Top Drumpf aide Kellyanne Conway also criticised the media during a heated exchange on NBC. She was challenged by presenter Chuck Todd who asked her why Mr Spicer's first appearance had been to "utter a provable falsehood".
"If we are going to keep referring to our press secretary in those type of terms, I think we are going to have to rethink our relationship here," she said. Pressed on Mr Spicer's claims, she said he had been presenting "alternative facts".
"Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods," Todd replied. Ms Conway insisted there was "no way to really quantify crowds" and, taking offence at a laugh from the reporter, said: "You can laugh at me all you want. It's symbolic of the way we are treated by the press the way you just laughed at me."
No way to quantify crowds ? I guess people aren't the discrete units I thought they were. Alternative facts ? Good grief. The press are laughing at you ? Well, yeah. Because you're idiotic.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38712182
Exactly. People believe what they want to believe. Trump wants his inauguration to have drawn a larger crowd than Obama's inauguration had drawn. In the mind of some all you have to do is will a fact into existence
ReplyDeleteApparently Kellyanne Conway has never heard of "numbers."
ReplyDeleteNumbers are a liberal-socialist conspiracy theory and will soon be illegal.
ReplyDeleteA far more understandable reason to cry foul is that some pictures make it appear as though the numbers were far higher, however, there's video confirmation that the picture posted by the NYT of the mostly-empty National Mall is accurate.
http://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2017/01/22/inauguration-photo-comparison-nyt-vs-cnn-gigapixel-vs-pbs-timelapse/
Her behavior reflects a requisite intellectual characteristic of Trump supporters, the apparent inability to distinguish fact from fiction.
ReplyDeleteMake America great again illuminates the point of a JFK quote...
"In every time there have been those who fear the future, mistrust the present and invoke the memory of a safe comfortable past, that in fact never existed."
That this was coming seemed rather obvious. That it came day zero was pretty stunning.
ReplyDeleteMullah Nasreddin's neighbor Hassan is a mooch: the sort of man who borrows things and money and does not return them. Hassan comes to Mullah Nasreddin's compound, surrounded by a high wall.
ReplyDelete"Salaam aleikhum, honorable Mullah."
Mullah Nasreddin comes to his gate and steps out into the street, closing the gate behind him. Mullah Nasreddin knows perfectly well what Hassan wants, to borrow something or other, and is not especially inclined to loan him anything.
"Mullah Nasreddin, all know you to be a merciful man, whose ear is ever inclined to the unfortunate and lowly. Would you find it in your heart to loan me your donkey?"
Mullah Nasreddin considers the problem and decides to tell Hassan a lie.
"Alas, Hassan, I have already loaned my donkey to another man."
At this point, the donkey within the walls brays loudly and repeatedly.
"Mullah Nasreddin! I am shocked! You have lied to me! The donkey is within your courtyard, the whole town can hear him bray!"
"Who are you going to believe, Hassan? Me, the honorable mullah? Or that lying donkey?"