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All day long, Jake Tapper has been Tweeting about the iPod that Barack Obama supposedly gave the Queen, and the BBC is even in on the action. I say this is an April Fool's Day joke. Here are some of Tapper's Tweets: (you have to read them from the bottom up)
AND also uploaded on Ye Olde Queen's iPod: Photos from Obama Inauguration; audio of Obama DNC 2004 Speech + Obama Inauguration Address

also uploaded on the Queen's iPod: Photos +Video from 2007 visits to WH, Jamestown + Richmond, VA; video of her 1957 Jamestown visit


one more tidbit about PrezObama iPod gift to Queen - a WH aide sez iPod loaded w/video footage of her 2007 visit to Washington DC

more detes-POTUS got Queen an iPod with inscription, songs uploaded and accessories + rare musical songbook signed by Richard Rodgers.

what does one get a queen? Obamas gifted her w a video iPod
I mean, come on, that's not even a convincing picture. The iPod is clearly too big to be authentic, and why is the President holding it perfectly upright?? Is he afraid he'll spill the contents?

At one point, I asked Tapper directly if this was all an April Fool's Day joke,and was greeted with silence. I also have it on good authority that the British are very much into April Fool's Day, and are still convinced that the Declaration of Independence was a particularly elaborate, belated AFD stunt.

I could be wrong, but this seems to tie in with the British press' completely hissy overreaction to the gift that the President gave Gordon Brown, a set of the best American movies.
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