Trump senior advisor: facts don't matter

[someoneyouknow]

On today's installment of "Facts don't matter," Kellyanne Conway, senior advisor to Donald Trump, had this to say to Chuck Todd on this morning's "Meet the Press" episode. The Trump administration says they had the largest crowds ever despite facts to the contrary.

"You're saying it's a falsehood. And they're giving -- Sean Spicer, our press secretary -- gave alternative facts," (in regards to the Trump administration numbers)

With the inevitable response being:

"Alternative facts aren't facts, they are falsehoods."

Later on Conway had this to say what the role of the independent press in this country is supposed to be:

"Your job is not to call things ridiculous that are said by our press secretary and our president. That's not your job,"

So yep, we're getting to be more and more like Russia where reporting facts and giving criticism of the leadership is strictly forbidden.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/22/politics/kellyanne-conway-alternative-facts/index.html

 

[BotanyBoy]

So yep, we're getting to be more and more like Russia where reporting facts and giving criticism of the leadership is strictly forbidden.

You're just now realizing this?

Oh let me guess....you're dim enough to think this started with Trump??

LOL

 

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gsgs comment-

Facts matter, when your job depends on them, I suppose...

It seems to matter to the Secret Service-

"Secret Service slaps down White House claim that ‘magnetometers’ shrank inaugural crowd size"

21 JAN 2017

CNN’s Jim Acosta spoke with a representative of the U.S. Secret Service, who said “no magnetometers were used on the National Mall for Trump’s inauguration.”


http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/sec...at-magnetometers-shrank-inaugural-crowd-size/

Liar, liar...

As reporters, we suspect that the people we talk to might not give us the whole truth. Plausible deniability is big in this business, as is wiggle room. But it's rare that you catch a politician or spokesman deciding to say something so clear that turns out to be so easily disproved.

And now a similar situation has cropped up on Spicer's very first full day as the top spokesman for the president.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rid_collaborative_2_na&utm_term=.14d31b4a73c7

Marcel Altenburg and Keith Still, crowd scientists at Manchester Metropolitan University in Britain, analyzed photographs and video taken of the Mall and its vicinity for The New York Times and concluded that about 160,000 people were in those areas in the hour before Trump’s speech. By contrast, they said at least 470,000 people were in those areas for the Women’s March as of 2 p.m. on Saturday, which was the time of the march’s peak density.

Fact Checker

Spicer earns Four Pinocchios for a series of false claims on inauguration crowd size

This is an appalling performance by the new press secretary. He managed to make a series of false and misleading claims in service of a relatively minor issue. Presumably he was ordered to do this by President Trump, who conjured up fantastic numbers in his own mind, but part of a flack’s job is to tell the boss when lies are necessary — and when they are not.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...auguration-crowd-size/?utm_term=.22d15ba6c998

 

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