Republicans Announce Committee to Investigate Obama's Role in Carroll Play Call

[Jimmy Higgins]

WASHINGTON DC -- Speaker of the House John Boehner announced in front of a gaggle of press reporters that the House would be launching a committee to investigate any potential ties the Obama Administration may have had with the late and fateful decision by Seattle Seahawk Head Coach Pete Carroll's to run a short slant pass instead of handing off the ball to their seemingly unstoppable running back Lynch.

"This has nothing to do with politics," stated the Speaker of the House. "We want to get to the truth about what the Obama Administration knew and when they knew it."

The passing play which was chosen in lieu of a running play to Lynch ended up in the hands of the opposing team's player Malcolm Butler. The interception virtually killed any chance Seattle had of winning the Super Bowl. The play selection was immediately criticized by Cris Collinsworth, a sports commentator broadcasting the Super Bowl for NBC.

"I can't believe it," noted Collinsworth. While Collinsworth did not say anything that could potentially connect the play call to President Obama, Republican members in the House of Representatives were quick to question a potential link.

"It was the first thing that came to my mind," noted California Representative Darryl Issa. "The inefficiency, the lack of experience. The second they hiked the football I knew it was going to be an interception and it just made me question what possible role could Obama have had with it."

Former Congressman Colonel Allen West tweeted immediately after the play "What did Obama know about that?!"

The Obama Administration has not commented on this latest investigation. It comes on the heels of two other investigations that the House has just launched, one to investigate the Obama Admin's link to war crimes committed during the Second Boer War and the why spoons appear to bend when you place them in a glass of water, but come out normal when to pull them back out.

 

[SimpleDon]

I know this is a joke. I hope that it is a joke.

But the right is now claiming that not only are their crazies like Chis Christie and Rand Paul are anti-Vacs, as in vaccinations, but that Obama is a not so secret one, too. Their proof, not so surprising it is a carefully edited news clip.

Here is a Little Green Footballs discussion on it.

Chris Christie has come under fire for remarks suggesting that parents should have a choice in which vaccines their children do and don’t receive. Those remarks got fierce pushback from public health officials, but it turns out Christie isn’t the only one who has questioned the validity of vaccines. Both President Obama and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) did so during their presidential runs in 2008. Brendan Nyhan at Dartmouth noted their remarks at the time:

“We’ve seen just a skyrocketing autism rate. Some people are suspicious that it’s connected to the vaccines. This person included. The science right now is inconclusive, but we have to research it.”

—Barack Obama, Pennsylvania Rally, April 21, 2008.

“It’s indisputable that (autism) is on the rise among children, the question is what’s causing it. And we go back and forth and there’s strong evidence that indicates it’s got to do with a preservative in vaccines.”

—John McCain, Texas town hall meeting, February 29, 2008.

This is the exact right moment to note: the science that disproves a link between autism and vaccines (particularly the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine) is not inconclusive. It wasn’t back in 2008 when McCain and Obama made these remarks — and it has become even more solid in the eight years since then.

Here is the Politico article that misrepresents Obama's position in 2008 on vaccinations, In 2008, Barack Obama called science on vaccines ‘inconclusive.’

And again from LGFs.

Obama,

“We’ve seen just a skyrocketing autism rate. Nobody knows exactly why. There are some people who are suspicious that it’s connected to vaccines and triggers, but (pointing to his right) this person included. The science right now is inconclusive, but we have to research it. Part of the reason I think it’s very important to research it is those vaccines are also preventing huge numbers of deaths among children and preventing debilitating illnesses like Polio. And so we can’t afford to junk our vaccine system. We’ve got to figure out why is it that this is happening so that we are starting to see a more normal, what was a normal, rate of autism. Because if we keep on seeing increases at the rate we’re seeing we’re never going to have enough money to provide all the special needs, special education funding that’s going to be necessary.”

DATE: April 21, 2008
LOCATION: Blue Bell, PA

Please note that when Obama said, “the science right now is inconclusive,” he was referring to research into the causes of autism — not to a vaccine-autism link.

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This is a joke, right?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Obama just very recently said that the issue was settled.

 

[Derec]

Hillary Clinton is quoted as saying "At this point what difference does it make why he threw the ball".