Whereupon We Pontificate About Poor Media Outlet Choices

I’d just like to remind people that Glenn Kessler’s fact check column has accused Trump of telling exactly one (1) lie over the past 3.5 years.

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Kessler is hesitant to characterize all of Mr. Trump’s falsehoods as “lies” because calling a statement a lie “means you have to get into someone’s head” and guess at the motivation.

“I actually thinks[sic, nice work CBS] he often believes what he’s saying, even if it’s completely contradictory to what he’s said the day before,” Kessler said.

Can’t possibly guess what’s going through his mind to say that he’s lying but it’s fine to guess that he thinks it’s all true, okie dokie.

“Part of Trump’s secret sauce for being elected in 2016 was he said things that a lot of his core supporters already believed to be true, but previous candidates wouldn’t say it because they actually knew they weren’t true,” Kessler said, citing the example of Mr. Trump’s assertion that “millions” of illegal immigrants were pouring into the country. Even if it wasn’t actually true, it felt true to supporters, and that ultimately mattered more, Kessler noted.

Katy Tur is filling in tonight for Chuck Todd.

Don’t understand why the network doesn’t just keep her there as well as giving her MTP.

Chuck Todd is a disgrace.

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lol

FFFFUUUUUU

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I was all, why is Riverman posting a two month old story from the Times?

Wait. That’s from a few days ago? This is the second private jet news story the Times has written in the past two months? WTF.

edit: ahahahahaha apparently this is a whole genre of NYT story

“I’m Thad Witherspoon IV, senior private air travel correspondent for the NY Times”

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https://twitter.com/gilbertjasono/status/1291361419229831168?s=21

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who should they have endorsed, please enlighten

Alternatively lmao, rent free

Calling the bot…

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it’s a meme. to make fun of the NYT. You know. Funny. Ha ha.

A meme.

Does being a tankie require one to excise any vestiges of a sense of humor?

https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1291690932841132033?s=20

https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1291690706260635649?s=20

https://mobile.twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1291706365279449088

https://mobile.twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1291569887832428544

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Let’s play “name the NYT jizzmopper.”

Wow this game is the same as “Name the US President” where the only clue is “male.”

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https://mobile.twitter.com/kristin__wilson/status/1291802002452815872

Maureen Dowd got so drunk she erased all her memories of 2016.

https://twitter.com/johnnymcnulty/status/1292099957743378433?s=21

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Internal headline of a YOUR WASHINGTON POST article:

Trump attempts to wrest tax and spending powers from Congress with new executive actions

GJGE brows