Wall Street Journal
August 25, 2009
Pg. 15
Sounds like pretty harsh criticism, yes? Obviously making promises that he can't keep, right?
Well, let's fact check.
After extensive searching, I can find no evidence of Obama promising to 'strip $10 billion from missile defense'.
I did, however, find an explanation of where that misinformation might have come from:
Yes, that's the wall street journal publishing things that I, a simple amateur, can disprove in minutes...
Everybody here knows I dislike Obama's policies... But I dislike the media even more.
August 25, 2009
Pg. 15
| wall street journal wrote: |
| Advocates of missile defense are seriously concerned that this is just the beginning, and that the Obama administration seeks to kill the system with a thousand cuts. During the presidential campaign last year, Barack Obama promised to strip $10 billion from the Pentagon's budget for missile defense. (Actually, the U.S. currently spends only $9 billion in this area.) |
Sounds like pretty harsh criticism, yes? Obviously making promises that he can't keep, right?
Well, let's fact check.
After extensive searching, I can find no evidence of Obama promising to 'strip $10 billion from missile defense'.
I did, however, find an explanation of where that misinformation might have come from:
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I believe Berman and May mined the nugget from this 2007 campaign video, where Obama said (at 0:22) "I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending [verbal pause aka comma or period] I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems [verbal pause aka comma or period] I will not weaponize space…" etc. etc. |
Yes, that's the wall street journal publishing things that I, a simple amateur, can disprove in minutes...
Everybody here knows I dislike Obama's policies... But I dislike the media even more.
