White House Throws NASA Administrator Bolden Under the Bus for Muslim Outreach Admission

Last week, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden told Al Jazeera President Obama gave him three objectives.

When I became the NASA Administrator — before I became the NASA Administrator — [Obama] charged me with three things: One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.

Here is the video.


After being accused of changing NASA's mission from going where no man has gone before to going where no infidel has gone before. WH Spokesman Nick Shapiro seemed to be defending the Muslim outreach objective.

In response to criticism, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said in a statement that “The President has always said that he wants NASA to engage with the world’s best scientists and engineers as we work together to push the boundaries of exploration. Meeting that mandate requires NASA to partner with countries around the world like Russia and Japan, as well as collaboration with Israel and with many Muslim-majority countries. The space race began as a global competition, but, today, it is a global collaboration.”

The criticism continued, so today, Robert Gibbs threw NASA Administrator Charles Bolden under the bus by practically calling him a liar.

The White House is contradicting the NASA administrator’s claim...

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that such activities are not among Bolden’s assigned tasks. He said administration officials have spoken with NASA about the matter.