【The Newsroom】S01E04 (04)总统出行每天花销两亿?
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Mark Twain
Mumbai
Prime Minister
New Delhi
Maharashtra
Rush Limbaugh
注意写法:$200 million
Mark Twain said a lie'll get halfway around the world before the truth has time to pull its boots on.
That was literally the case in this story we didn't pay enough attention to in 2010. President Obama was scheduled to travel to Mumbai to meet with the Indian Prime Minister about loosening US trade restrictions, a successful trip that would net our country $10 billion in export deals and 50,000 jobs. And these overseas trips routinely cost in the area of $5 million a day. But on November 2nd of last year, the website for New Delhi TV quoted an anonymous official of the Maharashtra Government saying that President Obama's trip would be costing $200 million a day.
The Drudge Report posts a link to the story, either believing it to be possible or not caring that it isn't. Rush Limbaugh knows this figure can't possibly be right. But Mr. Limbaugh runs with it anyway.
507 rooms at the Taj Mahal, 40 airplanes, $200 million a day.
马克•吐温说过:真相不出门,谎言传千里。下面这条事件正是绝佳写照。事件发生于2010年,奥巴马总统将赴孟买会见印度总理,商讨放宽与美交易限制。如果此次会议成功,我国将收获百亿出口额和五万个工作职位。此类海外会议每日开销通常为五百万元,但去年11月2日,新德里电视台官网引用一名马哈拉施特拉邦政府官员的话,称奥巴马总统此行每日开销为两亿元,"德拉吉报告"转载了这则报道,一家政治新闻网网站是信以为真,还是不在乎真假呢。拉什•林堡明知数字错得离谱,却依然广播出去。
泰姬陵酒店的507间客房,40架飞机,每天烧钱两亿。