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INQUIRER: Alki David, a sometime B movie actor and an heir to an immense shipping fortune, is now demanding that the White House confirm Obama saw Rodriguez dash by in his birthday suit. The White House has so far refused to comment on what David has called a “prank.” And it’s unlikely that it ever will do so. “There’s no need or reason for the White House to accommodate the personal desires of another,” said Martha Kumar, a professor at Towson State University in Maryland who specializes in presidential communications. “In a time when we have 9.6 percent unemployment and the war in Afghanistan, who has time for this kind of nonsense?” she said. “The White House certainly doesn’t.” MORE