Barack Obama & Wellesleyan, part II

You may remember some of the confusion by Fox News and possibly by Barack Obama about Wesleyan vs. Wellesley, way back when there was a lot of buzz about Obama's commencement address here.

But it seems that confusion continues. Jared Paul '11 sends in a hilarious (even if a little saddening) anecdote:

An exchange today at Obama's town hall meeting in Raleigh, NC.

Girl asking question: ...I'm a recent Wellesley graduate, and...
Barack: I know your school, I spoke at your commencement! ...Er, wait, was that...
Me (shouting): WESLEYAN!
Barack: Wesleyan, yeah, I get those two mixed up.

Just thought I should share that one with y'all.

Urgent: they need your wellesley.edu password!

Katrina Smith-Mannschott '08 sends in this bit of spam she received. She writes, "Apparently, even spammers have trouble telling Wesleyan and Wellesley apart." Nice going, wannabe password thieves!

From: "WELLESLEY.EDU SUPPORT TEAM"

Date: July 15, 2008 17:31:06 GMT+02:00

To: (her username)@wesleyan.edu

Subject: UPDATE YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT

Reply-To: verification_team03@yahoo.com.hk

Dear wellesley.edu Subscriber,

We are currently carrying-out a mentainance process to your wellesley.edu account, to complete this process you must reply to this email immediately, and enter your User Name here (**********) And Password here (**********) if you are the rightful owner of this account.

This process we help us to fight against spam mails. Failure to summit your password, will render your email address in-active from our database.

NOTE: You will be send a password reset messenge in next seven (7) working days after undergoing this process for security reasons.

Thank you for using wellesley.edu!
THE WELLESLEY.EDU TEAM

I feel absolutely no guilt about leaving the spammers' e-mail addresses up there to get spammed themselves.

It Was a Joke, Not a Gaffe

I don't know why, but I was bothered enough by the attempts to paint Senator Barack Obama as being too stupid to pronounce the name of the school he was speaking at (previously reported here) to throw together a video demonstrating how it was obviously a joke.



The screenshot of the May 22 Wesleying post may be difficult to read, even at full screen. See this link to read it in your browser.

It would have been a much better video if I could have included the footage from Fox News, but it has since been taken offline.

Perez Hilton knows what Wesleyan is

Inslee Coddington '10:

"You know fox news is a mess when Perez Hilton can get our name right..."

PerezHilton.com on Ted Kennedy

Wellesleyan: "The Alma Mater of who? Hillary Clinton"

I saw this reported here yesterday, but I figure that the only thing better than re-blogging something is to re-blog it with video evidence. Unfortunately the embeds don't work, but the videos should be viewable at the links below.

• The erroneous clip from Fox News yesterday.


• And the Fox News correction/apology immediately following the next commercial break.

Update May 26, 2008: Apparently, the site that hosts the video clips linked in this blog post has been shut down.

Wellesleyan

Wesleying just got this amusing e-mail from Kate Heller '09:

My dad told me that he was listening to Fox News on satellite radio, and that they reported that Hillary Clinton should be peeved because Barack Obama is replacing Ted Kennedy to speak at her Alma Matter... Wellesley...

Will the world never tell us apart!?!?!