Cripes! First the hope phone number fiasco, now this. Bush can’t get up to date intel on Iran before announcing erroneous ‘facts’ about their nuke program, but a teenager in Iceland, of all places, can get hold of his secret phone number and almost talk to him by successfully claiming to be the Icelandic Prez using info from Wikipedia. You just can’t make up crap like this!
Teen Dials Bush Private Number ‘to Chat’
When Vífill Atlason, a 16-year-old high school student from Iceland, decided to call the White House, he could not imagine the kind of publicity it would bring.Introducing himself as Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the actual president of Iceland, Atlason found President George W. Bush’s allegedly secret telephone number and phoned, requesting a private meeting with him.
“I just wanted to talk to him, have a chat, invite him to Iceland and see what he’d say,” Vífill told ABC News.
“He’s very resourceful you know,” [his mother] said. “He has become a bit of a hero in Iceland. Bush is very unpopular here.”
Check out the Icelandic news interview (sorry, no translation) with Vifill.
Found by Don.
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Anyone want to take bets on how long it’ll be before this kid is picked up for “questioning”?
#2: Admit it. You didn’t read the linked article, did you?
I missed the interview on TV. Good to know you keep up with local events in Iceland.
I loved the end of the interview when Vifill was asked if he’d ever do something like this again. He answered that he would use a pay-phone next time.
he was already picked up and released. He hasn’t been charged with anything yet. The police just wanted to know where he got the number from.
“…Bush is very unpopular here”
sigh
“Cripes! First the hope phone number fiasco, now this.”
How is saying 800 when it should be 866 a fiasco? I’ve done it, you’ve done it. For any of us over 30 toll free meant 800 for so long that it is second nature.
Bush is very unpopular everywhere.
“Bush is very unpopular everywhere.”
I disagree…with a planet of 6 billion people and growing, I think bush is still as popular as ever. Real Men Like Bush, ‘nuf said.
One of the hollywood principles:
“no matter good or bad – as least as they talk about me, its all good”
but then Bush ain’t Reagan…
…and Bush got confused and thought he was talking with “Ma-Mock-Mahmoud Abbas”
After three hours of sports talk, Bush could feel the soul of the Palestinian leader and now Bush is going to bomb Israel as a token of their new found best-friendship.
#11 and he would be right for once, since Israel attacked us already and we should have been at war with them for long time
http://www.ussliberty.com/
did w even know that iceland was a country?
#13 Presidiot certainly didn’t.
I bet he thought its an “Island” 😉
They threatened to put him on a “no fly list” to the U.S. Faaaantastic! How dare you question our most beloved Führer!