Texas Official Defends Deranged Facebook Posts: 'I'm Not a News Source'
Responding to a Texas Tribune report, Texas Agricultural Commissioner Sid Miller defended posting fake news on his Facebook page — which has more than 340,000 likes and almost 330,000 followers — during a call-in interview with Austin radio station KUT News.
“I’m not a news organization,” Miller — who landed in hot water last spring after calling Hillary Clinton the c-word in a tweet — told journalist and radio host Nathan Bernier on Wednesday. “Y’all are holding me to the same standards as you would a news organization, and it’s just Facebook.”
“A lot of the things I post on Facebook are satire and comedy and I’m not a news source,” he continued. “We do try — when someone points out that something we put up is not accurate or it’s false, I take it down, but I think everyone just needs to realize that Facebook is not always a reliable source if you want factual news.”
“It’s like Fox News,” Miller responded. “I report, you decide if it’s true or not.”
Asked if he regrets posting a doctored photo of President Obama holding up a Che Guevara shirt during a visit to Cuba, Miller asked, “Why would I regret that? That was funny.”
Listen to Miller’s interview with Bernier below:
(h/t Talking Points Memo)
