House science chairman: 'Get your news directly from the president'
Source: CNN
Washington (CNN)The chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee is asking Americans to trust the information they get from the President over the news produced by the media.
Republican Rep. Lamar Smith saluted President Donald Trump from the floor of the House on Tuesday evening, rattling off his first-week accomplishments but saying Trump is not getting the press coverage he deserves.
"The national liberal media won't print that, or air it or post it," Smith said. "Better to get your news directly from the President. In fact, it might be the only way to get the unvarnished truth."
Trump has been called out for highlighting falsehoods and conspiracy theories during his political career and has repeatedly attacked the mainstream press as pushing "fake news."
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/politics/lamar-smith-donald-trump-news/index.html
My act of resistance today was to pay for a subscription to The NY Times to support independent news media.
BeyondGeography
(39,369 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Banana Republic...
susanna
(5,231 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)this is the Revenge of the Ass-Holes folks.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)I dissent.
This is madness.
Freethinker65
(10,009 posts)ck4829
(35,045 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,995 posts)Oh, who am i kidding i have no respect for this buffoon whatsoever.
C_U_L8R
(44,998 posts)straight from the orange assclown.
mnhtnbb
(31,382 posts)Skittles
(153,150 posts)TRUMP REMINDS ME OF MUSSOLINI
louis-t
(23,292 posts)Same stupid look on the face. Meant to intimidate.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)IronLionZion
(45,427 posts)Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, ...
We don't need another Russian/North Korea style Pravda
Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)Trust someone who is muzzling the EPA and denies climate change, hell no!
Javaman
(62,517 posts)fucking moron
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)And I refuse to accept him as President.
benld74
(9,904 posts)Take your POTUS PLEASE!!!
bdamomma
(63,836 posts)is total BS
"The national liberal media won't print that, or air it or post it," Smith said. "Better to get your news directly from the President. In fact, it might be the only way to get the unvarnished truth."
First the news is not Liberal anymore. What the hell is the "national liberal media"
Second: "the unvarnished truth" that is total BS. He is a fucking con artist, and to trust him. That is total BS.
tRump is unfit for the office and likes to take revenge. I will never bow down to a jerk like this who assaults women and thinks he all that. Not my pResident.
He is unstable and needs to be removed.
BRMCOne
(27 posts)OH. MY. GOD.
In Trump we Tru...ok I can't even finish that without throwing up a bit.
I don't even want to know what utter bulls__t is going to come spewing forth next from the Drumpf administration. Its been 5 days, and I feel like they've taken us back hundreds of years. This is the most ridiculous crap I've ever seen or even heard of in my lifetime. And I ain't no spring chicken.
Make it stop!!!
orleans
(34,049 posts)actually, that quote is kind of hysterical!
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)[center]
Lamar knows plenty.
Disruption
(10 posts)intentional bad policy by our political leaders, but one of the things that Trump does for us all is activate dormant forces. People who were passive or inactive in the passed are now engaged. This counterforce will ultimately be a positive if Trump doesn't blow us all up first.
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)Their only goal is to tear down the institutions they're supposed to represent. Look no further than pretty much every single Trumplethinskins' cabinet appointments.
Nash Teeth
(57 posts)will lead to confusion over the truth, further dividing the country especially in times of crisis. Dangerous.
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)We knew this was coming. "The media lies..", "The media is intentionally giving me bad press"..."You can't trust the lying media"...now these GOP fuckers are all in on building up the "Dear Leader" as the sole source for truth! It's astounding and frightening.
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)The headlines coming out the last few days are more outrageous than anything they could come up with...
benfranklin1776
(6,443 posts)Last edited Wed Jan 25, 2017, 10:29 PM - Edit history (1)
Despite having absolute zero scientific background this cheeto hued grade z asshole psychotically cannot differentiate between his insane delusions of grandeur and cold empirical reality about even the most banal subjects, let alone begin to fathom or communicate anything that requires ahigher ordered thinking beyond that of slime mold. Of course that level of Jim Jones style brain dead cultism is favored by his pod people, orange koolaid drinking followers, so they will be happy to suck down whatever insane "scientific" information he tweetbleats like bad meth mixed with frack water.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)It could be substantial. They have been conditioned and brainwashed for years, decades now. Both to demonize Hillary, and to fall in love with the reality star that "tells it like it is" and will bring back all the well paid manufacturing jobs etc.
So I think many Trumpeteers will take him up on that. Whatever Dear Leader says is the truth no matter what the "national liberal media" tries to say or back it up with their fake news 'facts'.
And if Faux News plays along he'll have the largest media empire also echoing his insanity. As well as Rush and the hate radio brigade.
So this is not the joke it seems.
Phoenix61
(17,002 posts)Kinda how we laughed at the possibility of Twitler getting elected. Supporting good journalism is going to be critical. I'm not so worried about the fools who voted for him as much as I am about reaching the ones who didn't bother to vote at all.
blueseas
(11,575 posts)Not fantasy island alternate "truthy"
Generator
(7,770 posts)Nyet. Many Americans died for shit like this to not happen. You are a disgrace. Maybe I should tweet to him and tell him he is as bad as someone during the third Reich. And I am not being hyperbolic.
This makes my blood boil as much as anything I've read. I wouldn't want anything directly from only ONE person. Period. Especially someone with power over life and death. We have become a nation of imbeciles.
Blue Idaho
(5,048 posts)Lamar Smith is and always has been a party stooge.
xor
(1,204 posts)Old Vet
(2,001 posts)ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)NickB79
(19,233 posts)And what peer-reviewed journals has he been published in?
Astraea
(468 posts)trumps facts.
Astraea
(468 posts)Even Goebbels wasn't this blatant.
pfitz59
(10,358 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)pushing toward closing down all media including the Internet...except for breitbart news. fox news and alex jones outlet, infowars.com soon coming to television..."unvarnished truth" and these groveling sycophants really believe what they are saying...all these psychopaths openly running our government now.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)Then they came for the Syrians, but I wasn't a Syrian
Then they came for the Mexicans, but I wasn't a Mexican
Then they came for the reporters, but I wasn't a reporter
I don't know who came next, because there were no newspapers left
irisblue
(32,968 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)TNNurse
(6,926 posts)The president is an idiot.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)This is some North Korea shit right here. Spooky.
NanceGreggs
(27,813 posts)... from a man who has spent his entire life insisting that 2 centimeters equals 8 inches?