mediamatters.org - 1/18/2009
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Boehlert The media myth about the cost of Obama's inauguration by Eric Boehlert Did you hear that "some are saying" Barack Obama's inauguration will cost "$160 million," which is $100 million more than George W. Bush's last swearing-in? That's the tale the crew at Fox & Friends was telling on ...
mediamatters.org - 1/19/2009
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Did you hear that "some are saying" Barack
Obama's inauguration will cost "$160 million," which is $100...
million more than George W. Bush's last swearing-in? That's the tale the crew at Fox & Friends was telling on January 15. "Why does the ...
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The Inauguration Cost
Seeing the Forest —
... Media Matters - The media myth about the cost of Obama's inauguration . Summary: Bush's inauguration cost $42 million. Obama's will cost $45 million. Everything else you are hearing is just more of the same old right-wing propaganda. ----> Scroll down to see comments. Posted by Dave Johnson at January 18, 2009 8:31 AM ...
Just remember, she said that to me
SteveAudio —
(The Zombies-Tell Her No) More zombie lies, spread by both the lazy Librul Media™ and the mendacious wingnut media: Did you hear that "some are saying" Barack Obama's inauguration will cost "$160 million," which is $100 million more than George W. Bush's last swearing-in? That's the tale the crew at Fox & Friends was telling on January 15. "Why does the thing have to cost so much?" demanded co-host Gretchen Carlson. "I don't get it. George Bush spent $42.3 million and that was just ...
Two Sides To Every Story
BlondeSense —
... Fox and Friends, Drudge, Newsmax, etc made sure that that meme was spread far and wide, thank you very much. When the biased news media reported what Bush spent for the 2005 inauguration, they left out the cost of security and when the media reports what Obama is spending, they include the cost of security. The bottom line is that Bush's 2005 inauguration cost $157 million if you include all the costs that the media includes when calculating the cost of Obama's inauguration. Says Eric Bohlert at Media Matters Unless the Obama inauguration tab (including security) ends up ...
Afterthoughts from the inauguration
DownWithTyranny! —
... attempt made to keep donors' identities secret, was just part of the ritual of business-as-usual under the Bush regime, whereby any dollar that didn't stink with corruption was considered a dollar wasted, or that the Obama inauguration accommodated vastly larger numbers of people, the Bush spending figures are conveniently purged of by far the largest component of the inaugural budget, security, which can easily count for three-quarters of the total tab. Media Matters' Eric Boehlert waded into the muck to try to bring some sense to this hodgepodge of real and imaginary numbers ...
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