Armed Polite Society

Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: cassandra and sara's daddy on July 30, 2012, 03:21:32 PM

Title: remind me hot to make mr Krauthammer mad
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on July 30, 2012, 03:21:32 PM: https://apps.facebook.com/wpsocialreader/me/channels/read/content/yM6Ko?utm_source=redirect&utm_medium=headline&utm_campaign=gen_redirect&denyRedirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwpsocialreader.washingtonpost.com%2Ffbwapolabs%2Fme%2Fredirect%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fcharles-krauthammer-busted-mr-pfeiffer-and-the-white-house-blog%2F2012%2F07%2F29%2FgJQA8M46IX_story.html%3Fhpid%3Dz8%26socialreader_check%3D0%26denied%3D1

he has a piece of obamas staff
Title: Re: remind me hot to make mr Krauthammer mad
Post by: RevDisk on July 30, 2012, 03:41:04 PM: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-busted-mr-pfeiffer-and-the-white-house-blog/2012/07/29/gJQA8M46IX_story.html
Title: Re: remind me hot to make mr Krauthammer mad
Post by: SADShooter on July 30, 2012, 04:19:08 PM: "...arm's-length relationship with truth". I almost choked on a peppermint. :laugh:
Title: Re: remind me hot to make mr Krauthammer mad
Post by: Perd Hapley on July 30, 2012, 05:50:02 PM: Huh? Translate for those not on Wastebook.
Title: Re: remind me hot to make mr Krauthammer mad
Post by: longeyes on July 30, 2012, 05:55:11 PM: Yes, do, I OD'd on cat photos and happy hour mugging and deactivated.
Title: Re: remind me hot to make mr Krauthammer mad
Post by: SADShooter on July 30, 2012, 06:34:11 PM: Quote from: fistful on July 30, 2012, 05:50:02 PM
Huh? Translate for those not on Wastebook.

White House spokesman attempts to call out Krauthammer as liar, is in turn proven liar/idiot by British government.
Title: Re: remind me hot to make mr Krauthammer mad
Post by: Sergeant Bob on July 30, 2012, 06:53:05 PM: Quote from: fistful on July 30, 2012, 05:50:02 PM
Huh? Translate for those not on Wastebook.

CSD's link takes you to the Washington Post.
Title: Re: remind me hot to make mr Krauthammer mad
Post by: Angel Eyes on July 30, 2012, 07:28:33 PM: Ah, sweet, sweet ownage.
Title: Re: remind me hot to make mr Krauthammer mad
Post by: Perd Hapley on July 30, 2012, 07:29:54 PM: Quote from: Sergeant Bob on July 30, 2012, 06:53:05 PM
CSD's link takes you to the Washington Post.

Oh, OK. On my phone, it just sends me to a facebook login page.
Title: Re: remind me hot to make mr Krauthammer mad
Post by: TommyGunn on July 30, 2012, 07:47:50 PM: :facepalm: It all about the Churchill bust that Obama returned to the British Embassy when he first infested the oval office.
Turns out there were two busts.
But the one that Krauthammer said got returned was, in fact, returned, and Pfeiffer had a photo of Obama near the other and claimed Krauthammer was wrong.
It must suck to work in the White House these days.... ;/
Title: Re: remind me hot to make mr Krauthammer mad
Post by: Harold Tuttle on July 31, 2012, 09:48:03 AM: Except that the photo does nothing of the sort. The Churchill sculpture shown in the photograph is a different copy — given to President Lyndon Johnson, kept in the White House collection for half a century and displayed in the White House residence. The Oval Office Churchill — the one in question, the one Pfeiffer says never left the White House — did leave the White House, was returned to the British government, and sits proudly at this very moment in the British ambassador’s residence.

Was that little photographic switcheroo an honest mistake on ÂPfeiffer’s part? Or was it deliberate deception? I have no idea. But in either case, the effect was to deceive Pfeiffer’s readers into believing that my assertion about the removal of the Oval Office Churchill was “patently false . . . ridiculous . . . 100% false.”

The decent thing to do, therefore, would be to acknowledge the (inadvertent?) deception and apologize for it. He could send the retraction to Mediaite, the nonpartisan media Web site run by Dan Abrams, whose report on this contretemps was headlined: “British Embassy Confirms Krauthammer Right, White House Wrong: Churchill Bust Returned in 2009.”
Title: Re: remind me hot to make mr Krauthammer mad
Post by: RoadKingLarry on July 31, 2012, 11:24:11 AM: Never get into a pissing contest with someone who buys their ink by the barrel.

I don't know what the modern equivalent would be, maybe;

Never get in a pissing contest with someone who buys their bandwidth by the terabyte.