Gee, the repukes are lying about Obama's trip, and the MSM doesn't question them

[still_one]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101105/el_yblog_upshot/citing-shady-numbers-republicans-take-aim-at-the-cost-of-obamas-trip-to-india

"The only problem: The claims appear to be wrong.
The numbers evidently originate with the Press Trust of India, whose report was linked on the Drudge Report and picked up by Fox News host Glenn Beck. The news agency also wrongly said that the White House had blocked off the entire Taj Mahal Palace hotel for Obama's visit and that the U.S. was stationing 34 warships—roughly 10 percent of the naval fleet--off the coast of Mumbai for security reasons.
The agency attributed the $200 million figure to an anonymous Indian government official. It didn't attribute the warships claim to any source.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell called the warship claim "absolutely absurd." "That's just comical," he said at Thursday's Pentagon news briefing. "Nothing close to that is being done."
The White House, meanwhile, issued a blanket statement that the $200 million figure "had no basis in reality" and was "wildly inflated." The press office declined to disclose the trip's actual cost, citing "security concerns."
In a news briefing Thursday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs also refused to release numbers, but he told reporters point-blank, "We are not spending $200 million a day."
The nonpartisan FactCheck.org took up the issue, too, saying that even though the administration won't release a price tag, there is "simply no evidence to support" a claim of $200 million a day. One reason to doubt the report, according to the group: The entire war in Afghanistan costs $190 million a day."

John Stewart was right, the media SUCKS

[davidinalameda]

1. Andrea Mitchell just had a story on about this

she was blasting Rush and the others for pushing these lies

[eleny]

4. I was glad to see her do that

[polichick]

6. Good news - Rachel did a great job of showing how the right-wing...

...echo chamber perpetuates these lies and refuses to debunk them - including members of Congress.

[DoBotherMe]

2. LOUDLY!

It's a freaking comedy. Dana ; )

[dflprincess]

3. I saw a brief clip of Bachmann spouting this crap

and Anderson Cooper trying to call her on it - but she completely ignored him and that's where the clip ended so I don't know if he tried again or not.

[eleny]

5. She must have still been hypnotized

[Suich]

7. AC360 opened his show last night with it.

He pointed out the we spend 190 million a day in Afghanistan, so it seemed unlikely that Obama would spend more than that per day. Also had a Pentagon spokesman on saying the bs about sending all the ships to the area was absurd.

:)