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We do not pay ransom total: 1.7 billion. We didnt here and we wont in the future." President Barack Obama
Reporter: In basic English youre now saying you wouldnt give them $400 million in cash first installment until the prisoners hostages were released correct?" Thats correct." State Department spokesman John Kirby
Brazilian authorities should have seen the same wide-eyed dollar signs as the Iranians regarding three previously held American Olympian swimmers. Rather than simply releasing two and charging a third (who paid a $10800 fine for vandalizing a gas station bathroom) imagine how much taxpayer dough they could of wheedled out of Mr. Obama?
Like Barack Obama lying Olympian Ryan Lochte loves the spotlight doesnt differentiate reality from fiction and is completely incapable of shame. In these dysfunctional aspects of personality (minus Lochtes attention-grabbing formerly dyed blue locks) hes in good company with our president. Both exude a false sense of superiority feel an elitists entitlement to say or do whatever they wantand are absolutely impervious to truth. Will this drunkard face no consequences as Mr. Obama? Only time will tell.
At 32 Ryan Lochte was supposed to be the adult of the cadre of 20-something drunken party boys that included Jack Conger Gunnar Bentz and Jimmy Feigen. During an early morning pit stop a locked bathroom was kicked in walls were soiled and a mirror was broken. Lochte spun a gun welding security guard into a tall tale about a thieving plain clothes police officer who put a gun muzzle to his empty head cocking the trigger. This was the story he later peddled to the American press resulting in an international incident.
Already under the towering shadow of Michael Phelpsthis Other Guy with six gold metals (12 overall)will be forever known as a crying wolf drunken goofball. Unfortunately for all of Mr. Lochtes fame the propagandist MSM is not in the tank for him as they are for the fibber-in-chief. Indeed the president has lied repeatedly and gotten away with whoppers such as: If you like your heathcare plan you can keep it. Period."; What we do know is that the natural protests that arose because of the outrage over the video were used as an excuse by extremists to see if they can also directly harm U.S. interests."; Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremismit is an important part of promoting peace." Buoyed inexplicably around 50 Mr. Obamas approval rating is largely unaffected by his track record of bold faced lies. Yet what sane American corporation will want Ryan Lochtes smarmy endorsement?
This oblivious Olympiansame as his high-life partying counterpart in the White Houseis the poster child for the Ugly American in 2016. Fortunately the professional expiration date of this matching set of lying irresponsible pajama boys is at hand. Thus an exasperated nation can gratefully put them both out to pasture. Related to the former golden boythis disgraced symbol of boorish American excessLochte shouldnt let the bathroom door hit his backside on his way to Las Vegas where he can freely indulge in hidden future adolescent antics.
In the final analysis these careless people prove that fancy metals without integrity (same as Obamas presidency) are empty achievements treasured fools gold.
David L. Hunter is an Associate Editor at Capitol Hill Outsider. Hes on Twitter and blogs at davidlhunter.blogspot.com. He is published in The Washington Post The Washington Times FrontPage Mag and extensively in Patriot Post Canada Free Press and American Thinker.