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Hoodafan

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Except you're describing a similar scenario not a contrary one, and frankly


I don't think either story is of any real importance (other than to show a biased agenda from the media everyone knows exists, even if they refuse to admit it).

What CNN and other media purposefully omitted (and you perhaps because you just accepted their version without question) from the inauguration pic story was:
- the pics were taken at different times (Trump's earlier)
- Security measures put in place in '16 delayed entry time making the crowd at the time of Trump's pic even smaller than it would've been at the same time with '09 procedures
- there was no way anybody would ever touch Obama's '09 crowd given that was a once in a lifetime event, but I'll happily bet you a one year subscription to the "failing NYT" that there is no way that same story would've run if it was Hill's smaller Inauguration crowd.

And then came the "alternative facts" meme and falsehood. Sean Spicer never claimed the crowd was larger, he only stated the Worldwide viewership was larger, and it was. (and of course he would take that alternative since he couldn't claim the crowd was larger and it paints Trump & Co in a better light to talk about viewership) Yet still to this day we keep hearing "alternative facts" used as if it's code for "lies", which it wasn't.


(In response to this post by Chuck Taylor)

Posted: 04/20/2017 at 10:54AM



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Great to see fake news NYT at it again! -- dajoka004 04/19/2017 10:15PM
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  Let us draw a comparison. -- Chuck Taylor 04/20/2017 07:54AM
  They did offer an edit to the original story -- dajoka004 04/20/2017 07:56AM
  So, when should get a retraction from the White House? -- Chuck Taylor 04/20/2017 09:07AM
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