Jeb Confuses Fact With Fantasy. Most People Would Call It "Lying"

This past week, a Jeb Bush campaign event in Las Vegas was called short after representatives from Black Lives Matter began chanting in response to Mr. Bush's answer to a question about racial injustice. 

Later, a spokesperson for the Bush campaign stated that Jeb had held a private meeting with the group before the event, a claim that was repeated in multiple news stories.

Kevin Hooks, president and CEO of the Las Vegas Urban League confirmed to the media that he had organized a meeting at the request of Mr. Bush's campaign, but said that it was not a meeting with Black Lives Matter activists.  Explaining that he held a certain respect for Mr. Bush for wanting to reach out to minorities, Mr. Hooks added that the way Jeb's campaign had characterized the attendees was "a little disingenuous."

what eye thynk:  There were three people at the Bush meeting, a meeting that reportedly lasted just fifteen minutes:

1.  A member of Mr. Hooks staff from the Las Vegas Urban League
2. North Las Vegas' Mayor Pro Tem
3. A registered lobbyist who once ran as a Republican candidate for Nevada's state assembly.   

Maybe Mr. Hooks was trying to be polite; but Jeb's campaign was more than "a little disingenuous." There is no way anyone could have mistaken that for a meeting with anyone representing Black Lives Matter.  It was simply an out and out lie.

As Hunter of Daily Kos wrote, "(Jeb is) just superb at this campaigning thing, isn't he?  I can see why he's rocketed all the way to seventh place or so among Republican voters.  As for why the campaign would lie about such an obviously checkable thing, you've got me there, but we've already seen a lot of evidence that Jeb Bush is not necessarily the smart one.