Sunday, January 22, 2017

That Lies Are Now the Currency of the Realm: Day Two of the Trump Era

This is just wrong:



What Kellyanne Conway said to defend Spicer is worse:


CONWAY: Don't be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. What... You're saying it's a falsehood. And they're giving Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that. But the point remains...
TODD: Wait a minute. Alternative facts?
CONWAY: ...That there’s...
TODD: Alternative facts? Four of the five facts he uttered, the one thing he got right...
CONWAY: Hey, Chuck, why... Hey Chuck...
TODD: ...Was Zeke Miller. Four of the five facts he uttered were just not true. Look, alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods.

There are no alternate facts: A Fact is a piece of information as part of an objective reality. If you wanna be Randian about it, that means A is A. You can't go claiming A is B all because B fits your Narrative better.

There's a better word for "alternative facts" or "falsehoods". What my Deep South Grandma Kinzer used to call Good Ole Fashioned "LYING".

Trump and his Republican handlers have no respect for the media they seek to bully into submission. It's not a surprise that they're lying: What's shocking is how brazen they are about it.

Every aspect of journalistic standards and ethics are now facing their greatest challenges. Reporters and editors now have the responsibility to fact-check every WORD uttered by these liars and point them out as falsehoods every step of the way.

6 comments:

dinthebeast said...

"Alternative Facts"- isn't that a BDSM website? Oh wait, that's alt.com, never mind.

-Doug in Oakland

Anonymous said...
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Paul said...

I just removed a comment from an Anonymous person, for two reasons:

1) the comment was offensive to women, and it was offensive to me.

2) anyone who posts offensive shit to my blog and does so Anonymous is a GODDAMN COWARD. If you're gonna insult people, have the balls to sign your work.

Ahab said...

Paul -- Was the deleted comment a cut-and-pasted paragraph about dating foreign women and rejecting American women? Someone idiot left three of those comments at my blog in the past few days, and I deleted all of them. Is your blog receiving the same comments?

Paul said...

Ahab, yup. it was advertising a "Boycott B-tches" site, and it was a hateful screed towards women. "Misogynist" wouldn't even begin to describe it.

If the SOB keeps trying to post, I'll see if I can find out who's doing it and see about filing charges in the real world. This guy has "angry woman-hater with a gun" vibe all over him.

dinthebeast said...

I've seen the same exact comment on a few different blogs I read, but thought it had ceased and desisted a couple of weeks ago. What a creep. I showed it to a woman I know who rides a Harley who just said "More than in your wildest dreams, little boy."

-Doug in Oakland