WorldNetDaily just can’t let go of the lie about the cost of President Obama’s trip to Asia.
A Nov. 18 WND article details yet another attempt by Les Kinsolving to get the cost of the trip out of White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. The article falsely suggests that the $200 million cost has some validity, stating only that the White House was “denying a report that the daily cost of President Obama’s trip to India would be $200 million – but refusing to reveal the actual cost.”
At no point does WND acknowledge that numerous news organizations and fact-checking groups that have looked into the number have repeatedly discredited the figure.
What a dishonest “news” organization.
On a side note, Kinsolving’s second question to Gibbs was this:
Robert, presuming the president supports the Transportation Safety Administration’s pat-down searches of airline passengers and that he believes they will never have male security personnel patting down female passengers, what if any of these male security personnel are not heterosexual?
WND justifies this bizarre line of questioning by highlighting how rabidly anti-gay group American for Truth About Homosexuality had previously raised the issue of “the sexual nature of the invasive pat-downs.”