If you know me, even a little, you should know how much I love the comic series Saga. Since the debut issue, I’ve had this series in my must-read list, and it’s easily one of my favourite series ever. One of the amazing characters in the series is Lying Cat, pictured above.
Lying Cat has the ability to, for all intents and purposes, smell bullshit. If someone tells a fib in her presence, she blurts out the world LYING. After the debut press conference of new White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, I think the world at large, and specifically the White House Press Corps, needs a Lying Cat of their own.
Spicer stepped up to the mic and made five statements. Four of them were lies, lies that were easily verifiable by anyone with access to Google. In this case, getting 80% is not something to be proud off.
Why did he do it? Who knows…welcome to the Trump World Order.
This is Kellyanne Conway. When she’s not auditioning for Hamilton or dressing as a human nutcracker, she’s a key member of the Great Orange Satan’s staff. On Sunday, she appeared on Meet The Press and she was asked about Spicer’s flagrant flaunting of the truth.
Her reply? Spicer was offering “alternative facts.” Forgive me, but what in the bloody blue hell is an alternative fact? A fact is a fact is a fact. An alternative fact is nothing but a lie with a comb-over.
When I worked in journalism, we had a mantra in our newsroom: we didn’t need to be first, we needed to be right. We prided ourselves on never once misleading our readers and never once presenting facts as anything but the truth.
Conway was last seen boarding a plane for San Diego, where she’ll soon start her part time job as centerfielder for the Padres. She’s also appearing on the big screen as Wonder Woman in the summer before hibernating for the winter in a cabin she bought from Bernie Sanders with Nuka-Cola bottle caps. Wait, that’s not true? Well, it’s an alternative fact so it must be!
The Trump administration is setting one hell of a precedent with this. Lying to the press corps does nothing but tarnish their already damaged image. It doesn’t make them look cool…it makes them look like they have something to hide.
Forty four years ago yesterday. a classic episode of Doctor Who aired starring my favourite Doctor, Tom Baker. In the episode, the good Doctor was trying to stop a war between two alien races. He uttered the following missive, one that’s incredibly important to remember as we deal with the Trump World Order going forward.
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