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By Brian Karem
June 27, 2017
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The president has never admitted one mistake. The current administration sells half-truths and lies like theyre day-old cookies at a bake sale.
The fact is: I like Sarah Sanders. I like Sean Spicer. I like most of the people Ive met who work in this administration. Theyre personable and, as far as I can tell with a few notable exceptions decent people.
But I dont like bullies and I dont like the entire institution of the press and free speech being castigated for no other reason than we either get stories wrong which happens, and it should be then responsibly corrected or because we report news the president doesnt like which seems to happen even more often than getting stories wrong. (Note: Our founder, Hugh Hefner, believes in the First Amendment with all his heart.)
The foundation of a free republic is a free press. You take the good with the bad and you move on. As Ive said before, in quoting Larry Speakes: we wont tell you how to stage the news, so dont tell us how to report it.
More: http://www.playboy.com/articles/brian-karem-sarah-huckabee-sanders?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=Playboy&utm_campaign=Playboy.com
Yes, the link goes to Playboy because the reporter who stood up to SHS today is Playboys White House Correspondent.
onecaliberal
(32,471 posts)Traitorous piece of shit.
Raster
(20,996 posts)...a traitorous piece of shit and his underlings. tRump* is a Russian asset, as is most of his inner circle, INCLUDING FAMILY.
Again: NO! They are not good people... not by any definition. No.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,770 posts)'Fraid you lost me right there.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)I understand his point of view--just doing their jobs, etc
But he should have really hit her with the lies and half truths, and also the bullshit tweets that he sends out everyday containing the same, which the guy counts as reaching out to the voters in an end run to avoid the media
A lot of people are tired of the bullshit tweets, but commander asshole claims "fake news" so that he can lie in his statements and tweets.
I don't think his response was forceful enough, and I don't think the press and the media is standing up to this junior high school bullshit
Astraea
(461 posts)Sorry, you lost me.