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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is just awful. Watch deputy WH press secretary move the goal posts:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-spokesperson-qualifies-trump-wiretap-assertion/story?id=45911282Squinch
(51,018 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)But this deputy spokesperson is saying that it came from the New York Times, BBC, Fox News...
Outright lies!
Orrex
(63,225 posts)Why would this vaunted administration be acting on fake news stories?
janx
(24,128 posts)no matter the venue. At one point I thought she was reading them from a teleprompter. She will not stop in her delivery, either, especially when someone has a follow-up question.
She is a robot.
chillfactor
(7,584 posts)videos do not work with my browser.
janx
(24,128 posts)Look, I think hes going off of information that hes seen that has led him to believe that this is a very real potential, Ms. Sanders said on ABCs This Week program. And if it is, this is the greatest overreach and the greatest abuse of power that I think we have ever seen and a huge attack on democracy itself. And the American people have a right to know if this took place."
So now, it's IF this took place. Now we switch to A VERY REAL POTENTIAL.
lame54
(35,326 posts)If true this would be horrible
We must tear it down to get to the truth
JustAnotherGen
(31,907 posts)That's Mike Huckabee's kid. She's still sore her dad lost.
janx
(24,128 posts)She basically said that sources do not matter, at the same time repeating over and over that the NYT, BBC, Fox News, etc. were sources that reported the information.
She kept couching the whole thing in an "if it's true" situation when Trump asserted it as fact. I honestly don't think she knows the importance of original sources or the difference between fact and opinion.
JustAnotherGen
(31,907 posts)From where I sit - this is amateur hour at its finest.
Chiyo-chichi
(3,586 posts)Obfuscating, misdirecting, refusing to answer any direct questions or address the point the interviewer is making, and twisting logic to defend Trump at all costs.
I can't stand to listen to her. Ever time she is on This Week or MSNBC I tune her out for several minutes and then inevitably think "Is she STILL on?"
I would not be surprised if Trump himself has told the networks "Sarah gets 10 minutes or else." Because she ALWAYS gets at least 10 minutes of airtime. Nobody else does. It sure isn't because she's interesting or intelligent.
janx
(24,128 posts)Never seen her! No wonder people refused to watch it.
Brother Buzz
(36,469 posts)And she was the best the White House could send out from their thinning bench.
I heard Trump was pissed because his people didn't defend him strongly enough on the Sunday shows, and I thought, "Cool!".
janx
(24,128 posts)It was Levin. He was reading articles about possible Russia ties on Fox News and extrapolating that there were FISA requests AND surveillance.