Ros-Lehtinen hangs up on Obama and Rahm Emanuel

[BeyondGeography]

Paranoid wingnut thought both were fakes:

Fla. congresswoman accidentally hangs up on Obama


MIAMI (AP) — When a man sounding remarkably like President-elect Barack Obama called a Florida congresswoman Wednesday, she assumed it was a crank call.

So Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen hung up. But, the Miami Herald reports, this was no prank.

"I thought it was one of the radio stations in South Florida playing an incredible, elaborate, terrific prank on me," Ros-Lehtinen told the newspaper. "They got Fidel Castro to go along. They've gotten Hugo Chavez and others to fall for their tricks. I said, 'Oh, no, I won't be punked.'"

The call came about 1 p.m. Obama congratulated her on her re-election, saying he was looking forward to working with her as the ranking Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs committee, Ros-Lehtinen told the newspaper.

The conversation lasted about a minute when she cut Obama off, telling him she wasn't falling for the hoax and that he was a better impersonator than the guy on Saturday Night Live, she said.

Then Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, called the congresswoman to tell her it wasn't a joke. But she hung up on him, too. It took a call from Rep. Howard Berman, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, to persuade Ros-Lehtinen that Obama really did want to talk to her.

When the two finally talked, Ros-Lehtinen said she and Obama had a good conversation and she congratulated him for his victory despite how hard she campaigned for his opponent, Sen. John McCain.

He didn't even blame her for mistaking him for a radio-station prank, she said.

"He laughed a lot, saying in Chicago they do it all the time," Ros-Lehtinen said. "He said, 'I don't blame you for being skeptical.'"

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[Billy Burnett]

1. Let's all be good buddies.

:puke:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MunPrYJWy0

:puke: :puke:


Her campaign slogan for her first run for congress in S Florida was "Free Orlando Bosch".

I kid you not.

[bklyncowgirl]

2. OK so she didn't want to pull a Palin.

I can understand where she's coming from.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Except she wasn't on the radio

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Either was palin...until she was

duh.

[BeyondGeography]

7. Her prank call call was pre-planned by her own staff for a radio show

Try to keep up.

[ClarkUSA]

4. She got re-elected partly because Wasserman-Schultz refused to campaign for the Dem challenger

Wasserman-Schultz loves this Republican wingnut friend of hers, who was an uber-Bushie until the polls told her it wasn't a good idea anymore.

[ellacott]

6. She's on Bill Maher's show a lot

I don't agree with her positions but she's not as obnoxious as other Repubs.

[Odin2005]

8. Are they still having trouble realizing they LOST? ROFLMAO!!! n/t.

Not that I think she's lying, but it says a lot about the Republican mental state that she thought these were prank calls, it's because deep down inside she wanted to believe they were prank calls.

[Blu Dahlia]

9. Whatever he needed her for, I hope he has changed his mind

She sounds like a complete idiot!

[Marrah_G]

11. She thought she was being punked like Palin was

I saw her on the news this morning.

She was embarrassed but laughing, Obama was laughing.

I see nothing nefarious here.

[ensho]

10. having to talk nicely to Obama she probably had to go and lie down

to recover from the strain.

vile person that she is.

[denem]

12. Hanging up on Rahm Emanuel is not something

she will live to forget.