| Special Olympian Chastised For Referring to Negotiation Skills as 'Obama-like' |
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 Special Olympian Dusty Neffer is feeling the media heat after making a joke about comparing his own negotiating skills to those of President Barack Obama's skills on the Letterman Show. Neffer was replaced as captain of his basketball team after failing to negotiate a foul called by the referees. The argument led to a disqualification. "I was terrible," Neffer said. "It was like I was the President in front of the International Olympic Committee." Letterman laughed slightly, but the audience didn't receive the joke as well. Tapes reveal a collective, "Awwww," coming from the crowd and one audience member said, "He can't help it. He's special." Neffer tried to backpedal from the comment this morning. "It was a poor choice of words," said Neffer. "Do you like race cars?" When pressed, Neffer said the joke was meant to imply that he wasn't skilled at negotiating and not that the President was handicapped in negotiation skills. He was also sorry to bring the President into the conversation, especially after Chicago was rejected as site of the next Olympics, unless it was some sort of graft and bribery Olympics. "I didn't mean to imply that it was all Obama's fault, or that he screwed up negotiations with Tehran and Moscow, either," said Neffer. "Look! Airplane!" Obama's spokesperson Robert Maurice Gibbs said the President is upset. "His feelings are hurt and he just doesn't seem to understand why people are mean to him," said Gibbs. "People just have to understand that our President has special needs and that he shoudn't be ridiculed or criticized." "He's a very, very special little guy," Gibbs said. |