Call it "Wednesday Afternoon Fever."
When the Bee Gees Barry and Robin Gibb unexpectedly showed up among the White House press corps for President Obama's "town hall" meeting today, reporters were beside themselves with glee.
At first.
"Maurice!" shrieked the veteran reporter Helen Thomas (D-Hearst Corporation), mistakenly identifying Robin as his twin brother Maurice, who passed away
in 2003. Casting all fear of osteoporosis to the wind, the senescent scribe then pushed her way past David Broder (D-Washington Post), Savannah Guthrie (D-NBC), and Ed Henry (D-CNN) to thrust a pen and notepad at the befuddled Bee Gee and ask for his autograph.Robin wrote, "To Helen--Keep stayin' alive. Love, Maurice."
Once the town-hall meeting began, however, tension began to develop, as press-corps members were repeatedly passed over so that the President could take questions from the Toothsome Twosome.
"How deep is your love?" asked Barry at one point, to which the President responded by reading the contents of Governor Mark Sanford's (R-SC) recently revealed letters to his Argentinian mistress from the teleprompters.
Robin was next, asking the President, "How do you mend a broken heart?"
But before the President could answer, Richard Wolffe (D-Newsweak) interrupted.
"Hey! These questions sound familiar!" he shouted.
They were, in fact, lines from two of the Bee Gees' biggest hits.
Once called on the scam, both Brothers Gibb admitted that their questions had been a publicity stunt.
"We saw Michael Jackson's old albums rocketing up the charts," Robin admitted, "and we felt left out.
"I mean, it's all well and good to sell millions after you've died. But we'd prefer to get ours now."
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