Time managing editor Nancy Gibbs published a note to readers yesterday in which she defended the magazine’s White House correspondent, Zeke Miller, over a mistake he made in incorrectly reporting that President Trump had removed a bust of Martin Luther King from the Oval Office. The bust had not been removed; the mistake was quickly pointed out and Miller immediately corrected and apologized for the error. Since then, the White House has been using this mistake in its ongoing war on America’s free press as an example of “deliberately false reporting.”
So let me get this straight: a reporter makes a mistake, corrects it immediately, apologizes multiple times – and he’s representative of some major problem in the American media. Meanwhile, the American president and his lackeys lie repeatedly beginning almost from the very moments after Trump took the oath of office (maybe I’ll do a post later about “American carnage”). The Trump administration never backs down from its lies, never apologizes for them, and continues to insist that their lies are true even when they are thoroughly and repeatedly debunked, and even when they are repudiated by other leaders of their own party. But there’s no problem in the Trump administration. No, President Trump is just trying to do his job for the American people while up against an unfair and biased media.
And I haven’t even gotten to the good part yet. Continue reading
He is lying 