President Obama went out of his way on Friday to express his disappointment over the cancelled release of Sony's "The Interview."
In addressing North Korea's chaos-inducingcyber-attack on the studio, the leader of the free world wove a convoluted web involving the film's stars -- James Franco and Seth Rogen -- and Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco.
"I think it says something interesting about North Korea that they decided to have the state mount an all-out assault on a movie studio because of a satirical movie starring Seth Rogen and James Flacco," Obama said, botching the actor's surname.
Flacco quickly reached out to The Prez with a correction:
Followed by this open invite to Franco:
Naturally, the opportunistic Ravens' Twitter feed jumped into the mix:
Joe Flacco's week began like any other, with the task of preparing for Sunday's critical encounter with the Houston Texans. Now he finds himself cooked into a murky soup with North Korean cyber terrorists and the thespian who gifted society with Pineapple Express.
These are beautiful times.
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