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You know Fala is Scotch, and being a Scotty, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers, in Congress and out, had concocted a story that I'd left him behind on an Aleutian island and had sent a destroyer back to find him, at a cost to the taxpayers of two or three or eight or twenty million dollars, his Scotch soul was
furious ...He has not been the same dog since.
In July 2010, a similar rumor attached to another Democratic president, Barack Obama, when an unfounded claim was circulated stating that the Obamas' family pup, a Portuguese water dog named Bo, had been flown out to Maine on his own plane (i.e., on a flight arranged for no purpose other than transporting a dog) so he could be on hand to greet the First Family when they arrived in that state for a weekend vacation:
BO'S VACATION IN MASSACHUSETTS
I guess since they had to swallow their pride and use the Gulfstream there just wasn't enough room for the dog and one other person on Air Force One.
Did you know that President Barack Hussein Obama flew Bo, their dog, in on a separate smaller jet to Massachusetts for their vacation? I wonder if that sets well with all the unemployed, hurting,
U Scitizens who can't afford food, but we can pay for this. The above is true.
This rumor was based on a single sentence in a Waterville, Maine, newspaper article about the Obamas' visit, which was misinterpreted to mean that Bo had flown on a plane accompanied only by a single handler:
Arriving in a small jet before the Obamas was the first dog, Bo, a Portuguese water dog given as a present by the late
U.S. Sen TedKennedy, D-Mass.;and the president's personal aide Reggie Love, who chatted with [Gov. John]Baldacci.
Bo flew to Maine in a different plane than the rest of the First Family not because he was part of a special canine-only flight, but because the local airport (Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport in Trenton, Maine) was too small to accommodate the
The Waterville Morning Sentinel later added an amplification to their original article about the Obamas' visit, noting that:
Today's story about the arrival of the Obamas said the Obama's dog and one aide arrived on a small jet before the First Family, but there were other occupants on the plane, including several other staffers. The presidential party took two small jets to the Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport in Trenton because the airport was too small to accommodate the president's usual jet.
Similar claims were trotted out again during the First Family's vacation at Martha's Vineyard in August 2013, when articles (such as
a Telegraph piece entitled "First Dog Bo Is Airlifted to Obama Holiday Home") were misleadingly proffered as proof that Bo was flown from Washington to the Obamas' Massachusetts vacation spot on his very own Marine helicopter.
The truth is that President Obama's
President Obama arrived on the Vineyard late Saturday afternoon to begin an eight-day summer vacation with his family.
Air Force One touched down at Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod in Bourne at 3.24 p.m. Saturday. Marine One touched down at the Martha's Vineyard Airport just before
4 p.m.carrying President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. Two Osprey MV-22helicopters landed ahead of time with staff and press. The president and First Lady left Marine One and boarded a black car.
Two white mesh bags full of basketballs were unloaded from one of the Osprey, and first dog Bo also traveled on [one of the] Osprey. He waited patiently on the tarmac with a handler.
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