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Which Claim from Obama’s Friday Press Conference Was Rated ‘Incorrect’ by WaPo?

Mar. 1, 2013 4:14pm
Obama Janitor Claim Rated False by Washington Post

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 01: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the media after meeting with Congressional leaders at the White House, March 1, 2013 in Washington, DC. Getty Images

This week, the story about the planned cuts to future government spending (“sequester”) has been the way Democrats and the administration have been overstating their effects (see Maxine Waters). And now, the Washington Post’s fact-checker has caught the president doing it as recently as his Friday afternoon press conference.

“Obama’s remarks continue the administration’s pattern of overstating the potential impact of the sequester, which we have explored this week,” the Post concluded. So what earned Obama that determination? Well, how about him claiming that the sequester would lead to pay cuts for Capitol Hill janitors.

“Starting tomorrow everybody here,” Obama said, “all the folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol — now that Congress has left, somebody’s going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage — they’re going to have less pay. The janitors, the security guards, they just got a pay cut, and they’ve got to figure out how to manage that. That’s real.” [Emphasis added]

Turns out, it’s not.

According to the government guru in charge of the Capitol janitors, the Architect of the Capitol, “We do not anticipate furloughs for AOC employees as a result of Sequestration.”

And there’s even a fancy document:

Obama Janitor Claim Rated False by Washington Post

Letter from the Architect of the Capitol (via: WaPo)

The White House did respond to WaPo’s fact-checking by claiming the sequester does mean a reduction in overtime. But the outlet isn’t buying it:

A White House official notes that the memo does refer to “further reducing overtime.” Technically, that could mean some janitors might see less pay, but it’s unclear how many actually earn overtime. Under the reasonable person test, a possible reduction in overtime appears a bit different than “just got a pay cut.”

To be fair, it does appear the Capitil police will undergo actual cuts.

Read WaPo’s full analysis here.

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  • high school drop out
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 8:48pm

    I love this, Keaton is back Arguing that Obama did,nt lie about the pay cut! I agree, The prez, never lies he distorts, spins, misspeaks, omits, embellishes…but never lies….. Get a Life Keaton!…Oh by the way Ben–Franklin you are correct! I submit that if Obama was caught on camera munching on a human thigh bone those same people you refer to would run cover for him even then saying things like”Well he was really hungry” or the Repubs made him do it by not agreeing to tax hikes or, my favorite, George Bush did it too

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  • Tigress1
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 8:09pm

    Well, well, well, funny how just yesterday here in Memphis school custodians were also the “victims” of cuts. Are the custodians going to be like the sanitation workers whose strike caused riots in Memphis in the 1960′s? Is it just a “coincidence” that this happened here yesterday and Obama talks about custodians today?

    http://wreg.com/2013/02/28/shelby-county-school-board-approves-outsourcing-custodial-jobs/

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  • theBru
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:15pm

    Those janitors don’t need a pay cut, they need to be fired!!! Are they not responsible for taking out the garbage??? And they have had how many days to throw it out??? Yet, those same nose-picking congressional pieces of trash keep showing up day after day…If I don’t do my job, I get run off…Hale, they are worse than weathermen, I thought they were the only folks who could be wrong hal the time and still keep a job…Now, I have to pay for janitors who cannot even take out the trash…I knew it was hard to get good help these days, but sheesh, this is totally out of control…

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  • JimmyP
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:12pm

    Uh, union workers getting hours cut? Bwahahahaha!
    Yep, they are gonna to hafta give a little more! Barf! Like that’s gonna happen!
    Oh, and we’re cutting the earned income credit so those folks will pay their fair share too! Yessirreeee!

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    • asybot12
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 6:32pm

      Knowing the Unions they’ll get a pay hike just before the extra day off!!!

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  • term limits for congress
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:57pm

    The problem is that the MSM will repeat it without verifying. The story will not be that janitors will see reduced overtime, it will be that janitors are getting a pay cut… because that sounds worse… and is less truthful… and supports dear leaders agenda.

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  • DamoclesAurelius
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:42pm

    Keaton,

    Seriously, you sound like a whiny, hypersensitive little girl by repeating the same drivel over and over again as if that makes it true. Can you not shrill somewhere else? What an irritant you’ve proven yourself to be. Like a speck of sand in one’s underwear: irritating enough to announce it’s presence, not significant enough to do more than an itch one’s ball sack. Come back when you have something useful to say, and the actual brains to back it up.

    Sincerely,

    A vastly superior intelligence

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    • Keatonc333
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:01pm

      Dear vastly superior intelligence… perhaps you could lead by example and display your brains in proving me wrong?

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    • Keatonc333
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:16pm

      If would be so kind, please explain to me how a person who regularly works 40 hours a week and then a few hours overtime, will not be taking a pay cut by no longer getting those over time hours.

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    • DamoclesAurelius
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:31pm

      Overtime isn’t “regular” moron. That’s why it’s OVER time: it’s OVER the time you a regularly scheduled to work, hence why they pay you MORE than your regular wages. If over time is reduced, that isn’t a pay cut except in the broadest, most abstract (and thus meaningless and impractical) sense. (i.e. I was making x, now I am maxing x-y, with x-y being what I would have made anyways if overtime were not offered). Sensible, REASONABLE people (I know that I am technically disqualifying you but bear with me) don’t rely on overtime, they rely on the REGULAR wages that they earn working a REGULAR 40 hour work week. You are harping at straws, but then what should I expect from a paid nuisance?

      Nice try grasping at straws like the desperate little toady you are. Why don’t you come back after your masters have given you a better one?

      Sincerely,

      A DEMONSTRABLY superior intelligence.

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    • DamoclesAurelius
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 6:33pm

      Keaton,

      Now that I have your attention, please listen up:

      You will not win. You have neither the means, nor the will.

      Sincerely,

      A vastly superior intelligence (granted, by pointing that you are a liberal shill sets the bar extraordinarily low)

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    • Keatonc333
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:54am

      Ok. I’m not sure how you are not getting this.. the definition of a “pay cut” is “the act of reducing ones income.” Now if these janitors normally brings in X dollars, but will bring in Y dollars after sequestration. How is that not by definition a pay cut? incase you have more trouble figuring this out, heres a clue! X>Y

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    • Fubared
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:25am

      Lil keatie piss off. What site is it cheerleaders for 0 are liked at? Fluff elsewhere, your emperor is naked and you like his banana hammock.

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    • Ben__Franklin
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 5:24pm

      Keaton you can hang around and be a spin monkey all you want but you are only looking the fool. A reduction in overtime is not a pay cut. Sorry to burst your line of logic but a pay cut is when a Janitor is making $15.00 per hour and his boss comes and says starting Monday you will only be making $14.50 per hour. That is a pay cut. Nothing I would expect you to understand – you want to protect this President so bad that your own dignity is lost – I screams you are on the dole.

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  • ohiograndma
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:29pm

    It sure is refreshing to see President Obama called out on something for a change. KeatonC333, you are making no sense to me.

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    • burke
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:46pm

      I like the fact that the capitol police will be cut, wonder why

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  • MiCurmudgeon
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:26pm

    I wish Obama would cut the LIES he tells for starters.

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  • Dismayed Veteran
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:16pm

    The memorandum from the Architect of the Capitol reads like most every memo I have read or written during hard times in the private sector. It appears at least one person in Washington has applied common business sense.

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  • edotddot
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:57pm

    I’m thinking we should put the AOC in charge. At least they had the forethought to start making cuts and actually have a plan. Maybe Stephen T. Ayers could help Homeland Security and ICE.

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  • freenj
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:57pm

    The lies just keep flowing.
    Chicken Little and Pinochio would have a real hard time keeping up with 0′s lying. He is unbelievable at lying. I’d give him 666 liar in chief awards.

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  • FLOWNOVERandFORGOTTEN
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:44pm

    The white house already admitted themselves that there will be no paycuts, Only a reduction in overtime hours which they can’t, and won’t, validate with any numbers. They put it out there, people like JROOK fully buy into it, and then they take it back and/or make corrections. By the time they make corrections It dosn’t matter because the wrong information is already in their talking points and it lives on to be spewed in losing arguements.

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    • Keatonc333
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:49pm

      would you not consider a cut in overtime pay you would normally get a pay cut?

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    • civilwarcometh
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:59pm

      Regulations,regulations,regulations. I will control everything you do/think and the way you live or die… http://weaselzippers.us/2013/03/01/obama-admin-releases-700-pages-of-new-health-care-regulations/

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    • FLOWNOVERandFORGOTTEN
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:01pm

      Not if overtime pay dosn’t normally occour. How much overtime should the cleaning staff have to put in to do their regular jobs. Is their a spike in demand our increased output that they have to adjust to? They don’t produce anything and we pay them a more than fair wage for their service. Government workers sandbag durring regular hours and then require overtime to complete their service and therefore artifically boost their salaries art our expense. Overtime should be like Hillary’s abortion stance” rare” and therefore not a published cost cut for the WH to spew

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:22pm

      How many workers would be covered in Bobo’s and the Herr-Frau’s multimillion dollar vacations? How many workers could have been paid if they had stayed in Washington rather than spending millions and millions for a vacation in Hawaii? How about her trips to Spain or her little spoilt brat being sent to Mexico with a contingent of government minders?

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    • Fubared
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:30am

      Lil moron keatie…over. OVER time moron is above and beyond standard, regular. Obfuscating fluffer.

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  • barber2
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:37pm

    “all of the people cleaning the floors at the Capitol – now that congress has left , someone’s going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing away the garbage .. they’re going to have less pay… the janitors, the security guards….” Have you EVER witnessed a president so dedicated to dividing the classes of this country ?? And of course for years we’ve been deluged with the ” rich who don’t pay their fair share” rhetoric. This man is a disgrace to his office and a danger to this country. I have NEVER heard any president be this blatantly divisive . SHAME on all of the Democrats of allowing this to go on . They are all just as guilty because they allow this rhetoric to go on unchallenged .

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:36pm

    BTW, why is is that when he talks about all of these “pay cuts” to the workers, why is it that the bureaucrats in charge aren’t hit with them? If the regime hates “the rich” so much, why not cut the 6-figure incomes of the cronies running the joint? You know, the ones submitting the bloated budgets with all of the wasteful spending. Why aren’t THEY being threatened with a slash to their salaries? Why does dear leader insist on sticking it to those middle class folks who can least afford it? Isn’t he supposed to be all for the little guy? Hmmm…..

    Ah well, nothing to see here, kids. Just let the bloviating **** head keep huffing and puffing. Maybe he’ll pass out from hypoxia or something.

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  • media-bias-steals-elections
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:35pm

    Yes it is politically incorrect to ask low information voters, is President Obama the victim of racism by Sen. Harry Reid not passing a budget? The general public will say this is nothing to do with racism, Harry Reid does not rely on the color of his skin to pass a budget, its the content of his character that guides him and refuses to pass a budget that allowed sequestration to happen?

    Don’t worry President Obama, we won’t let Harry Reid’s content of character, distract us from what you are doing? And we won’t let low information voters think this is about white men’s need in greed, this is about the character content of the Senate?

    What else do you call refusing to vote on the repeal of Obama care? Negligence, like storing radioactive containers on the surface of the planet, knowing full well what we know about outer space? Knowing full well we want to explore space? Knowing full well the USDA is headed by the same guy that approved GMO’s, instead of making sure consumers have a choice?

    Live long and prosper?

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  • Keatonc333
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:32pm

    wow! Obama says the janitors will see less pay… This article then says he is lying… while in the article it clearly says the janitors will see cuts in over time pay.. so the janitors will see less pay.. but he is still lying? journalism at its best Blaze! way to go! what a joke of a website.

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    • barber2
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:39pm

      33 1/3: Speaking of jokes, and why are YOU still here ?

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    • seeker9
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:44pm

      In all my years, I never ever considered less overtime a cut in pay.

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    • Keatonc333
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:51pm

      Its a cut in pay that you would normally get… a cut in pay is a pay cut.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:01pm

      Getting your 40 hours per week is not a cut in pay. I will be cut 8 hours a week, down to 32 hours a week. That is a cut in pay, about $7,800 a year. So Keatonc, if you want to talk about cuts in pay, there you go, but I aint a janitor or anything like that, I Manage a mulit-million dollar satellite system, so I guess I aint as important as a janitor. So, there you go.

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    • seeker9
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:12pm

      Well, I’ve never been a janitor, but have known some. Usually, overtime is unscheduled. You may get zero, or you may get many more than one wants. At any rate, my bet is the janitors are not government employees, but are contract workers, meaning if the govt busts their contract, the govt can be sued for breach of contract. If that’s the case, the govt is obligated to pay the contractor, and the janitors are not in the least bit affected.

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    • seeker9
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:26pm

      If Maxine Watters is right with 170 million jobs being lost, it makes no difference anyway. Almost everyone will be getting unemployment checks and food stamps. A guaranteed liberal utopian economy where everything is free and no one has to work.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:32pm

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    We dont need the WaPo every time those Purple Lip’s move we know he’s lying….

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  • MAX0O1
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:31pm

    ABOUT TIME SOMEONE CALLED THE CHICAGO THUG what he is. A LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • noslave
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:28pm

    EVERY ONE OF HIS WORDS are incorect from the get go,him telling the truth would hurt him as much if you threw HOLY WATER on the bastard

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  • Hobbs57
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:27pm

    You wouldn’t believe what those janitors make, plus, at least in our school district, they have a nice pension and benefits….

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:24pm

    Shorter dear leader minion/voter: “But… but…. RACIST!!! The sky really is falling – it’s the end of the world as we know it!! It was extortion, wing nuts!! It’s the GOPs fault!! Stop pointing out the inaccuracies and lies – IT’S NOT FAIR!! WHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!”

    Tee hee… They’re so predictable.

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  • AvengerK
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:23pm

    Keep moving those goal posts Barry. Forget about actually doing your job.

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  • Witness1974
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:23pm

    All the BS they generate should provide 174,000,000 jobs–if they can find that many snowshovels.

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  • JRook
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:22pm

    he said pay cut not furlough. i’m assuming WAPO and johnathon understand the difference.

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    • Keatonc333
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:36pm

      ha! believe it or not this isn’t the first time the blaze has run an article claiming Obama is lying while simultaneously proving he is telling the truth.

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    • Fubared
      Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:27am

      What most fail to understand is how you two continue to fluff for a pathological socialist. Keatie you got a lil brown piece of Rookie on your nose.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:18pm

    Lies, lies, and yet more lies coming from the Communist-in-chief of the White House. He knows his plan for the fundamental transformation of the United States now is in danger.

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    • Keatonc333
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:38pm

      This article clearly proves it wasn’t a lie.. read the article!

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    • Ben__Franklin
      Posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:21pm

      I see the usual crowd out to defend Berry at all costs – including their own dignity. Berry could take a dump on the floor of the oval office and these guys would crawl over each other for a chance to pick it up – polish it – and claim its a golden egg.

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