Me, too.
I heard pundits on Fox yesterday criticizing Spicer for doing that. However, I think that Spicer did exactly what needs to be done. Don't just call out the media on their lies, but do it immediately. Otherwise, the lie has time to sweep through the media and become a major talking point, and attempts to communicate the correct version go nowhere. The left is always ready to promulgate the big lies; we have to be just as ready to counter them.
There is also the dynamic that if you don't correct a problem early on, it just grows. President G. W. Bush made the mistake of allowing the media to run with lies and never called them out on it; as a result, his reputation was irredeemably destroyed.
I heard pundits on Fox yesterday criticizing Spicer for doing that. However, I think that Spicer did exactly what needs to be done. Don’t just call out the media on their lies, but do it immediately. Otherwise, the lie has time to sweep through the media and become a major talking point, and attempts to communicate the correct version go nowhere. The left is always ready to promulgate the big lies; we have to be just as ready to counter them.
There is also the dynamic that if you don’t correct a problem early on, it just grows. President G. W. Bush made the mistake of allowing the media to run with lies and never called them out on it; as a result, his reputation was irredeemably destroyed.
Well stated in all regards.
Dana PeRino will pontificate about the “ tone” of the Trump press corps, while she and the “ Architect” Karl Rove allowed Bush to be denigrated by not fighting back and what did we get 4 years of fake “ hope & change” followed by another non fighter “ Mittens” who gave us another 4.
We now have someone who cares about us, and will not tolerate untruths.
Go Donald.....
Spicer did the right thing with the right tone.