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You Were There…

by Betty Cracker|  January 9, 20145:25 pm| 41 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Security Theatre, Sweet Fancy Moses!

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News item:

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama invited German Chancellor Angela Merkel to visit Washington this year, the White House said on Wednesday in a brief statement about a phone conversation between the two leaders.

The visit would give Obama a chance to make amends after revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency had been monitoring Merkel’s cellphone.

Here’s how it went down:

obama1

merkel1

Angela Merkel phone

obama2

merkel2b

obama3

merkel3

obama4

Well, maybe that’s how it went. The end.

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41Comments

  1. 1.

    Elizabelle

    January 9, 2014 at 5:28 pm

    That’s hilarious.

  2. 2.

    Redshirt

    January 9, 2014 at 5:28 pm

    Time for some apology back rubs!

  3. 3.

    Jebediah, RBG

    January 9, 2014 at 5:31 pm

    @Redshirt:
    One of the many reasons I am glad to have Pres. Obama instead of W – far less chance of horrible, cringe-inducing embarassment.

  4. 4.

    Violet

    January 9, 2014 at 5:32 pm

    Ha ha! Funny. Angela Merkel fractured her pelvis skiing over the Christmas/New Year holiday. Wonder how soon she can travel.

  5. 5.

    PurpleGirl

    January 9, 2014 at 5:32 pm

    LOL. Hilarious.

  6. 6.

    BGinCHI

    January 9, 2014 at 5:33 pm

    How do you say “uppity” in German?

  7. 7.

    KG

    January 9, 2014 at 5:34 pm

    I don’t care if that’s not how it went, that is how I am going to believe it happened and nothing you could say will change my mind, even if you gave me the official transcript.

  8. 8.

    KG

    January 9, 2014 at 5:35 pm

    @BGinCHI: I’m guessing what ever the German word is for either Polish or French?

  9. 9.

    pat

    January 9, 2014 at 5:37 pm

    unverschaemt??

  10. 10.

    ruemara

    January 9, 2014 at 5:37 pm

    No wonder the blog is littered with these Rand Paul ads.

  11. 11.

    Citizen_X

    January 9, 2014 at 5:38 pm

    @BGinCHI: Untermenschen.

    [/Godwin]

  12. 12.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 9, 2014 at 5:39 pm

    @BGinCHI: Hochnäsig.

  13. 13.

    Amir Khalid

    January 9, 2014 at 5:42 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    Oder, dreist.

  14. 14.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 9, 2014 at 5:43 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Schnippisch?

    ETA: And pretty much exhausts my stock. My German was never that good, and it’s been years since I used it.

  15. 15.

    srv

    January 9, 2014 at 5:44 pm

    Since Americans are incapable of making good dramas (Vince Gilligan and David Simon notwithstanding) and just remake foreign films, why doesn’t Speilberg remake the The Lives Of Others with a domestic twist?

    Then we can all heart for the Cointelpro folks.

  16. 16.

    Redshirt

    January 9, 2014 at 5:45 pm

    Will Merkel still be in power in 2017? I’m looking forward to a “Brightly Colored Pant Suits” arms race between her and Hillary.

  17. 17.

    srv

    January 9, 2014 at 5:46 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Schticken up esel

  18. 18.

    Betty Cracker

    January 9, 2014 at 5:46 pm

    @srv: I’ve always meant to see that and somehow never have.

  19. 19.

    Redshirt

    January 9, 2014 at 5:47 pm

    For example: PANTSUITS!

  20. 20.

    JPL

    January 9, 2014 at 5:49 pm

    @srv: That was such a good movie and I’d wouldn’t mind a remake. Before the Christie kerfuffle, my son and I had an interesting discussion about the late sixties and seventies.

  21. 21.

    Jay C

    January 9, 2014 at 5:51 pm

    Thanks Betty: this was a genuine LOL moment….

  22. 22.

    BGinCHI

    January 9, 2014 at 5:59 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: It has to have at least 29 letters of unconvincing. Just look at the word for “fire truck.”

  23. 23.

    BGinCHI

    January 9, 2014 at 6:01 pm

    @Betty Cracker: It’s damn good.

  24. 24.

    maya

    January 9, 2014 at 6:06 pm

    Schwarzenegger

  25. 25.

    Amir Khalid

    January 9, 2014 at 6:14 pm

    @BGinCHI:
    Feuerwehrfahrzeug isn’t even all that long as German compound nouns go. How about Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz?

  26. 26.

    schrodinger's cat

    January 9, 2014 at 6:21 pm

    @Redshirt: How have you been? Have missed you around these parts.

  27. 27.

    kindness

    January 9, 2014 at 6:29 pm

    Still better than dubya. He’d a had the NSA go over and give Angie a good molesting.

  28. 28.

    Redshirt

    January 9, 2014 at 6:32 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: I’ve been missed? *blushes*

    I’m good. Hope you are too.

    I’m sick of politics.

  29. 29.

    chopper

    January 9, 2014 at 6:35 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    “üppity”

  30. 30.

    debbie

    January 9, 2014 at 6:40 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    This is why I loved German movies. You could leisurely read the subtitle each before the next one appeared.

  31. 31.

    Baud

    January 9, 2014 at 6:40 pm

    Very funny, BC.

  32. 32.

    Roger Moore

    January 9, 2014 at 6:41 pm

    @KG:

    I don’t care if that’s not how it went, that is how I am going to believe it happened and nothing you could say will change my mind, even if you the NSA gave me the official transcript intercept.

    FTFY.

  33. 33.

    Gene108

    January 9, 2014 at 6:42 pm

    The Christie Bridgehhazi scandal gives me hope that the crooks in today’s GOP are far more bush league than the professional criminals in the previous administration.

    They learned from their predecessors mistakes in Watergate and Iran-Contra and avoided leaving behind any kind of paper trail and ever testifying under oath about anything.

    I believe Bush, Jr and Cheney never sent an official e-mail from their government ID’s in 8 years.

  34. 34.

    Roger Moore

    January 9, 2014 at 6:45 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    How do you say “uppity” in German?

    Google offers “hochnäsig”, “hochmütig”, and “schnippisch” as possible translations.

  35. 35.

    Eric U.

    January 9, 2014 at 7:07 pm

    @Gene108: I had a friend that told me everyone he knew in Texas voted for the most obviously corrupt person. Because corruption was granted, but the obviously corrupt people were more likely to get caught

  36. 36.

    TaMara (BHF)

    January 9, 2014 at 7:19 pm

    Win! Made me smile.

  37. 37.

    catclub

    January 9, 2014 at 7:24 pm

    @Gene108: Didn’t Bush also change the rules on presidential Libraries to increase the secrecy factor?

  38. 38.

    SRW1

    January 9, 2014 at 7:50 pm

    @KG:

    parvenu??

  39. 39.

    Mnemosyne

    January 9, 2014 at 7:58 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    Is schwartzer only Yiddish, or also German? It’s hard to tell since Yiddish is such a polyglot language.

  40. 40.

    Cain

    January 9, 2014 at 10:08 pm

    @Violet: I hope the NSA helped, and called emergency services for her!

  41. 41.

    bewleys

    January 9, 2014 at 11:49 pm

    You people need help……where do you go from “apologists”? “Dream Weaver”….
    “I’ve just closed my eyes again…Climbed aboard the Dream Weaver train…Driver take away my worries of today….And leave tomorrow behind…”http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/gary+wright/dream+weaver_20188680.html.

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