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elfsYou may have heard the following: "The Bush Administration's 2005 Inauguration Day only cost $42 million dollars; the Obama Administation's 2009 Inauguration Day cost $160 million."
When you hear that, remember this: you are being lied to.
The Bush Administration's 2005 celebration actually cost closer to $157 million dollars. The above figures were floated on the FOX morning show Fox and Friends, but they're a meaningless comparison because they're comparing the wrong tallies: the $42 million dollars is what the Bush Inaugural Committee said it spent; the $160 million dollars is an estimate based on what the Obama Inaugural Committee has said it raised from private donations, plus civil and security expenses FOX somehow "forgot" to add to the Bush Inauguration total.
The media, so long the lapdog of the White House, has already started to peddle the meme of "overspending Democrats," even before the new president has been sworn in, when what we really have is a better accounting, rather than a hiding of the receipts.
Eric Boehlert dismantles the nonsense.
When you hear that, remember this: you are being lied to.
The Bush Administration's 2005 celebration actually cost closer to $157 million dollars. The above figures were floated on the FOX morning show Fox and Friends, but they're a meaningless comparison because they're comparing the wrong tallies: the $42 million dollars is what the Bush Inaugural Committee said it spent; the $160 million dollars is an estimate based on what the Obama Inaugural Committee has said it raised from private donations, plus civil and security expenses FOX somehow "forgot" to add to the Bush Inauguration total.
The media, so long the lapdog of the White House, has already started to peddle the meme of "overspending Democrats," even before the new president has been sworn in, when what we really have is a better accounting, rather than a hiding of the receipts.
Eric Boehlert dismantles the nonsense.
