White House backs up presidents claim that media is deliberately ignoring terror attacks

[malaise]

by releasing list riddled with errors


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/07/white-house-list-donald-trumps-undereported-terror-list-paris-attacks-berlin-truck-killings
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First published on Tuesday 7 February 2017 05.52 GMT

The White House has distributed a list of 78 terrorist attacks to support Donald Trump’s claim that the media is failing to properly report them.

But the list includes many atrocities that received blanket western media coverage including the Paris Bataclan attacks, the Nice truck killings and the San Bernardino shootings.

Many others including the Sydney siege and Germany’s Christmas market attack received wide international coverage.

The list also includes multiple errors and spelling mistakes, including ‘San Bernadino’, and excludes numerous terror attacks across the Middle East.

The release comes after the US president told military leaders in Tampa, Florida, on Monday that there have been attacks all over Europe but “in many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it.” He added, “They have their reasons, and you understand that,” but did not expand.

Later the White House press secretary Sean Spicer was asked about specific attacks that had not been reported to which he replied: “We’ll provide a list later. There’s several instances … There’s a lot of instances that have occurred where I don’t think they’ve gotten the coverage it deserved.”

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But remember now Sandy Hook never happened.

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. It's shameful how they ignored the Bowling Green Massacre. nt

[malaise]

2. The media??

[Blue_Roses]

3. ...

[ck4829]

4. These guys are mental.

[Hortensis]

12. Really, sociopathy IS probably fairly normal there. After all,

these guys are conservative extremists who swarmed around a dangerously mentally dysfunctional and unprincipled president in hopes of schmoozing and manipulating away power.

It is funny watching them..."function," though. Oh, to be a political scientist right now. Or even a would-be philosopher ambitious for attention.

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[DFW]

5. Is it on the same piece of paper with the names of 512 communists in the State Department?

As for ignoring terrorist attacks (or, especially, warnings thereof), the Republicans still hold the World Cup Trophy in that category, dating back to 2001. Not even a serious challenge to the title.

[SticksnStones]

6. Quality WH staffers, you got there trumpy!

[malaise]

7. Yes indeed

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kellyanne-conway-tv-bookings_us_5898cdbfe4b0406131385594?

[HopeAgain]

8. How about the President's ignoring of the Quebec mosque attack?

He has his reasons and you understand that.

[democratisphere]

9. Don't you just love the daily alternative facts dump from drumpf and the WH.

[Percy Cholmondeley]

10. They'll never have to explain

Just saying these happened is enough. It's like porn for his base, keeps them up. They could clarify this with details and witness testimony, but we're going to just let it dribble in the torrent of lies from the GOP that never get debunked, and never ends. We don't need no more information, this tall tale has served its purpose. We are all Bowling Green now...

[oberliner]

11. They spell "attacker" wrong throughout the report as well.

Amazing.

[Fast Walker 52]

13. are these people too dumb to even use spell check?

It's fucking embarrassing. This is NOT making America great again. Fucking idiots.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. On Most of The Software. . .

. . .don't you have to turn off spellcheck? I know my versions of Chrome and work email all automatically spellcheck unless you go into the preferences and turn it off. Not talking auto-correct, but at least the alerts that a word is wrong is automatic, at least in my recent experience.

[Bucky]

23. Maybe they find Spellchecker offensive

they're using alternative English

[Fast Walker 52]

37. maybe they're writing in Trump's native tongue-- "jerkish"

[NBachers]

19. Give 'em a break- they're working in the dark all night- can't figure out how to turn the lights on.

[IronLionZion]

14. They exclude attacks on Muslims

and don't have time for spell check

[Vinca]

16. If there was a list of attacks by U.S. citizens within the United States, it would have to be sent

to a bookbindery. The real terror is the 300 millions guns in this country.

[logosoco]

17. Republicans don't have logic.

They want us to think there are so many terrorist attacks going on that there needs to be a ban on certain people coming into the country. But yet so many people are being killed each year with guns and nothing can be done about that.

I am not sure what tRump is really trying to accomplish by this stance. It is reminding me of how he got his followers riled up with those two ideas and made them in to chants and there is no substance.

[Nwgirl503]

18. As with everything he touches, he's ruined any credibility there used to be from a WH release

I used to instinctively feel secure about the veracity of info that was labeled as having come from the WH. Now with this chump in there, it's all as suspect as everything else that comes out of his camp.

[Fast Walker 52]

38. exactly-- I don't see how degrading output from the WH makes America great again in any way

Kills me to have these idiots, fucking assholes and psychopaths there.

[Native]

20. Is the Quebec City Mosque attack on the list?

[malaise]

28. Apparently there has never been a terrorist attack against Muslims

or one perpetrated against any Americans by white men

[BumRushDaShow]

21. Philly local media reported on this nonsensical story

since one of the incidents happened here.

White House issues list of 78 attacks, Philadelphia ambush included, after Trump's statements on media coverage

Monday, February 06, 2017 11:19PM

President Donald Trump on Monday accused the media of deliberately minimizing coverage of threat posed by ISIS, saying news outlets "have their reasons" for not reporting what he described as a "genocide" underway at the hands of group.

The president did not immediately offer evidence to support his claim, made during the new commander in chief's first visit to the headquarters for U.S. Central Command.

Later, the White House released a list of 78 attacks it described as "executed or inspired by" ISIS since September 2014. The White House said "most" on the list did not get sufficient media attention, although it did not explain how it defined the term. Some of the incidents on the list received widespread attention and deep reporting, including a shooting that wounded a Philadelphia police officer.

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The Associated Press could not verify that each of the incidents had connections to ISIS. The list appeared to be hastily assembled, including several misspellings of the word "attacker."

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http://6abc.com/news/white-house-issues-list-of-78-attacks-including-philadelphia-ambush/1741019/

[malaise]

29. I think folks need to ask Groper Don the Con

why he wants more coverage of terror attacks even when they didn't happen

[BumRushDaShow]

32. He wants to do a MIHOP

fictional incident and get credit for his draconian response!

[malaise]

35. Precisely

that is the only logical interpretation

[JDC]

22. This is a Faux News talking point

They consistently tell their viewers that they are the only ones covering any story. I have a friend that watches fox and he always claims that FN is the only one covering something - even though w/ a quick Google he would see that literally EVERYONE is covering that same story, often long before he sees it there. This is how Donny the Wig thinks and I'd bet he heard this either there or on some other propaganda engine.

[bdamomma]

24. the Media has to hit these

SOB's hard. Come on a lie is lie.

[maxrandb]

25. Did they mention the heavily armed terrorists

that seized federal land in Oregon?

How about the nutbags in fatigues in Arizona that threatened to assassinate Bureau of Land Management employees and FBI Officers?

What about the "white Christians" that walked into a diner and shot two police officers while they were eating lunch.

Oh, there was also that T-Bagger that shot Representative Gabbard and 7 others, including a 7 year old girl.

Wait, I'm forgetting something...oh yeah, how about the white guy that went into a classroom of 5 and 6 year olds and slaughtered 20 of them...some of the weapons used in that attack were so powerful, and the victims so small that THEIR TORSOS HAD BEEN BLOWN IN HALF!!!!!!!!

Let me say that again. The weapons were so powerful, and the victims so small, that many had THEIR TORSOS BLOWN IN HALF!!!

I'm convinced that the only reason we didn't get some common sense gun restrictions after that massacre is because the crime scene photos were never released to the public.

[malaise]

30. Brilliant but remember

white men are never terrorists

[wordpix]

33. you forgot abortion clinic terrorists/murderers

but thanks for the "other" list

[Achilleaze]

26. The Gang (IKGOP) that couldn't tell the truth

[Lint Head]

27. The list comes from the media that Trump said did not

cover it.

[malaise]

31. Hilarious indeed

[wordpix]

34. from the WH that holds meetings in the dark b/c they can't turn on the lights

[malaise]

36. Seriously the WH has been taken over

by stupid and evil cartoon characters

[Fast Walker 52]

39. of course, the media ALREADY totally overblows any terror attack or hint of one

Asking for the media to highlight terrorism more than it already does is a fascist ploy, almost an act of war.