WH Press Secretary Sean Spicer Blasts Media’s ‘Deliberately False Reporting’ – Breitbart
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held an emergency press briefing on Saturday where he lit into the media for their “egregious” and “deliberately false reporting” of Friday’s inauguration of President Donald Trump and his first day in office.
Satellites will by flying over Trump’s inauguration, as they did in 2009. Journalism professor Stephen Doig, one of the gurus of crowd counting, used an image from satellite company GeoEye to estimate a crowd of 800,000 people for Obama’s first Inauguration. Official estimates for the event, though, were over twice as high, at 1.8 million, which may actually be impossible, say researchers. DDIS modeled how big a very tightly packed crowd of a million people would stretch back from the Capitol building along the Mall: It would extend across the Potomac River into Virginia.
On Inauguration Day, some “60 million people on Facebook in the U.S. generated 208 million likes, posts, comments and shares related to the presidential inauguration,” Andy Stone, a policy communications representative for Facebook, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Newly elected Indiana State Senator catching fire over “fat women” post – 95.3 MNC
A new Indiana State Senator is in damage control mode after people took offense to a Facebook post on Sunday.
And the hero of the day award goes to this guy! Pure fun. Let that be a lesson to all protesters!#whyIMarch #WattersWorld #WomensMarch pic.twitter.com/kgkb3FJHdI
— Tennessee GOP (@TEN_GOP) January 22, 2017
Dan Rather: When Trump Lies, We Have To Call Him Out – Matt Vespa
“These are not normal times. These are extraordinary times. And extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures,” wrote Rather. “What can we do? We can all step up and say simply and without equivocation. “A lie, is a lie, is a lie!” And if someone won’t say it, those of us who know that there is such a thing as the truth must do whatever is in our power to diminish the liar’s malignant reach into our society,” he added.
Hour 2
Two members of Young Americans for Liberty’s (YAL) Kellogg Community College (KCC) chapter have filed suit against the Michigan school following their arrest on campus last September for passing out pocket-sized copies of the U.S. Constitution without administrative permission.
Nanny State Health Warning: Burnt Toast Can Give You Cancer – Breitbart
Don’t eat burnt toast or fish ‘n’ chips or over crispy roast potatoes – or you may end up getting cancer, a UK government agency has warned.
Study Claiming Video Games ‘Train’ Players for Real-World Violence Retracted – Breitbart
A 2012 report on the effect of violent video games on players has been retracted by the publisher.
Getting the Vapers, Again | IndyPolitics.Org
It looks like Indiana lawmakers will have at least two vaping bills to pick from in order to deal one passed last session that created a monopoly and drew the attention of the FBI.
Study Shreds Vaping As ‘Gateway’ To Cigarette Smoking | The Daily Caller
Evidence to suggest a “gateway effect” to smoking among youth who vape is sparse.
Hour 3
The first executive order signed was the withdraw of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
‘Saturday Night Live’ Writer Katie Rich Fired Over Barron Trump School Shooter Tweet | Heat Street
Saturday Night Live writer Katie Rich, who joked that Donald Trump’s son Barron “will be this country’s first homeschool shooter,” has indefinitely suspended from her position,
Trump may not enforce individual health insurance mandate: aide
The Trump administration may no longer enforce a rule requiring individual Americans to carry health insurance or pay a penalty if they do not, a senior White House official said on Sunday Speaking on ABC’s “This Week” program, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, said President Donald Trump “may stop enforcing the individual mandate.”
Mattis Celebrates First Day By Blowing Up ISIS 31 Times | The Daily Caller
Newly minted Secretary of Defense James Mattis celebrated his first full day at the Pentagon by presiding over 31 strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Conway: Trump Is ‘Not Going to Release His Tax Returns’ – Breitbart
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” when asked about a White House petition calling for President Donald Trump to release his tax returns, Trump aide Kellyanne Conway said Trump is “not going to release his tax returns.”
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