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UK Teen Banned From US Over Obscene Obama Email
British teenager Luke Angel has been banned from the US for sending an email to the White House calling President Obama an obscenity. The 17-year-old says he was drunk when he sent the mail and doesn't understand what the big deal is. "I don't remember exactly what I wrote as I was drunk. But I think I called Barack Obama a p***k. It was silly -- the sort of thing you do when you're a teenager and have had a few," he said. The FBI contacted local police who in turn confronted Luke and let him know that the US Department of Homeland Security didn't think his email was funny. "The police came and took my picture and told me I was banned from America forever. I don't really care but my parents aren't very happy," Angel said.
Fox News is often full of abusive language towards the President. Can we ban them? :)
Mod parent up please.
"We can categorically state we have not released man-eating badgers into the area." - UK military spokesman, July 2007
If a US citizen had written the same email, he'd instead get a visit from Fox executives to talk to him about getting his own show.