When the Boy Scouts start calling you a liar . . .

[ex-khobar Andy]

. . . maybe it's time to stop doing it.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... fer-praise

ETA: Sorry Scooter and BB - I see you just posted this in the general purpose Trump thread.

[dales]

No need to apologize, the ASSHOLE-IN-Chief must be held accountable, regardless!

[ex-khobar Andy]

And of course the White House is now walking this back. From the NYT: (Partial quote only.)

WASHINGTON — Has President Trump told you about the time the head of the Boy Scouts called to say his was the best speech ever delivered to the more than century-Sold [sic] organization? What about when the president of Mexico picked up the telephone to let him know that his tough enforcement efforts at the border were paying off handsomely?

The anecdotes, both of which Mr. Trump told over the last week, were similar in that they appeared to be efforts to showcase broad support for the president when his White House has been mired in turmoil. But they also had another thing in common, the White House conceded on Wednesday: Neither was true.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, confirmed at her daily briefing what the Boy Scouts and the Mexican government had already asserted publicly, which is that neither phone call that Mr. Trump referred to had occurred.

The stories were not fabrications, Ms. Sanders insisted. “Multiple members of the Boy Scouts leadership” had praised Mr. Trump’s speech in Glen Jean, W.Va., after he finished last week, she said. And Mr. Trump and President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico had discussed border enforcement last month on the sideline of the Group of 20 summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany, she added. “I wouldn’t say it was a lie — that’s a pretty bold accusation,” Ms. Sanders said. “The conversations took place, they just simply didn’t take place over a phone call, they happened in person.” [OK if we don't want to call it a lie, Ms HS, let's call it fake news.]

The nonexistent phone calls added to questions about Mr. Trump’s credibility and that of his White House, already in doubt given shifting explanations on matters large and small, including the size of the crowd at Mr. Trump’s inauguration and his involvement in drafting a statement about why his son Donald J. Trump Jr. had met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer during the campaign. The calls appeared to be the latest evidence that the president, who prefers impromptu storytelling to a fact-checked script, is willing to shade or even manufacture events to suit his preferred narrative — even when the story is easily disprovable and of little consequence.

Somehow I find Huckabee Sanders far creepier than Spicer. I am not sure why that is.

[RayThom]

... Somehow I find Huckabee Sanders far creepier than Spicer. I am not sure why that is.

That's Sarah Huckleberry Sandbager to her friends.

I'm betting Melissa McCarthy will have SHS's tics and mannerisms down cold when SNL returns in the Fall. Or maybe even SNL's Weekend Update/Summer Edition which starts on August 11th.

SNL fake news has never been so real.

[Econoline]

Corollary to the title of this thread: When you find yourself calling the Boy Scouts of America liars...maybe it's time to just shut up.