Pigs fly, and NBC science reporter Jay Barbree is quite shaken when he notices a bold lie that Obama told. Fortunately for Obama, MSNBC’s Alex Witt jumps to the president’s defense and tries to mitigate the damage, as any good MSNBC reporter should:
BARBREE: …I’m a little disturbed right now, Alex. I just found out some very disturbing news. The President came down here in his campaign and told these 15,000 workers here at the Space Center that if they would vote for him, that he would protect their jobs. 9,000 of them are about to lose their job. He is speaking before 200, extra hundred people here today only. It’s invitation only. He has not invited a single space worker from this space port to attend. It’s only academics and other high officials from outside of the country. Not one of them is invited to hear the President of the United States, on their own space port, speak today. Back to you Alex.
WITT: Alright Jay I can understand why that would certainly get you a bit upset. I will say, on behalf of the Obama administration, they contend that 2500 new jobs will be created, even more, they say, than the 2012 Constellation would have created, that program. So I know all this remains to be seen, but understandably we get why you’re upset, right now. Along with many others down there. Let’s see if the President clears that up later today. Jay thanks so much.
[Hat tip: The Anchoress.]
Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely 
April 17th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Stupid Rubes. God I can’t wait for November. The MSM spin on the congressional upheaval will be dizzying.
April 17th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Gag.
April 17th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Witt: “I will say, on behalf of the Obama administration…”
I love it when honesty accidentally sneaks through.
April 17th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
And, not even a second of recognition that he’s just kicked his nancy self square in his ovaries!
Living, breathing Michael Ramirez cartoons.
April 17th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
Well, Mr. Barbree certainly is deserving of the Louis Renault Award. The irony is that he, or anyone, would be shocked by a politician telling a lie. This is many orders of magnitude more ironic when that politician is Barack Obama.
April 18th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Imagine, if you will, how George Bush must feel on watching something like this.
Bush is a decent, honorable man who did what he thought was best for America, and got excoriated for it at every turn. In a campaign probably orchestrated by the shadowy left, the only debate between blown-dry media airheads was whether he was Satan, Hitler, or the anti-Christ (anti-Gaia?).
Yet this bimbo goes to bat for Obama when a comrade notices an objectively false statement and wanders into right-wing deviationist counter-revolutionary territory.
The liberals could’ve caused every patriotic American in the country to drop dead in amazement by having had some media apparatchik go to bat for Bush like that just once. Then the liberals would’ve had the whole country to themselves, to screw up unfettered.
April 18th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Yes, Alex, let’s see if the president clears that up later today.
April 19th, 2010 at 1:11 am
Jim Sullivan Says:
April 17th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Witt: “I will say, on behalf of the Obama administration…”
I love it when honesty accidentally sneaks through.
You said it before I had the chance. GMTA…
April 20th, 2010 at 2:34 am
Is Witt auditioning for Gibbsy’s job?