White House press secretary attacks media for accurately reporting inauguration crowds
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Source: CNN
"That's what you guys should be writing and covering," new White House press secretary Sean Spicer angrily lectured reporters on Saturday during his first remarks from the podium of the press briefing room.
He was referring to the delay in Senate confirmation for President Donald Trump's pick to lead the CIA, Congressman Mike Pompeo, but the comment came after a long digression about how many people had shown up to watch Trump be sworn in as president.
"This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period," Spicer said, contradicting all available data.
Aerial photos have indicated that former president Barack Obama's first inauguration attracted a much larger crowd. Nielsen ratings show that Obama also had a bigger television audience.
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/21/media/sean-spicer-press-secretary-statement/index.html
Good for CNN and others - they're not going to allow trump and Spicer falsely attack them without fighting back!
A few more choice lines in CNN's report on Spicer's "press conference":
His statement included several specific misstatements of fact in addition to the overarching one.
Glenn Thrush of The New York Times wrote on Twitter, "Jaw meet floor."
"I've run out of adjectives," wrote Chuck Todd, the moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press."
The battle is ON!
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Josh Marshall
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Spicer said 2013 Inaugural metro use was 317k, lower than Trump's 420k. Actual 2013 number was 782k. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sean-spicer-assails-media-inauguration-crowd-size … ¯_(ツ
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