White House denies NASA remark on Muslim outreach (Bolden thrown under the bus)

Yahoo ^ | July 12th, 2010

[Names Ash Housewares]

WASHINGTON – The White House is contradicting the NASA administrator's claim that President Barack Obama assigned him to reach out to Muslims on science matters.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden recently told Al-Jazeera network that one of the charges Obama gave him was "to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and engineering."

Some conservative activists criticized the remarks.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that such activities are not among Bolden's assigned tasks. He said administration officials have spoken with NASA about the matter.

[Names Ash Housewares]

We knew that was coming.

[ken5050]

Please allow me to correct your header......”Bolden thrown under shuttle crawler..”

[colorado tanker]

Gee, I’m sure the Iranians could give NASA valuable advice about how to conduct a stoning on the Space Station.

[Tarpon]

Quick to bow Obwoma has taken his time hasn’t he.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

ew. That’s gonna leave a mark

[rbg81]

Yeah, sure, right. This contradiction cam after, what, 2 weeks? I guess they must have seen how disasterous the polling data was.

[skyman]

Bolden must be a tea party member and made it all up /s

[nina0113]

So Bolden just MADE IT UP, so that he could get in good with Al-Jazeera. Right.

[mware]

Yea, but from what I just read Gibbs did not deny it.

With this crew you need a definite denial.

[jerri]

They took that task away from him for going public.

[Sacajaweau]

McChrystal repeat....wonder who will replace Bolden.

[Midnight Matador]

“Attention Gibbs. Cleanup on aisle 7.”

[realcleanguy]

That’s funny. White House throws another one under the bus when they are outed.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Amazing.
The MSM studiously ignored the story for weeks. Not NBC, CBS, ABC, etc broadcast a single line about NASA’s Muslim connection, yet, it came up and was denied at a WH presser.

[mkmensinger]

Too late. NASA already shipped moon rocks over to the Middle East to be used in stoning people.

[JRios1968]

Thrown under the rocket

[ZULU]

Guess Imam Barack Hussein is gettin gworried about his image.

[xkaydet65]

Bolden is a former Marine. If he has any honor he will resign forthwith and stand by his statement.

[VRWCmember]

So the Send a Muzzie to the Moon program won’t be funded after all?

[steelyourfaith]

Fox News 7/6/10: ... Officials from the White House and NASA on Tuesday stood by Bolden's statement that part of his mission is to improve relations with Muslim countries...