not some cleverly-made automaton?”
“At some point you’re going to have to trust that I am who I say I am.”
“That exactly what a cleverly-made automaton would want me to believe.” Click.
dano: Ah, “The Prisoner”: cinematic paranoia at its finest, before CGI.
This Ros-Lehtinen woman is more evidence of the malevolent influence of ex-whorehouse owners from Havana on American politics. When will it end? Elian, can you come back to los estados unitos and save us from these people?
She’s just a little skittish because of all the calls she got during election season from John McCain pretending to be a candidate with a shot at winning.
SayItWithWookies: CNN can make it happen!
Internally valid: Agreed. I’d fer sure hang up, too.
Special Agent Jack Mehoff: Hahaha!
She’s been real paranoid about stuff like this since she hired Mike Hunt as her chief of staff.
ladymacbeth: I love how you’re always bringing on the kind. Yes, we have Florida. We’re dumbasses, but they are completely whacked out.
This Ileanna woman, or whatever her name is, has been on Bill Maher a few times. For three appearances, she kept repeating the same thing when Maher criticized the war: “Yes, but my stepson was serving in Iraq when they voted and he said it meant so much, seeing the pride on the people’s faces after they voted for their leader. It was very fulfilling for him.”
I keep wanting to tell this chick, hey, for a couple trillion dollars, I think we could find a less lethal way to show the kid a good time. Just look around–you’re in Florida. Must be all kinds of available kink that would be, you know, fulfilling.
Still trying to figure out why he would call her in the first place.
Wow. She has really got the kind of face I yearn to punch.
dano: We should all call her and ask her “Why did you resign?”
She don’t like people playin’ on her phone!
She is just being a patriot. Until she sees Obama’s birth certificate, she is keeping mum. She doesn’t want to give away any secrets.
Or it could just be that when she sees “President” on her caller ID, she assumes it is Bush calling her up to ask if her refrigerator is running.
Servo: Actually, it is any male Florida Republican politician on a Friday night.
dano: Be seeing you!
Ileana for President! conservatives will think she hates obama even more than palin does, after all she wouldn’t even talk to the scary muslin, and sarah well palled around with him at that governor’s meeting! she’s a slam dunk in 2012.
Hopey should have texted her instead! Phone calls are so 20th century! Where’s the Change?
What a sweet pony. He was so understanding! I think a national plan of subsidized prank calls are just what this nation needs to pull up its bootstraps, head for the sunny side of the street, and make hay while the sun shines while also making lemonade from all these lemons.
Haw haw! What a dingbat. Once again, Florida representin’ in the house…she looks hilarious-that kooky quasi-marine jacket, the a propos shitty necklace of cheap gold. how perfect for her constituents. She looks like a telemarketing manager, ironically…
Stepson? Um, Ileana honey, that doesn’t even come CLOSE to counting…
p-Sludge ofTheElves: obviously erin and carrot top were seperated at birth.
What she ever on Colbert’s Better Know a District? She’d be perfect.
Remember next time you call your representative - playing with their phone is like playing their emotions!
I’d hit that.
shanemcgowan: You kiddin me? FL is the underinflated, completely inadequate nutsack! Haven’t you heard, we elected St. Change Omakemehard! The U.S. has a bro-ner, and Maine’s about to erupt!
Servo: She was just scared because the bitch didn’t have his money like she was supposed to.