Rep. Mike Pence Repeats $3000 Lie about about cap-and-trade clean energy legislation

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Run time: 02:44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5AyPwcT_HQ   Posted on YouTube: May 05, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 06, 2009 By DU Member: Amerigo Vespucci Views on DU: 687

 

May 5, 2009: Since March, the GOP has repeated a $3000 lie about about cap-and-trade clean energy legislation, claiming that the analysis came from an MIT study. Even though MIT economist John Reilly, a co-author of the study, has sent multiple letters to the GOP telling them their distortion is "just wrong" and asking them to stop misrepresenting his work, they have continued.

This morning, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) repeated the $3000 lie on MSNBC's Morning Joe. Scarborough did not challenge the false figure.

When asked by the ThinkProgress Wonk Room why he continues to use the fabricated statistic despite Reilly's protestations, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) accused the economist of "making a public policy or political conclusion."

Pence then appeared on MSNBC an hour later and repeated the lie in an interview with Andrea Mitchell. Mitchell did not challenge Pence for quoting the repeatedly debunked statistic.

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1. Our resident neocon was bitching about that the other day

About how his electric bills were going to be oh so high because of this and that his electric cooperative had said so in their newsletter. I didn't bother trying to call him on it because he's an idiot and I wasn't in the mood for any more of that.

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2. god said it won't cost nuffin' - so now you can support it Pence. god herself said so

also, god said to resign this week, so be a good man and start boxing

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3. of course Pence would only believe something if 'it were written'

just not by science