How could Donald Trump have been so submental or…I don’t know, thoughtlessly gut-tethered as to call The Atlantic‘s recent, 100% accurate report that Bill Maher will receive the annual Mark Twain Award “fake news“?
How could press secretary Karoline Leavitt be so stupidly robotic as to mindlessly repeat this without double-checking?
Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg: “The Atlantic reported first and accurately that Bill Maher was going to receive the Mark Twain Prize. The White House’s obfuscation strategy here is not effective.”
Maher: “Thank you to the Mark Twain people. I just had the award explained to me, and apparently it’s like an Emmy, except I win. I’d just like to say that it is indeed humbling to get anything named for a man who’s been thrown out of as many school libraries as Mark Twain.”
Conan O’Brien was last year’s honoree.
