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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on July 27, 2012, 07:47:34 PM
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sinkingfeeling (24,846 posts)
Fact Check: The Bust of Winston Churchill
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/07/27/fact-check-bust-winston-churchill
Now, normally we wouldn’t address a rumor that’s so patently false, but just this morning the Washington Post’s Charles Krauthammer repeated this ridiculous claim in his column. He said President Obama “started his Presidency by returning to the British Embassy the bust of Winston Churchill that had graced the Oval Office.â€
This is 100% false. The bust still in the White House. In the Residence. Outside the Treaty Room.
News outlets have debunked this claim time and again. First, back in 2010 the National Journal reported that “the Churchill bust was relocated to a prominent spot in the residence to make room for Abraham Lincoln, a figure from whom the first African-American occupant of the Oval Office might well draw inspiration in difficult times.†And just in case anyone forgot, just last year the AP reported that President Obama “replaced the Oval Office fixture with a bust of one of his American heroes, President Abraham Lincoln, and moved the Churchill bust to the White House residence.â€
In case these news reports are not enough for Mr. Krauthammer and others, here’s a picture of the President showing off the Churchill bust to Prime Minister Cameron when he visited the White House residence in 2010.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021032054
Cryos (1 post)
11. Correction for your fack check
Last edited Fri Jul 27, 2012, 07:52 PM USA/ET - Edit history (2)
You might have wanted to gather the facts first. The bust of Churchill given to Bush is at the British ambassadors house. The one still in the White House is a copy not the one from Bush.
Edit to add the other was also made by Jacob Epstein and has been in the White House since the Nixon administration.
Looks like the Obama administration got caught in yet another lie.
Swede (26,948 posts)
13. Cryos,the poor dumb bastard,got tombstoned after one post.
He'll be back in some other form,soon.
Once again DU proves that it is nothing but an echo chamber.
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Hey, DUmb****s . . .
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2F4VcBmeo[/youtube]
Just the first 17 seconds or so.
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15 seconds that sums up the DUmmies and their gotcha fact checks.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmNObROcBOo[/youtube]
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Anything that is on the White House website, that was put there by the obama admin, including all the editing that his team did to other presidents bios, will have to be corrected to reflect the truth when he is finally gone.
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Anything that is on the White House website, that was put there by the obama admin, including all the editing that his team did to other presidents bios, will have to be corrected to reflect the truth when he is finally gone.
If the clown has to take multiple tries at a birth certificate,.........
Well....
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If the clown has to take multiple tries at a birth certificate,.........
Well....
Imagine how many tries he would have to take at his college records.
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Imagine how many tries he would have to take at his college records.
I don't know about tries, but you think after 4 years, he'd at least have a decent rough draft. :lmao:
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I don't know about tries, but you think after 4 years, he'd at least have a decent rough draft. :lmao:
Yeah, I know what you mean. I would even be happy with something written on a napkin at this point. :lmao:
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I don't know about tries, but you think after 4 years, he'd at least have a decent rough draft. :lmao:
The grades aren't the problem, look at Gore, whose grades were slightly worse than Bush's, but didn't stop the Dems from claiming he was a genius and Bush was a dope. The problem is something more along the lines of declaring himself either a foreign student or a Muslim on the admission or registration forms, possibly both.
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The grades aren't the problem, look at Gore, whose grades were slightly worse than Bush's, but didn't stop the Dems from claiming he was a genius and Bush was a dope. The problem is something more along the lines of declaring himself either a foreign student or a Muslim on the admission or registration forms, possibly both.
Exactly! And I am betting he put both....
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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".
"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.
Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/9436526/White-House-admits-it-did-return-Winston-Churchill-bust-to-Britain.html)
Idiots.