Watching the first official briefing now. It's remarkably normal, and dare I say informative. No questions about the crowd size, yet.

What a difference from the last appearance. Started off with a self-deprecating joke, seems to have taken the edge off both sides.

I think we can sometimes disagree with the facts.

the foundation for how we communicate with our President and his Administration

"Chuck, if we're going to keep referring to our press secretary in those types of terms, I think we're going to have to rethink our relationship here," Kellyanne Conway said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” after host Chuck Todd asked about press secretary Sean Spicer’s criticism of the press one day earlier.

"I just came out to read a statement, and I did it."

Ha! You don't say. Translation: don't shoot the messenger.

He's doing a pretty damn good job so far, today.

I wonder if we'll be able to sniff out the bullshit by his demeanor. His crowd size appearance was completely different. Nervous, agitated, stammering, and he basically admitted that he wasn't comfortable with it.

He's doing a pretty damn good job so far, today.

I wonder if we'll be able to sniff out the bullshit by his demeanor. His crowd size appearance was completely different. Nervous, agitated, stammering, and he basically admitted that he wasn't comfortable with it.

I think it's fairly obvious: that the administration would have no compelling motive to report on anything factually. This is a line-in-the-sand moment for the press, in their relationship with the incoming administration. They're either going to hold them accountable for their words, or they're going to roll over and type what they're told to. They can either function as a free and independent press, or they can function as a propaganda machine for a stunningly dishonest administration. Today is when they decide.

He's doing a pretty damn good job so far, today.

I wonder if we'll be able to sniff out the bullshit by his demeanor. His crowd size appearance was completely different. Nervous, agitated, stammering, and he basically admitted that he wasn't comfortable with it.

The scary part is that trump isn't lying. He believes his crowd was bigger and the media is trying to deceive us.

In the first place, you can't trust the media. They're often just as dishonest as Trump.

In the second place, is your purpose in debunking his claims about the crowd size to persuade his "dimwitted base"? Serious question.

Because I'm still not seeing the point that you say has gone over my head. What I see is that getting sucked into this kind of petty bickering over something utterly inconsequential has turned people into mirror images of Trump himself. You're just as think skinned and as easily provoked as he is, and just as unable to let go of a minor issue. It's crazy. You're turning his pathological character defect into a political asset in the process, too.

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Alternative facts sounds like something out of North Korea, China, or any Soviet-era eastern bloc country where the government strictly controls the message and there is no freedom of press.

There were lots of things wrong with our previous administrations, but buckle your seatbelt. We are about to endure a whole new level of constant lying, one that we've never before experienced.