Nikki Haley Admits There’s No Evidence Supporting Her Claim About Drug Testing

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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley Admits There’s No Evidence Supporting Her Claim About Drug Testing The Unemployed
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/09/19/322943/haley-admits-drug-claim/

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) admitted today that she was wrong in asserting that half the people who applied to work at a nuclear facility in the state had failed drug tests, yet said she will still push to drug test the unemployed.

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So unbelievable, in fact, that a spokesman for the Department of Energy, which owns the site(Savannah River nuclear site) told the Huffington Post’s Arthur Delaney “he had no idea what Haley was talking about.” The site doesn’t even test applicants, just people who have already been accepted, and the rate of those who fail drug tests is less than 1 percent.

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“I’ve never felt like I had to back up what people tell me. You assume that you’re given good information,” Haley said. “And now I’m learning through you guys that I have to be careful before I say something.”

Haley said she’d probably repeated “a million times” the story that about the test failures before being questioned about the assertions after a Lexington Rotary Club on Sept. 8.

[hobbit709]

1. I'd say she needs to be tested to find out why she's so delusional.

[louis-t]

2. The stupid just repeat what they hear because it serves their purpose.

And of course, they blame someone else for giving them bad information.

[provis99]

3. what will happen once South Carolina Republicans realize she's not white?

vote for an equally moronic white woman instead?

[gratuitous]

4. "I have to be careful before I say something"

Welcome to the governor's office, Ms. Haley. I guess not quite everything was explained to you when you took office, huh? Oh well, what's the diff? As a good Republican, you shouldn't let uncooperative facts get in the way of whatever nitwit policy pronouncements fall out of your mouth on any given day, especially after you've said the same stupid thing "a million times."

[JBoy]

5. She'll have to invent some new facts to punish the unemployed.