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elleng

(130,923 posts)
Fri May 12, 2017, 03:14 PM May 2017

White House Press Briefings: Some Degree of Accuracy Required.

'So the threat we have been waiting for — girding for — has finally arrived from the presidential level.

“Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future ‘press briefings’ and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???” President Trump wrote on Twitter on Friday morning.

It may be an idea whose time has come — at least until there is a move toward some semblance of truth and accuracy at the White House press secretary’s lectern, not to mention at the White House itself.

The president’s threat almost certainly came in response to the assessments of his White House press team’s performance after his abrupt firing of the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/business/media/white-house-press-briefings-some-degree-of-accuracy-required.html?

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White House Press Briefings: Some Degree of Accuracy Required. (Original Post) elleng May 2017 OP
Yeah, go ahead and put all of the lies in writing... SeattleVet May 2017 #1

SeattleVet

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1. Yeah, go ahead and put all of the lies in writing...
Fri May 12, 2017, 04:05 PM
May 2017

that'll work like a charm! WTF are they thinking?

"Hey, gang! I have a great idea - let's create a permanent, hardcopy record of all of the crap we're putting out! They won't know how to deal with it."

The way these turds are handling everything reminds me of an old (1966) 'interview' recording made by two USAF Public Relations officers at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. I can almost hear Talky Spice giving the 'official' version of what tRump is blathering about...

(When listening, keep in mind that this was 50 years ago, and social/sexual attitudes were vastly different than today, so some of the language would NOT be in any way, shape, or form acceptable today. - Fair warning.)

"What the Captain means...":

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