After the February jobs report was released, the right-wing media cheered and pretended that it was due to neo-fascist sociopath Donald "Rump" Trump's wonderful, non-existent economic policies after just 50 days in office. Economic policies put in place by President Obama over his 8 years in office resulted in 7 plus years of steady job growth, after inheriting a Rethuglican economy that was shedding 750,000 jobs the month before he took office. During the 2016 campaign, Rump criticized the good monthly Obama jobs numbers as phony and misleading, so when his paid liar Sean "Spicy" Spicer presented the good jobs numbers for Rump's first month, did he decry them as phony? Of course not, in fact he quoted his narcissistic boss:
“I talked to the president prior to this, and he said to quote him very clearly: 'They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.'"Sadly, the press' reaction to this bit of Orwellian logic was to laugh. Considering what a transparently buffoonish, lying clown Rump is, it's disturbing when the press finds being manipulated somehow funny. Some reactions to the press' bonhomie:
And everyone laughed, since it's hilarious when the president is such a liar his own aides don't even pretend he tells the truth. https://t.co/N6Xbp873cO— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) March 10, 2017
Seriously, what public interest is served by the press corps providing the studio audience and laugh track for a stand-up routine? https://t.co/rCTd4tETR0— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) March 10, 2017
SPICER: the president spouted a bullshit conspiracy for months, and [winks] he knew it— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) March 10, 2017
MEDIA: [riotous laughter] https://t.co/7L6UigR2tU
Hahahaha the President is a pathological liar hahahahahahaha https://t.co/BVTgx9v4Lo— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) March 10, 2017
It's totally funny. Because the president of the United States lies all the time & doesn't actually mean anything he says. Ha Ha. https://t.co/7BWd1boonD— Peter Kauffmann (@PeterKauffmann) March 10, 2017
The laughter that followed from the press corps is the sound of defeat. https://t.co/T3zaNM9jBy— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) March 10, 2017
The "sound of defeat" indeed. Our broken, access-driven hive media in full display.
