Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 17, 2017

You’re so screwed up, you don’t know what to believe anymore.

The trick is when you check THEIR sources, they use facts. Donny Dumpster doesn’t care about them, because he’s never used one.

Do what you will with my preconceived notions but leave my memes alone!

Very soon, all the news that’s fit to print will be all the news we’re allowed to print.

Ever notice that fake news started as soon as our fake president began running for office?

Can they ever be educated? Maybe if their world falls apart with no affordable health care and don’t count on those coal mining jobs where it isn’t profitable.

“You’ve got to remember that these are just simple voters. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.”

why ruin peoples lives by bringing in facts? Let them go on believing that assertions and assumptions are facts…….

Ms. Conway claimed that republicans believe in alternate “facts” You know, lies…….The media gets a free pass? What color is the sky in your world The press has to back up their reports with verifiable facts….Republicans get to just make lies up! Do you know how much easier it is to just make things up, ?

I don’t want facts. I want the truth.

Elitist? Oh, yeah, they understand big words…and know how to form sentences with proper grammar…

See how ridiculous it looks to slap “Fair and Honest” on a supposed news source?

Some day, I will catch my tail.

The media did it to themselves by printing anything whether true or not. Facts and Fiction are interchangeable in today’s world. I am surprised that The Bowling Green Massacre was actually questioned. Normally a politico spouts some weird alternate fact and the interviewer just goes along with it.

Wow, Wiley seems to have predicted that dumpster fire of a “press conference” last night.

We now have a President who believes that the job of the news media is to be nice to him and promote his brand.

And who calls a “press conference” for the purpose of trying to bully the press into stopping investigations.

Well, bullying has worked for him his whole life. But now, he’s not the boss. The media doesn’t have to do a thing he says. He’s not their boss. They aren’t answerable to him. I think all he’s done is make them more likely to keep it up. Because they’ve seen this sort of behavior before. From guilty people.

‘Alternate facts’ actually are simply a form of ‘augmented reality.’ Thank techies for the new term.

As my Irish grandmother used to say:

" Never let the truth get in the way of a good story ! "

Why is it the people they call “elitist” will welcome anyone, and the ones doing the name calling have a list of people they hate?

Politics and lies go together like arsenic and death, but the press doesn’t cause them. The press, for good or ill, has to report what happens (even if that’s some dolt lying).

Having been a reporter, I can tell you that the only bias I had was against liars, of any politics. Because they’re the ones with something to hide, who have no respect for you or the people who read the stories. (They’re the ones who are only one step up from a used car dealer, and one arrest away from jail. And jail is where a lot of them end up.)

No, I wasn’t a saint; but my politics are my own. And my job was to fill a big, white space in a newspaper. So I didn’t care who said or did what, as long as I reported it accurately, and fill that page.

The people who claim reporters lie are almost always the same ones who look you in the eye and lie, fully aware that you know they’re lying, and not giving a damn about it.

Yup.

Knowlage is elitist, therefore bad.

Ignorance is (alt-) right.

There is a good reason that a free and uncensored press is called The Fourth Estate ! It has always been considered as the fourth branch of government and one that is vital to a functioning democracy.

Which is why people like Trump and his minions want to stifle it or render it impotent. Tyrants have always feared discovery and dissent.

The only advice I can give to the media and the Democrats, stop trying to prove him wrong,most of us already know when he’s lying. His lips are moving…

Present the facts and let them flounder and come up with the ridiculous to refute them. Let Trump continue to have his temper tantrums, until even the Republicans are afraid to be around him.

Just the facts, only the facts, stop playing the Trump administration soundbites, stop giving voice to the ridiculous. If you insist on playing them, start with the truth about whatever it is, explain why it’s the truth, then play the ridiculous juvenile soundbite from whomever spoke it in this administration. Don’t defend the truth, just bury them with the facts.

When I was 15 years old, I read the book “How to Lie with Statistics.” Since then I don’t trust a number unless I see its birth certificate and who has had their hands on it.

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I live by the skeptics motto, “In God we trust. All others must provide data.” So far, the only thing about the Trump administration I trusted was when he said “Good Morning” once, but only because I had independent verification.

Not if its coming from the Washington Post and New York Times.

Funny, but the NY Times and WaPo have been caught out many times selling fake news.

Oh, what a tangled web they weave when first they practice to deceive.

Trump’s version of “E pluribus Unum”- “I’m the ONLY ONE!”