Speaker Ryan lied to Bill O’Reilly, will O’Reilly
call him out on it? Posted by Ann Corcoran on June 17, 2016
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!
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/06/17/speaker-ryan-lied-to-bill-oreilly-will-oreilly-call-him-out-on-it/
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