Just because the media isn't covering something, I remind him, doesn't mean it's irrelevant. But tell me who else is talking. People can say anything they want. He points to my cup of water on his desk. They can say there's two cups on the desk, but that's demonstrably not true.
Facts are facts.
I nod, and he moves on to the issue of crime, which he's made his own. Reducing crime is saving minority lives. Let's look at the city's murder victims last year. Almost all of them were black. We had process paralysis.