Douchewaffles, feebes and ninnies. And this time, I’m not talking about the ongoing Trump criminal enterprise.
Trump Counters Indictments With Inaccurate Claims
Mr. Trump inaccurately claimed that what is now
alleged against Mr. Manafort occurred “years” before the
2016 campaign.
— New York Times, October 30, 2017
I follow a ton of news sources, and I still can’t figure out why none of them ever call anything President Donald Trump or his administration say a ‘lie’. Just… never. Instead, they’ll twist this way and that. “It’s highly unlikely,” “long disproven,” “false and misleading statements,” and sometimes even “untrue” or “falsely stated,” but instead of simply saying “lied”, they list exactly why this or that statement was “factually incorrect.”
With no evidence, Mr. Trump said….
It’s almost painful watching them contort.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders asserted that….
Almost….
Trump’s False Claim About Obama and Fallen Service Members
— NBC News, Oct. 17, 2017
But this evening, I realized recently that I was wrong, and I was hearing the word ‘lie’ on TV and in the press. All the time. I just hadn’t noticed the conditions.
It was always in relation to Hillary Clinton and her administration. When the press writes about Clinton, or the TV news covers the latest outrage, then they can throw out the word ‘lie’ almost casually.
Sometimes major media masked themselves by hiding behind Republicans:
“The real Russia scandal? Clinton campaign paid for the fake Russia dossier, then lied about it & covered it up,” Sanders tweeted.
— CNN, Oct. 25, 2017
Sometimes quotes are too hard, and media sources barely pretend:
Is Hillary Clinton a ‘liar’ on Benghazi?
— Washington Post, Oct. 30, 2015
(Nice scare quotes.)
So is it only a lie when a Democrat says it? Or when it’s a woman? Or just when they don’t have as much power anymore? I don’t think this is limited to the Clintons, but I heard lots of “lies” about the Clinton Foundation, and anything connected with Hillary. Or Bill, come to think of it.
You miserable, douche-bag butt-lickers.
On the plus side, during this search, I found lots of news sources who seem to have found their voices again, or at least all their words. But only once after they’ve found someone else’s skirts to hide behind:
Papadopoulos admitted that he had lied to the FBI about his interactions with people he thought had connections with the Russian government….
— Washington Post, Oct. 30, 2017Flynn ‘Lied to Investigators’ About Russia Trip, Says Top House Dem.
— NBC News, May 23, 2017U.S. Has Probed Whether Flynn Lied to Investigators
— Wall Street Journal, Jun. 8, 2017
And yet… at exactly the same time, there’s the normal nonsense:
Trump Falsely Tweets That Manafort Indictment Predates Campaign
— Bloomberg, Oct. 30, 2017Trump falsely claims (again) that he coined the term ‘fake news’
— Washington Post, Oct. 26, 2017Trump Falsely Ties British Crime Rise to ‘Radical Islamic Terror’
— New York Times, Oct. 20, 2017Lawrence exposes Donald Trump’s false accusations
— MSNBC, Oct. 25, 2017
And my current favorite:
Trump Falsely Denounces Jeff Flake by Calling Him a … Democrat?
— New York Times, Oct 25, 2017
None of those were lies? Really? None of them?
