I did it. Watched the Spiceboy Acosta exchange at cnn.com . I've temporarily lost my mind.

[NRaleighLiberal]

It is exactly what Conjob does. and McEnaney does. And any other of the trumpets when asked a question. It is gaslighting extraordinaire....it is a spew of distortions and lies that provides NO VALUE at all. How Acosta and others don't jump over the lectern and engage in fisticuffs - how they control themselves - is beyond reality.

I am sure that the media types that have to sit through these must go home and drink or toke heavily....I know I would have to.

[malaise]

1. I've never seen anything like these lunatics

Scary - a complete inversion of reality

[L. Coyote]

24. Today reality exceeded George Orwell's imagination.

These guys have taken propaganda and reality distortion to a whole new level. They are trying to keep everyone away from discussing anything grounded in fact.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[rzemanfl]

2. If you happen to run across mind I could use it. n/t

[CottonBear]

3. You took one for the DU team. Thanks.

I don't have cable TV news so, unless I watch CSPAN, I don't see or hear Spice Boy.

I am so stressed out by this ongoing nightmare. 😕

[PsychoBabble]

4. Yep. Watched for about 5 minutes and then my eyeballs started smoking ...

Internal circuits started shorting out from the constant crap overload.

Never seen anything like that in my life.

There is something seriously wrong with those people. Its like Lord of the Flies up there.

[NanceGreggs]

5. I think we've reached the point ...

... where Melissa McCarthy's over-the-top-for-laughs "press conferences" are looking more controlled, and far more professional, than the real thing.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. Amen to your words!

[uponit7771]

18. Amen, we EXPECT for McCarthy's to be COMPLETELY crazy ...

[NanceGreggs]

21. Melissa is going to have to ...

... up her game. Acting out-of-control crazy just doesn't cut it when the person you're parodying actually IS out-of-control crazy.

[Jarqui]

7. Since long before the election, I can't watch Trump for long

Can't stand McConnell or Ryan either. And most GOP.

Spicer is like listening to nails on a chalkboard.

The thing is, Trump made the allegation "How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!"

Spicer whines about all the stuff others have said. But

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/senate-panel-theres-no-evidence-192621755.html

"Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016," Republican Chairman Richard Burr and Senator Mark Warner, the committee's Democratic vice chairman, said in a statement.
...
The top Republican in Congress, House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, on Thursday added his voice to those rejecting Trump's contention.

"The point is, the intelligence committees in their continuing, widening, ongoing investigation of all things Russia, got to the bottom - at least so far - with respect to our intelligence community that - that no such wiretap existed," Ryan told reporters.

That follows the report on Comey saying it didn't happen. Clapper shot it down. And others.

Spicer and Trump simply need to produce the evidence. It's been two weeks. They should have had the evidence before they made the allegations. But they can't because they don't have any.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Imagine having to make sense of all that blather to write a coherent piece.

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. nope - I can't!

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. It can't be easy.

At least they have recorders these days, but transcribing that garbage would give me a headache. Ugh.

[mcar]

10. It is getting indescribable

[spanone]

11. spicer has to be a lunatic to spew that shit.....

[2naSalit]

12. Wasn't he

in w's West Wing regime? I don't know what role he played other than the easter bunny during the egg roll festivities.

[L. Coyote]

25. He talks too fast to not be on something.

And I suspect it isn't expresso.

Link to tweet

[TNLib]

14. I watched for a few minutes

It was right out of SNL. Crazy stuff

[Stinky The Clown]

15. Petty amazing, huh?

I never saw anything like that before. You should also sleuth out the Mulvaney presentation that preceded SpiceyBoi's tantrum. That will make your blood boil.

[L. Coyote]

26. I posted it in Video forum, go to 1:40, half way into the 3 hour video.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017429239

[SleeplessinSoCal]

16. follow Acosta.

Check out Jim Acosta (@Acosta): https://twitter.com/Acosta?s=09

[WinkyDink]

17. "'Wire-tapped' was in QUOTES! President Trump meant all surveillance, like Peeping Toms and kids

with spy-glasses! DID YOU WRITE ABOUT THEM?!?! NO!

YOU KEEP WRITNG A FALSE NARRATIVE! You NEVER write about the transmitters in the chandeliers, WHICH, by the way, President Trump has asked our First Lady to find replacements for! NO, I don't know why the FBI couldn't find them, OR the cameras hidden in the President's cuff-links! And not for one minute does President Trump think the refrigerator light is innocent!

By the way, you have YET to print stories about the STOLEN STRAWBERRIES! What happened to the President's STRAWBERRIES?! ASK OBAMA!"

[L. Coyote]

27. Except it wasn't, you had to have microwave reception or something to know what Trump was thinking.

Even the quotations thingie is complete bullshit.

[littlemissmartypants]

30. gaslighting extraordinaire

His stripper name.

[WinkyDink]

35. Aaack, my eyes!

[littlemissmartypants]

37. Hahahaha!

I can't decide, which one would prove more hilarious, that thought, or the funeral? I need a cause to celebrate.

Thank you for your reply. ♡

[smirkymonkey]

19. I can't believe Acosta kept his cool.

I wouldn't have been able to restrain myself from going up and ripping his throat out. Not only was Spicer's behavior rude, unprofessional and disrespectful, it was almost insanely out of control. Someone should have thrown him in a padded cell.

I couldn't finish watching it after that. I was just too disgusted.

[Fast Walker 52]

20. these are freaking insane times... truly extraordinary

this is not normal!!!

[Ms. Toad]

22. It all of a sudden hit me, that's what is going on to me at work

Paternalism + gaslighting.

I am having extreme difficulty not jumping over the lectern, so to speak, and engagin in fisticuffs. I did't recognize it until you connected what I've been feeling with what - if I stopped to think about it - is going on.

[George II]

23. Don Lemon is currently ripping Spicer et. al. to shreds, along with Jim Acosta....

...Acosta asked hypothetically, "how long can this go on, one month, two months, three months...." almost like he's acknowledging that the trump administration doesn't have long to exist.

We should "surveil" Mike Pence, to see if he's shopping for new curtains.

[Maru Kitteh]

33. We should expedite the process.

Send him some swatches.

[Blanks]

28. He lashed out at Jon Karl pretty extensively too...

And Trump only put "wire tapped" in quotes 2 out of 4 times.

I got to say, it saddens me to see the press counting instances of words in quotes to prove the president is lying.

If Hillary had been sworn in, we'd be talking about helping all of the people damaged in the storms ravaging our country, instead we are... Honestly, I'm not sure what we are doing. I guess we're watching Spicer throw a tantrum because he doesn't have the balls to tell his boss to just admit he's a liar.

[GP6971]

29. I'm amazed they just don't walk out.

Dolt45 and his spokespersons are so vindictive. It's absurd and demeaning to the US.

Unfortunately, for awhile, it's the new norm. I hope it ends soon.

[littlemissmartypants]

31. ♡ NRaleighLiberal. eom

[tavalon]

32. I wouldn't last long in the press corps

I'm sure pointing and laughing and calling them idiots to their faces would be frowned upon.

[Phentex]

34. Sean and Kellyanne sittin in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!

Those two are masters of spin. I am not sure how Spicer can keep doing this with a straight face. I fully expect him to respond with "You're a doody head!"

[NastyRiffraff]

36. I tried to watch that presser

I really did try. But I have to think of my mental and physical health so I tuned out after about 10 minutes when I felt my brain slowly going into a tailspin.