Spicer is a perfect fit - a un-nuanced Press Secretary for a straight talking President....
When they are caught in a proven lie...give then a “time out.” Pull the press credentials for the media outlet. First offense 30 days, second, 90 days, third...banned forever. They act like children and will keep doing it as long as there is no downside. MAKE IT HURT when they lie.
That was a doozie! PRESIDENT Trump is getting off to a good start!
I recall noticing several times during the inauguration that the crowds were packed all the way back to the Washington Monument! However, the next day, the news media was posting photos trying to show that the crowd was extremely sparse, with the empty reflecting pools had only a few people in the first three pools, claimed to have been taken just 15 minutes before Trump taking the oath of office. it was an obvious lie. Even my girlfriend noted the obvious disparity from what her own eyes had seen the day before!
I told her it was a set up for exaggerating the next day’s numbers of demonstrators and sure enough, the claims were that there were so many women they couldn’t even march. . . but the photos they showed had many empty places in the streets and empty places on the grass and in the reflecting pools, and no one in the areas in front of the Capitol building at all! The numbers they were claiming was only 193,000 for the Inauguration but three to four times that for the Women’s March on Washington.
My estimate was that there was easily TRIPLE the number of the Women’s March that were there for the Inauguration! I was really frustrated that I could not post my observation of this on Saturday due to FR being down!
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