Alternative Facts
Welcome to the world of "alternative facts."
There is a much simpler term for what White House advisor Kellyanne Conway called alternative facts. The term is lies. There are no alternative facts in the real world. There are facts and then there are falsehoods.
It is a fact that of the eight planets in our solar system, Mercury is the planet closest to the sun. What Sean Spicer did would be akin to claiming that it is actually Uranus that is the planet closest to the sun. That would be an alternative fact. It would also be a lie. An untruth. A distortion. A prevarication.
Why would the Trump Administration draw a line in the sand over the trivial issue of whether or not the inauguration was a success? Why does it have to have been the biggest crowd in history, when it clearly wasn't. I won't waste your time with another reiteration of all of the lies told by Mr. Spicer but there were a lot of them.
Rather than ignoring the photos that showed a relatively empty National Mall for the Trump inauguration side-by-side with the throngs that were there in 2009 for the first inauguration of Barrack Obama, Mr. Trump and his minions pounced like hungry lions on this attack against him. How dare anyone, let alone the media, show off that his inauguration was anything but the best ever?
Considering how often and frequently Donald Trump and those who speak for him lie, you'd think they would be better at it.
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Conversely, the Women's March on Saturday was an amazing success. The pictures tell the story.
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There is a much simpler term for what White House advisor Kellyanne Conway called alternative facts. The term is lies. There are no alternative facts in the real world. There are facts and then there are falsehoods.
It is a fact that of the eight planets in our solar system, Mercury is the planet closest to the sun. What Sean Spicer did would be akin to claiming that it is actually Uranus that is the planet closest to the sun. That would be an alternative fact. It would also be a lie. An untruth. A distortion. A prevarication.
Why would the Trump Administration draw a line in the sand over the trivial issue of whether or not the inauguration was a success? Why does it have to have been the biggest crowd in history, when it clearly wasn't. I won't waste your time with another reiteration of all of the lies told by Mr. Spicer but there were a lot of them.
Rather than ignoring the photos that showed a relatively empty National Mall for the Trump inauguration side-by-side with the throngs that were there in 2009 for the first inauguration of Barrack Obama, Mr. Trump and his minions pounced like hungry lions on this attack against him. How dare anyone, let alone the media, show off that his inauguration was anything but the best ever?
Considering how often and frequently Donald Trump and those who speak for him lie, you'd think they would be better at it.
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Conversely, the Women's March on Saturday was an amazing success. The pictures tell the story.
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posted by me at 6:50 AM
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