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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4475617" data-attributes="member: 54375">“What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, &amp; then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately,” he wrote. “… Not worth the time &amp; effort.”Among the facts that the press refused to report was the president’s newly discovered gift for sarcasm. Sarcasm, he insisted, led him to his odd thoughts on the uses of Lysol and sunlight; it was another sarcastic joke, he said, when in a subsequent tweet he urged journalists who won the “Noble prize” for their reporting on the “Russian hoax” to return it.The rarity here was not that the president was lying about what he’d said and why he said it. Anyone who watched the video of his original comments could see how earnest and hope-filled—how far from sarcasm—he was in pondering the wonders of disinfectant. The rarity was that he felt it necessary to explain himself after the fact. He seemed to be saying: I’m not stupid, and I know how to spell. I just have a sense of humor too sophisticated for the average reporter to grasp. Sarcasm! Sure, that’s the ticket.&quot;Andrew Ferguson</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4475617, member: 54375"] “What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, & then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately,” he wrote. “… Not worth the time & effort.” Among the facts that the press refused to report was the president’s newly discovered gift for sarcasm. Sarcasm, he insisted, led him to his odd thoughts on the uses of Lysol and sunlight; it was another sarcastic joke, he said, when in a subsequent tweet he urged journalists who won the “Noble prize” for their reporting on the “Russian hoax” to return it. The rarity here was not that the president was lying about what he’d said and why he said it. Anyone who watched the video of his original comments could see how earnest and hope-filled—how far from sarcasm—he was in pondering the wonders of disinfectant. The rarity was that he felt it necessary to explain himself after the fact. He seemed to be saying: [I]I’m not stupid, and I know how to spell. I just have a sense of humor too sophisticated for the average reporter to grasp.[/I] Sarcasm! Sure, that’s the ticket." Andrew Ferguson [/QUOTE]

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