More evidence our president is a geek:
He spent more than an hour and a half touring the Pyramids, led by the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass. Four of his closest advisers followed closely behind the pair throughout the tour: Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett and Robert Gibbs. Almost all of the information imparted to the president was inaudible by your pool, though POTUS approached us a few times with a joke and spoke a few of his observations for our benefit.
Near the end of the tour, he said, “Hear that guys? No evidence aliens actually built this.” Not having heard what proceeded that comment, it was hard to tell why someone would think aliens had in fact built the pyramids...
POTUS then climbed down a narrow set of stairs to an underground tomb, where the walls were covered with hieroglyphics. There was not enough room there for writers as well as photos so your pooler was not in the tomb when Obama was down there. But according to the TV pool producer, Obama looked at an etching on the wall of a face with large ears and said, “Hey that looks like me. Look at those ears!” A photograph of the image indicates that the president actually does, in fact, look a lot like him.
I love the aliens joke....