{"id":5846,"date":"2010-06-22T10:02:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5846"},"modified":"2010-06-22T10:04:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T14:04:22","slug":"so-the-obama-white-house-is-now-calling-sen-kyl-a-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5846\/so-the-obama-white-house-is-now-calling-sen-kyl-a-liar\/","title":{"rendered":"So the Obama White House is Now Calling Sen. Kyl a Liar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5817\/sen-kyl-obama-said-border-security-bargaining-chip-for-comprehensive-immigration-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\">noted yesterday<\/a>, Senator Jon Kyl (R &#8211; Arizona) stunned a weekend townhall audience with his disclosure that President Obama told him during a private Oval Office meeting, &#8220;the problem is if we secure the border, then you all won&#8217;t have a reason to support comprehensive immigration reform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Obama considers our nation&#8217;s very territorial integrity little more than a partisan bargaining chip. Or, as stated by Sen. Kyl, &#8220;they&#8217;re holding it hostage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response, the Obama White House essentially labeled Sen. Kyl, a man respected across party lines for his intellectual heft and moral integrity, a liar.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/4248584\/kyl-vs-obama-a-case-of-he-said-he-said\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking yesterday<\/a> to White House correspondents, Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said, &#8220;the President didn&#8217;t say that, Senator Kyl knows the President didn&#8217;t say that&#8230;\u00a0 It&#8217;s not true.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Senator Kyl, however, maintains his version of events.<\/p>\n<p>So whom to believe?\u00a0 Well, this is the same White House that is accused by two separate Democratic candidates for Senate of <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/06\/02\/another-democrat-admits-obama-white-house-offered-jobs-to-get-him-out-of-senate-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">offering appointments<\/a> in exchange for dropping out of their campaigns.\u00a0 This is also the same White House that falsely justified its offshore drilling moratorium (which threatens innumerable jobs in the Gulf region) by citing the opinions of drilling engineers.\u00a0 Those engineers <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB20001424052748704198004575311033371466938.html#mod=todays_us_opinion\" target=\"_blank\">subsequently objected<\/a> to the White House&#8217;s false attribution in the strongest of terms.<\/p>\n<p>Those are just two recent examples of White House dishonesty.\u00a0 It&#8217;s difficult to imagine a scenario under which both the White House and Sen. Kyl are correct, so who possesses the better record of honesty and integrity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we noted yesterday, Senator Jon Kyl (R &#8211; Arizona) stunned a weekend townhall audience with his disclosure that President Obama told him during a private Oval Office meeting, &#8220;the problem is if we secure the border, then you all won&#8217;t have a reason to support comprehensive immigration reform.&#8221; In other words, Obama considers our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1464,1446,981,1445,24,1465,1447,826],"class_list":["post-5846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-border","tag-comprehensive","tag-immigration","tag-kyl","tag-obama","tag-oval-office","tag-reform","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5848,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions\/5848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}