Montini: Flack lies matter (when the attack dog works for Trump)

President Donald Trump sicced his press secretary/attack dog Sean Spicer on the White House press corps Saturday, where Spicer launched into a tirade on the media for accurately reporting the comparatively modest size of the crowd that came to witness Trump's inauguration.

He complained of "deliberately false reporting" and “inaccurate numbers involving crowd size."

He actually said, "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period."

Ahhhh ...

It must be the worst job ever to be ordered by your boss to appear before a group of rational individuals and tell them that unedited, unaltered photographs they've seen with their own eyes are not real.

Because, you know, they are.

There are no 'alternative facts' to that. There are only the facts.

Anything else is misdirection. Delusion.

Yes, Trump's ego really is that fragile

Aerial photos from the same perspective clearly show that the first inauguration of President Barack Obama's drew a much bigger crowd than that of Trump. Apparently, the same is true of television's Nielsen ratings.

If you're the president should you care?

I mean, really, you're the president.

Of the United States of America.

You are the most powerful political figure on the planet and you need to dispatch your public relation flack on a media-haranguing mission of denial over crowd size?

Are you going to send the poor guy out again to deny the enormous size of protest crowds Saturday in hundreds of cities and towns in the U.S. and abroad? (Including 20,000 in Phoenix.)

Is your ego that fragile?

Sadly, yes.