“Everyone Is Entitled To His Own Opinion . . .

[Tx4obama]

. . . but not his own facts,” said the late great Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina does not appear to agree. In supporting drug testing for the unemployed, she trotted out an anecdote about how half of the applicants at the Savannah River nuclear site failed a drug test. Ummmm, no.

Jim Giusti, a spokesman for the Department of Energy, which owns the River Site, told HuffPost he had no idea what Haley was talking about with regard to applicants flunking a drug test.

“Half the people who applied for a job last year or year 2009 did not fail the drug test,” Giusti said. “At the peak of hiring under the Recovery Act we had less than 1 percent of those hired test positive.”

The River Site doesn’t even test applicants. “We only test them when they have been accepted,” Giusti said.

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Full article here: http://www.alan.com/2011/09/10/everyone-is-entitled-to-his-own-opinion/

[Loudmxr]

1. I sorta disagree. Everyone is entitled to telling the truth. Despite the facts.

Jerry Fallwell and Pat Robertson blamed 9/11 on everyone they hated.

They told the truth. That is what they really believed. It is the truth to them despite the facts.

[Skittles]

2. I guarantee if you tested all Wall Street workers

you'd have way higher test positive than that

[Skip Intro]

3. Nikki Haley is on a tea party power trip. Thanks for the link. nt

[rpannier]

4. Nikki Haley part of the Palin craz-e

Nothing more should need to be added

[quaker bill]

5. Isn't it obvious

People who don't agree with her "must be doing drugs", and most people don't agree with her.