Amanda Bynes Pleads for President Obama's Help in DUI Case

[alp227]

No, this is not a story from The Onion, it's from REUTERS! This story is so frivolous and hilarious at once that it's only worthy of placement in The Lounge...and why should I put up an excerpt?

Actually I think I should point out that the Reuters writer had to point out to the likely TMZ-addicted, politically clueless audience about what Obama really can do:

Not only does President Obama have more pressing issues to worry about than Amanda Bynes' DUI charge, but firing a local police officer is not among the chief executive's enumerated powers.

While President Obama can certainly call upon local authorities to fire a police officer, history suggests he's more likely to invite the officer to the White House for a beer following a controversial arrest, as he did after a Cambridge, Mass., policeman arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates in a racially charged incident in 2009.

And while President Obama does have the power to issue pardons, such pardons are only for federal convictions, not for state DUI charges.

Bynes is an actress who starred in the kids' comedy sketch series All That and more recently in movies like Hairspray and Robots.

And I can't wait to see what Cenk and the TYT crew have to say about this story.

[Major Nikon]

1. She ran into a police car at 3am and then refused a chemical test

But at least she doesn't drink. Popping enough MDMA to choke a horse, maybe, but she doesn't drink.

[Blue_Tires]

2. I see that mindset sometimes while working at a university:

Student with a minor dispute -- "Oh yeah? Well I'm taking this straight to the president's office!!" (yeah, good luck with that shit, playa)

[4th law of robotics]

3. The downside I suppose of being able to make a living on your looks

is that you never have to learn to think.