Press Secretary Spicer

sunmaster14 said:
Can you provide any examples of said factually wrong stuff?
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And lets duck the point again to go off at a meaningless tangent...

This is about the nonsense at what passed for a press conference, how about we stick to that topic?
 
Bob001 said:
He made the point that the U.S. owns many millions of acres of land, especially in the West, that he thinks should be "returned" to private hands. He also asked when Trump was going to permit logging in national forests to resume.
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Ok, would they be willing to return them to the native peoples they were stolen from.
 
Nah, selling off the Public Lands is too obivious. Just open them up for leasing at ridiculously low rates.
 
The whole thing does smack of the kind of propaganda stunt you would expect from some third world dictator, carefully rehearsed questions mostly designed so the 'dear leader' can claim to be acting on the wishes of the people when he enacts whatever policy suits him and his cronies.
 
Bob001 said:
He made the point that the U.S. owns many millions of acres of land, especially in the West, that he thinks should be "returned" to private hands. He also asked when Trump was going to permit logging in national forests to resume.
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Logging in the national forests was never banned.
 
That bit with General Flynn was both creepy and scary. Are we going to war with Iran?

ETA: Link to press conference for those who haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pwn0m0fkzc (skip to about an hour and ten minutes to when it actually starts).
 
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Sean Spicer sucks at being press secretary/WH spokesman. I will admit to being disappointed with this Trump pick. Hopefully, he will get better. He certainly can't get any worse. Skype questions? Yikes.
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I kinda liked the online questions. Why not?

This is 2017. Why have a room full of people with steno pads and pens? Silly.
 
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ChrisBFRPKY said:
Sean Spicer sucks at being press secretary/WH spokesman. I will admit to being disappointed with this Trump pick. Hopefully, he will get better. He certainly can't get any worse. Skype questions? Yikes.
Chris B.
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He's great at his job. he's there to make sure the followers keep bleating to how great Cheetoh Mussolini is and push President Bannon's lines. You didn't think he was there as a public servant, did you?
 
Bob001 said:
The PresPressSec is holding a press conference right now, and he's doing something never done before: He has big screens set up in the press room, and in addition to people in the room he's calling on distant sites via Skype. So far, he seems to be calling on talking heads at Fox affiliates. Another step to hell.
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The liberal elite stole all the working class whites monies and sent them to Mexico and China so i guess this is the only way their journalists are able to communicate with them since they obviously could never afford to go to Washington DC.
 
Not that anyone couldn't have guessed who would ask these SKYPE questions.


Portland's conservative radio talk show host Lars Larson will be one of the first group of "Skype" correspondents to join the White House press briefing remotely on Wednesday.

The publisher of six weekly community newspapers in South Central Kentucky, Jobe learned Tuesday that he had been invited by White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer to ask a question at the next day's press briefing -- via Skype.
On Wednesday, Jobe will become one of the first four journalists to participate in the White House press briefing via Skype. The other participants, as announced by Spicer, are Natalie Herbick of Fox 8 in Cleveland, conservative talk radio host Lars Larson of "The Lars Larson Show," and Kimberly Kalunian of WPRI in Providence, Rhode Island.
The addition of outside questioners has unnerved some members of the existing White House press corps, who fear the Trump administration is using the initiative to dilute critical questions from veteran journalists with softballs from supportive outsiders.
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marplots said:
I kinda liked the online questions. Why not?

This is 2017. Why have a room full of people with steno pads and pens? Silly.
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The case to be made is that the White House press corps is a group of senior journalists, mostly (though not all) with major outlets, who cover the president's administration every day and are familiar with the issues -- maybe more familiar than the president would like them to be -- and who might ask a question about anything. Opening it up to distant Skype "correspondents" turns it into a town hall, which might be a good thing on its own but that's different from a press conference. And in this particular case, the pre-selected "correspondents' " questions took the form of little pro-Trump speeches along the lines of "When will our Great Leader deliver us from our suffering?" That's not what a press conference is for either. If they used Skype to ask foreign journalists what they think of, say, the travel ban in Britain or France or Iraq or Iran, that might be legitimate. Don't hold your breath.
 
I found it amusing when he announced the Skype questioners and got to the last one.
"We also have Ms. X from Y News in Rhode Island. I don't know how the hell she got in there, but whatever..."
 
Bob001 said:
The case to be made is that the White House press corps is a group of senior journalists, mostly (though not all) with major outlets, who cover the president's administration every day and are familiar with the issues -- maybe more familiar than the president would like them to be -- and who might ask a question about anything. Opening it up to distant Skype "correspondents" turns it into a town hall, which might be a good thing on its own but that's different from a press conference. And in this particular case, the pre-selected "correspondents' " questions took the form of little pro-Trump speeches along the lines of "When will our Great Leader deliver us from our suffering?" That's not what a press conference is for either. If they used Skype to ask foreign journalists what they think of, say, the travel ban in Britain or France or Iraq or Iran, that might be legitimate. Don't hold your breath.
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Reince Priebus promised "some changes" last December, signaling an intent to attack the White House Correspondents Associations' current control of the credentialing process and the seating chart. They backed off the idea of moving them out of the White House (so they could pack the new room with more friendly media and maybe a cheering section), but this Skype thing will let them get all the loaded questions they want from right-wing bloggers, radio windbags, and conservative editors from smaller papers.

Trump has openly declared that the mainstream news media will be treated as the opposition party, and since fascism requires one-party rule, the WHCA is certainly on the Enemies list; Trump Alternative Fact TV must prevail. In only 11 days, we have in actual fact become a fascist country.
 
WilliamSeger said:
Trump has openly declared that the mainstream news media will be treated as the opposition party, and since fascism requires one-party rule, the WHCA is certainly on the Enemies list; Trump Alternative Fact TV must prevail. In only 11 days, we have in actual fact become a fascist country.
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Is that an alternative fact or the regular kind?
 
marplots said:
Is that an alternative fact or the regular kind?
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I'd say it's hyperbole. The US isn't fascist yet, but it's well on its way. Fascism, in this case - as it does in Russia - takes the form of kleptocracy.
 
 
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