{"id":4920,"date":"2015-03-03T08:41:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T12:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2015-03-03T08:41:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T12:41:33","slug":"another-four-pinocchios-for-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/another-four-pinocchios-for-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Four Pinocchios for Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/index.php?s=Pinocchios\">the Washington Post Fact Checker has given our <em>Dear Leader<\/em> the highest rating, Four Pinocchios, for out right lying to the American People<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This time it is for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/fact-checker\/wp\/2015\/03\/02\/obamas-claim-that-keystone-xl-oil-bypasses-the-u-s-earns-four-pinocchios\/?postshare=7921425299882174\">spreading leftist propaganda about the Keystone pipeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As we have noted before, when the president says \u201cit bypasses the United States,\u201d he leaves out a very important step. The crude oil would travel to the Gulf Coast, where it would be refined into products such as motor gasoline and diesel fuel (known as a\u00a0distillate fuel in the trade).\u00a0Current trends suggest that only about half\u00a0of that refined product would be exported, and it could easily be lower.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Finally, note that Obama said Keystone was just for Canadian oil, and \u201cwe should be focusing on American infrastructure for American jobs and American producers.\u201d But actually, Keystone would help U.S. oil producers in North Dakota and Montana. TransCanada, the builder of the pipeline, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transcanada.com\/bakken.html\" target=\"_blank\">signed contracts<\/a> to move 65,000 barrels a day from the Bakken area \u2013and hopes to build that to 100,000. That\u2019s nearly 10 percent of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.gov\/petroleum\/drilling\/pdf\/bakken.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the region\u2019s production<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So not only is Barry lying, he&#8217;s repeating lies. \u00a0As the Washington Post article, reports from the State Department show that he is lying.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Four Pinocchio rating for our Dear Leader include <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2014\/11\/24\/wapo-four-pinocchios-for-obama-on-bush-41-amnesty-claim\/\">lies about President George H.W. Bush&#8217;s amnesty program<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2014\/02\/10\/factchecker-four-pinocchios-for-whs-latest-obamacare-claim-n1792518\">lies about his signature Obamacare fiasco<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the Washington Post Fact Checker has given our Dear Leader the highest rating, Four Pinocchios, for out right lying to the American People. This time it is for spreading leftist propaganda about the Keystone pipeline. As we have noted before, when the president says \u201cit bypasses the United States,\u201d he leaves out a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,52,19],"tags":[140,251,262,336,414,497,608,621,839],"class_list":["post-4920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-of-corruption-politics","category-bho-politics","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-democrat","tag-four-pinocchios","tag-incompetent","tag-lying-liar","tag-pinocchios","tag-politics","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-1hm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}