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j-mac said:I wonder what the cost of this apology tour will cost the American people?
can you point to a single thing he's done in favour of black people?
Yes, that's exactly what I said
How is NOT wanting my job shipped to India 'clining to the past'? They need MY job in order to grow & progress?
What puzzles me is if there is such a big security threat that they need all these warships and firepower. Who is the idiot who released the information that he'd be flying in a helicopter to where he's going?
Dispute over New Black Panthers case causes deep divisions
just wait til issa and lamar smith, our new judiciairy chair, get into this one
the watergate wunderkinds at wapo have already laid a full FOUNDATION
in FIVE fun filled pages
read em, i dare ya
... because the 34 warships have little to do with Obama being there.
Is this the one where he continued Bush's policy of not prosecuting them and then took the heat?
ah, you didn't read the article, i'm so disappointed
in january of 09 the bush doj filed action against the defendants for violations of the voting rights act
a default judgement was entered in april when the accused failed to appear
in may obama's doj very oddly dismissed all proceedings
read
And once again, the partisan media machine strikes again.
Pffffttttt... truth smooth.
Just go with the lie, scream it with a loud and outraged voice, and see your followers believe you without flinching! And the best part is when the truth comes out, it will not matter because the damage is already done. I can bet you that for years, many will go on thinking that Obama spent outrageous amounts of money on trips... millions more than any other President! It's sad, but it's the drawback of this age of disinformation.
This is why I absolutely despise the far leaning (left or right) opinionated "entertainers". They can say what ever they want, fact or not, and their followers will believe them. The listeners are just being "entertained" afterall.
I have to wonder where the thread starter heard this story from? I'm assuming they aren't a daily reader at the New Delhi Television website.
Some pundits are now saying the "34 warships" is just another rightwing propaganda effort and those claims are not true at all. One called it laughable.
I have been looking around on Google and I can't find any credible source that can confirm that or deny it. Anybody got anything other than a NewsMax or FauxNews type website they could point me to? Something with some facts? I know that the propaganda sites work for those folks who wanna believe this about that "Muslim" black guy the socialists elected president but I have been cursed a skeptic. I should have been born in the "Show-Me" state. I need a little more.
Enquiring minds want to know.
“I will take the liberty this time of dismissing as absolutely absurd this notion that somehow we were deploying 10 percent of the Navy -- some 34 ships and an aircraft carrier -- in support of the president's trip to Asia,” said Morrell at today’s Pentagon briefing. “That's just comical. Nothing close to that is being done."
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There are 288 ships in the Navy’s fleet, currently 147 of them are away from their home port and at sea. 110 of the 147 are deployed on missions, the other 37 are involved in training. Those numbers translate to 51 percent of the total fleet being at sea right now and 38 percent of the fleet being deployed.
Using the number of 34 warships being reported by Indian media outlets, 34 ships out of 288 would mean 11.8 percent of the fleet would supposedly be working Obama security.
Some pundits are now saying the "34 warships" is just another rightwing propaganda effort and those claims are not true at all. One called it laughable.
Enquiring minds want to know.
perhaps since it wasnt nearly as big a deal as outing a US agent then sweeping it under the rug, they just figured it was ok to let it go..
Two years ago in London, Mr. Obama and his economic team were greeted at the G-20 summit as something akin to rock stars. At the G-20 in Seoul next week, "they're not going to have a lot of allies," said Alan Auerbach, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, who has close ties to the White House.
On some economic issues, the trip will play out as Mr. Obama against the world, with the U.S. president as one of the last adherents to Keynesian economic policies, which promote the use of deficit spending and tax cuts to spur economic growth.
Assuming Cooper is correct, then this is a non-issue. If there's any other developments I'll be back.
The issue is that so many conservative pundits were willing to pick up this outrageous story and run with it without checking their facts.
Since this outrageous report has been debunked, I wounder if those pundits will admit their mistake or just leave it out there and hope that their listeners/viewers don't hear the truth.
THANK YOU ANDERSON COOPER
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This really is pathetic. Has no one heard of fact checking?
Funny you woke up when a Democrat was president. You must have a really ****ty alarm. That's what? 8 years sleeping? That's almost a decade. I guess saying you were asleep is better than admitting you are a partisan hack.
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