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How Pathetic Is Toby Harnden?

By The Daily Dish
Apr 1 2009, 8:14 AM ET

He's the sad little British hack who's just figured out how to get Drudge to gin up the traffic for his Telegraph blog. This was his scoop today: Obama gave the Queen an iPod! And she already has one! Yes, this was news. Except, of course, it wasn't. Here's the Guardian's account:

Perhaps stung by suggestions that his gift of a box DVD set to Gordon Brown in Washington did not convey the requisite degree of warmth, the First Visitors brought a gift for the Queen that managed to combine thoughtfulness, modernity and a dash of history: an iPod loaded with video footage of her 2007 visit to Virginia. The Queen repayed the compliment with a very personal present of her own - a signed portrait of herself and Prince Philip.

The president also gave the monarch a rare songbook signed by Richard Rogers.



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