Krauthammer Responds To White House Over Churchill Bust Controversy

It's astonishing. He doubled down. All he had to say is, 'We got it wrong the first time.' The British ambassador, today, said that the bust that's in his residence, the one that was returned when Obama came into office exactly as I had written -- 100% as I had written.

So not being able to deny it, he pretends that it never happened and he says the idea that the bust was returned is false. And then he talks about the reason that the bust was returned was because of antipathy. I never talked about antipathy. He should have honorably have said, 'We made a mistake. ..... that would have been the end of [the] story.

That would have been honorable, but you don't expect that out of this communications office in this White House.

Because Romney made a speech and said that when he is President, the Bust will be returned to the Oval Office.

Then the official white house machinery (not Obama’s campaign, but people who are paid for with our tax dollars) came out and called him a liar, claimed the story had been debunked, and showed a picture of a DIFFERENT bust in a different part of the white house.

And they haven’t apologized. They did “correct the record” in a way that most people will never know about.

My point is this event is not about Romney, or should not be about him. If it is important now should it have not been important 3 years ago when it happen? Many did not know this occurred and that is because the main stream media ignored it.

Basically Romney has noting to do with the story in reality yet look how it is being gamed instead of it having been reported as it should have been years ago. But then when you try to protect (Obama/Administration) vice doing ones job of reporting news you become A tool, which is what propaganda means, a tool of the Government.

The good thing is many more Americans see through this now as compared to years ago, I hope more than a enough do.

It was based on the story that Zero’s grandfather was tortured by the British.

Thanks. I think you are right.

More info in this Telegraph article from 2009:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/4623148/Barack-Obama-sends-bust-of-Winston-Churchill-on-its-way-back-to-Britain.html

...Churchill has less happy connotations for Mr Obama than those American politicians who celebrate his wartime leadership. It was during Churchill's second premiership that Britain suppressed Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion. Among Kenyans allegedly tortured by the colonial regime included one Hussein Onyango Obama, the President's grandfather.
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A British Embassy spokesman said: "The bust of Sir Winston Churchill by Sir Jacob Epstein was uniquely lent to a foreign head of state, President George W Bush, from the Government Art Collection in the wake of 9/11 as a signal of the strong transatlantic relationship.
"It was lent for the first term of office of President Bush. When the President was elected for his second and final term, the loan was extended until January 2009.
"The new President has decided not to continue this loan and the bust has now been returned. It is on display at the Ambassador's Residence."

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