NYT: Flynn has ‘loose relationship with facts’

Posted by | November 18, 2016 11:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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The New York Times reports that, much like the man who is appointing him, Michael Flynn and facts are not always friends.

Mr. Trump and General Flynn both see themselves as brash outsiders who hustled their way to the big time. They both post on Twitter often about their own successes, and they have both at times crossed the line into outright Islamophobia.

They also both exhibit a loose relationship with facts: General Flynn, for instance, has said that Shariah, or Islamic law, is spreading in the United States (it is not). His dubious assertions are so common that when he ran the Defense Intelligence Agency, subordinates came up with a name for the phenomenon: They called them “Flynn facts.”

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13 responses to NYT: Flynn has ‘loose relationship with facts’

  1. oldfart November 18th, 2016 at 11:45

    “His dubious assertions ”
    He should try some of MY doobie assertions….
    What ?… Oh,… never mind.

  2. whatthe46 November 18th, 2016 at 13:10

    correction. all republicans and the media have a loose relationship facts. arghhhh

  3. Bunya November 18th, 2016 at 13:53

    Flynn is somewhat correct. It’s Christian Sharia law that’s spreading throughout the U.S., not Islamic Sharia law.

  4. Willys41 November 18th, 2016 at 14:25

    There are no facts in Trumpville.

  5. anothertoothpick November 18th, 2016 at 14:29

    A whole new bucket of neocons.

  6. amersham1046 November 18th, 2016 at 18:59

    loose with facts, sound a lot like Trump

    • Suzanne McFly November 18th, 2016 at 20:09

      Exactly, they will have a magical relationship and the rest of us get screwed.

  7. Red Mann November 18th, 2016 at 20:12

    The same narcissistic denial of failure and loserhood, “It’s not my fault, ‘they’ are out to get me”.

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