Eight years of Obama dropping bombs on multiple countries around the world and not a peep. Trump drops one and people lose their minds.
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) April 13, 2017
Earlier today, the U.S. military dropped the “mother of all bombs,” or MOAB, on ISIS positions in Afghanistan. But ThinkProgress justice editor Ian Millhiser’s tweet about it may have been an even bigger bomb:
@josh_hammer @imillhiser I have the original…. pic.twitter.com/1TK972sldj
— EducatédHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) April 13, 2017
That’s news to us, Ian!
@imillhiser Not correct sir.
— Jared (@Old_Gows) April 13, 2017
@imillhiser $16 million for one. $314 million is the total production cost.
— Steven (@llllSMSllll) April 13, 2017
@imillhiser @AndiMann Unit cost is $16M
— Matt Baker (@mattwbaker) April 13, 2017
@imillhiser This isn't anywhere close to correct. A single one costs $14-16 million. https://t.co/Zum1pxSSwk
— Michael Bayer (@mbayer1248) April 13, 2017
@imillhiser This is a lie. The total cost of all MOAB's is 314 million including the production. 1 bomb cost 16 million! Get your facts straight
— James Hardy (@JSteevenh) April 13, 2017
Math is hard @imillhiser pic.twitter.com/Ck9AAKzCZm
— Zac Tonnis (@ZacTonnis) April 13, 2017
@imillhiser As others have noted, your figure is wrong. You should probably delete the Tweet
— Nathan James (@natedogg213) April 13, 2017
Oh, he did. And then he tried to play it cool:
Actually it's $16 Million for one, the total production was $314 million. https://t.co/cgGPQ9nKVi
— Austin Unger (@austin_unger19) April 13, 2017
Useful context. Also, still a shit load of money to spend on a mass killing authorized by a game show host. https://t.co/4QRZiQ2Y7S
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) April 13, 2017
Unfortunately for him, it was too late. Twitter is forever, and all that jazz.
@imillhiser If dropping 575 elementary school teachers on those tunnels is more effective than the MOAB I'm all for it.
— maime (@maimecat) April 13, 2017
I suspect a MOAB is more effective. How many schoolteachers does it take to make a hole of equal size? https://t.co/R7TaL5HCzL
— Dead Agent (@asherahresearch) April 13, 2017
It's cute when the hard Left pretends to care about fiscal solvency.
It's also brazen in its hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty. https://t.co/1l4P2EWEBK
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) April 13, 2017
Looks like @imillhiser deleted the tweet. I have a screen shot.
Who'd have thought rank intellectual dishonesty was so embarrassing?!? pic.twitter.com/7HgAWvDpJQ
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) April 13, 2017
@imillhiser when you tweet false cost analysis and attempt to back track by deleting the tweet. #fakenews pic.twitter.com/jbjZSoTins
— ??Art Belmore? (@belmore_art) April 13, 2017
@imillhiser Why delete your tweet instead of acknowledging a correction. Own the fact that u were wrong on cost by about 2000%. Fake news doesn't help u
— Mike Kumar (@mikeinyvr) April 13, 2017
@imillhiser Does it get tiring? Being wrong all the time, I mean.
— (((Ken Brown))) (@K_P_Brown) April 13, 2017
@imillhiser more fake news from the left. Math is hard
— Keven like seven (@KC11A18A) April 13, 2017
So are memory and intellectual consistency, apparently:
@imillhiser https://t.co/u2cOBIRBn5
— Ja'Crispy Smith (@TikiMaximus) April 13, 2017
@imillhiser Obama dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016 alone. Please list the cost of each and how the money could have impacted American education. 1-2-3 GO!!!
— gab.ai/joefl65 (@JoeFL65) April 13, 2017
@imillhiser Less than we wasted on Solyndra.
— One T (@AntiGemination) April 13, 2017
@imillhiser $500M sent down the Solyndra toilet by Obama. Looking to find that same outrage from you? Can't find it?
— Jake Stull (@PolitcalGuru) April 13, 2017
@imillhiser First off, it's $15.7 per #MOAB. Or roughly 34 times less than taxpayers lost on Solyndra. We can play this numbers game all day.
— The Mental Recession (@rustyweiss74) April 13, 2017
We can indeed. We can also mention this:
Obama admin gave top American general in Afghanistan permission to use MOAB against Taliban & ISIS in January 2016 https://t.co/CSckpXNpt5 pic.twitter.com/YOaCnLa8v1
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 13, 2017
Oh.
Boom goes that narrative. https://t.co/np2PSgTVzM
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) April 13, 2017
