Why You Should Never Touch the Queen

By The Daily Show

April 3, 2009

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As Leslie Savan pointed out, the cable news "nitwit-pickers" spent far too much time focused on the Obamas' gift-giving and supposed breach of monarchical protocol. The Daily Show's royally frightened correspondent John Oliver suggests that focusing on the trivial issues of etiquette misses the bigger point: how to survive an encounter with the poisonous queen.

--Corbin Hiar

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