Last week the interwebz lit up when President Barack Obama made a very public Star Wars/Star Trek gaffe. During a press conference this past Friday Obama said he was not able to, "somehow do a Jedi mind meld with these folks to convince them to do what's right" in reference to reaching an agreement to avoid the impending forced spending cuts.
Fans of both franchises took umbrage with the fact that the President had clearly married the Jedi mind trick with the Vulcan mind meld. The White House issued the following comical tweet in response to the flub and George Takei (Mr. Sulu) and Leonard Nimoy (Spock) each came out to speak on the matter.
We must bring balance to the Force. #Sequester #JediMindMeld twitter.com/whitehouse/sta… Continue reading…
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