White House admits it did return Winston Churchill bust to Britain

telegraph.co.uk ^

[Sub-Driver]

White House admits it did return Winston Churchill bust to Britain

Barack Obama's White House has been forced to admit that it did return a bust of Sir Winston Churchill to British diplomats, after describing such claims as "100 per cent false".

By Jon Swaine, Washington

7:53PM BST 29 Jul 2012

Aides to Mr Obama were furious after The Daily Telegraph disclosed last week that Mitt Romney planned to restore the Jacob Epstein sculpture to its home under George W Bush from 2001 to 2009.

"I'm looking forward to the bust of Winston Churchill being in the Oval Office again," the Republican challenger confirmed at a fund-raiser at London's Mandarin Oriental hotel.

Dan Pfeiffer, the President's communications director, said in a statement that widespread reports of the bust being returned to Britain's embassy in Washington as Mr Obama took office were untrue.

"This is 100 per cent false," Mr Pfeiffer said. "The bust is still in the White House. In the Residence. Outside the Treaty Room". Illustrating his statement with a photograph of Mr Obama inspecting it with David Cameron in 2010, he added: "Hopefully this clears things up a bit and prevents folks from making this ridiculous claim again".

British officials were surprised by Mr Pfeiffer's statement and photograph, however, because the bust now resides in the residence of Sir Peter Westmacott, Britain's ambassador to the US. Further inquiries led to the discovery that there are, in fact, two matching Churchill busts by Epstein.

[upchuck]

That's hardly lifelike. The head needs to be tilted back and the jaw needs to be thrust out. And there's not near enough haughtiness in the eyes.

[vbmoneyspender]

when their lips move

[Carry_Okie]

Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries.

That barbarous legacy and fatalist habit infests unformly the scions of Andalus, IOW, every Latin American country on Earth.

[ilovesarah2012]

I bet Churchill is turning over in his grave seeing what muslims have done to Great Britain (and America).

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Less than ONE MONTH after his Inauguration:

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

[SpaceBar]

You don’t even have to look closely at that photo you posted to see the bits of undigested corn and peanuts.

[Chode]

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

[sport]

No one but a fool in the first degree would believe anything a Democrat said without proof.

[Art in Idaho]

Obama is a biological/ideological issue of 1960s Marxist-Alinsky ideologues and the whole damn administration is occupied by aged 1960s campus spoiled brats and their bratty ideological issue -- and that includes the majority of the MSM.

Bingo! The Churchill bust return, "you didn't build that," "spread the wealth around," plus 1000 other comments by Obama and his minions point to their Marxist/Alinsky/socialist/communist roots. What about this do Americans not get? . . November 6, 2012. .

[LucyT]

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new tagline...

[NoGrayZone]

Sorry for my potty mouth, but what an a$$hole!

[dsrtsage]

All what you say is true, however, the british government offered the bust to Emporer Nero Narcissus for 4 more years.

[Talisker]

"This is 100 per cent false," Mr Pfeiffer said. "The bust is still in the White House. In the Residence. Outside the Treaty Room".

Well hell, nobody asked him what "this" and "the" meant.

So it's our fault.

Pfeiffer should be a federal judge.

[LibertyRocks]

Politico.com isn’t JUST a propaganda mouthpiece for this administration, but for Communist/Socialist agenda in general... The sad thing is that many in the upper echelons of the GOP have used these “journ-o-listers” to bash each OTHER through the last two primary cycles as well. I take EVERYTHING I read at Politico.com with more than a grain of salt, if I read it at all.

[Political Junkie Too]

In an update to his statement, a defiant Mr Pfeiffer stressed that the notion Mr Obama had returned a bust "because of antipathy towards the British" was "an urban legend".

It wasn't "antipathy towards the British," it was antipathy towards anything Bush.

-PJ

[The Wizard]

This asshole lies about everything

[fabian]

TTheses communists lie constantly with to problem....to get their way when possible.

[fabian]

TTheses communists lie constantly with to problem....to get their way when possible.

[fabian]

TTheses communists lie constantly with to problem....to get their way when possible.

[IbJensen]

This article is a damned barefaced lie!

The bust was broken by Miz Obama while cracking nuts for her husband thingy.