One of our spies snapped Hillary Clinton’s motorcade, including some five Jaguars and two Range Rovers, outside the Foreign Office earlier.
Not bad for a mere Secretary of State.
UPDATE: By way of comparison, thanks to @youflaminggalaa for sending us this picture of Obama’s entourage on his last trip to the UK. Know your place, Hillary!
Barack Obama lookalike, Ananias Rodrigues da Silva, and Osama bin Laden lookalike, Francisco Helder Braga Fernandes, have decided to capitalise on the public mood by posing for a collection of rather amusing photos.
Unfortunately, Fox News won’t get the joke, as they evidently cannot distinguish between the two.
Scrapbook has to admire the chutzpah of Barack Obama conspiracy theorists. In an attempt to support claims that Obama spent “over a year” in Pakistan from 1981 (presumably consorting with the enemies of America), right wing nutjob and sometime Fox News guest Jack Cashill has claimed that the following photograph of the then Columbia University student with his grandparents is a “fake”.
Photoshopped "fake" image of Barack Obama
Cashill explains:
“The bench is real. The grandparents are real. The wall behind them is real. Barack Obama is not. He has been conspicuously photoshopped in. Who did this and why remains as much a mystery as Obama’s extended stay in New York.”
A YouTube video entitled “Obama’s Fake Family Photo” purports to provide a smoking gun: the original photograph with Obama absent.
The original "real" photograph
Perhaps Cashill can explain what Obama’s knee is still doing there.
Attempts to bolster his chances at the 2012 Republican presidential nomination finds Donald Trump pandering to lunatic conspiracy theories by reigniting the Barack Obama citizenship issue — which many commentators claim has a racist subtext.
In an interview with NBC the US star of The Apprentice said “there’s a big possibility” that Obama’s presidency violates the Constitution, and that he had people on the ground in Hawaii investigating the matter.
“I have people that actually have been studying it… And they cannot believe what they’re finding. And I’m serious.”
Leaving aside the question whether Trump is a serious contender for the Presidency, we have to wonder how a businessman with a reported net worth of $2.7 billion can’t perform a simple Google search. Please allow Scrapbook to indulge the toupee-loving high flier:
You’re not hired!
Fox News über-tool Bill O’Reilly has been up to his old tricks. Scrapbook is admittedly a bit late on the uptake for this one but thought the following video, in which O’Reilly interrupts Barack Obama a record 48 times, deserved a bigger outing on this side of the pond:
Jack Stuef of US gossip blog Wonkette writes:
How dare he?! (He being the president, who interrupted O’Reilly’s interruptions once or twice. LET BILL SPEAK, YOU JERK.) This is how real journalists do interviews, kids. Get your opinion across, and then if you have a few spare seconds, the person you’re interviewing can say some words too.
Amazingly, perhaps Kay Burley has a thing or two to learn about conducting hectoring political interviews after all.
With this tweet, Shelly Asquith skewers both the idiotic factionalism of many on the left along with a lack of perspective when it comes to easy comparisons with those genuinely risking their lives to protest in Egypt.
Time to stop this destructive sideshow and and concentrate on the real enemy.
With those conspiracy theories that Obama is not a natural born citizen of the United States (and thus not eligible for the presidency) refusing to go away, Second City Network headed to Jon Stewart’s “Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear” to ask liberals: is Barack Obama really Kenyan a Keynesian?
Next up: was Barack Obama a genetically altered super-child?
