{"id":16513,"date":"2017-02-09T14:08:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T19:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=16513"},"modified":"2017-02-09T14:08:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T19:08:50","slug":"in-response-to-alternative-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/in-response-to-alternative-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"In response to \u201calternative facts\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Re: Politics as Usual, January 26)<\/em><\/p>\n

This is in response to Allison Collins-Mrakas opinion on \u201cTrump and his appalling talking heads\u201d under the title \u201cThose are the facts, Jack.\u201d
\nPerhaps the writer should have been more appalled by Obama\u2019s lies about Obamacare, including you can keep your doctor and plan and the costs will not increase, or his lies about Benghazi being caused by a video, or his lie about the hundreds of millions of unmarked bills flown to Iran in a plane not being a payment for American hostages.
\nObama lied about ISIS being the Junior Varsity team and pressured the intelligence community to prepare their reports to support his false narrative.
\nThose lies were about serious issues.
\nThe argument from the Trump administration about crowd size was raised in response to the media\u2019s constant attempt to belittle his presidency.
\nThis is not worth even reporting on. The media ignored Trump\u2019s huge crowd sizes compared to Hillary\u2019s small turnouts throughout the campaign.
\nWhere is the outrage that a reporter falsely tweeted that Trump had removed the bust of Dr. Martin Luther King to push the lie that Trump is a racist? The reporter had to retract his tweet after it had been retweeted 3,000 times.
\nThe facts were not checked before the tweet was sent. This paper\u2019s negative focus on Trump is only a distraction from our homegrown scandals perpetrated by Wynne and Trudeau, and that is a fact.<\/p>\n

Shelley Wister
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(Re: Politics as Usual, January 26) This is in response to Allison Collins-Mrakas opinion on \u201cTrump and his appalling talking heads\u201d under the title \u201cThose are the facts, Jack.\u201d Perhaps the writer should have been more appalled by Obama\u2019s lies about Obamacare, including you can keep your doctor and plan and the costs will not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-4il","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-14 13:54:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}