BUST-ed! White House Caught Lying About Churchill Bust
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, July 29, 2012, 10:30 PM
Obama White House: We did not return the Churchill bust to Britain!
Great Britain: Umm… Yes, you did.
On Friday, Dan Pfeiffer posted this nasty rant on the White House website accusing Charles Krauthammer and critics of President Obama of making up rumors about the Churchill bust in the White House. Pfeiffer wrote,
“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.”
This is 100% false. The bust still in the White House. In the Residence. Outside the Treaty Room.
Pfeiffer was wrong.
The White House did return the bust.
The Telegraph reported:
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”.
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.
The one displayed by Mr Bush was indeed returned, along with all other art lent to him, as his presidency came to an end. The other, which remains in the White House residence, was given as a gift to President Lyndon B Johnson in 1965 by a group of Atlanticist diplomats and military officers.
It looks like the White House owes Mitt Romney and Charles Krauthammer an apology.
But, don’t hold your breath.
They will say anything.
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mg4us commented:
Of course Obama Lies. . . he is the Liar-n-Thief. . .tell us something new
Obama holds UK in contempt like he does America and suburbanites. . .
As for the picture, Obama was telling Cameron,
“You didn’t build that” as he pointed to the work of art.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
The question is, will this make it to the evening news on the tube?
if it doesn’t, then as far as the American public is concerned, it didn’t happen.
Yrral Dleifsarb commented:
Zero and his accomplices are so used to lying without being checked, they cannot even bother to think about how readily the actual facts can be determined. This is prima facie evidence that they are unabashed, practically compulsive liars. Anybody who believes a word from that mob is a fool.
Multitude commented:
Not a big surprise for many of us, but Pfeiffer’s reaction is further evidence of the reality that Progressive Hopenchangen is a religion, requiring stronger doxological compliance than even the crazy Southern Baptists or the Evangelicals.
I had a discussion on this level with a good friend, a near-retirement teacher who’s a hard core Hopenchangen Believer in the Church of Obama. He was going off on healthcare, guns, Tea Partiers, etc. I took him aside today, given the strong nature of our relationship and the capacity to have a somewhat rational discussion, and showed him how every single one of his “founding myths” of his political opinion were based on utter farce. His life is a lie. He was confronted with the fact that reality and Obamaism do not come remotely close to each other.
He was extremely exasperated in the end and told me “Look, Obama’s made a ton of mistakes. A TON! His foreign policy is a disaster. Hell, nobody can excuse his going after people with drones. He really looks like a dictator there. And nobody can argue that Obama just doesn’t get economic things. He’s taken Bush’s f’up and made it worse. But Romney… Romney’s just… scary!”
The wall is collapsing and even the most die-hard “Soviets” can’t defend the progressive reactionary fiasco anymore. Time to step it up and overrun their positions with Tea Party love.
bigL commented:
they do that ,the White House, becuase, Ithink they know the search entgines will pick up the Pfeiffer rebuttal and not what really happed. IT is alt History. If you want to control the future, control the past first.
This is the communist way, that is the way the commies did it.That is why there is “West Wing and Newsroom” as well. In 20 years, that will be the description of our times that the kids will read.
the lefties go out of their way to say these crazy things knowing the “walk-back” willbe buried or
too hhard to ‘search’ for.
TXPatriot commented:
So Joe Wilson was right?
Conservative to the Core commented:
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn
jorgen commented:
Pfeiffer was wrong.
No, Pfeiffer was lying.
onbe commented:
No wonder no one trusts this Administration they even have to lie about the little things. Things that they are personally proud of like sending the statue back it is beyond weird.
American Woman commented:
If their lips are moving, they are lying. It is as simple as that.
YES WE CON! commented:
Another 6 letter word for Felony… BARACK!
Another 7 letter word for Forgery… HUSSEIN!
Another 5 letter word for Fraud… OBAMA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHAM3hRI8_Y
mac commented:
Barack Hussein Obama is the bastard son of a slut. He’s also a spendthrift who makes drunken sailors look like paragons of fiscal rectitude by comparison. He also has a long, bad record of drug use.
Every word in those three sentences is the absolute, undeniable truth confirmed in Obama’s own books and public record. The American electorate knew this…and elected him anyway. What does that say about the 52% who voted for him?
Churchill is quite probably glad his bust has been out of Obama’s Oval Office.
Pete commented:
The confusion is that there were two busts of Churchill in the White House. One is a permanent gift to the US which still resides in the White House. One was a loan, along with other art work, to George W. Bush which was returned at the end of his Presidency.
Much ado about nothing.
Militant conservative commented:
Love pointing this behavior
Out to the democrats.
Liar liar pants on fire!!!
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