The $200 Million A Day LIE!

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The republicans came across this ridiculous $200 million a day statement, they didn't confirm the facts and now they are repeating the lie over and over again; although I am sure they know it is not true. Why do they do it? Simple, just read this comment on the "Queerty" blog:

Yes, of course the White House has denied the $200 million a day price tag of the trip, but until they reveal the real cost (probably even higher), that's what I'll stick with.

The republicans know that the more of them that keep repeating the lie, the more of their stupid followers will believe it. That's how they got to win so many seats this past Tuesday election: the birth certificate; the death panels; the Obama is a white racist remark; the raising taxes for small business. All lies that the stupid republican base believed without question and lots of prove to the contrary.

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Obama's India trip - The $200 million a day myth

Nov 05, 2010
By richwebnews


President Obama's ten-day tour of Asia, particularly the visit in India creates a lot of buzz on the social media over the alleged over-the-top $200 million a day spending. On Thursday's "AC360," Anderson CooperAnderson Cooper zoomed in about the real truth of this issue and the fabricated story about the supposedly enormous price tag for the India trip.

Conservative politicians and pundits jumped and spread the news right away without knowing the validity of the source. According to Huffington Post, "Andreson Cooper opened his show by promising to refute "a made-up story about the president of the United States." He stressed that it was "not [my] job to defend the president," but that there were plenty of real things to criticize President Obama about without resorting to falsehoods."

The news allegedly broke out from an Indian press/website, of the motive maybe just to drive traffic to their site or for for whatever reason. Allvoice fellow writer actually rode that story in his article, that "34 warships sent from US to protect Obama in India" and the notion of $200 million a day spending on a 10 day trip to Asia.

Anderson Cooper pointed out that the entire war in Afghanistan costs $190 million a day, and so the notion that Obama's trip would cost more than that makes no sense. He also calculated that a similar trip that President ClintonPresident Clinton had made to Africa in 1998 had only cost $5.2 million a day in 2010 dollars -- and that Obama's trip would be shorter than Clinton's.

Although the White House does not disclose the amount of the trip due to security reasons but Press Sec. Robert GibbsRobert Gibbs said that the amount was totally over blown and was echoed in the Pentagon too.
Cooper has a message to the critics, to check on the facts first before you aim fire.