Charlie Sheen’s $14,000 ‘conversation’ with Obama

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This is really weird.

A few months ago, actor Charlie Sheen decided to pen a fake interview that he would have with President Barack Obama. The basis for the discussion was Sheen’s continuing role in the 9/11 truth movement – the people who believe that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job. The conversation is a weird one, to be quite honest. But then I suppose so are most fictional discussions between an actor and the President, even though this is the first one I’ve come across.

Sheen’s script even takes time to dole out false pleasantries, as a fictional Barack Obama tells Charlie that he’s a “big fan of the show,” (Two And a Half Men) and that he has “it Tivo’d on Air Force One. Nice break from the traveling press corps.” Fake Obama even takes the time to remind fake Charlie that he’d better cut to the chase, because he only has nineteen minutes of fake time left.

Now Sheen is offering $14,000 to the fan who can best dramatize his fictional conversation. An example after the jump:

America, that is your President?

Anyway, this is all very strange stuff. When I first heard that Sheen had written an open letter to Obama about 9/11 I expected it to be… a letter. This is basically a discussion between Charlie Sheen and himself in a mirror. And talk about undermining your position. The allegedly important information in the “letter” – the stuff that’s apparently critical to national security and the survival of the republic – becomes somewhat of a sideshow when there are puppets involved.

This is a big lesson in How To Not Be Taken Seriously.