Mark Steyn:
I like the way the Telegraph's Tim Walker sets the scene:While not exactly a film buff, Gordon Brown was touched when Barack Obama gave him a set of 25 classic American movies – including Psycho, starring Anthony Perkins - on his recent visit to Washington.
Alas, when the PM settled down to begin watching them the other night, he found there was a problem.
The films only worked in DVD players made in North America and the words "wrong region" came up on his screen...
Ah, well. The White House spokesman is said to have "sniggered" upon hearing the news.
UPDATE: At Powerline...
The Obama administration is rapidly earning a reputation for incompetence. We'll leave the last word to Mark Steyn:But don't forget, folks: Somewhere in Texas a village has been reunited with its idiot, and we now have the whip-smartest administration of David Brooks' lifetime.
ONE MORE THING: Can you imagine the Democrats' reaction if the Bush White House had given a European head of state a set of DVDs that can only be played on North American machines? It would have been conclusive proof of Bush's provincialism, lack of sensitivity to our allies' sensibilities, ignorance of the wider world, techno incompetence, failure to appreciate the superiority of European civilization, blah blah blah. That's how it would have been reported and editorialized on in every newspaper. So let's check tomorrow's papers and see whether that's how Obama's gaffe is covered. Or whether it's covered at all.
UPDATE 2: Remember how Joe Biden was described by the MSM as a serious egghead with outstanding foreign policy credentials despite all the evidence to the contrary? Today he is hidden away by an administration that is so incompetent it can't even give gifts without gaffing. What is it with these people?
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