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riversedge

(70,242 posts)
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 03:34 PM Sep 2017

Your job is to lie! Conservative View host offers baffling defense of Sean Spicer

Source: raw story



18 Sep 2017 at 13:47 ET

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In the wake of Spicer’s appearance — in which he made a joking reference to the infamous press conference in which he lied about the crowd size at President Donald Trump’s inauguration — many critics have questioned the wisdom of publicly celebrating a man for making demonstrably false statements to the American public..............................

“I think Hollywood and the media need to lighten up,” she said. “This guy had a sense of humor. His job as press secretary is… Your job is to lie. That’s your job. If the president says something, you have to defend them.”

Co-host Sunny Hostin objected and said that a White House press secretary should try to tell the truth in answering questions. She also said that no one forced Spicer to take a job working for Trump, whose history of making false statements was well documented by fact-checking websites throughout the 2016 presidential campaign.








Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/your-job-is-to-lie-conservative-view-host-offers-baffling-defense-of-sean-spicer/



Video at link.

And of course, the Trumpsters believe this.
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Your job is to lie! Conservative View host offers baffling defense of Sean Spicer (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2017 OP
I agree with Sunny mdbl Sep 2017 #1

mdbl

(4,973 posts)
1. I agree with Sunny
Tue Sep 19, 2017, 05:20 AM
Sep 2017

The stressed he caused the country as a whole is immeasurable. Too many people just see politics as a sport and not something that affects many lives. Sad.

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