Posted on 05/06/2019 11:07:32 AM PDT by jerod
The president of the United States celebrated a milestone last week, though I'm not entirely sure milestone is the mot juste.
The Washington Post announced that the president had perpetrated the 10,000th lie of his administration at a rally in Wisconsin.
The lying began on the afternoon of his inauguration, when he declared that the ceremony attracted the largest crowd in American history.
The lies grew and grew and spread like hordes of zebra mussels covering everything in their path.
If he keeps up this pace, odds makers say, he will have told 22,500 lies by election day next year.
When the president is called on yet another lie, he lashes back at the press through his Twitter addiction.
He has complained about fake news and has called out reporters by name, saying they are dishonest, awful people.
Nevertheless, is he the menace, the threat to the very freedom of the press that we've come to know and disrespect?
Not by a country mile. His predecessor is.
In fact, Barack Obama may be one of the greatest enemies of a free press in American history. Much more than his successor.
Donald J. Trump may have made rumblings and grumblings, threatening all kinds of confrontation. But he has never done anything but talk.
The Obama administration, on the other hand, declared open war on the press in a take-no-prisoners kind of way.
Obama's justice department tapped reporters' phones, dragged reporters into court, and prosecuted three times as many cases targeting leakers than all previous administrations combined.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
Obama, like most socialist leaders preferred to dictate to the press, rather than than have them ask questions.
Like some abused wives, the media seemed to like it.
10,000 lies. I’ll bet if you made them list them out you would find 2/3rds are prepeats and most start or end with “best ever”. Those aren’t lies. That is an endearing part of his personality and everyone just smiles when he says it. There is a difference between “best........ever” and I did not have sex with Monica Lewinsky, or I had no confidential emails on my private server.
Dems have no discernment. They think a mouse and an elephant are the same since they are both grey.
bkmk
I went to the web site to look.
They count every time he says “there was no collusion” as another lie.
So that’s about 3000 right there. And you’re right- when he says “best ever’ or ‘he’s a good man’ (about a Republican) its ANOTHER “lie”.
So we need some republicans to start shooting back every time they say this. They need to look at the list and say what it is. This “Trump lies” needs to be shut down. If not, ever part who says “my kid is the best.......player” is a liar and ever said “Honey you are the best ever” is a liar
The Post’s research was conducted by Janet Cooke.
If Canada played a role in Spygate, I can see why it might want to suck up to Trump....
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.