Now that the Repukes aren't eating one another, they are just BANAL, but still disgusting

[UTUSN]

It's been in the background, but Anderson let Carnival CRUZ totally get away with BIG B.S. when the question was the wrectched image abroad this Repuke crew is projecting, and CRUZ launched into a completely jerkwad diatribe of totally discredited propaganda (OBAMA sent bust of CHURCHILL back). And Anderson just let him go on and moved right along.

[Kilgore]

1. Story as reported in the UK

"Barack Obama has sent Sir Winston Churchill packing and pulse rates soaring among anxious British diplomats.

A bust of the former prime minister once voted the greatest Briton in history, which was loaned to George W Bush from the Government's art collection after the September 11 attacks, has now been formally handed back."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/4623148/Barack-Obama-sends-bust-of-Winston-Churchill-on-its-way-back-to-Britain.html

[UTUSN]

3. Pul-EESE.

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[font size=5]Is the Churchill Bust Controversy a Total Bust?[/font]
July 27, 2012
By JAKE TAPPER

.... ...[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]the decision[/FONT] to return the Churchill bust to the British - it had been presented by former Prime Minister Tony Blair [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]to Bush on loan[/FONT] - [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]had been made before Obama even arrived[/FONT]. 'It was already scheduled to go back,' Allman said."

.... Like a plot twist in a sitcom, IT TURNS OUT THERE ARE TWO CHURCHILL BUSTS!!!!!

[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]The one in the White House residence was a gift to the White House from the British Embassy during the Johnson administration[/FONT].

The other one was [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]loaned[/FONT] to President George W. Bush by British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Says James Barbour, press secretary and head of communications for the British Embassy, "The bust of Sir Winston Churchill, by Sir Jacob Epstein, was [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]lent[/FONT] to the George W. Bush administration from the U.K.'s government art collection, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]for the duration[/FONT] of the presidency. [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]When that administration came to an end so did the loan[/FONT]; the bust now resides in the British Ambassador's Residence in Washington D.C. The White House collection has its own Epstein bust of Churchill, which President Obama showed to Prime Minister Cameron when he visited the White House in March."

"That's not really what's important here," Barbour said. "Both President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron have repeatedly underlined that our two countries remain the closest of allies. The Churchill [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Bust story is a silly diversion[/FONT] - let's get on and focus on seeing who wins most medals in the Olympics." ....

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[Kilgore]

4. The UK article is news as reported in the UK

They saw the action as a slight, obviously Jake Tapper does not.

The UK article was a news piece, Jake's was opinion. Rich fodder for spinning the event either way for the benefit of the story teller.

My my, the lessons learned from watching House of Cards!!

[UTUSN]

6. just the opposite (nrws vs opinion)

[flamingdem]

2. We might need the Brits to come over here and kick crazy Republican rear

I will swear allegiance to the queen if they'll save us from Trump or Cruz.

[Kilgore]

5. Ya, but would make us drink warm beer

[flamingdem]

7. Bloody 'ell

Am stickin with Trump