“I talked to the president prior to this and he said to quote him very clearly, ‘They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.’”

(Laughter)

 

That parenthetical was the sound of the White House Press Corps sharing a hearty laugh with the man who just told them that the president had lied to them consistently for over a year.

Tonight’s post will be short and not-very-sweet.

Fuck you, media. You haven’t learned a goddamned thing.

 

Meanwhile, in news that doesn’t matter…

While the national media was busy laughing off the admission that the president was willfully lying to them, other members of their profession were busy wondering furiously if Miley Cyrus got secretly married because her dad tweeted that he was happy that she was happy.