Tuesday, February 07, 2017

In order to defend his Muslim ban Donald Trump claims that media is not reporting terrorist attacks. Media responds with public spanking.

Courtesy of CBS News: 

The president began talking about how “radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland” as they did on 9/11, in the Boston bombings and in San Bernardino. He said it’s also happening “all over Europe” like in Paris and Nice. 

“It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported. In many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it. They have their reasons and you understand that,” Mr. Trump said. 

There is no evidence that any media outlet is covering up terrorist attacks.

Later the White House walked back this claim a little by releasing a list of "terrorist attacks" that they claim were under reported.
(The list by the way completely excludes the Charleston shooting by a White Supremcist, and a number of other attacks by white folks as well. Coincidence?)

Problem is that most of the incidents listed WERE reported which inspired various news outlets to run footage of their reporters reporting on them.

Here is CNN doing exactly that.
Apparently this idea of the media not reporting on terrorist attacks in order to minimize them, was a talking point borrowed from Info Wars.

And if that was not bad enough there was also this tidbit of information.
Yeah, let's chalk this up to yet another failure by Donald Trump to dismiss facts and attempt to alter reality to fit his vision of what it SHOULD be. 

81 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:51 AM

    Trump terrorism is most certainly reported daily. He and his deplorable terrorist have been working constantly to destroy America.

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  2. A dollar says they got that list by googling and then reading media reports.

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    1. Yes, you are correct! I just read a PoliticusUSA article that states the list was generated from MEDIA coverage. How dumb can these people be?

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  3. Anonymous8:55 AM

    He gets even UGLIER with each photo of him published. What a truly repulsive person he is, both in looks and every other way.He should have stayed in his golden tower, and out of politics. Screwing up his and every associated business was his specialty. When one of his golden palaces is bombed, he will blame it on everyone but himself.

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    1. Anonymous10:37 AM

      I wondered for a second if that was really him.
      One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest.

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    2. Anonymous8:25 AM

      He's ghoulish inside and out.

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  4. Anonymous9:05 AM

    Onward Christian Soldiers
    Trump versus the Muslims and Buddhist

    Onward, christian soldiers,
    Marching as to war,
    With the cross of jesus,
    Going on before!

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  5. Anonymous9:06 AM

    $atan is getting us into a war with China and Iran. Just a matter of time, just a matter of time.

    USA Today:
    Iran and China respond to Trump with military drills

    China and Iran, two countries that top President Trump's enemies list, are pushing back against his tough talk this week with showy and provocative military drills...

    Iran on Saturday warned Washington against any hostile actions.

    "If the enemy makes a mistake our roaring missiles will hit their targets," Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force, said during massive air defense drills, the state-owned Fars News Agency reported.

    Iran also warned that if attacked, its missiles would target the U.S. 5th Fleet based in Bahrain, American installations in the Indian Ocean and the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.

    "These points are all within the range of Iran's missile systems, and they will be razed to the ground if the enemy makes a mistake," Mojtaba Zonour, a member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission. "And only seven minutes is needed for the Iranian missile to hit Tel Aviv.”...

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/02/06/iran-and-china-respond-trump-military-drills/97555758/

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    1. Anonymous9:36 AM

      Trump better hide and/or have a LOT of security because I predict he is going to be a huge target if new wars do break out and assuredly if the USA is bombed (nuclear).

      He is leading the country down the path to destruction.

      And, the Republican party majority is in full support of his actions. Unbelievable. The voters who put this devil in office are going to rue their effort! May they all rot in Hell!

      I fear for our country under this lunatic!

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    2. Anonymous9:55 AM

      He was the dream candidate for the repubs. No brains, all bluster, a true disaster waiting to happen. After the shit hits the fan, they will pretend to be surprised, and claim never to have supported him. I hope he takes every last one of those creitens down with him.

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  6. Anonymous9:06 AM

    Rogue POTUS Staff ‏@RoguePOTUSStaff

    --Expecting a brutal day in the office. POTUS owned on Twitter this AM after claiming he doesn't know Putin. He'll be in a bad mood now.

    Rogue POTUS Staff ‏@RoguePOTUSStaff 4h4 hours ago

    --POTUS too preoccupied to meet with aides just yet. CNN is taking about him. Must watch. Even though it's "fake news."

    --With help from DOJ contacts, we can provide a copy of the DOJ's brief for today's immigration hearing.

    https://t.co/vRJeGSzLcr

    --Spicer unhappy that he's been "set up for failure." POTUS furious that one of his "men" portrayed by woman. Says it looks weak.

    https://twitter.com/RoguePOTUSStaff

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    1. Anonymous9:57 AM

      Wait until the tangerine scumbag sees Rosie O'Donnell portray PRESIDENT BANNON!!

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    2. Wait until Ellen DeGeneres does Mike Pence. (I so hope she does after reading this.)

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/snl-women-trump-administration_us_5899c922e4b040613138f6f9?

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  7. Anonymous9:07 AM

    Charles Blow: Kellyanne Conway is a ‘bottomless pit of lies soaked in misdirection’

    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/charles-blow-kellyanne-conway-is-a-bottomless-pit-of-lies-soaked-in-misdirection/

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    1. Anonymous9:58 AM

      Soaked in booze also too I suspect.

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    2. Anonymous10:08 AM

      And a hefty dose of peroxide.
      Beaglemom

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  8. Anonymous9:10 AM

    Donald Trump’s increasingly suspicious tweets suggest he may be planning a phony terrorist attack

    https://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/%e2%80%aadonald-trumps-increasingly-suspicious-tweets-suggest-he-may-be-planning-a-phony-terrorist-attack%e2%80%ac/1408/

    Holy shit, this makes way too much sense!

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    1. Anonymous11:17 AM

      Frankly, I thought it would happen before the election to make him a shoo-in when HC was so far ahead in the polls, but now will work just as well...worked for Bushette...so why not? It's not like he has any original ideas, just pure Id.

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  9. Anonymous9:16 AM

    And the twit Devos has bought herself into power. How long before she bans science in schools and decrees bible studies all around. Nightmare. It is best to keep them controllable by keeping them superstitious, ignorant, and afraid.

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    1. Anonymous10:40 AM

      Ignorant, and without access to family planning services. They'll be breeding like bunnies in not time flat.
      As Wasilla goes, so goes the nation.

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    2. Anonymous10:56 AM

      Just keep saying to her, you are very stupid ignorant woman.

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    3. Anonymous11:18 AM

      How many private schools will spring up? the rich will flock to them.

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    4. Anonymous12:35 PM

      http://midnightsunak.com/2017/02/07/murkowski-reacts-devos-confirmation/

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    5. "Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith.... We need believing people."
      -- Adolph Hitler, April 26, 1933

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  10. Anonymous9:17 AM

    GOP Rep. Wants You to ‘Look At All The Good’ That Came From The Charleston Massacre (VIDEO)

    http://addictinginfo.org/2017/02/07/gop-rep-wants-you-to-look-at-all-the-good-that-came-from-the-charleston-massacre-video/

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    1. Anonymous10:08 AM

      What good? Is he happy that only African Americans were murdered in cold blood in their church? Is it because the members of their families and survivors of the slaughter do not want the perpetrator executed? From my vantage point, the only "good" that came from that dreadful day is that the perpetrator was caught alive. Sometimes I wonder (well, more and more often) about the sanity of any member of the 21st century GOP.
      Beaglemom

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    2. Anonymous10:32 AM

      Jesus Christ! Are we screwed with these idiotic Republicans in control! We need to battle them every step of the way, be vigilant and fight their control!

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  11. Anonymous9:17 AM

    Trump is a total jerk and needs to be run out of office pronto. He is detrimental to America and it continues to be proven almost hour by hour. Fuck him! He does not represent the majority of Americans - let alone those folks around the world that are demonstrating against the monster!

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  12. Anonymous9:18 AM

    Hillary Just Joined #TheResistance In BRILLIANT Video Without Even Mentioning Trump

    http://addictinginfo.org/2017/02/07/hillary-just-joined-theresistance-in-brilliant-video-without-even-mentioning-trump/

    http://www.itv.com/news/2017-02-07/hillary-clinton-the-future-is-female/

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    1. Anonymous2:41 PM

      From French Female>
      http://www.thelocal.fr/20170207/french-woman-tackles-trump-on-goes-viral-in-america

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  13. Anonymous9:23 AM

    You voted against Hillary because you got CONNED - brilliant Facebook post.

    http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/5/1630334/-You-voted-against-Hillary-because-you-got-CONNED-brilliant-Facebook-post

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    1. Anonymous10:18 AM

      LAST but NOT LEAST>
      because She is a WOman

      http://www.itv.com/news/2017-02-07/hillary-clinton-the-future-is-female/

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    2. Anonymous10:29 AM

      I cast my vote for Hillary Clinton and now we are truly seeing the wrong one in the seat of the presidency. Trump is a raving lunatic and is the very worst individual that has risen to power. He and his will dictate, control and change our country drastically!

      Be prepared Americans - I am!

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  14. Anonymous9:25 AM

    Herr Gropenfuhrer Dummkopf Drumpf, upset by excellent reporting by the New York Times that Bannon is da boss, Tantrum Tweeted from his porcelain throne this morning that “I call my own shots”...how precious!

    http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/6/1630726/-This-Will-Make-You-Larf-Drumpf-Tweets-He-Not-President-Bannon-Calls-The-Shots-Replies-Rock

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  15. Anonymous9:32 AM

    I respect McCain. Until today I've always felt he makes good decisions as an elected leader. Today he failed me as the man I voted for.
    Today begins vigilant activity. People have got to be proactive in their kids educational lives. There's far too much judgment. Parents never deserve judgment. Child rearing is hard. Once kids turn 5 or so they are their own people with minds. My sister went off the deepend when she was 23 because she feels uncomfortable in a regimented environment. I am the opposite. The point is, Everyone is different. Communities, help your own kids. Ignore D.C. Right now. There are more good communities than bad. We all aren't Chicago which may be hopeless. For my Alaskan friends, wasilla has good schools with curriculums that teach kids how to be good people. Find them. Same for Tuscan here.

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    1. Anonymous10:00 AM

      Apparently they failed at learnin' ya how to spell your town though.

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    2. Anonymous10:04 AM

      What makes you think Chicago is hopeless? I'm sure there are lots of children and young people there who are doing simply amazing things - intellectually and creatively. I don't think anyone should ever dismiss entire populations like that.
      Beaglemom

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    3. Anonymous10:20 AM

      FUCK OFF YOU FOOL!

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    4. Anonymous10:24 AM

      I wouldn't send my kids to public school in Wasilla, AK! Too religious a community and that is their emphasis.

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    5. Anonymous10:26 AM

      McCain received $50,000 from Devos. I'm at a loss to explain Sen. Flake's vote to confirm her.

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    6. Anonymous10:50 AM

      Because Senator Flake is an arse.

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    7. "Parents never deserve judgment."
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      Bullshit.

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  16. Anonymous9:40 AM

    Sorry to be O/T, but people with small children: GET YOUR BUYBULLS READY!!! They will be the science book for your school aged children!
    (God or whatever have mercy on America! We already are behind in many scientific ways, but this will seal our fate. America WILL be a Third World Nation, and our children will know just enough to be able to do the bidding of their overlords. We will become a low-information country with no independent thoughts, a country of human robots. HAIL TO THE CHIEF!

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    1. Anonymous10:23 AM

      NO! Fuck the chief!!!

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    2. Anonymous10:40 AM

      It's not so much that public schools will become religious schools, it's more that public schools will die because voucher options will pull children and dollars out of the public school system.

      As bad as it is now, in many places public schooling will become an educational desert, bereft of funds for sufficient teaching or maintenance staff, thus failing to educated the children and falling into disrepair.

      Many parents laud the voucher system because they believe that it would assist them in affording pricey private institutions, but guess what, those institutions aren't interested in your kids or your money and will raise their prices just enough to keep it unaffordable, vouchers or no.

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  17. Anonymous9:47 AM

    Devos, stupid woman ec of ed. Lol!
    What can we do? There must be something?

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    1. Anonymous10:02 AM

      She must be Pence's ideal of a woman. Not very bright but very rich and very indoctrinated by fake Christian fundamentalist beliefs. A pair made in heaven?
      Beaglemom

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    2. Anonymous12:02 PM

      http://www.ktuu.com/content/news/BREAKING-Betsy-DeVos-confirmed-as-Education-Secretary-413048553.html

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    3. Kate is going to be very busy on SNL.

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  18. Anonymous9:53 AM

    The brain trust that published the list also made repeated spelling errors. ATTAKERS? As the BFOF would say - WRONG!

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  19. Anonymous9:57 AM

    An old geezer said once pence is no longer in power he will make life just difficult for him no no never hurting him just will make life difficult for him. We all get old in time.

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  20. Anonymous10:01 AM

    It was also done to cover up Kellyanne's whopper about the Bowling Green massacre. Adding lies to lies; when will it end?
    Beaglemom

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    1. Anonymous10:24 AM

      It will end when Congress orders an independent investigation into 1) Trump's finances and ties to Russian banks and individuals and 2) Russia's hacking of the Trump campaign.

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    2. Anonymous11:08 AM

      Congress is majority Republican and will not do a truthful investigation of Trump.

      Plus, Comey is in charge of the FBI and is pro Trump.

      America is fucked with this loose cannon as our supposed leader.

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    3. Anonymous1:28 PM

      http://www.salon.com/2017/02/07/trump-official-admits-administration-misuses-the-term-fake-news-to-discredit-media-criticism/

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    4. Anonymous1:29 PM

      They don't need to cover up their lies. Their fan base loves the lies- their fan base voted for the lies. They're playing to their fan base and "governing" for their fan base and nobody else matters to the so-called "president".

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  21. Anonymous10:02 AM

    Trump alters reality to cast his self as a fictional character hero who is th only person who cares and is in touch with the dangerous villains whom he alone will single ha deadly wipe out. Cue Mark Burnett to produce Trump's fictional alternative facts. Nothing like casting the media as covering up for terrorists and insinuating sinister "reasons". Trump has reasons to lie about others as he projects they lie all of the time.

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  22. Anonymous10:08 AM

    https://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/%e2%80%aadonald-trumps-increasingly-suspicious-tweets-suggest-he-may-be-planning-a-phony-terrorist-attack%e2%80%ac/1408/

    FALSE FLAG!

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    1. Says who?
      Where?
      When?

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    2. Anonymous1:27 PM

      People- of some position- have been suggesting a potential false flag operation for a number of reasons, principally because (1) it's no secret that there is no depth that Stephen Bannon will not plumb because he has no boundaries and has demonstrated that he will not be stopped even by a court of law and (2) Trump's behavior and thinking is so abnormal and he also has no boundaries.

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  23. Anonymous10:09 AM

    I just overheard that geezer on the street. I don't know who it is.

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  24. Anonymous10:21 AM

    Sadly, the overall effect is in Trump's favor. He managed to get everyone talking about Muslim terrorists. Fear of terrorism is stronger than rationality.

    https://qz.com/898207/the-psychology-of-why-americans-are-more-scared-of-terrorism-than-guns-though-guns-are-3210-times-likelier-to-kill-them/

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  25. Anonymous10:46 AM

    Usa should stop all at once for an hour.

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  26. Anonymous10:48 AM

    While Trumps cabinet picks overwhelm the news cycle Congress is quietly at work passing legislation to to do such things as dismantle the EPA and amend the National Security Act to place less oversight on the National Security Council, to which Bannon just named himself head of.

    While Trump steals the headlines and dominates the news cycle you can pay attention to Congress here:

    https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/#docket

    The Hot Bills tab lists what people are talking about now.

    Congress could not be happier that they are off the media radar, thanks to Trump and his circus. They can now just quietly dismantle our government.

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  27. Anonymous10:51 AM

    Constant pissing contests are tiresome.

    ~Canuck~

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  28. Anonymous11:17 AM

    I think people are resisiting the extreme riht as well as can be since his orange highness came into power.
    U
    Hopefully Americans realize before its too damned late that Trump and cohorts are being tutored by Putin.
    Before we know it we are a ruled people.
    Oh and if Putin wants you dead watch what you eat or drink. Pretty soon he wont be so subtle.
    And I sarcastically thank Palin, Fox news, Trump, and Republicans for making us not America but Amerika. Sickos.

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  29. Anonymous12:07 PM

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-destroy-state-lawmaker_us_5899fde8e4b09bd304bdd5b9?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

    "“Want to give his name? We’ll destroy his career,” Trump told Sheriff Harold Eavenson of Rockwall County, Texas. "

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    1. Anonymous12:09 PM

      https://thinkprogress.org/behind-trump-joke-to-sheriff-an-offer-to-defend-ugly-police-lawlessness-f59ad298df9f#.6w0tsj9ls

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  30. Anonymous12:26 PM

    "Building that people power will benefit from more collaboration and resource sharing with non-BLM groups. Even before Trump's election, some BLM groups had begun to build such coalitions. Last fall, some sent members to North Dakota to support Native American activists fighting against the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, while others raised money and provided supplies for native activists on the front lines there. The Black Lives Matter Global Network "

    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/black-lives-matter-versus-trump

    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/us-army-grants-easement-for-dakota-access-pipeline-court-filing/

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    1. Anonymous1:21 PM

      Yep, people power is how you do it- as long as you get those people to the ballot box.

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  31. Anonymous12:32 PM

    The original report from the WH had attacker spelled as "attaker".

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/merriam-webster-expertly-trolls-the-white-house_us_5899808fe4b09bd304bd52a1

    Thank God, Devos was confirmed! Maybe she can teach people how to spell...

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  32. Anonymous12:57 PM

    The majority of these attacks were NOT in the USA.

    This is just more B.S. They were not prepared to be challenged and threw a list together at the last minute, otherwise they would have had the info on hand immediately, not after doing an Internet search.

    Also even their list doesn't back up their MooseLamb ban, only one attack by someone from Libya. Rest of attacks were in countries not on their list.

    As noted missing many attacks by White Supremacists.

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  33. Anonymous12:59 PM

    Keith O! RESIST!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bwj_CGFaEU

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  34. Anonymous1:20 PM

    On the Trump list is a British girl who was murdered in an Australian backpackers hostel- it was very definitely not an act of terrorism and her poor mother is so upset that Donald Trump is using her daughter in this filthy manner and not letting her rest in peace.

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    1. Anonymous3:58 AM

      The current administration can do nothing but lie. It's like breathing to all of them and may have been a job requirement. Something like "how many lies can you tell in a row while keeping a straight face?"
      Beaglemom

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  35. Anonymous1:24 PM

    Every time I see close-up pictures of Trump, I keep noticing his dilated eye pupils. Just like Palin, this wacko POTUS is altered.

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  36. Anonymous2:29 PM

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/02/07/sean_duffy_asked_for_examples_of_white_extremist_terror_here_you_go_sean.html

    "Here’s a List of 39 White Terrorists for the Smug Congressman Who Challenged CNN to Name More Than Two"

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  37. White Supremacists are being taken off the "terrorist organizations" watch list. They're rejoicing.

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  38. "Problem is that most of the incidents listed WERE reported which inspired various news outlets to run footage of their reporters reporting on them."

    The point of Trump's BS was to get the media to flood the airways and front pages with examples of past Islamic terror attacks to "prove" Tump lied. Meanwhile the airwaves and front pages are full of "news" of Islamic terror attacks.

    Mission accomplished.

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  39. Anonymous4:28 PM

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-08/mia-ayliffe-chungs-mother-criticises-white-house-terrorism-claim/8250410

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