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With the word lie already being tossed around mere days into this administration, the White House is working overtime to keep everything transparent and above board in order to win back the trust of the American people.

No, just kidding, they held a press conference to refute the time-honored maxim that a picture of an inauguration is worth 1,000 words.

And this mendaciousness or alternative forthrightness appears to carry over to the customarily benign biographies on the whitehouse.gov website:

For the record, theres nothing untrue in that passage (UPDATE: the bios He later he typo notwithstanding). But legal industry observers probably notice the critical omission that renders the passage laughably misleading. Pence did graduate from Indiana University, but its all about his long-form diploma. Indiana University boasts two different law schools. The Vice-President attended the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis, not to be confused with the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington.

On the subject of confusion, why would someone try to gloss over this distinction in their official bio? Well, Indiana University Maurer is currently tied for 25th in the U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings. Indiana University McKinney is tied for 100th (Maurer is 48th in our ATL law school rankings, and McKinney did not make the top 50). This distinction in relative quality hasnt changed much since Pence was drawing cartoons instead of learning about constitutional law.

So one can see why Pence might be eager to let people jump to some conclusions about his education.

Look, dont take our mockery of Pences vanity as a slight on McKinney. If anything, Pence is the one disrespecting McKinney by refusing to publicly admit that he attended Indianas less prestigious law school. Hell, even Dan Quayle is willing to admit he went to McKinney, and oh my God were now looking up at the Quayle as a role model for the office!

UPDATE: A tipster says that Pence didnt go to Hanover in 1981, but rather graduated in 1981, suggesting there may be some sloppy editing all the way around on this bio.

UPDATE: Apparently, other folks have noticed Pences liberal use of Indiana University School of Law. At the Womens March on Washington last weekend, someone captured a picture of this sign:

The final hashtag, #PenceDidNotGo2Maurer, may be the least socially important, but its certainly near and dear to a lot of students hearts.

Earlier: Mike Pence Is As Unfunny As Every Other Law Student

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Is Mike Pence Trying To Pull A Fast One On America? - Above the Law

One of the buzziest films of this years Sundance Film Festival is Call Me By Your Name, a love story set in 1980s Italy between an American visitor (Armie Hammer) and a local teenager (Timothee Chalamet). But although the movie takes place in the past, it feels politically timely, given questions about LGBT rights under a Trump administration.

On Monday afternoon, director Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) talked to Variety about showing the movie under an administration where the vice president, Mike Pence,hasa record ofopposition to gay rights. He zeroed in on accusationsthat Pence supports conversion therapy, a practice of trying to change someones sexual orientation or gender identity.

The conviction of Mr. Pence, the idea that you can revert the identity of someone, particularly the non-normative identity into a normative identity, it speaks to me of his own identity, Guadagnino said. I am very curious to know if anybody who is very close to Mr. Pence could tell us what really Mr. Pence thinks of himself.

Hammer laughed. Anybody? Anybody, please?

In the 12 years since Brokeback Mountain, theres been considerable progress for gay rights and the representations of homosexual characters in movies and TV, from Carol to Glee. Back in 2006, Jack Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger were constantly asked about how brave it was to take on a gay romance. But at the Park City, Utah, premiere of Call Me By Your Name on Sunday night, no such questions emergedat a post-screening Q&A.

Art is a very affecting, and hopefully can be, a change agent, Hammer said, recalling inflammatory reactions to Brokeback Mountain.Sociologically, I would hope weve evolved enough that now we can see past that and see the humanity, the truth, that is present in every moment of desire or affection.

Guadagnino casts his lead actors without even conducting a chemistry test. He shot his lush drama near in Crema, Italy. During the first rehearsal, in a garden outside of the films house, he had Hammer and Chalamet go straight to a pivotal moment in the script, which was adapted from a beloved 2007 novel.

The next thing we know, were lying in the grass and making out, Hammer said, adding: The shooting of the first kiss scene was great. It felt as organic and special as every shot we did on this movie.

Ive never seen a shot like that from above, where Armie and I were splayed out on the grass, Chalamet, 21, said. The scenes that were intense in sexual nature on the page werent treated any differently.

In fact, the hardest scene for Hammer was learning how to shimmy to 80s music. We had a choreographer who taught me, he said. The dancing was probably the thing I found the most difficult.

Call Me By Your Name will be released later this year from Sony Pictures Classics.

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'Call Me by Your Name' Director Blasts Mike Pence for Anti-Gay Policies - Variety

WASHINGTONAdmonishing those responsible for failing to uphold their moral duties, Vice President Mike Pence expressed disappointment Saturday in the 200,000 husbands and fathers who had allowed the women and girls in their charge to attend the Womens March on Washington. I cant tell you how let down I feel by the heads of these households who did not simply give their wives and daughters a firm, decisive no when they asked to participate in todays demonstration, said Pence, noting with frustration that many of the protesters had been granted permission to travel across the country alone and stay for several days in a faraway city with no male chaperone whatsoever to guide and look after them. There are a few men marching as well, so they must be the ones supervising this whole thing, and thank God for that. But I cant help but feel that these ladies custodiansthe ones who were supposed to be providing a masculine voice of reason on these sorts of mattershave really come up short today. Pence stressed that he, for example, had told his 23-year-old eldest daughter that it was simply out of the question when she mentioned she was thinking of attending the march.

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