Texas Ag Commissioner On Pushing Fake News: 'I Report, You Decide (AUDIO)

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Source: TPM

The Texas agricultural commissioner defended his practice of posting untrue stories on his Facebook page, where he has more than 320,000 followers, by saying he was “not a news organization.”

Responding to a Texas Tribune analysis published Saturday that found a pattern of plainly false stories on Miller’s public social media presence, Sid Miller called into the Austin-based KUT News on Wednesday to discuss the story.

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“I shouldn’t be held to that standard,” he said. “It’s like Fox News: I report, you decide if it’s true or not.”

After the interview was published online, Miller, who actively supported President-elect Donald Trump, posted a link to it on his Facebook page, writing: "I've got news for the Texas Tribune and their liberal elite media friends--I have never been politically correct and I am not about to start now, and I am glad that we will soon have a President in the White House who feels the same way!"

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sid-miller-fake-news-facebook-page

[Initech]

1. They don't care. They don't care. They don't care. They don't care.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Remember a time when public servants were held to a high standard because public trust

was a keystone requirement for government?

Shit, what happened? Why does this guy still have a job?

[ck4829]

3. "Never been politically correct", a worsening calling card

More and more, these people who crow that they are not "politically correct" are turning into a parody that would be funny... if they weren't real.

The Islamist has the "Zionist"
The Khmer Rouge had the "Intellectual"
Pinochet had the "Soviet" and people/things he believed were influenced by them (human rights for example)

The Radical Right has the "politically correct" today, it's time to realize that this is the start.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/22/nasa-earth-donald-trump-eliminate-climate-change-research
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/10/one-million-moms-mistake-not-trans-woman-hms-empowering-ad/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ala-lawyer-busted-trafficking-methamphetamine-369-grams-seized-article-1.2760138

[LonePirate]

4. Someone needs to ask him why he trafficks in ignorance and propaganda.

[11 Bravo]

5. Does this dipshit even realize that he just intimated that "politically correct" "honest" and ...

that the FoxNews organization consists of a bunch of lying assholes?