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Dear Team Trump,' Alternative Facts' are Lies
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Dear Team Trump,' Alternative Facts' are Lies
By Dean Obeidallah
Updated 10:52 AM ET, Mon January 23, 2017
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/22/opinions/
alternative-facts-lies-obeidallah-opinion/
A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/mongask
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(CNN)Donald Trump's White House counselor Kellyanne Conway coined a new
term Sunday morning when she stated that White House Press secretary Sean
Spicer was not lying about the size of the crowd at Trump's inauguration.
Instead, Conway claimed, Spicer simply told us "alternative facts."
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It's truly hilarious that the Trump team, so vocally opposed to political
correctness, is now being PC in describing a lie. Sorry, Kellyanne, I'm
not buying it. "Alternative facts," as NBC's Chuck Todd so accurately put
it in response to you on the air, "are not facts, they're falsehoods!"
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This issue started back on Saturday, when the notoriously thin-skinned
Trump visited the CIA and, while standing in front of the wall that pays
tribute to CIA agents who sacrificed their lives for our nation, bragged
about the size of the crowd that had attended his inauguration. Trump,
after first trashing the media, told the audience of CIA employees that,
"it looked like a million, million and a half people" were standing in the
crowd cheering for him.
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The only problem with Trump's statement at the CIA is these pesky things
called facts. No one can say with any certainty what the crowd size was,
plus objective metrics -- such as use of Washington's mass transit --
indicated that Trump's crowd was much smaller.
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Likely adding to Trump's distress was the visual contrast of photos
circulating that showed Trump's inaugural crowd versus President Obama's
first inaugural, which clearly show that Obama's crowds were far larger --
even though it was a frigid 20 degrees that day in 2009 and the
temperature for Trump's inaugural Friday was in the mid-40s. Trump is so
obsessed with being the "best" that this morning he tweeted that his TV
ratings for the inaugural were higher than Obama's in 2013.
Of course, he failed to mention the fact that Obama's inauguration in 2009
had far higher ratings.
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So later Saturday Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer held his very first
press briefing since Trump was sworn in. And there Spicer lied to the
American people. Spicer astoundingly stated, "This was the largest
audience to ever witness an inauguration, period." Well, as the
nonpartisan website Politifact concluded, Spicer's statement was a "pants
on fire" lie.
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Moments after Spicer's statement, he was being skewered on social media.
Some even dubbed him "Baghdad Bob," a reference to Saddam Hussein's press
spokesman who would lie so openly it was actually laughable.
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Which brings us to Conway's appearance Sunday morning on "Meet The Press"
-- which was like a "Saturday Night Live" sketch come to life. There she
was, saying Spicer wasn't lying but rather was simply offering us
"alternative facts."
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But even before Trump's CIA speech, Spicer's first press conference, or
Kellyanne Conway's attempts to run interference, Trump's team has had
problems with telling the truth. As Politifact noted, Trump made almost
200 statements during the campaign that were deemed "Pants on fire" lies
or simply false.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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David Dillard
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