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PROBLEM: Matt Damon  has apologized for  his  comments about sexual harassment and the #MeToo movement  which drew a slew of well-deserved controversy when  he  waded into the debate last month.
âI really wish Iâd listened a lot more before I weighed in on this â  Damon  admitted during an interview on TODAY. âI donât want to further anybodyâs pain with anything that I do or say. So for that I am really sorry. A lot of those women are my dear friends and I love them and respect them and support what theyâre doing and want to be a part of that change...but I should get in the back seat and close my mouth for a while.â
During an ABC News interview in December   Damon  pointed out that sexual misconduct encompasses "a spectrum of behavior " and made the revolutionary observation that there is "a difference between patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation."
While  he  acknowledged that both types of behavior "need to be confronted and eradicated without question  they shouldn't be conflated." In a separate interview with Business Insider   Damon  also noted "one thing that's not being talked about is there are a whole shitload of guysâthe preponderance of men I've worked withâwho don't do this kind of thing and whose lives aren't going to be affected." Because our real priority here should be celebrating the brave men who manage not to sexually abuse women.
Following  Damon 's comments  a number of peopleâincluding  Damon 's former co-star and ex-girlfriend Minnie Driverâsharply criticized  him  for failing to recognize that even "minor" incidents of harassment are symptomatic of a much bigger problem. "It's the micro that makes the macro " actress Alyssa Milano wrote in an open letter to Damon on Twitter. "I have been a victim of each component of the sexual assault spectrum of which you speak. They all hurt. And they are all connected to a patriarchy intertwined with normalized  acceptedâeven welcomedâmisogyny."

SOLUTION: Matt Damon

PROBLEM: CLOSE White House Spokesman  Sean Spicer  doubled down on  his  claim that President Trump's inauguration was the most watched in history.  He  also said  his  intention is to "always tell the truth " but said there may be disagreement over the facts. (Jan. 23) AP
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway claimed that âalternative factsâ were employed by  Press Secretary Sean Spicer  when he tried to make the case that âthis was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration  period  both in person and around the globe.â Actually   Spicer  got several facts wrong.
 Spicer  then read a prepared statement later that day  further criticizing the media for âdishonesty.â
 Spicer   Jan. 21: "Secondly  photographs of the inaugural proceedings were intentionally framed in a way  in one particular tweet  to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the National Mall. â¦ We know that from the platform where the president was sworn in  to 4th Street  it holds about 250 000 people. From 4th Street to the media tent is about another 220 000. And from the media tent to the Washington Monument  another 250 000 people. All of this space was full when the president took the oath of office. We know that 420 000 people used the D.C. Metro public transit yesterday  which actually compares to 317 000 that used it for President Obamaâs last inaugural. This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration â period â both in person and around the globe."
At a Jan. 23 press conference   Spicer  made an alternative argument  saying the number of people watching the inauguration on TV  online and in person had to be the largest ever.
âI have a right to say if you add up the network streaming numbers  Facebook  YouTube  all of the various live streaming that we have information on so far  I donât think thereâs any question it was the largest watched inauguration  ever â  Spicer  said.
On that point   Spicer  may be correct. While Nielsen TV ratings were higher in past years  some data suggests online viewership was up compared with 2009. But there is no comprehensive measurement available that would prove or disprove this claim.
On NBCâs Meet the Press  host Chuck Todd asked White House counselor Kellyanne Conway  â[W]hy the president asked the White House press secretary to come out in front of the podium for the first time and utter a falsehood?â Conway responded: âDonât be so overly dramatic about it  Chuck. What â Youâre saying itâs a falsehood. And theyâre giving Sean Spicer  our press secretary  gave alternative facts to that.â
PBSâ âNewsHourâ also posted a timelapse video of the crowd throughout Inauguration Day  which shows it didnât quite stretch back to the Washington Monument  as Trump and  Spicer  said. And as our fact-checking colleagues at The Washington Postpointed out  other journalists had more photographic evidence on Twitter.
Metro ridership. At the press conference   Spicer  also gave inaccurate numbers for those taking the Washington  D.C.  Metro system for Trumpâs inauguration compared with Obamaâs.
But thatâs not what Metro said  and  Spicer  acknowledged that during  his  Jan. 23 press conference.
 Spicer âs 317 000 figure was the number Metro gave for riders as of 11 a.m. on Inauguration Day 2013. The comparable number  for 11 a.m.  for Trumpâs inauguration was 193 000.
Crowd-size experts.  Spicer  was right about one thing: It appears  as  he  said  that no one has scientifically calculated estimates of the crowd size for Trumpâs inauguration. Congress has prohibited the National Park Service from making official estimates after it produced an official estimate that 460 000 turned out for the so-called âMillion Man Marchâ in 1995  prompting organizers to threaten a lawsuit.
 Spicer  argued that floor coverings over the grass on the National Mall âhighlight[ed] where people were not standing  while in years past the grass eliminated this visual.â
âI donât know how  [Spicer]  kept a straight face when he said that â Doig said.
TV and online viewership. But at the Jan. 23 press conference   Spicer  emphasized the combined audience â in person  watching on TV and watching online â was the highest in history. Asked if he was now saying that it was the largest in-person crowd for an inauguration   Spicer  said  âI am not. I am saying that it was the total largest audience witnessed in person and around the globe.â

SOLUTION: Sean Spicer

PROBLEM: Jeremy Corbyn  tears into the Tories over incoherent Brexit bumbling
A frequent criticism of  Jeremy Corbyn  and the revitalised  principled  post-Blair Labour Party is their lack of clarity on Brexit -- some speculated that  Corbyn  felt that Brexit would  at least  allow for re-nationalisation of privatised industries  something the EU might block -- but at Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions  Corbyn shredded Theresa May and the Tories with a series of relentless  devastating questions about the slow-motion train-wreck that is the Tories' bungling handling of Brexit.
More important than the views of  Corbyn 's allies is the changing nature of the facts over Brexit; the Tories are steaming towards a deregulation bonanza in which the UK's principle exports will be financial secrecy for the world's looter class and unlimited cruelty to real people in the real economy.
In PMQs he has usually dodged the great issue. But his tone changed recently: on a visit to Shipley  in West Yorkshire  he was asked how he would vote if there were a referendum now â a question the PM and chancellor duck  while those turncoats Jeremy Hunt and Liz Truss cravenly recant.  Corbyn  unhesitatingly said  he âd vote remain: âI voted remain because I thought the best option was to remain. I havenât changed my mind.â  He  added: âWe must make sure we obtain tariff-free access to the European markets and protection of all the rights and membership of agencies we have achieved through the European Union.â  He  was  say some  hesitant on unfamiliar policy turf. But now  he  has found  his  feet  and  his  voice and confidence. âThe danger is  we will get to March 2019 with no deal  we fall out of the EU  we go on to World Trade Organisation rules  and there will be threats to a lot of jobs all across Britain â  he  warned. âI think it is quite shocking.â This time next week the EUâs chief negotiator  Michel Barnier  will deliver his verdict on whether sufficient progress has been made. He has already thrown down the challenge to the chaotic Tories: what kind of country does Britain want to be  a European model country  or something else altogether? Theresa May doesnât know  but  Jeremy Corbyn  does. The European model beckons as the enlightened  internationalist  progressive vision â the Europhobic model is a land of impoverished deregulation.
 Corbyn  has seen the light on Brexit. Now  he âs taking the fight to the Tories [Polly Toynbee/Guardian]

SOLUTION:
Jeremy Corbyn