How Pathetic Is Toby Harnden?

He's the sad little British hack who's just figured out how to get Drudge to gin up the traffic for his Telegraph blog. This was his scoop today: Obama gave the Queen an iPod! And she already has one! Yes, this was news. Except, of course, it wasn't. Here's the Guardian's account:

Perhaps stung by suggestions that his gift of a box DVD set to Gordon Brown in Washington did not convey the requisite degree of warmth, the First Visitors brought a gift for the Queen that managed to combine thoughtfulness, modernity and a dash of history: an iPod loaded with video footage of her 2007 visit to Virginia. The Queen repayed the compliment with a very personal present of her own - a signed portrait of herself and Prince Philip.

The president also gave the monarch a rare songbook signed by Richard Rogers.

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