Did Iceland Teen Call Secret White House Phone?: Icelandic Boy, 16, ‘Wanted to … Have a Chat, Invite Him to Iceland and See What He’d Say’ (thanks to Bob for this one)
Introducing himself as ‚àö√¨lafur Ragnar Gr‚àö‚â†msson, the actual president of Iceland, Atlason found what he believed to be President George W. Bush’s allegedly secret telephone number and phoned, requesting a private meeting with him…. “I just wanted to talk to him, have a chat, invite him to Iceland and see what he’d say,” V‚àö‚â†fill told ABC News. A White House spokeswoman Emily Lawrimore insisted to ABC News that the young man did not dial the private number but instead dialled 202-456-1414, the main switchboard for the West Wing. But that was not the case. The student gave ABC News the number. It is indeed an extention off the White House switchboard and goes to a security command post office in the building next door to the White House.
Apparently, want to have a private conversation with the President of the United States is a crime. Who knew? Yeah, well…especially in this Administration, I suppose you could expect this sort of thing. When propaganda and secrecy reign supreme in the world’s largest democracy, you have to begin to wonder who Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader © thinks he’s working for.
Yes, I can certainly understand the need for the security bubble that surrounds The Worst Presidet EVER © , but how much damage can a phone call from a 16-year-old boy really do? Why not just call his mother and let her deal with it? Instead, you’ve got police and security personnel in two countries running around acting as if the sky is falling. It just seems a bit silly, don’tcha think? Why not just figure out what went wrong, fix the problem, and move on? Then again, you never know…what if Atlason had been a terrorist, and had begun quoting to Koran to Commander Codpiece? Yes, this sorry excuse for a President’s head probably would have exploded…and then we’d be bombing Iceland before anyone really knew what had happened.
