A wild-ass rumor circulating about the cost of the President's trip to Asia has been given undeserved prominence as the babbling echoes of this false report have been wantonly spread by the non-journalists Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck, as well as by the quintessential blithering airhead, Congresswoman Michelle Bachman. These reckless ninnies were quick to seize on a rumor of dubious origin (said to have been spawned by some as-yet un-named source in India)that was nonsensical on its face and, without doing any fact-checking whatsoever, they gleefully reported it as a true and accurate account of the cost and equipage involved in the President's trip.
The reported cost was some $200,000,000 per day and was said to involve 34 warships of the U.S. Navy and hundreds of hotel rooms at the Taj Mahal Hotel. Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck and Bachman inveighed powerfully against this alleged extravagance, but none of them bothered to do what good reporters (which none of these three are) or responsible elected officials (which Ms. Bachman is not) should always do. They failed to verify any of this information before reporting it to the millions of gullible sheeple who dote on their every right-wing word as though it were the product of Divine inspiration.
Now the Pentagon has officially and thoroughly de-bunked this crazy, baseless rumor as "wildly" out of line with the actual costs. Information on the cost of Presidential trips, like much other information concerning those trips, is classified for national security reasons. This un-news from Hell was simply made up somewhere by some unknown someone and jumped on eagerly and gobbled up and spat out as truth by right-wing ideologues who want to believe and propagate anything that defames the President.
Hey, Christian conservatives out there: Does your Bible say what mine does about "all liars"? Check it out:
Revelation 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and *****mongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Now, about that birth certificate......
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