Tommy Christopher is a White House press veteran and the editor of “The Response”. He counts twenty lies in Kelly’s defense of drumpf last Thursday.
“One particularly annoying facet of the way this has been covered is the way many outlets shy away from calling Kelly’s lies “lies” and the fact that even those who characterize it properly leave news consumers with the impression that he only told one lie.
Part of the media’s problem is that they confuse the lie with the liar. You can tell a lie without even knowing it, and while that arguably doesn’t make you a “liar,” the thing you said is still a lie.
Even in the case of “unintentional” lies, the effect is the same, and the lack of intent does not relieve the culpability for their telling, especially when the lies are such that the teller should have known or should have checked. Indifference to the truth is no less a crime than the intentional subversion of it.
So I will leave Gen. Kelly’s intent and character up to the reader. This is only about the lies themselves.”
Something getting lost in the blizzard of gross that was Kelly’s statement: there were MANY lies, not 1. Let’s count https://t.co/v6cgp2r8yZ pic.twitter.com/ubKALyhIRi
â Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 21, 2017
2. @RepWilson “listened in on a phone call.” It was on speaker, she was invited, and KELLY was actually listening in https://t.co/v6cgp2r8yZ
â Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 21, 2017
4. “It stuns me that a member of Congress would have listened in on that conversation.” See 2. https://t.co/v6cgp2r8yZ
â Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 21, 2017
6. “Women were sacred.” It was legal to rape your wife. And AS HE SAID THIS he was defending a sexual predator. https://t.co/v6cgp2r8yZ
â Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 21, 2017
8. “Gold Star families, I think that left in the convention over the summer.” His boss attacked the Khans, and he did too right there!!!
â Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 21, 2017
10. FBI HQ was dedicated to agents “by the name of Grogan and Duke.” Their names were Ben Grogan and Jerry Dove. https://t.co/v6cgp2r8yZ
â Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 21, 2017
13. “Some of the children that were there were three or four years old when their dads were killed on that street.” They had no kids.
â Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 21, 2017
â Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 21, 2017
15. @RepWilson talked about “how she took care of her constituents because she got the money” see 14 & actual speech https://t.co/v6cgp2r8yZ
â Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 21, 2017
17-18. “on that phone call he gave the money” there was no phone call or money – see 15-16 https://t.co/v6cgp2r8yZ
â Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 21, 2017
20. “none of us went to the press and criticized” except this one time https://t.co/v6cgp2r8yZ
â Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 21, 2017
Then after everyone knew he was lying, Sarah Sanders stood by those 20 lies, and told a few more https://t.co/EpDTcUNb8K
â Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 21, 2017
21-22. With the full video available Sanders said @RepWilson talked about “lobbying former President Obama” No call, no lobbying
â Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 21, 2017
24. Said Kelly was talking about comments that weren’t on the video. That’s a lie, he referenced only the speech https://t.co/EpDTcUNb8K
â Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 21, 2017
25-26. Said “highly inappropriate” to debate a 4-star general. Kelly is retired, he’s COS, this is America, it is REQUIRED he be challenged
â Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 21, 2017
27. There’s no “debate,” he lied 20 times. https://t.co/EpDTcUNb8K
â Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 21, 2017
This is the last one: After all of that, TMFH did NOT EVEN SAY Sgt. La David Johnson’s name. None of them have. https://t.co/0Jvh2A9Fp4
â Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) October 21, 2017
Thanks for this handy guide, Tommy.
It’s a chore keeping track of their lies.
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