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Originally Posted by finnbow
It hit me this week, around the time when Sarah Huckabee Sanders was blithely seconding Chief of Staff John Kelly’s Civil War revisionism, that I missed Sean Spicer.
I missed the panic in his eyes, which signaled a scintilla of awareness that he was peddling hooey. I missed the squeak in his voice, which suggested perhaps the tiniest smidgen of shame.
He never seemed to me entirely at home in his domicile of deception; she dwells without evident compunction in a gaudier fairyland of grander fictions. There’s no panic. No squeak. Just that repulsed expression, as if a foul odor had wafted in and she knew — just knew — that the culprit was CNN...
For some 20 minutes every afternoon, down is up, paralysis is progress, enmity is harmony, stupid is smart, villain is victim, disgrace is honor, plutocracy is populism and Hillary Clinton colluded with Russia if anyone would summon the nerve to investigate her (because, you know, that never, ever happens). I watch and listen with sheer awe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/o...ers-kelly.html
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And yet, the press has always admired lying when it served the purpose of the leftist agenda. This piece from CNN - from 2013, and written in the wake of Obama's "if you like your plan you can keep it" whopper - explains why we need Presidents who lie:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/24/politi...lie/index.html
Candidate Clinton touted a significantly increased minimum wage. Yet, leaked emails showed her advisers worried about the impact on jobs. Dems love to tell us that increasing the minimum wage doesn't hurt the job market.
http://reason.com/blog/2016/10/11/le...al-that-even-d
Having Bill Clinton on the campaign trail didn't bother the Dems in 2016, serial liar that he is.
So, all of this media, and your, puffery about Trump's "lies" ring pretty hollow to me. Because, as CNN pointed out, we need Presidents who lie...
...at least when the Dems have the Oval Office.
