Pence: Misstatements about U.S. aircraft carrier location not intentional

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico



By LOUIS NELSON 04/19/17 07:39 AM EDT

Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that misstatements about the location of a U.S. aircraft carrier supposedly on its way to the waters off the Korean peninsula were not made intentionally.

Earlier this month, White House and Pentagon officials announced that the USS Carl Vinson and its accompanying battle group had been deployed off the coast of the Korean peninsula, a response to a missile test launched by North Korea. But on Monday, Defense News reported that the Carl Vinson was nowhere near the Korean peninsula and had instead been photographed near Indonesia.

Reporting that the Carl Vinson had not immediately turned north towards the Korean peninsula was corroborated by the New York Times, Reuters and others, leaving government officials in the awkward position of having to explain why the aircraft carrier had not been deployed as initially described.

Asked during an interview with CNN if the misstatements from White House and Pentagon officials had been intentional, Pence replied “oh, I think not” and noted the already strong U.S. military presence in the Asia-Pacific region, including in Japan and South Korea. He did not offer an explanation as to why government officials had said the Carl Vinson was steaming for the Sea of Japan when it was not.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/mike-pence-aircraft-carrier-north-korea-237356

[underpants]

1. It's the Philadelphia Experiment !!!

[KittyWampus]

11. Maybe both versions are true. The battleship was in both position simultaneously due to our

super secret time/space warping device that allows a battleship to occupy two positions at once?

[underpants]

12. Look, if they have transporter technology I WANT IT!

I'm tired of driving in a car.

[olegramps]

17. Lying bastard. I can only hope that he is impeached along with the turd who is president.

[Zoonart]

2. BULLSHITBULLSHITBULLSHIT!

These lying bastards have to be stopped.

[RKP5637]

26. They spin so many F'en lies endlessly they can't even tell truth from fiction and the guy in the WH?

Well, he lives in a delusional world. Can you imagine what these idiots would do in a serious crisis ...

[global1]

3. This Really Instills A Lot Of Confidence In Our pResident And Military.....

no explanation - come on......

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Military is fine, but tRump blamed Pentagon for 'conflicting information'. Wanna bet WH is to blame?

[RKP5637]

27. Kim Jong-un must be laughing his ass off. And other world leaders must be snickering and

concerned that these fools have no idea what they're doing.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Clueless amateur RepubliCON-tRump regime not fully in control of themselves even. . . nt

[Zorro]

5. "It's just that we don't know what we're talking about."

"We're just dumbasses, I guess."

[Madam45for2923]

15. Yes! This! The Incompetents.

[left-of-center2012]

6. Pence replied oh, I think not

True!
Like Trump, Pence doesn't have a thought in his whole body.

[SCVDem]

8. You assholes bring us to the brink

of nuclear war and know very well that the largest defense budget on the planet cannot ensure tens of millions won't die or suffer?!

Now you go OOPS! This administration is made of American Terrorists and WE are the target!

Fuck all ya'all! YOU'RE FIRED!

[Phoenix61]

9. So you didn't lie, great

You are just so stupid you don't know where an aircraft carrier and it's battle group is located, not great, not even good. That you offer that as an explanation and think it will make us feel better is yet another example of how incredibly clueless you are.

[turbinetree]

10. Hey ass**** by the name of Mike Pence the illegitimate vice -president

FU-----------------again, FU Pence


You and your sexual predator "buddy" and your supposedly "christian values BS have exactly how many people working for you being paid by the taxpayers, not knowing which way is up or which way is down when it comes to "knowing" which and where a f****ing battle group is suppose to be.

You really are a dip sh*t .


Rachel Maddow got another dot connected stupid or nefarious

[jeanmarc]

13. It was always a lie

Trump is just so unpredictable! He's the wild card!

Man, I am so sick of this incompetence and lying.

[lark]

14. Lying Pence covering for stupidly bluffing drumpf.

Drumpf lied on purpose to create havoc and (he thinks) fear in North Korea. His over inflated ego thinks of this as "his" military and so he uses them to try and bluff a wiley NK. NK is not as stupid as he thinks they are, because he underestimates everyone except himself and he total over estimates that, in a bad crazy way. No one, not even leaders of other countries, can trust a damn thing Drumpf says. His red lines are all in his head. Syria was a total fake conspiracy story, probably made up by Putin to stop the line that Drumpf is in hock to them so Hair Furor has an excuse to remove sanctions when Russia and he "make up". Nothing at all is as it seems. In fact, I get majorly surprised when I hear any shred of reality coming out of his mouth. Yesterday he accidentally (?) let the cat out of the bag about healthcare, that they need the $ saved from helping the poor so he can give the tax cuts for the ultra rich (for himself and his family) that he's dreaming about. That and Russia enriching him are the reasons he ran. Forget about that Obama crap, that's just another story he's pushing for his brainless hating Nazi base. Yeah, he hates the brown guy, because he knows deep down that he's 10x smarter than him and because he dare make the rich have to pay for anything. Government owes the rich everything because they have bought it outright, not because they do anything good with the $, as R's like to claim. They aren't job makers, they are job destroyers.

[Achilleaze]

16. republicans: the gang that couldn't pee straight

deplorable

This is the kind of unforgivable clusterfuckery you get when republicans pimp America with a vulgar five-time draft-dodging casino sharpie with skanky darkside debts to the evil empire* of russia.

* per ronald reagan

[GeorgeGist]

18. Pence is an idiot too!

[Flaleftist]

19. Yeah, you're fucking morons. We know. nt

[vkkv]

20. S.N.A.F.U.

[HopeAgain]

21. How is unintentional better than intentional in this case? nt

[Bayard]

22. "not made intentionally"

Then that just means you and your boss are stupid and incompetent as hell. WAY scarier. Pencess prancing around in his military jacket like rTrump. Did he even serve in the military?

I only watch MSNBC, but it looks like most newscasters do not even bother to hide their contempt for this bag of turnips stuffed into a clown car anymore.

[krispos42]

23. So... this "Administration" didn't know where a United State Navy task force was...

...nor where it was going?

As in, "couldn't be bothered to call the Pentagon"?

Wow.

[Politicub]

24. What a weird thing to have happened

From an administration that displays weirdness every day.

I mean, how could anyone make a mistake like this? It's a freaking aircraft carrier.

[Yonnie3]

25. Translation?

Asked during an interview with CNN if the misstatements from White House and Pentagon officials had been intentional, Pence replied “oh, I think not”

Perhaps this means

"We didn't lie, we're just stupid"
"We just say whatever we want to look good"
"My dog ate my home work, so I didn't know."
"We never know that the f*ck we are talking about"

I'm waiting for "I am not crook". History does repeat.

[MFM008]

28. I believe him

They don't know what the FU×K they are doing so yeah I get it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

29. Mike Pence has the mind of a 12 yr old.

On every issue he would be worse than a disaster.

I believe he is also a dominionist?

MIKE PENCE WILL BE THE MOST POWERFUL CHRISTIAN SUPREMACIST IN U.S. HISTORY

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/15/mike-pence-will-be-the-most-powerful-christian-supremacist-in-us-history/

[ProfessorGAC]

30. This Comment Is Some Special Kind of Stupid

Of course the misstatements were unintentional. And, it doesn't explain how the WH and the military were on such radically different pages when a provocation of a nutjob regime like NK was on the line.

If they did it on purpose, then they're stupid thinking that satellites wouldn't pick up a little thing like an aircraft carrier.

And if they said stuff before they know everyone was on board with the plan, then they're stupid.

So, no matter how it happened, it was stupidity manifest large.

[Docreed2003]

31. Idiots....all of them.

Spicer says the "armada" heading to NK is a fact, Pence says it's an innocent misunderstanding....every last one of these guys is a moron and they're debasing themselves in support of a boss who is unhinged.

[nocalflea]

32. Spin choices :

incompetence vs. strategic deception vs . blame it on the admirals
Pence chooses incompetence .

[joeybee12]

33. Not lies? The only other explanation is rampant incompetence nt

[Bradical79]

34. Maybe it wasn't an intentional deception

I for one find gross incompetence and idiocy just as likely. Either explanation makes sense to me. Sometimes the Trump administration is just plain stupid.

[6000eliot]

35. "Armada schmarmada. Did you see the way I squinted at them?"