This is a test for the 'no spin zone!'
Will
Bill have the guts to smack down (uh, get clarification from) the
Speaker?
Here
is another piece of great investigating and writing by Julia Hahn at
Breitbart. I happened to catch the interview
(although I don't often watch O'Reilly) and thought to myself that Ryan doesn't
even know what he is talking about, or did he intentionally mislead
O'Reilly?.
Hahn:
In a Wednesday interview with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly, House Speaker Paul Ryan made a demonstrably false declaration about his efforts to pause the Somali refugee program.
During
the interview, O’Reilly criticized Ryan for failing to message on immigration
controls and asked Ryan specifically about the Somali refugee crisis in
Minnesota.
O’Reilly:
“We have a Somali problem up in Minneapolis-St. Paul. [We] have a
problem there and those are refugees from Somalia. And if, God forbid, some
refugee comes in and blows people up, it’s going to be grisly.”
Ryan
replied by explaining that he passed a bill to pause the refugee program. Ryan
said: “Right. Right. That’s why– just so you know that’s why we passed a bill
pausing this refugee program, because we don’t think the refugee program works.
That’s why we don’t want it to continue right now.”
Rosemary
Jenks, Numbers USA
However, Ryan did no such thing. The bill Ryan championed did not in any way pause the Somali refugee program– it applied solely to refugees from Syria and Iraq.
The
House bill would “not have affected the Somali refugee program at all,” said
NumbersUSA Director of Government Relations Rosemary Jenks.
Jenks
further noted that, “The bill the House passed would in no way pause the refugee
program. They had the option of taking up the Babin bill, which would have
paused the refugee program, but they refused to do that… All [the House bill]
required was that the government sign off that individuals had been vetted. It
didn’t even change the fact that we don’t have any information by which to vet
them.”
This
is great! Continue
reading here. Watch the O'Reilly interview, here.
Start at about minute 1:50 or a little earlier.
And,
be sure to see the numbers we reported in our previous
post for this fiscal year. Somalis, at this time, actually
surpass Syrian numbers and we all know there is no way to know who they all are
any more than we can know who the Syrians are---no data bases in their failed or
failing countries!
Ryan
has to go! See how you can help by
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