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I'M IN A PRESIDENTIAL PRESS BRIEFING!

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Video OK, so we all forget to switch phones off when we go into theatres, concert halls, meetings with the boss. Usually, we're spared blushes because the darn thing doesn't ring, but at least we know that, if it did, we wouldn't have it taken away.

Pity then, one US hack whose inability to covertly turn off a ringing mobile - or at last flip it to vibrate mode - who had his handset taken into custody by President Obama's Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs.

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RINGRING RING........

It was probibly his BOSS checking up on him

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Total contempt and ignorance

on the part of those tossers with the ringing phones. If I was Gibbs I'd put the phone back where the sun don't shine.

Twunts.

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oh really you walked away

it is disrespectful to be in a meeting and your phone goes off, this guy even has the nerve to answer and was talking on it. I honestly wouldn't allow him back to the next meeting and his employer would be hearing from me. what arrogance. I wonder if he would of done the samething if it was the actual president. next time they should make it mandetory that they all put their phones on vibrate or silence, and anyone who doesn't and their phone rings should be thrown out no questions asked. this way they will have to answer to their boss why they didn't get the full story from the meeting.

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