Posted on 01/22/2017 8:01:33 AM PST by Enlightened1
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held an emergency press briefing on Saturday where he lit into the media for their “egregious” and “deliberately false reporting” of Friday’s inauguration of President Donald Trump and his first day in office.
“Some members of the media were engaged in deliberately false reporting,” Spicer said. He explained that one reporter “falsely tweeted out that the bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. had been removed form the Oval Office… This was just plain wrong.”
The false report, which Spicer described as “irresponsible and reckless,” came from TIME magazine pool reporter Zeke Miller:
Spicer further noted that the media had attempted to paint Trump’s inauguration as appearing much smaller than President Barack Obama’s.
“Photographs of the Inauguration proceeding were intentionally framed in a way to minimize the enormous support it had gathered on the National Mall,” Spicer said. He added, it was the first time in the nation’s history that white floor coverings had been used to protect the grass and that they amplified empty spaces, whereas the grass had minimized the appearance of spaces in the past.
“Inaccurate numbers regarding crowd size were also tweeted,” Spicer said. “No one had numbers, because the National Park Service, which controls the National Mall does not put any out.” He said this also applies to any attempts to count the numbers of protesters during the “Women’s March” on Saturday.
“There’s been a lot of talk in the media about holding President Trump accountable. Well, I’m here to tell you that it goes two ways. We’re going to hold the press accountable as well. The American people deserve better,” Spicer said. “And as long as he serves as the messenger of this incredible movement, he will take this message directly to the American people where ...
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Go President Trump!
Chuck Todd is doubling down on the lies as I write this.
Glad to see that we will not continue to play dead for the lap dog media.
All we want is fairness, the first of the Dinosau media to figure that out will WIN!
The Press Secretary Lit into the media. Please watch the link in post #3.
Boom!
That’s it!
The Demons know it too and that’s why they lie, lie and lie.
The ONLY way a free press has any value to the country is if it is held accountable. Trump is doing just that.
Chuck Todd and the NBC crowd accused Spicer of lying about Metro train data. That was 5 min ago. Has anyone debunked these people yet?
There will be plenty of opportunities to rake the media over the coals, but they need to pick their battles. The two items that Spicer talked about were rather petty and came off badly.
I like this guy.
The media that “held Zero’s feet to the fire” are fixing to get an extended Hot Foot from Team Trump!
Chuck Todd and the NBC crowd accused Spicer of lying about Metro train data. That was 5 min ago. Has anyone debunked these people yet?
Spicer needs to do something about his suit. It was riding up weirdly around his collar and it was distracting me. I liked his tone. He put the press on notice that if they fib, Trump will call them on it. He will not be GW Bush and just let it go because it is not “presidential.” And if that pool press reporter was not so eager to report bad press on Trump he would have simply asked someone, “Where did ya’ll put the MLK bust?” But then that wouldn’t fit his preconceived narrative.
Today, the talking points are: Trump has to let this little stuff go. They need to worry about presidential things now.
Trump and Spicer let the media know, in no uncertain terms, that the lying stops NOW! We will call you on it every single time.
Boy the MSM has their work cut out for them as Trump will make the Hussein administration look like the incompetent fools that they were as he implements the new agenda. They were even advertising a special "The Last Days of the Obama Hussein Administration". They are in spin overload. LOL.
I only refer to "The One" as Hussein as it was the name we were not supposed to use.....
That was a great performance by Spicer!
Fox News was also complaining that Spicer spent his first press conf going off on the media instead of standing there like a good cuck answering their bulls—t questions.
We can expect this false reporting to continue during the coming 8 years.
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