Posted on 07/28/2012 1:51:01 PM PDT by yoe
The White House incorrectly claimed that a bust of Winston Churchill was not removed from the White House when President Obama moved in, insisting with emphatic certainty that it had simply been moved to the residence but then retracting the assertion.
In a Fact Check post added to the White House website Friday, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer scornfully dismissed as 100% false the rumor that Obama had removed the Churchill bust that had presided over the George W. Bush Oval Office and shipped it back to the British.
Turns out Pfeiffers was the false statement.
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[snip] Pfeiffer then provided a White House photo of Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron admiring the Churchill bust in the White House residence.
[snip] Hopefully this clears things up a bit and prevents folks from making this ridiculous claim again, Pfeiffer sneered.
Well.
In what he labeled an Update but which is actually a Correction, Pfeiffer later added that there are in fact two busts, and the one that was in the Oval Office was indeed removed when Obama took office.
(Excerpt) Read more at whitehousedossier.com ...
“depends on what the definition of is is”
depends on what the definition of is is
Well, it is what it is and that is what it is.It is that.
There is literally nothing this White House says anymore that I believe.
I’m of the opinion that everything is a lie until proven truthful . . . and even then it better be double checked.
OMG. Obama and staff are liars.
Who knew ?
Is that it? it is, is it?
Busted twice over the “heads.”
If Obama thought Churchill too odious to be a presence in the Oval Office, why would he want a bust in the residence?
There was a saying about Clinton: “He’ll tell a lie, even when the truth would serve him just as well.”
Looks like it goes double for this administration.
What the heck is so hard about saying “Oops, I got it wrong, there are TWO busts, and one was indeed returned to the British in 2009”.
Had he done that, it would have been a 15-second story and be dead by now.
Meanwhile the hapless Press Secretary Carney did a Ralph Kramden humma-humma trying to avoid answering the question of what’s the capital of Israel.
what offends me almost the worst about zero and “his people” is how very infantile and childish they are about issues such as this.
Please US, VOTE HIM OUT!!
what offends me almost the worst about zero and “his people” is how very infantile and childish they are about issues such as this.
Please US, VOTE HIM OUT!!
We are long past the time when every ‘name’ in the conservative sphere with a podium and a microphone should have started saying the honest truth about this admin. As you said, Nothing these people say can be trusted. NOTHING.
If water was said by this admin to be wet and conduct electricity, I’d throw a radio in the tub and hop in because all evidence of these people’s honesty points to it being a lie.
Seriously. The ‘respect for the office excuse isn’t cutting it. We are past that. There is nothing there to respect because a liar ‘is’ the office now. So call him on it every time he/they draw breath. Non stop. Until every American is so sick of hearing it that they give in and accept it just to make it stop. New game, new rules.
You’d never catch the impeached bent-one (X42) removing a bust from the White House.
“There was a saying about Clinton: Hell tell a lie, even when the truth would serve him just as well.”
Greg Dulli of the band Afghan Whigs had a song called “Crime Scene Part 1, which had the lyric “A lie, the truth? Which one will I use?”
Sorta fitting.
THIS is what Conservatism has become? Arguing about a bust in the WH and where, or where not, it may be???? Wow. No wonder we keep nominating idiots.
Let’s have some ideas. Let’s govern. Let’s do something other than counting angels on the heads of a pin.
This is idiotic,. And the only thing more idiotic ... the WH responding to this idiocy.
Lt. Frank Drebin: "Well, it's very impressive, yes..."
Speaking of busts, take a gander at this. You're welcome. Now go wash your eyes out with battery acid.
he closets are bigger in the residence.
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