Wingnut Lie of the Week: Obama and the Bust of Churchill
Lately, there’s been a rumor swirling around about the current location of the bust of Winston Churchill. Some have claimed that President Obama removed the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office and sent it back to the British Embassy.
Now, normally we wouldn’t address a rumor that’s so patently false, but just this morning the Washington Post’s Charles Krauthammer repeated this ridiculous claim in his column. He said President Obama “started his Presidency by returning to the British Embassy the bust of Winston Churchill that had graced the Oval Office.”
This is 100% false. The bust still in the White House. In the Residence. Outside the Treaty Room.
News outlets have debunked this claim time and again.[…]
Here’s the White House debunking a pernicious wingnut lie about Obama’s supposed anticolonialist and antiBritish mindset. It’s no surprise that Charles Krauthammer would swallow it whole.
In second place for wingnut lie of the week: the supposed antisemitism of The Obama administration, as revealed by a reluctance to call Jerusalem the capital of Israel: reminder, GWB didn’t, and neither did Saint Reagan.