NEWS ITEM: In his first statement as White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer conveyed the top priority of his boss, America’s first reality-TV star/executive producer President. For Donald Trump it was all about ratings, ratings, ratings.
“This was the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the world,” insisted Spicer on Saturday to a pool of reporters, despite Nielsen ratings data and aerial crowd image estimates that showed Trump on the low end of first-term viewership and audience. Reporters who stated otherwise, said Spicer, were peddling “false narratives.”
Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, in defending Spicer for his false numbers about the inauguration crowd suggested… the new Press Secretary’s claims were not lies but “alternative facts.”*
EDITORIAL: This reminds me of the old Soviet Union’s propaganda, boasting how well the economy is doing. Meanwhile, Vladimir is talking to his pal Ivan, bemoaning this Prada press release before tossing it into the snow and spewing out: “Then why am I standing in a two-hour breadline?” Ladies and gentlemen, the Trump Administration.
BILL
*Source: 1/23/17 Los Angeles Times
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