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President Obama called James Franco 'James Flacco' and the internet went wild with Joe Flacco jokes

Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM

Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM

President Obama, in a press conference on Friday, was speaking about his disappointment that the release of ‘The Interview’ was cancelled after threats and an embarrassing hack of Sony. As much of Twitter was celebrating Obama’s stance (which is an actually very important issue of national security, diplomacy and freedom of speech), he accidentally called James Franco, the actor, James Flacco — something that sounds similar to Joe Flacco, the Ravens quarterback.

Twitter, fully checked out and ready for the holidays, snapped back into life and went nuts over this slip:

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