White House press corps fails at calling out Press Secretary Sean Spicers lies

[Bill USA]

[font size="+1"]After his performance over the weekend, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's first full briefing on the job was an important test for the White House press corps — a test that they largely failed.[/font]


http://shareblue.com/white-house-press-corps-fails-at-calling-out-press-secretary-sean-spicers-lies/

Lost amid the absurdity of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s lies at Saturday’s briefing and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway’s Orwellian attempts to re-brand those lies as “alternative facts” was the fact that both Spicer and Conway explicitly threatened the press’ access if they continued to call them out.

At Spicer’s first full briefing Monday afternoon, the media had the chance to answer those threats and to prove that they would not be intimidated by the Trump administration. But they failed that test miserably.

It took twenty minutes before anyone bothered to even bring up the utterly false claims. When ABC News’ Jon Karl asked Spicer if he intended to tell the truth from the podium, Spicer answered in the affirmative, promised to correct “mistakes” when he makes them, and noted that “there are many mistakes that the media make all the time.”

Then, Karl zeroed in on Spicer’s specific claims, and was met with another stream of lies:

click to see video: http://shareblue.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2_001.mp4?_=1

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[Guilded Lilly]

1. We will get no help, professionalism or courage from these gutless winders.

[msongs]

2. "your institutions will not protect you" nt

[FuzzyRabbit]

3. Most of the press corps are merely stenographers

who regurgitate whatever press release politicians and corporations want them to regurgitate. Children could replace most of them and the public would never notice.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. Most of our "media" is in over their heads, intellectually and motivationally

they live in a bubble and really could care less about those that are not themselves.

We somehow are going to have to do this ourselves.