He wouldn't have to as much if the media wasn't as quick to report fake news as they are (MLK bust).
Natural Immunity Croc
Who knows if that story was based on the reporter's internal bias. Perhaps it was, but the fact is it was corrected as soon as the initial reporter realized his error. So the reporter corrected it and the news organization retracted the story.
Meanwhile, the press secretary goes to the podium and says several things which are demonstrably false. Are you interested in accountability there?
Last edited by Julio3000; 01-21-2017 at 08:35 PM.
Whining about the factual reporting of the inauguration turnout so publicly seems like a mistake to me. Now the stroy is how Trump can't handle the truth.
It would be so easy for Trump to turn this issue around and begin to change some minds. All he would have to do would be to acknowledge a less that
stellar turnout and say that he's knows some people are worried about the future but vow to makes true believers of everyone and in four
years .... blah, blah, blah.
Last edited by Runnin; 01-21-2017 at 08:48 PM.
To me the laughable press secretary speech was all an attempt to get the press talking about that instead of the massive protest marches.
Trump always does these "micro controversies" that are worth obsessing over for a day or two but never has enough steam to carry the story long term
Hawk (01-21-2017)
Hawk (01-21-2017)
I would agree with this. That tendency, combined with the 2+2=5 vibe I got from Spicer's comments about the size of the inauguration crowd does concern me. I don't care one iota about how many people went to see it, but let's leave the North Korea fearless leader tactics to other nations.
weso1 (01-22-2017)
I get that, but it's kind of rich to be coming at a factual error in a tweet from the perspective of a Donald Trump supporter. I mean, it's a hell of a time to decide that objective truth is a worthwhile pursuit (**coughBIRTHER**).
This is a guy whose own supporters say isn't supposed to be taken literally, and who has been held to a different standard of truthfulness throughout this process. So lecturing the press over a quickly-corrected factual error is pretty weak sauce.
Spicer made several untrue or misleading statements in his short remarks. Really, just obvious, laughable, verifiable horse****. Again, pretty rich when the context was scolding the media for inaccurate reporting.
Sturg is absolutely right, though. They chucked a stink bomb into the room because they want the "Trump Attacks Media" headline instead of "Millions Protest Trump."
Runnin (01-21-2017)
weso1 (01-22-2017)
Dude better HTFU because sending an underling to go yell at the press corps every time he thinks someone is unfair to him is probably not a sustainable policy.
It's telling that Trump is so insecure about the size of his ... whatever.
Hawk (01-22-2017)