Confirmed: Queen’s iPod includes Obama’s speeches
posted at 7:37 pm on April 1, 2009 by Allahpundit
Hey, you never know when Hopenchange fee-vah might strike. She could be sitting there, listening to show tunes, and suddenly think, “You know what I’m in the mood for? Obama’s 2004 convention speech.” Only a quick menu-scroll away.
And to think, you guys thought this gift wasn’t special.
Uploaded onto the iPod:
* Photos from the Queen’s 2007 White House State Visit
* Photos from the Queen’s 2007 Jamestown, Va., Visit
* Photos from the Queen’s 2007 Richmond, Va., Visit
* Video from the Queen’s 1957 Jamestown Visit
* Video from the Queen’s 2007 Jamestown Visit
* Video from the Queen’s 2007 Richmond Visit
* Photos from President Obama’s Inauguration
* Audio of then-state senator Obama’s speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and
* Audio of President Obama 2009 Inauguration Address
Here’s the songlist. Believe it or not, Jake Tapper’s eating crap from the left for blogging this story even though, had Bush pulled something like this, (a) it would be in constant rotation on MSNBC and likely have been the top story on “Countdown,” and (b) the same nutroots morons who are hassling JT would have wet themselves with glee over the hay they could make from it. Exit question: How’d Team Barry forget to pre-load that ass-covering speech on race he gave last year — which, I believe, was the last time he dared to utter a syllable on the subject? Isn’t that supposed to be the greatest work of American literature since “Huckleberry Finn” or something? Way to cheap out on the Queen!
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This story gets worse every time I look.
This had better be an April Fool’s joke.
capitalist piglet on April 1, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Heh. You guys are amazing. I never thought to really look because I don’t believe snark has a $1000. But now….well, let’s just say that this is pretty embarrassing for snark. How can he/she/it ever show up here again?
genso on April 1, 2009 at 9:58 PM
God save the Prince !
William Amos on April 1, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Ah, no weasel, he likely got the publishing date wrong, but you already know that you intellectually dishonest weasel. However, if it turns out to be another book, I have zero doubt whatsoever that we will find a signed copy readily for sale on the Net for short money. In your ignorance, you believe signed books to be rare and expensive when that simply sin;t remotely the case as experts will tell you.
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Worf was digging a trench for the incoming Starfleet Marine attack….
MSNBC is trying to spin this as a “hip gift” which means it was either on purpose or the Swiss Family Ogabe knows its been caught again…..
sven10077 on April 1, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Again video of Obama comment and Prince Phillip here
William Amos on April 1, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Leftist have no shame whatsoever. They are like cockroaches, rats or any other vermin – they are very tough to get rid of.
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Yep…cause, you know, we’re a “hip” nation now.
Can I get a fist bump on that?
genso on April 1, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Meh, pick up any given book on Amazon. As far as I can tell, the one you demand as proof is not the one Barry gave the Queen.
Barry scribbles his name in it and the press has a collective orgasm, as it is now “rare” and “autographed”.
malclave on April 1, 2009 at 10:02 PM
I did a little more research. During the Bush administration Gladys Boluda was Assistant Chief of Protocol with oversight of the Diplomatic Affairs division of the Office of CoP. However, I would love to know how seriously the WH is taking her suggestions.
INC on April 1, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Another lie. Snark, I’ll give $1000 to ACORN if you can show me all of the 1000 times you mentioned Amazon on this thread.
genso on April 1, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Sorry but Gladys can’t seem to manage an Outhouse Protocol much less the White House Protocal. It isn’t stretching matters to say that she is almost as bad as “Turbo Tax” Timmy.
Dire Straits on April 1, 2009 at 10:04 PM
I think msnbc is on perpetual spin cycle. Dizzy as hell.
pcpower1 on April 1, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Wow…you win man…I give up…
BigWyo on April 1, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Still waiting for the time travel explanation.
SnarkVader on April 1, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Are we sure that Gladys Boluda and Aunt Z aren’t one and the same?
pcpower1 on April 1, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Anyone who gives a gift of an iPod and then fills it with Broadway Show Tunes needs to be slapped numerous times in the head and neck region. Then kicked in the balls for including thier own speeches.
milwife88 on April 1, 2009 at 10:06 PM
like a sub’s gyroscope….
sven10077 on April 1, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Stimulus – $786,000,000,000
AIG Bailout – $300,000,000,000
GM Bailout – $150,000,000,000
$155 iPod for the Queen – Priceless
There is some sophistication money can’t buy.
franksalterego on April 1, 2009 at 10:08 PM
You’re saying he autographed a rare Rodgers Songbook?
SnarkVader on April 1, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Dude. Give it up. You’re forever going to be tagged with this.
genso on April 1, 2009 at 10:09 PM
You’re saying he autographed a rare Rodgers Songbook?
SnarkVader on April 1, 2009 at 10:08 PM
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Hadn’t even thought of that one, and they probably thought he was delivering the pizza, as well.
pcpower1 on April 1, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Well, he DID put his own speeches on the IPod. That tells me he just might be the one to autograph the book.
genso on April 1, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Hi INC, sounds like this woman knows what she is doing based upon her experience. She must be quite frustrated working with the inexperienced occupying the WH these days. I am sure she gasped out loud when somebody floated the idea of a $200 IPOD.
sherry on April 1, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Being forever tagged with this works for me, seeing as I’m right. The book was published in 1951.
SnarkVader on April 1, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Helloooo Distraction!!!!
Not that I wouldn’t put it past Obama…’Rodger and Whaterstien??…Hell with that, here’s a real Rock Star signature’
Say, you got that check all ready to go??
BigWyo on April 1, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Am I reading this thread correctly? Did snarkvader lose a bet and then renig? Outstanding.
carbon_footprint on April 1, 2009 at 10:13 PM
What you need is a good swift kick in the ass to knock some sense into you. Being a lying weasel is no way to go through life.
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Trying to pull a ‘It all depends the meaning of the word if’ type thing.
Classic Potato Head.
BigWyo on April 1, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Leftists have an amazing ability to deny the truth regardless of how much evidence they are given. It truly is a mental disorder. I believe that more and more each day. Maybe the country would be better off if we started adding psychotropic drugs to the water supply.
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 10:17 PM
C’mon Dog, explain it to me. How did Rodgers sign a book in 1952 that you say wasn’t published until 1958?
SnarkVader on April 1, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Wow. And here it is on Hot Air, for everyone to read in sequence. Dignity is a virtue.
carbon_footprint on April 1, 2009 at 10:20 PM
You probably won’t be seeing this every time you post here.
BigWyo on April 1, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Let me ask you, which is more likely:
1) The reporter got the publishing date wrong
2) He signed a book that wasn’t even published until 1958?
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 10:20 PM
It must have saved a lot of time just duping Andrew Sullivan’s i-Pod.
DrZin on April 1, 2009 at 10:21 PM
3. You’re an idiot who doesn’t realize the book came out in 1951. I’m curious: what, exactly, will it take for you to admit the book was published in 1951?
SnarkVader on April 1, 2009 at 10:23 PM
BTW, it’s completely immaterial. I know you are desperately trying to hang your hate on technicalities like “Amazon” and “1951″ but the fact of the matter remain: similar books, published in similar years are readily available and not very expensive. That’s the real point and you know it. All this technicality crap just makes you look more and more like a juvenile weasel and does not have the sense, maturity or class to simply admit when you are WRONG.
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 10:23 PM
It’s not a mental disorder, it’s Koolaid overdose, which causes permanent brain damage.
Sadly there is no cure.
Knucklehead on April 1, 2009 at 10:24 PM
I’m arguing with a 13 year old. Must be. I hope when you grow up you smarten up.
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 10:25 PM
BTW, it’s completely immaterial. I know you are desperately trying to hang your hate on technicalities like “Amazon” and “1951″ but the fact of the matter remain: similar books, published in similar years are readily available and not very expensive. That’s the real point and you know it. All this technicality crap just makes you look more and more like a juvenile weasel and does not have the sense, maturity or class to simply admit when you are WRONG.
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 10:23 PM
genso on April 1, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Unless it’s Jim Jones’ Koolaid…
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 10:26 PM
What’s the name of the book again? I have a super secret site I can check. Details please.
Knucklehead on April 1, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Snark-Weasel would never find playing partners again. Ever.
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 10:27 PM
89. RODGERS, Richard. The Rodgers and Hammerstein Song Book,
Simon and Schuster, NY, 1958. Small folio 255pp. Very fine in
DJ, inscribed and signed on the title page. Scarce and desirable
book, filled with songs and illustrations from the great musicals of
Richard Rodgers. The first signed copy we’ve listed……..$950.00
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 10:28 PM
That’s not the book!!
SnarkVader on April 1, 2009 at 10:30 PM
WTF!? Can’t believe that Obama actually put his own speech on the iPod. What a self-centered narcissistic moron!
Just when I think Obama can’t get any lower, he does it again. And again.
Norwegian on April 1, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Then which was is it. Give it to us so we can find it and shove that down your throat too.
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 10:31 PM
God help us all if there’s a 1951 copy…
BigWyo on April 1, 2009 at 10:31 PM
The first edition was published in 1958. If there is another book, published in 1951, I have no doubt we will redily find signed copies of that available too. Again, the point is that similar books, signed by him, published around the same period, are readily available and not very expensive.
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Well, that won’t really count will it?? Not Amazon.
BigWyo on April 1, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Dude. Give it up. You’re forever going to be tagged with this.
genso on April 1, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Being forever tagged with this works for me, seeing as I’m right. The book was published in 1951.
SnarkVader on April 1, 2009 at 10:12 PM
You see how they do it? Take any issue that makes Obama look bad and it becomes personal and a distraction, but a lefty never needs proof or a link. Progessive = anything that I say right now supercedes anything I said, implied, or in any other way insinuated to be my position if it was more than 10 seconds ago.
Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to prove a lefty WRONG. You must provide at least 3 seperate examples of peer-reviewed research untainted by any form of conservative bent, but you must also do it quickly, before they get a chance to modify and muddle their position then claim that to be the accepted factual consensus. If you choose to accept this mission, your reputation is forefit and the VRWC will disavow any knowledge of your mission, or your very existence should you fail.
You will recieve no reward for your efforts other than a warm and personal feeling of a job well done. Neither the lefty, nor the VRWC, will acknowlege your victory or at any time admit that a contest of wills has taken place. Your defeat, on the other hand will cost you your life, your honor, your personal riches, and a never ending parade of trolls telling you how stupid and hopeless your movement is.
Oh and you are racist.
Mord on April 1, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Oh Gawd,whats the freaggin score on SnarkVader,
sounds like he overloaded the starboard engine
with Snark,and hes free-falling!
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NOTE TO HOT AIR CREW:
There will be no Search and Rescue mission to locate
SnarkVader,all engines full-speed ahead,
and resume commenting,that is all!!hehe.(Snark).
canopfor on April 1, 2009 at 10:34 PM
What’s the arguement again? I’m searching
Knucklehead on April 1, 2009 at 10:35 PM
LOL! I promise I won’t be insufferable. More than I already am, anyway.
SnarkVader on April 1, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Here’s one book. First Edition.
Send the check to SarahPAC.
Apperantly signed first edition books by Rodgers are not that rare, you can get tons of them on the net for $100-$150.
Obama’s gift gets more & more pathetic by the minute.
Norwegian on April 1, 2009 at 10:36 PM
You got some serious research’n ahead….
BigWyo on April 1, 2009 at 10:37 PM
I’ve also noticed a tendency of liberals to cheat on taxes. Does that dovetail nicely with welshing on a promise or what?
a capella on April 1, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Ummmm…the word of the day is…1951
Not 1975…
Not trying to be mean here….
BigWyo on April 1, 2009 at 10:39 PM
How about that “For the 1000 times” lie you told. Or was that figurative like using Amazon or E-Bay as a representation of easily found stuff on the internet? You know, you’re kind of pathetic for being a weasel. That said, its a lot of fun to turn the tables on the trolls. I don’t think Alexrod is going to pay you for today. You’re a bit off topic.
genso on April 1, 2009 at 10:40 PM
You’re so cute when you’ve been PWND.
SnarkVader on April 1, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Wrong book
Knucklehead on April 1, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Hahaha…not me slick. Your Dear Leader is the one that got PWND on this gaffe. The libs are on defense…weak, at that….all over the internet for this one.
genso on April 1, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Point is, there are tons of 1st edition signed books by Richard Rodgers. Most of them run in the $100 range.
If Obama’s gift was so incredible rare, one shouldn’t be able get 142,521 hits when searching for that on Google.
Norwegian on April 1, 2009 at 10:46 PM
I’m sure that QEII was so impressed with the Obama’s buffoonish teleprompter, especially when she directly remembers Winston Churchill. Can the man-child Obama disgrace the USA any more than he has already? Absolutely yes.
BottomLine5 on April 1, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Ahem…
SnarkVader on April 1, 2009 at 10:47 PM
And I quote from the website: There is no bib Data Attached to this record
Matt Helm on April 1, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Again, and for the last time, it really doesn’t matter. The point was, is such a book rare, hard to find and expensive and the answer to all 3 is no. Snark-Weasel made the assumption it was when she issued her bold challenge. When she was quickly proven wrong she resorted to hanging her hat on technicalities like it had to be through Amazon showing her total lack of integrity. That’s the real point.
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 10:50 PM
EXACTLY!
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Spin, spin, spin. I can’t wait to hear how the Library of Congress has their facts wrong and it really came out in 1958.
SnarkVader on April 1, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Link to an almost blank web page at The Library of Congress?
carbon_footprint on April 1, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Honestly, who gives someone else an iPod with their own mediocre speeches on it? Besides someone completely mentally disturbed and narcissistic?
And besides, the Queen has an offical film/photography crew that follows her everywhere. Why would she want some crappy iPod version of something she already have?
Norwegian on April 1, 2009 at 10:53 PM
OK, so…go find it.
SnarkVader on April 1, 2009 at 10:55 PM
The UK Times is RAAAAAAACIST!!
Actually I had a good laugh at the last picture, the First Rake and Ho(e).
citrus on April 1, 2009 at 10:55 PM
The story says it was a Rodgers and Hart songbook, which according to Amazon, was published in 1951. No copies available on Amazon, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a bunch floating around somewhere.
bookman on April 1, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Here’s the Library of Congress Number
B001523GRG
There are ton of them available.
1st Edition in 1958.
Knucklehead on April 1, 2009 at 10:55 PM
But…its the thought that counts. Not that there was much thought given to this…or that it counts for much.
genso on April 1, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Are you off your meds?
LC Control No.: m 58001019
LCCN Permalink: http://lccn.loc.gov/m58001019
Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Personal Name: Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979.
Uniform Title: Musical comedies. Selections; arr. [from old catalog]
Main Title: The Rodgers and Hammerstein song book. The stories of the principal musical plays and commentary by Newman Levy.
Published/Created: New York, Simon and Schuster and Williamson Music [c1958]
Description: 255 p. illus. (part col.) 32 cm.
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Try this.
SnarkVader on April 1, 2009 at 10:57 PM
R & H were writing new musicals through the 40s and 50s. I imagine there were frequent collected works published because they would certainly sell.
This is from Wiki, which I assume would get the dates of their musicals correct.
(1943) Oklahoma!
(1945) Carousel
(1945) State Fair
(1947) Allegro
(1949) South Pacific
(1951) The King and I
(1953) Me and Juliet
(1955) Pipe Dream
(1957) Cinderella
(1958) Flower Drum Song
(1959) The Sound of Music
INC on April 1, 2009 at 10:57 PM
That’s the wrong book. Again.
SnarkVader on April 1, 2009 at 10:57 PM
I imagine there were frequent collected works published because they would certainly sell.
s/b
I imagine there were collected works frequently published because they would certainly sell.
I’d bet they came out with a new collection after each musical.
INC on April 1, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Interesting, not so rare after all, and cheap too.
So that makes Obama both a liar and a cheapskate.
Norwegian on April 1, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Ok, agreed. But the point of contention here is that SnarkBoner has whittled the point of who wins/loses down to the date…1951.
BigWyo on April 1, 2009 at 11:00 PM
You LOSE. This was your bet. Now you are showing us a book of Rogers and HART? LOSER!
genso on April 1, 2009 at 11:00 PM
That’s The Rodgers and Hart song book which is even MORE plentiful and less popular. Bwahahaha!
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 11:00 PM
My point being, you’d have to consult with a book collector/seller who specialized in this to know if any particular edition had any special value. Why it became valuable would have some merit.
INC on April 1, 2009 at 11:02 PM
But you don’t understand she gets to hang her hat on “Amazon” buy you don’t get to hang your hat on “Rodgers and Hammerstein song book.”
She’s an unethical weasel and I’m about done wasting my time with here. She has shown here true colors and people here on HA can judge her accordingly.
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Wow, Snarkvader can’t get his own book right. Talk about hypocrite.
Norwegian on April 1, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Lying, cheating liberals. But, I would like to see SarahPac get that $1000. Heh.
genso on April 1, 2009 at 11:04 PM
By the way, I can also search the Library of Congress site–even though it is a PITA. They’re holding a sound recording of the songbook dated 1960 and nothing earlier in their online catalog. Now, there was a Rodgers and Hart Songbook published by Simon and Schuster in 1951: The Rodgers and Hart song book : the words and music of forty-seven of their songs from twenty-two shows and two movies / edited and with an introduction by Richard Rodgers ; foreword by Oscar Hammerstein II ; illustrated by Doris Lee ; arrangements by Dr. Albert Sirmay ; text by Margery Darrell.
And yes, you can pick up a 1951 edition for anywhere from $35.00 to $85.00. Meh…He should have gotten the dvd collection…
Matt Helm on April 1, 2009 at 11:05 PM
You could give Snark-Weasel links to Amazon for a signed 1st edition version of every book he ever signed and she’d still break her word. That’s the way she rolls. That’s why Leftists don’t pay their taxes or any of the other things they demand from the rest of the world.
TheBigOldDog on April 1, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Probably the only $1000 Snarky can come up with is Monopoly money.
Matt Helm on April 1, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Thanks, that worked.
You have a point. It states 1951 on that web site.
carbon_footprint on April 1, 2009 at 11:08 PM
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