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Charles Bolden Under the Bus?

Posted on | July 13, 2010 | 16 Comments

He “misspoke”:

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that NASA Administrator Charles Bolden must have misspoken when he told Al Jazeera last month that one of his top priorities is to reach out to Muslim countries.
“That was not his task and that’s not the task of NASA,” Gibbs said.

Bolden either (a) accepts this public repudiation or (b) resigns.

Hey, since Bolden is a close personal friend of Smitty, maybe he could have a post-NASA career in blogging as our “space correspondent”!

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16 Responses to “Charles Bolden Under the Bus?”

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    July 13th, 2010 @ 6:34 am

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  2. Estragon
    July 13th, 2010 @ 11:08 am

    Certainly, Robert Gibbs is always open and honest, so we can rely upon his word.

  3. Estragon
    July 13th, 2010 @ 7:08 am

    Certainly, Robert Gibbs is always open and honest, so we can rely upon his word.

  4. Sissy Willis
    July 13th, 2010 @ 11:41 am

    “Spacey cadet corrrespondent” would be more like it.

  5. Sissy Willis
    July 13th, 2010 @ 7:41 am

    “Spacey cadet corrrespondent” would be more like it.

  6. Bob Belvedere
    July 13th, 2010 @ 11:53 am

    Hey, since Bolden is a close personal friend of Smitty, maybe he could have a post-NASA career in blogging as our ”space correspondent”!

    Do I smell an outreach to Islam in TOM’s future?

    Say it ain’t so, Stace!

  7. Bob Belvedere
    July 13th, 2010 @ 7:53 am

    Hey, since Bolden is a close personal friend of Smitty, maybe he could have a post-NASA career in blogging as our ”space correspondent”!

    Do I smell an outreach to Islam in TOM’s future?

    Say it ain’t so, Stace!

  8. Fritz Katz
    July 13th, 2010 @ 12:52 pm

    The Muslim outreach program is just an aside. I have no doubt that President Obama actually told Bolden to do that, but the real purpose of NASA is to prove that GLOBAL WARMING EXISTS and to hide the evidence that it doesn’t. Of course, it’s not scientific to do an “investigation” when the outcome has been predetermined — but the Progressives don’t care about facts, logic, or science. This is the NASA budget section from “Obama’s 2010 Federal Budget Explained in Plain English“:

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration – $18.7 billion+$1 billion from the Recovery Act NASA is allocated nearly $20 billion (including funds from the Recovery Act) to do more than just explore space. NASA is partially responsible to help the US understand the effects of climate change on the planet.

    Understanding NASA budget allocation
    Climate change research and monitoring

    •Development of new space-based sensors to conduct global climate research – exact amount not provided.

  9. Fritz Katz
    July 13th, 2010 @ 8:52 am

    The Muslim outreach program is just an aside. I have no doubt that President Obama actually told Bolden to do that, but the real purpose of NASA is to prove that GLOBAL WARMING EXISTS and to hide the evidence that it doesn’t. Of course, it’s not scientific to do an “investigation” when the outcome has been predetermined — but the Progressives don’t care about facts, logic, or science. This is the NASA budget section from “Obama’s 2010 Federal Budget Explained in Plain English“:

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration – $18.7 billion+$1 billion from the Recovery Act NASA is allocated nearly $20 billion (including funds from the Recovery Act) to do more than just explore space. NASA is partially responsible to help the US understand the effects of climate change on the planet.

    Understanding NASA budget allocation
    Climate change research and monitoring

    •Development of new space-based sensors to conduct global climate research – exact amount not provided.

  10. Charles Johnson
    July 13th, 2010 @ 3:03 pm

    Global warming does exist wingnuts. I said so.

  11. Charles Johnson
    July 13th, 2010 @ 11:03 am

    Global warming does exist wingnuts. I said so.

  12. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    July 13th, 2010 @ 3:53 pm

    HEY! The “space cadet” snipe was MINE. I said he devolved from astronaut to space cadet – poetic to verbiazh that effect. Pirate.

  13. Ran / Si Vis Pacem
    July 13th, 2010 @ 11:53 am

    HEY! The “space cadet” snipe was MINE. I said he devolved from astronaut to space cadet – poetic to verbiazh that effect. Pirate.

  14. Adobe Walls
    July 13th, 2010 @ 11:44 pm

    If memory serves this next shuttle will be the last. This justifies using our space program for Muslim outreach due to the fact that the only space program we have left are our ICBMs.

  15. Adobe Walls
    July 13th, 2010 @ 7:44 pm

    If memory serves this next shuttle will be the last. This justifies using our space program for Muslim outreach due to the fact that the only space program we have left are our ICBMs.

  16. One more thought about Charles Bolden « DaTechguy's Blog
    July 13th, 2010 @ 10:48 pm

    […] if I’m Bolden I don’t resign (if you were going to resign you would have done it at the start) he isn’t the one who made […]