I just cracked up reading about the teenager who prank called the White House.

 

“My call was transferred around a few times until I got hold of Bush’s secretary and managed to book a call meeting with Bush the following Monday evening,” Vifill Atlason, 16, told Reuters.

How did this even make the news? Oh, right, because when he called, he pretended he was Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson. And he had a “special number” to the White House.

Maybe I should be appalled that he impersonated his own president to get through, but really, I’m just amused.

So he was questioned by Iclandic authorities about where he got the “special number” from. The White House held a press conference saying that he did not have a special line into the White House, but ABC News reports that Vifill gave them the number, which they in turned dialed, which was in fact a “special” number.

It is reported that he may have found the number while watching Jenna Bush dial it on a recent taping of the Ellen show.

 

 

I don’t know. I think this is all very amusing. I wish I had the number. I’d call, and ask him why he didn’t have a big ‘ole press conference announcing to the nation that he reauthorized the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential directive back in May. That’s right folks, in the case of an “emergency,” Bush can suspend the constitution and do what ever the hell he pleases. He can bypass all other levels of government at the state, federal, local, territorial and tribal levels, and thus ensuring total unprecedented dictatorial power.

Frankly, I want to know what Bush has up his sleeve. So Vifill Atlason, go ahead and make that number public!

 

In his own words.