Spicer the Liar
Sean Spicer just held his first White House press briefing and it was quite a show. It was a teeth gritting, spittle flying tirade against the media for…reporting actual facts. Spicer called a special Whitehouse briefing on Saturday evening to lie; not just regular lying, but big time, clearly debunked, bald face lying in a very loud voice and then stalking off the stage like a rejected talent show participant, taking no questions.
He’s pissed that a reporter mistakenly had reported that the bust of MLK had been removed from the Oval Office. Well, EEEEXXXXXCCCCCCUUUUUSSSSSSEEEEE MMMMEEEEEE. Said reporter made an honest mistake and immediately apologized for it.
Worse yet, Spicer then continued to rant, accusing the press of lying about the size of the crowd at the inauguration. That’s right, the WH press secretary used his first press briefing to castigate the press for lying about the size of the crowd at his boss’s inauguration – by lying about the size of the crowd at the inauguration. It was like watching a skit straight out of Saturday Night Live.
Here are the facts: Barack Obama’s inauguration was the largest event ever held on the Mall in DC. Ever. Trump’s inauguration was 1/3 the size of the Women’s March on Washington yesterday. Those are the facts, irrefutable and supported by crowd analysis by scientist, bus parking pass numbers, and DC Metro ridership numbers.
What is this about? It’s not about the size of the crowd at the inauguration. It’s about setting the ground rules for how the Cheeto administration is going to try to control the press. It’s reminiscent of the tactics of GWB’s administration attempt to control the press and meaner than Nixon’s dislike of the press. I think of this as an attempt to control the Cheeto message through any means, including bald-faced lies since 1/3 of the electorate will believe it, no matter the actual content of the lie.
The only way the press can defend itself from this assault on the Fourth Estate is a better offense – the must band together and demand accountability. They can’t lay back and allow a fellow journalist to get publicly eviscerated by this administration. They must public defend one another to ward off this assault on our society.
In the meantime, my advice to Sean Spicer? Buy a suit that fits, dumbass. (sorry Momma) You’re WH press secretary, not a fake professional wrestling announcer. Oh, wait.
If tyrants fear mockery, Mr. Spicer won’t like Wired’s report on the Twitter response: Trump’s Flack Said a Lot of Wrong Stuff. Nerds Ain’t Having It. https://www.wired.com/2017/01/sean-spicer-twitter-meme/
Sample: Everyone loved Jar Jar. He’s why the prequels are so popular. Period.
1https://twitter.com/bergopolis/status/822991173287448576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
I’m in favor of honest reporting. As in, having done their homework, the media should report exactly what Spicer/Cheetolini/ member of the administration says, then report how that differs from actual, verifiable fact—every single time. It will drive the liars nuts, and people will eventually figure out what they elected.
2“Buy a suit that fits, dumbass.”
when you’re nothing but a lump of misshapen flesh, that’s hard to do. we have reached peak Marx Bros. in our politics.
3Please cpinva, and everyone: please never equate anything we see in Trumpistan to anything at all the Marx Bros ever said or did. They were pure class comparatively. Thank you
4Sounds as though we need to change the name from the “White House” to the “White Bunker.”
Or possibly the “Führerbunker.”
5Welcome to Stage Three of snacilbupeR ‘splaining. In case anyone was wondering what silliness would follow white ‘splaining and man ‘spaining, that would be half splat ‘splaining.
Bless their pointy little heads, this morning CNN had on a bevy of men and ONE woman to ‘splain the Women’s March. The media loves to talk about “optics.” Have they actually ever thought about optics? And no, before you do it CNN, Kellyanne Conway does not count as a woman.
6Of course all politics is theater. And of course that is good. Except that a play this bad would close outa town and the folks in Peoria wouldn’t be subjected to 4 F’ING YEARS of bad, bad writing and worse acting.
“how do they expect me to train Presidents when they won’t even send me human beings to start with?” – United States of America, with apologies to S/Sgt Loyce.
7This whole thing about insisting about having more people at an event just sounds like a sore looser in a penis measuring contest complaining that he actually won, and dammit it can’t be any other way. He walks away screaming “I won, my penis is bigger!” while the whole world snickers at his insecurity about his potential impotence.
8Jorge Peralta’s contest description reminds me of a cartoon. Everyone laughs at a man’s “endowment”– girlfriend, locker room guys, even his doctor. With an “I’ll show them” expression, he buys a Hummer. As he drives it down the street, *everybody* laughs at him– men, women, kids, and dogs. Caption: “Now They All Know.”
And it should be just as obvious to everyone that Trump is a whiny little titty-ass baby who can’t stand the idea that somebody got a bigger crowd of admirers or marchers than he did.
I could not care less about the size of Trump’s penis, but his sense of self-importance is a ludicrously enormous bubble, and his actual worth as a human being is a dried pea on a six-lane highway.
9Spicer needs a butt surgeon to remove that flagpole from his ass!
10This is Trumpworld, where true is false and down is up.
11The press must hold their feet to the fire.
I’ll go with the Trump inauguration was 1/3 the size of the woman’s March—not only did I March, but all four daughters did, bringing all of my grandchildren out as well. Husbands were supportive, some marching, some were at work–I believe they all sported pink hats. My brothers family, including mother-in-law, sisters cousins were all out, plus friends who made it to DC –10 from CA. Then there are my girlfriends–all over the map! From NYC to Seattle, Los Angeles to Boston, Albany to Az., Idaho to St. Louis, Sacramento to Maryland, we covered the map! I have never seen such unified groups, each person with their own agenda–but support available because we could see the need–equal pay for equal work, equality in all things (including the draft–and the help for college after serving) safety in conducting our daily lives, somewhere between I in four/three women raped in her life–serving our country= being assaulted, far too often.
12The ERA ratified–a no brainier for thinking men. If women were in charge, I believe, at least by what my friends show me, there would be no hungry children, or cold, or left to suffer.
Instead of people who care, we have people who want to look good.–Ryan, washing already clean pots at a soup kitchen. Trumps incessant charities that don’t actually exist. The lying I’d awful, the executive orders already signed are horrific for Veterans, Medicaid recipients, our planet (oil in the water from the pipelines) and by the end of the week who know how much damage he will have done to our irreplaceable resources.
I was always worried. My guy had to change careers mid-life, and it’s not been easy –horrible, in fact. But we do what we do to have a life. Everyone does. Some are luckier than others, and those so blessed need to have a certain, “noblesse obliege” (I hope that’s spelled right!). Trump is not grateful nor humble about the great gifts he has been blessed by…I do not trust him at all. He’s a con man and greedy–so damaged he is dangerous. There must be some kitten videos I can watch to rid myself of the sick feeling I get every time I think about my once great country…
we are screwed!
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