When Philip Rucker claimed one of his readers told him the WH switchboard used the term ‘fake news’ when asked about Trump’s Puerto Rico tweets, we laughed.
A lot.
Just in: A reader told me she called WH switchboard to object to Trump's Puerto Rico tweets. WH receptionist told her WaPo was "fake news."
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) October 12, 2017
We’re guessing this reader is the grandmother of the little Hispanic boy another journo ran into on the metro who asked him why Trump hated him.
https://twitter.com/amber_athey/status/918528873033322497
Funny, that WH switchboard told us the same thing.
https://twitter.com/amber_athey/status/918530193744187393
Heh.
Sad that we have to verify such things these days but better safe than sorry.
https://twitter.com/Dienekes_Sparta/status/918530686411304960
Was @PhilipRucker available, or too partisan to comment?
— Bocephus (@lordthx1139) October 13, 2017
He was too busy being owned by Amber here.
https://twitter.com/vetssc17/status/918618763418841090
We called and asked if they knew their refrigerator was running – they didn’t think we were funny.
And oh yeah, THAT’S A JOKE TOO.
Told this to my 3 month old.
She asked if @PhilipRucker knows volunteers run the switchboard.
— Dylan Gillespie (@DGillespie_Sig) October 12, 2017
Could do this all day.
Does @PhilipRucker really think people are stupid enough to believe his WH fable? LOL.
— I Told You So (@get2thegulch) October 12, 2017
Sadly yes.
Welcome to journalism, 2017.
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