Thursday, May 28, 2009

If you take credit for a project that is only 1/4 of 1% complete, what would you call it???

The Administration calls it an "inaccuracy".
Most would call it a lie.
They were only off by 99 3/4%

Jake Tapper catches them again.
TAPPER: All right. Just to follow up, I looked at your "100 Days, 100 Projects" booklet yesterday, and the very first one says, quote, "Using $27 million of Recovery Act funding a public housing development in D.C., the Regency House, has undergone a green retrofit. As part of this upgrade, the building installed solar panels, green roof, rainwater collection system, energy-efficient lighting, as well as water-conserving toilets, showerheads and faucets." But when I called the D.C. Housing Authority, they said only $59,000 was spent of stimulus money, not $27 million, and of these seven things mentioned, only two of the seven were actually done --

GIBBS: I think the mistake -- mistake in that one, as you blogged about earlier, took a series of different projects in a cut- and-paste into one.

TAPPER: OK. So it wasn't as clear and -- it wasn't as accurate as it could have been?

GIBBS: I -- I think that's accurate to say, yes.

Hey Let's do the Math, $59000 is about 1/4 of 1% of $27,000,000.
SOOOO Mr.Gibbs is DARN RIGHT when he says when he agrees that "it wasn't as accurate as it could have been". IT WAS A BOLD FACE LIE.

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