Coburn: 'fly the illegals home, 1st Class, for under $20 million.' Politico go into fact checking frenzy

On Tuesday, Tom Coburn (R-OK) went on CNN's Crossfire to discuss the Obama-orchestrated flood of illegals. The President wants $3.7 billion dollars to deal with the problem, but Coburn had a different solution. “For less than $20 million we can fly them all back - first class.”

The next day, Coburn made the claim again - but this time he said it would cost "under $20 million." Well, the eagle-eyed fact checkers at the Politico weren't about to let such an egregious flip-flop go. No-siree-bob! They pounced with a story called "Coburn's tickets home just went up." According to the worst website in the world, there's just no way Coburn could put every illegal in first class for the amount of money he was claiming. So he had to "revise his estimate." Busted!!

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In a move almost as cowardly as President Obama's refusal to cancel a game of pool in order to visit the border crisis he created, "Coburn’s office did not respond to several requests for comment." Of course, The Politico then acknowledged the following claim made by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI):

“I went online earlier,” Johnson said on CNN. “There are airfares as low as $207 to return these children in a humane fashion.” Johnson looked up five separate airfares as options for getting the unaccompanied children back to their countries of origin, he told POLITICO on Wednesday afternoon. He averaged the costs to a fare of $250 a child and found that the total cost of flying the children home — though not first class — came to $14 million.

Not. First. Class. What kind of monsters are we!? Don't these people understand that there are no complimentary mimosas in coach? Why, the food - if there is any - is rarely more than a bag of pretzels! There are no free shrimp salads anywhere! How cruel can you be? Are we really going to spend $14 million to put children in coach? That's like some kind of airborne Bataan death march! Seriously... Have we really gotten to the point where the media is so desperate to protect this President that they're debating the "coach vs. first class" question while ignoring the fact that $14 million is way, way, way, way, waaaaaaaay less than $3.7 billion? Apparently, the Politico has.