Remember when Sarah Palin got a call from a couple Quebecois? You know, also, they said that they were French President Nicolas Sarkozy and, also, Sarah got all flustered and said how much she loved France despite never setting foot there but that she could see vineyards from her house. And then it turned out to be a coupleCanadian pranksters! Ha ha.
Well, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the good congresscritter from Florida, was not going to be taken advantage of. Nope, not when the fake Barack Obama called. She's not as stupid as Palin, also.
Ros-Lehtinen got a call from "Barack Obama", listened for a second, decided it was a prankster, and hung up. She thought it was a local radio station.
So then, she gets a call from some guy saying he was Rahm Emanuel, Barack's chief of staff-to-be, and someone who she has served with in the house for only eight years, but this too was a prankster. She hung up on fake-Rahm.
Except, uh, she hung up on the President-elect and his chief of staff. Yeah, the real ones.
Whoops.
But there's more! Her office puts out a press release about the incident and misspells BOTH Obama's name and Emanuels. As an ABC blog says, "a Ros-Lehtinen press release, Verbatim." And full of (sic)s.
"Miami, Florida --- Cong. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen thought it was a hoax when President-Elect Barak (SIC) Obama called her twice today and she proceeded to hang up on him, twice.
Ros-Lehtinen was working in her South Florida district when she received a call on her cell from a Chicago based phone number and an aide informed her that President-Elect Obama wished to speak to her. A gentleman sounding like Obama introduced himself when Ros-Lehtinen cut him off and said that 'I’m sorry but I think this is a joke from one of the South Florida radio stations known for these pranks' and hung up.
A short time later, Cong. and Chief of Staff designate Rahm Emmanuel (SIC) called Ileana and stated 'Ileana, I cannot believe that you hung up on the President-Elect.' Ros-Lehtinen told Rahm that she didn’t believe the call was legitimate and hung up on Emmanuel. A staffer to the Congresswoman informed her that Chairman Howard Berman of the Foreign Affairs Committee needed to speak with her urgently. When Chairman Berman called, Ros-Lehtinen urged him to recount a story only both of them would know, which he did, and told her that she had indeed hung up on the President-Elect.
The Congresswoman then received another call from Obama and he told her 'It is very funny that you have twice hung up on me,' to which she responded that South Florida radio stations are notorious for these jokes. Obama told her that in Chicago they also have prank calls. Ileana told Obama that 'you are either very gracious to reach out in such a bipartisan manner or had run out of folks to call if you are truly calling me and Saturday Night Live could use a good Obama impersonator like you.' After she congratulated him for his victory and pledged to work together on behalf of all Americans, Ros-Lehtinen asked Obama to please consult with Senator Bob Menendez and Congressman Albio Sires on Cuba policy and to rely on Secretary of State designate Clinton on Israel, two issues about which Ros-Lehtinen feels passionately.
Ros-Lehtinen talked to Hillary Clinton by phone yesterday and also discussed Cuba and Israel."
Hmm, time for Barry to lift the Cuba embargo? Since, uh, the Cubans won't even talk to him?