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Busted: WH Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer’s ‘Fact Check’ about Winston Churchill bust is 100% false

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Krauthammer today recycles the false rumor that POTUS gave back the bust of Winston Churchill. Get the facts here 1.usa.gov/P6D2hr

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Mediaite (a left-leaning media website) concedes:

The British Embassy has confirmed thatWashington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer was correct when he wrote that a bust of Winston Churchill was removed from the White House when Barack Obama took office.

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» 14 Comments

  1. SteadyTeddy

    July 28th, 2012

    Please! Please tell me that none of you are surprised.

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  2. IOpian

    July 28th, 2012

    Are memories so short that this was even in question? If so then hopefully those people will forget the way to the polls.

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  3. MaryfromMarin

    July 28th, 2012

    HAHAHAHAHAHA–busted!

    They obviously believe that the American people have no minds at all. The shoe is definitely on the other foot.

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  4. Stranded in Sonoma

    July 28th, 2012

    The Embassy concluded by noting that the U.K. and the U.S. share a close and special relationship and the Churchill Bust story is a silly diversion – let’s get on and focus on seeing who wins most medals in the Olympics defeating Obama and his socialism in November.

    That’s the ticket!

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  5. Katechon

    July 28th, 2012

    Romney should suggest he’d put a bust of Joseph McCarthy in the White House! ;-)

    Churchill was right about the Nazi threat.

    We see now that McCarthy was right about Communist infiltration of the US government!

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  6. Stirrin the B.S.

    July 28th, 2012

    An update from Pfeiffer:

    “….Since my post on the fact that the bust of Winston Churchill has remained on display in the White House, despite assertions to the contrary, I have received a bunch of questions — so let me provide some additional info. The White House has had a bust of Winston Churchill since the 1960’s. At the start of the Bush administration Prime Minister Blair lent President Bush a bust that matched the one in the White House, which was being worked on at the time and was later returned to the residence. The version lent by Prime Minister Blair was displayed by President Bush until the end of his Presidency. On January 20, 2009 — Inauguration Day — all of the art lent specifically for President Bush’s Oval Office was removed by the curator’s office, as is common practice at the end of every presidency. The original Churchill bust remained on display in the residence. The idea put forward by Charles Krauthammer and others that President Obama returned the Churchill bust or refused to display the bust because of antipathy towards the British is completely false and an urban legend that continues to circulate to this day….”

    And from Mediaite:

    “…However, the British Embassy has confirmed that it did receive the original bust in 2009 and it currently resides in the U.K. Ambassador’s residence. The White House is in possession of another copy of the Churchill bust which is currently located in the White House residency.
    That’s right, there are two….”

    It seems that everybody has an agenda, and it’s getting harder and harder to discern the truth. Is this much ado about nothing? I don’t know.

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  7. MaryfromMarin

    July 28th, 2012

    I might have given some credence to Pfeiffer’s most recent update, IF that information had been released at the time the bust was returned–in 2009.

    Too little, too late.

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  8. MADJACK

    July 28th, 2012

    There’s not a democRat alive that can match wits or intelligence with Charles Krauthammer. ;) :cool:

    We all know why Oblowme had it removed. :mad:

    “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
    Winston Churchill

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  9. Dr. Tar

    July 28th, 2012

    I wonder what the British would do with a bust of Teh One? Put it in the Queen’s Privy?

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  10. Efficacy

    July 28th, 2012

    I suggest we send the Bamster Kenyan back to Africa, return Churchill’s bust back to its pre-Obamao’s location, and put busts of Marilyn Monroe, MaryJo Kopeckne, and MLK wherever & whenever the Black Caucus or the DNC meets.

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  11. Immortal Fish

    July 28th, 2012

    Hammer’s got class.

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  12. 4-Day's Ride

    July 28th, 2012

    There never was any question about it. ‘resident obama also put up a picture in the Whitehouse that includes the word, “nigger” on it.
    Tell me he doesn’t hate white people.

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  13. Team America

    July 29th, 2012

    I love Kraut – he’s rarely wrong. The one prediction I hope he is wrong is that obumfuck will be reelected.

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  14. norman einstein

    July 29th, 2012

    @Team Ameria, he didn’t say that.
    That misconception is owed to the idiot, Bill O’Reilly, who played his quote IN PART.
    Dr. K. schooled him in a subsequent appearance on his program.

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