Ridiculing Trump's so-called "alternative facts," the Democrats have some "alternative facts" of their own.
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Second, evangelical leaders, knowing the facts, are emboldened to speak when alternative facts may be holding sway elsewhere, particularly when those alternative facts are hurting the most vulnerable.
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The Trump team embraces "alternative facts" Day 3 – Jan.
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The Trump team embraces "alternative facts" Day 6 – Jan.
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And although Conway and Spicer were both deeply criticized they presented their "alternative facts" about the size of Trump's inauguration crowd, we're choosing to believe the "alternative facts" of Villa Italian Kitchen.
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" She offered that Spicer had merely been providing "alternative facts.
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Alternative, not to be confused with alternative facts, of course.
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"We need to move beyond the universe of alternative facts."
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Then she says Mr Spicer "gave alternative facts to that".
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Well, they're Swedish, but according to alternative facts they're Belgian.
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The tweet: The context: Kellyanne Conway's infamous "alternative facts" remark.
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He reacts based on his emotion and his 'alternative facts.
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"It kind of comes down to 'alternative facts,'" says Wood.
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"Every day we lose ground debating alternative facts," he writes.
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Brill's response: I guess the alternative facts trend is spreading.
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His allegations since November are clearly lies, not alternative facts.
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We won't be silent, nor will we accept alternative facts.
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Alternative facts are what they use in alternatives to democracy.
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When "alternative" facts are legitimized, information literacy must be emphasized.
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If you say, "I'm really disheartened that we have a collapse of public discourse and these people talking about alternative facts," then speak up and say there are no such thing as alternative facts.
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" Todd responded by saying, "Alternative facts aren't facts, they are falsehoods.
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There is no fiction [here] and there are no alternative facts.
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Kellyanne Conway made it even weirder with an alternative facts defense.
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And they're giving — Sean Spicer, our press secretary — gave alternative facts.
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Conway, Pence and their "alternative facts" must feel right at home.
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" He might as well have added: "Let's eradicate 'alternative facts' forever.
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But Todd pushed back against Conway, saying alternative facts are falsehoods.
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We are all complicit in producing fake news and alternative facts.
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There may be additional facts, but there are never alternative facts.
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Grades are valued over integrity, and alternative facts prevail over truth.
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And they're giving -- Sean Spicer, our press secretary -- gave alternative facts.
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WASHINGTON — Forget alternative facts — Samantha Bee is pioneering the alternative dinner.
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Believing your own alternative facts, however, is usually not so smart.
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President Trump is here to correct them with his alternative facts.
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Democrats on Saturday mocked the Trump administration over "alternative facts," a reference to a widely ridiculed January remark by top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, who was defending comments by another aide as "alternative facts," not falsehoods.
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It doesn't stop there -- one aspiring entrepreneur hopes to brew up some "Alternative Facts" beer, while another dreams of creating an "Alternative Facts" live news program related to politics ... which might be a little on the nose.
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TV reporter Mary Richards wouldn't even imagine fake news or alternative facts.
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Alternative Facts just don't work for very long in the private sector.
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That "evidence" could also be filed in the category of Alternative Facts.
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Take on this crazy new world of alternative facts and fake news.
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Alternative facts, troll farms, meme warfare—he would be spoiled for material.
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And then defending themselves by talking about, quote on quote 'alternative facts.
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We did our first expansion pack a couple months ago: Alternative facts.
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Unsurprisingly, the man who inspired "alternative facts" had some critiques for McCarthy.
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I would definitely discourage them from using the term 'alternative facts' again.
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So which statement is fake news and which is just alternative facts?
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Put simply, fact and fiction are morphing into alternative facts and gospel.
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But the problem isn't just filter bubbles, echo chambers or alternative facts.
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There's no such thing as my truth, your truth or alternative facts.
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"Just look at the facts, not the alternative facts," Mr. Biden said.
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The beauty of that was it was an antidote to alternative facts.
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The phrase "alternative facts" has topped a 2017 list of notable quotes.
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I was just going to do Alternative Facts three hours a week.
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And now that coverage, and its set of alternative facts, was being rewarded.
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Maybe this would produce evidence for a flatulence-themed version of alternative facts?
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Before deepfakes and alternative facts, the online world was already telling us fibs.
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In Vietnam, the cost of Alternative Facts included more than 58,000 American lives.
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Magid's project of alternative facts and ambiguous post-truths reflects a political context.
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We might enter a world not only of "alternative facts" but alternative reality.
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" Notice: Conway even pauses with a small smile after she says "alternative facts.
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Dangerous "alternative facts" have been the norm in anti-abortion advocacy for decades.
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Conway invented the phrase "alternative facts" and suffered no negative consequences inside Trumpworld.
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But in a time of "alternative facts," it's hard to create political fiction.
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Kyrie Irving has officially slipped into the alternative universe, where alternative facts prevail.
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All that changes when the White House embraces the notion of 'alternative facts.
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Social media users mocked Conway by tweeting their own "alternative facts" on Sunday.
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The conservatives use those alternative facts all the time, and so does Trump.
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Now, we can just say stuff, and when questioned, we can offer 'Alternative Facts.
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ALTERNATIVE histories are like "alternative facts" at the moment: seemingly everyone is peddling them.
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This is an administration that said the words "alternative facts" with a straight face.
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FOWLER: Listen, you just twisted a whole bunch of things to create alternative facts.
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Indeed, its new ad campaign involved someone sharing alternative facts related to climate change.
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Hell, Kellyanne Conway invented "alternative facts," a concept undermining the entire existence of journalism.
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Well, according to Conway, who famously coined the term "alternative facts," sure it is.
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Alternative Facts, features visuals from retro Americana ads, loud typography, and other eclectic graphics.
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Trump's very own "alternative facts" defender, Kellyanne Conway, tweeted that data herself on Monday.
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It will be someone else's alternative facts unless you've got a picture of it.
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They do not inoculate against alternative facts; they do the opposite — they spread extremism.
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By distorting reality so relentlessly, he has put everyone on alert for alternative facts.
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It's like politicians talking about false voting, these things that never happened: alternative facts.
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This time, it's putting spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway on blast for her "alternative facts" claim.
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In Alternative Facts, sham notaries put ersatz stamps of bureaucratic approval on visitors' lies.
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That's a problem when you've got a White House that talks about alternative facts.
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Not accepting lies as "alternative facts" is an issue that truly must transcend partisan politics.
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Unfortunately, though, Alternative Facts can have a much longer shelf life in the public sector.
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But has there ever been a phrase more indicative of political doublespeak than "Alternative Facts"?
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Instead, people are now allowed to trust and express their own feelings as "alternative facts".
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The plague of alternative facts spreads through the arteries of social media like a drug.
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In the video, several Black kids debunk "alternative facts" often assumed about the Black community.
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After all, if the facts weren't against Trump, why would the administration offer "alternative facts"?
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When necessary and expedient, Trump and his team use "alternative facts" to make their case.
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We wouldn't put it past him to portray the country's staunch defender of alternative facts.
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You're saying it's a falsehood...Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that.
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" It was another not-so-subtle knock against Trump, whose administration famously embraced "alternative facts.
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I don't teach "Fabrication 101", "Alternative Facts Seminar", or "University Seminar in Making Stuff Up".
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" Unfortunately, the senator did not get to encounter the Trump administration's world of "alternative facts.
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In this effort, they are peddling "alternative facts" about monuments that just are not true.
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The defending of lies with the now infamous term "alternative facts" sparked us into action.
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It's a period of "what if"-ing and magical thinking; horror stories and alternative facts.
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"Clearly, the White House press statement today is based on alternative facts," Ms. Wang said.
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Kellyanne Conway talked about alternative facts at one point, so the phrase comes from her.
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Interestingly, research suggests that there is a particular dynamic at play between fake news and alternative facts: third parties, including the news media and respected individuals, can be effective antidotes to the toxicity of alternative facts, sapping their staying power and lessening their impact.
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There's also a built-in mechanism of detecting Alternative Facts in the private sector: your wallet.
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TAMEEZ: Judge, look, either we can talk about alternative facts or we can talk about facts.
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Supporting subscription- or donation-based news organizations could help counter the viral nature of alternative facts.
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Before there was fake news, there was fake DNA, and other alternative facts surrounding Simpson's trial.
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" The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation issued a press release "correcting Trump's alternative facts.
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In the era of fake news and alternative facts, Wales is launching a new venture: WikiTribune.
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The collision of facts and alternative facts has hurt America's efforts to confront this existential crisis.
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Donald Trump's senior adviser Kellyanne Conway has taken her use of "alternative facts" to another level.
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" In his way, Bradbury predicted the rise of "alternative facts" and an era of "post-truth.
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Using the hashtag #AlternativeFacts, Twitter users jumped at the opportunity to post some "alternative facts" themselves.
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They gave Russians and Kremlin sympathizers a source of often incorrect and purposefully misleading alternative facts.
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Of course, in the era of alternative facts, Mayor Kenney may be spitting in the wind.
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Here are the (non-alternative) facts: There were more than 135 million ballots cast in November.
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Dan Letwin, a history professor at Penn State, wrote a timely "ode to alternative facts": Well now, Kellyanne Conway has lately conceived Of a new understanding of what to believe When the truth gives you heartburn, don't worry, relax You can always resort to alternative facts!
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Kellyanne Conway, purveyor of "alternative facts," has recently been appointed to head the administration's opioid crisis response.
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"Nominees have to meet a higher standard when a White House trafficks in alternative facts," Whitehouse said.
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In these times, all their words might be perceived as alternative facts, or worse yet, fake news.
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Filmmakers have a web of misinformation and alternative facts to dig through to construct a truthful narrative.
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The phrase "alternative facts" quickly made its way to meme status, with celebrities jumping on the bandwagon.
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Even Conway, the woman who brought us "alternative facts," couldn't maneuver her way out of this one.
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The ad addresses all the noise around modern media, particularly the arguments around bias and alternative facts.
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And his litany of alternative facts, corrections, and blunders reveal the devastating disorganization of Trump's White House.
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"We must be open to alternative points of view, not alternative facts," Cook said, according to 9to5Mac.
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So lies, alternative "facts" and fear will not work this time around for Trump and the GOP.
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Taking a stand on alternative facts is the great challenge for this generation to take part in.
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" According to Merriam-Webster, "Lookups for 'fact' spiked after Kellyanne Conway described false statements as 'alternative facts'.
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They become, by sheer force of repetition, "alternative facts" and staples of his campaign rallies and speeches.
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And "attack dog" Matt Gaetz&aposs bullying, hypocrisy, and "alternative facts" often land him in hot water.
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As Trump's Orwellian adviser Kellyanne Conway admitted, they simply deployed "alternative facts" to try and rewrite history.
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Conway's "alternative facts" comment is perhaps one of the most defining and memorable gaffes of the year.
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" His staff members backed up that claim with what his adviser Kellyanne Conway memorably termed "alternative facts.
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Those are not alleged facts, those are not alternative facts, or a narrative created by the media.
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This is the logic of alternative facts, which is a strategy of base mobilization rather than persuasion.
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They also knock "alternative facts" by saying they wanted to get the true message out there publicly.
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That's why we feel compelled to go out and clear the air and put alternative facts out there.
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Mr Trump employs alternative facts; on the question of obstruction, Mr Mueller's report appears to offer alternative realities.
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That isn't impossible to believe in the Age of Alternative Facts, but it's a risky approach to take.
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Anti-abortion legislation based on "alternative facts" has been litigated all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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But, like most of Trump's policies, these orders are based on alternative facts and ignore basic economic realities.
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Conway said Sunday that Spicer provided the press with "alternative facts" about the crowd size during the briefing.
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For all of the talk about "alternative facts," the Trump White House is creating its own alternate reality.
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" While "alternative facts" quickly became a ridiculous meme, the dictionary then tweeted a definition of the word "fact.
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Top White House aide Kellyanne Conway on Sunday defended Spicer for sharing "alternative facts," stoking outrage and ridicule.
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"Alternative facts is a George Orwell phrase," she said during a "Reliable Sources" roundtable discussion about Conway's term.
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It's a mentality that produces concepts like "alternative facts" -- a belief that truth is itself a fungible concept.
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Contrary to "alternative facts" being spread throughout Congress, our federal workforce accomplishes heroic feats on a daily basis.
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Rudy Giuliani on Sunday let fly with the new "alternative facts," as the Trump administration drumbeat goes on.
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" That goes double when you are part of an administration that has already used the phrase "alternative facts.
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" After much public criticism, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway famously defended Spicer's claims by characterizing them as "alternative facts.
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Much of his criticism revolved around Mr. Spicer's role in forwarding the president's anti-press, "alternative facts" strategy.
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The death of objective truth and the rise of alternative facts have created an unprecedented drifting into chaos.
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Kellyanne Conway, the president's counselor, then described falsehoods from Mr. Spicer, as "alternative facts," stoking even more debate.
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JK: Interestingly, the lies in Alternative Facts can also have some of that tension, that struggle, in them.
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" The next day, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway showed up on TV and unforgettably introduced us to "alternative facts.
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Dem asks Trump budget pick if he'll give 'alternative facts': A Democratic senator asked President Trump's pick to lead the White House budget office if he would use "alternative facts" and pushed him to compare crowd sizes from former President Obama's and Trump's first inaugurations at his Tuesday confirmation hearing. Sen.
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The National Labor Relations Board just hit the NCAA with some alternative facts about that whole "student-athlete" thing.
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And where Merkel's worldview is fundamentally shaped by science, Trump weds himself to alternative facts that serve his ego.
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"The War on Science is more than a skirmish over funding, censorship, and 'alternative facts,'" says scientist Jon Foley.
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Take the W.' " On Kellyanne Conway and 'alternative facts': "Even if you guys groan, I've already hired Kellyanne Conway.
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And they're giving, Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that," Conway told NBC's "Meet the Press.
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Spicer has dished out alternative facts about any number of the President's mistakes as his own reputation has diminished.
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But what he wielded was an assortment of alternative facts and figures that served to pervert rather than persuade.
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The Trump administration, infamous for alternative facts, has vigorously renewed demand for an alternative science that was losing salience.
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An administration that favors alternative facts over the truth is naturally determined to operate under the cover of darkness.
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"They've trafficked in alternative facts...they've been haphazard and downright dysfunctional," Schumer paused to shush tourists in the building.
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Meanwhile Cambridge Analytica continues to use its public Twitter account to distribute a stream of rebuttals and alternative 'facts'.
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Or does this push us further down the slippery slope of alternative facts on which we are currently sliding?
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Ms. Conway, who has been criticized for presenting "alternative facts" on behalf of the president, said she heard Laurel.
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In this age of alternative facts and fake news, data-driven, evidence-based science is needed more than ever.
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What should language arts class look like when ad hominem arguments, name calling and "alternative facts" overwhelm civil discourse?
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Ask students if multiple viewpoints are the same thing as "alternative facts" — and discuss what the differences are. 3.
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Here's what the CDC says on its own website: Maybe the Trump administration is in possession of alternative facts.
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Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to Trump, said Spicer was using "alternative facts" when he disputed the inauguration coverage.
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And when you stop believing that there is even such a thing as objective truth or non-alternative facts.
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Entities like Facebook and Twitter need to be held accountable for the à la carte "alternative facts" they propagate.
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Not only is Mr. Pai's lament for the broadband industry based on alternative facts, it misses the bigger point.
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Otherwise, in these times, all their words of phrase might be perceived as alternative facts, or worst yet, fake news.
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" Then, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, told Chuck Todd on Meet the Press that Spicer was presenting "alternative facts.
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The Outsider presents two alternative facts — Terry Maitland must have murdered that boy, but he couldn't possibly have done it.
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" Across cable news and social media, journalists constantly fact-checked, decried, and debunked conspiracy theories, fake news, and "alternative facts.
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Mrs Conway is so fond of using alternative facts to defend her boss that she was briefly barred from CNN.
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"You're saying it's a falsehood, and they're giving- Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that," she said.
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" She even has her own 'alternative facts' moment, when says to Elizabeth, "Her facts and my facts are different facts.
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And they're giving, Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that," Conway said on NBC's "Meet the Press.
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Kellyanne Conway coined the now-famous phrase "alternative facts" ... and there's been a rush to cash in on her snafu.
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When asked about danger of the Trump administration providing "alternative" facts, Bill Gates insisted the truth would make a comeback.
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Sales of Orwell's original book soared after Kellyanne Conway invoked the term "alternative facts" to describe a flat-out lie.
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But the mainstream media also believes in alternative facts, not out of malice but out of an unbreakable group think.
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But take that shit muddling within the insides of your brain—all those alternative facts/sentences and toss it out.
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A week ago, Kerr joked about his short playing career with the Orlando Magic by making an "alternative facts" reference.
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This whole idea we're dealing with now about the alternative facts and post-factuality is pretty familiar to the 1920s.
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And they're giving, Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that," Conway said on NBC's "Meet the Press.
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The President who gave us "alternative facts" appears to have discovered that an alternative reality is no reality at all.
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They took that step after Ms. Conway came under intense criticism for describing false White House statements as "alternative facts."
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But in a political atmosphere buzzing with acrimonious debates over fake news and alternative facts, the error caused a ruckus.
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For much of the base, the sources of information are Fox News, talk radio and other practitioners of alternative facts.
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Lo que parece es, y eso es lo que importa, como lo muestran Facebook, la posverdad y los alternative facts.
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We all know about "alternative facts" and "truth isn't truth" and "fake news" — used by the administration to describe reality.
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Even the requirement in Alternative Facts that your lie can't be longer than a tweet is from two years ago.
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His team has deployed "alternative facts" about the crowd size at his inauguration, and terrorist massacres that never took place.
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Now that the book has stirred negative criticism, the publishers are playing into the current culture of peddling alternative facts.
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"You're saying it's a falsehood and Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that," she told NBC's Chuck Todd.
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This was a more dangerous claim, one that fuels the drive for voter restrictions, than the "alternative facts" about crowd size.
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For two decades multiple presidents from both parties presented a long list of Alternative Facts as justification for the Vietnam War.
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Thanks to Trump's deepening dependence on "alternative facts," the assertion of reality is now a viable campaign strategy for 2020 Democrats.
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" House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.): "@realDonaldTrump prefers his 'alternative facts' to the tragedy faced by families of the lost.
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Here's the video: Ivanka Trump is definitely on Team Laurel, but Kellyanne "alternative facts" Conway isn't too loyal to her side.
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In January 2017, Kellyanne Conway, at that time President Trump's press secretary, coined the term "alternative facts" on Meet the Press.
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Just days after his inauguration — and Kellyanne Conway's "alternative facts" saga — online copies were decimated as the book quickly sold out.
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The most extensive use of "alternative" data (which, unlike "alternative" facts, do have a basis in reality) is made in China.
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Then you had Kellyanne Conway, astonishingly, call things "alternative facts," which really was appalling and something she's used during the interview.
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The climate of alternative facts invited by the federal government is eroding public trust that is painstakingly earned — and easily lost.
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In this age of "alternative facts," a new guardian of truth has emerged: the people behind National Park Service Twitter accounts.
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These laws are grounded in "alternative facts" about women's supposed inability to make thoughtful decisions about their own bodies and lives.
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And when public officials talk about alternative facts, people who have devoted their careers to trying to uncover facts are dismayed.
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A spokesperson for Kerry pushed back on Pompeo's comments Friday in a fiery statement blasting "alternative facts" from the Trump administration.
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Leahy argued Spicer's comments didn't go far enough and that "alternative facts" wouldn't change his and other lawmakers opinion on torture.
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With an administration that deals in alternative facts, supporting objective science is more important than ever #MarchforScience #EarthDay Others, like Sen.
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How do you suppose we got to this place as a society, where "alternative facts" and "post-truth" are so pervasive?
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The fake news, "alternative facts" and smears of social media have damaged the faith of citizens in their leaders and institutions.
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On Wednesday, Reuters Editor-in-Chief Steve Adler joined a panel discussion at Emerson College on fake news and alternative facts.
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Film Series War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength: In 29, George Orwell gave us the original alternative facts.
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Two bitter rivals, a clash of campaign styles, teams that loathe each other, allegations of dirty tricks, disputes about alternative facts.
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In that case our president has been involved once again in either delusion, falsehoods, alternative facts or flat-out lies. 2.
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Now that we live in a world of "alternative facts," perhaps propaganda doesn't look as menacingly coercive as it once did.
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One picks up a discarded newspaper and chuckles derisively as she reads about the latest "alternative facts" peddled by Donald Trump.
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Villa Italian Kitchen is to blame for this, the same New Jersey-based chain that was responsible for Alternative Facts pizza.
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But they cannot fully explain why millions believe in "alternative facts", or why the arguments for these are made so passionately.
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So you think the public's awareness of "fake" news and "alternative" facts is motivating journalists to be more rigorous about fact checking?
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Even a company thought by many to be completely devoid of any sense of moral responsibility won't stoop to using Alternative Facts.
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That evasiveness, along with her "Bowling Green massacre" and "alternative facts" controversies, has made her a popular target for criticism and parody.
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They enjoy contrasting the "fake news" and "alternative facts" that characterise the Trump administration with their own, more honest, brand of politics.
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White House senior advisor Kellyanne Conway later defended Spicer's comments on Sunday, describing them as "alternative facts" on NBC's Meet the Press.
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Its purview would necessarily be limited to cases when the truth wasn't up for debate, when no "alternative facts" could be claimed.
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But West's Trump infatuation and Trump's weaponizing of that interest to help peddle his "alternative facts" (lies) isn't really a laughing matter.
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The second point is when you look at the map, it is like literally the example of Kellyanne Conway&aposs alternative facts.
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When Kellyanne Conway told NBC that the Trump administration was using "alternative facts," she rightly received a lot of criticism for it.
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The novel, what with its government of tyranny and alternative facts, sold out on Amazon in the week after President Trump's inauguration.
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"When Kellyanne Conway used the term 'alternative facts,' she seemed to be speaking out of the Party playbook in Oceania," Macmillan said.
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In its demands for evidence and insistence on questioning "alternative facts," science is a target and scientists are well aware of this.
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Bracelets titled "Alternative Facts" and "Circular Logic" provide critical commentary on the Trump administration by San Mateo jewelry artist Harriete Estel Berman.
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" To be fair, there's a pretty big difference between teens lying to the police and a White House counselor promoting "alternative facts.
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Those whispering in the ear of Trump about the legality of dashing or shrinking Bears Ears are uttering worse than alternative facts.
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" Defending patently false statements made by the administration, Conway stated on national television last week that they were simply offering "alternative facts.
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Furthermore, there's a general sense of unease that "alternative facts" have replaced actual facts — and scientists are understandably disturbed by the trend.
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Sales of Nineteen Eighty-Four have roared in the wake of the coinage "alternative facts" by President Donald Trump's adviser, Kellyanne Conway.
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When Conway cites "alternative facts," she implicitly admits that there is more than one way to see things—she simply doesn't care.
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Finally, those of us who aren't reporters, but who care about truth in a world of alternative facts, need to accept something.
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Normally, the President, preternaturally given to hyperbole, "alternative facts" and self-adulation, would have used more bombastic rhetoric to laud the results.
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A common denominator of science denial is the rejection of information that is obtained experimentally and rationally in favor of alternative facts.
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This risk becomes especially acute when Trump's ambassadors are called upon to peddle "alternative facts," as Kellyanne Conway once memorably put it.
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"In this age of gag orders and alternative facts, it's important that we provide federal employees tools to ensure transparency," Beyer added.
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" I agree with the author's statement that "'alternative facts' and dishonesty are something to be resisted coming from left, right or centre.
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Alternative facts queen Kellyanne Conway appeared on CNN's New Day on Wednesday to discuss Tuesday's Eagles-free celebration of the Philadelphia Eagles.
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But there is still a cost that comes with Alternative Facts—and at its greatest that cost can be paid in human life.
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Conway later brushed off criticisms of Spicer, saying the press secretary was utilizing "alternative facts," a phrase that went viral in social media.
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Embracing such gratification without critical analysis veers close to the Trump administration's embracing of "alternative facts" — lies that suit the narrative you'd prefer.
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Trouble is, Paltrow's multitudes of 14-carat-gold-crusted "alternative health" advice are a lot like Trump's "alternative facts": basically totally made up.
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By insisting on "alternative facts" and trying to make us believe him, he and his troops are exhibiting an age-old human tendency.
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Weeks after his top aide coined the term "alternative facts," Trump delivered what amounted to an alternative news report to the American people.
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There's some things that are easily provable, and then there's this idea of alternative facts, which they tried to put around the inaugural.
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Conway was widely mocked for coining the phrase "alternative facts" in regards to White House claims that did not hold up to scrutiny.
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Anna's saving grace here, as usual, could be Nate (Billy Brown), who knows about both Wes' alternative-facts autopsy and Laurel's pregnancy fib.
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" We need the mechanisms to deprecate disinformation and discard a political system that is sometimes too influenced by party loyalty and "alternative facts.
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The long-term impact of the idea of "alternative facts" or that we are each entitled to our own facts is truly terrifying.
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In the same interview in which Conway mentioned "alternative facts," she also seemed to imply that the administration could easily limit press access.
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The band's name literally means "duck," but the term was also used to describe the Soviet equivalent of fake news and alternative facts.
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Guess that means now journalists have to warn everyone about "alternative facts" and fake news tactics when presenting their own fact-based reporting.
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And things are going extremely poorly, with concepts like "fake news" and "alternative facts" being turned into buzzwords or subverted on their heads.
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The phrases "alternative facts" and "#alternativefacts" had been used on Twitter more than 380,000 times by midafternoon on Sunday, a Twitter spokesman said.
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Remember, we're talking about the person who came up with the term "alternative facts" to defend Trump's lies about his 2017 inauguration numbers.
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He's been livid that the mainstream media has challenged his frequent alternative facts and not praised what he views as his many accomplishments.
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The accusations are believable only in a universe of alternative facts where truth isn't truth and what you see is not what's happening.
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She said at the time that then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer provided "alternative facts" to reporters during his first press briefing.
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For France and Germany, the White House's embrace of what a senior adviser, Kellyanne Conway, called "alternative facts" carries another chilling political dimension.
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The key now is not to become complacent in the face of an administration using terms like "alternative facts" with a straight face.
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Fake news, alternative facts, gray areas — whatever you call it, media consumers need to be able to tell the legit from the not.
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Books of The Times "Alternative facts": The term manages to be tedious, ridiculous and perilous at once — a real sign of the times.
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Battles over global warming and alternative facts are sourced in competing economic interests that support or sustain specific biases or factual world views.
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So, for instance, I only perform in one of them— Alternative Facts, the piece where we "notarize" lies—and only on Thursday nights.
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In a bold strategic shift, White House Press Secretary Sean "Alternative Facts" Spicer appears to have tweeted something true from his account this morning.
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And so I'm very concerned by the repeated tendency to engage in alternative facts and to assert things that are not supported by reality.
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People were so confused over Trump's comments that they decided to create their own "alternative facts" about whatever the heck that Swedish incident was.
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" On Trump's relationship with the truth: "We undermine [our democracy] by talking about alternative facts or talking about statements that are just demonstrably false.
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"When you have a spokesperson for the president of the United States wrap up a lie in the Orwellian phrase 'alternative facts'...," Rather wrote.
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Even Kellyanne Conway, who famously champions alternative facts, admits the real fact that many in the Trump base are beginning to reject his presidency.
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The rise of alternative facts The degree to which society has allowed itself to accept misinformation as a norm has reached a critical point.
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The account tweeted the dictionary's article about "alternative facts" as a trending topic, and the tweet text language included the definition of a fact.
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"Those openings offered false narratives based on 'alternative facts,'" Mr. Morvillo wrote, "and have tried to turn this into a trial of Mr. Howe."
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Twilight has fallen on the venerable American trickster, who in our Trumpian afterworld of alternative facts has come to seem more sordid than subversive.
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There's little he'd love more than to invalidate us, because then he could sell whatever alternative facts and ornate fantasies that he chose to.
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Conway coined the term "alternative facts" while trying to defend Spicer's attempts to claim Trump's inauguration had a larger crowd than it actually did.
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" And she delivered another barb directed at White House counselor Kellyanne Conway based on the Trump aides use of the infamous term "alternative facts.
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In this era of alternative facts, it would be far too easy to pass irresponsible tax cuts and hand the bill to future generations.
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How is the university to function when a president's administration blurs the distinction between fact and fiction by asserting the existence of "alternative facts"?
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In an era of "alternative facts" and hyperpolarization, partisans from both sides are telling a totally different story about President Trump's time in Washington.
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Top White House advisor Kellyanne Conway is looking to define "alternative facts," an infamous phrase she took heat for creating during a TV interview.
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In an interview with New York Magazine published Saturday, Conway explained that "alternative facts" aren't lies, but different ways to frame the same information.
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I realize asking for rules in a world of alternative facts is naive, but here goes: Can we at least not make up massacres?
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Then, of course, Donald Trump won the election, and serious policy discussion took a back seat to alternative facts, at least for a while.
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Because one of the things that you like about coming to San Francisco, these are "alternative facts," here in San Francisco, to what's happening.
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And Tomlin couldn't help but poke fun at President Donald Trump, noting that no one had to give "alternative facts" when talking about her career.
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Does it drive you up a wall when Conway goes to battle with anyone at any given network and peddles her so-called alternative facts?
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This knowledge about data is particularly salient given the current political climate where terms like alternative facts and claims of fake news get tossed around.
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"LOL there is nothing wrong eating whatever… the problem is the fraud, the deception, the fake news, the alternative facts… the LIES !!!" one user wrote.
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When this administration resorts to alternative facts or makes comments that compound division in our country rather than bring us together, we must challenge it.
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" There's a direct line between the "alternative facts" of an inauguration crowd size and the Party's declaration that when it says so, "2 + 2 = 5.
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In an era of "fake news" and "alternative facts," the Census Bureau plays a valuable role as a trusted provider of accurate and reliable information.
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Given this administration's apparent penchant for 'alternative facts,' it is not unreasonable to expect that these gag orders will be followed up by 'alternative science.
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Yes, Trump is a bad president in part because of his blatant disregard for the rules, his "alternative facts," and his erratic, typo-laden tweets.
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President Trump and his team have famously used terms like "alternative facts" and "truth isn't truth" to normalize the president's apparent compulsion to say untruths.
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"His willingness to trot out alternative facts and recycle long-debunked industry talking points should worry anyone who cares about the free and open internet."
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She declared that the White House was merely presenting "alternative facts" when it described an inauguration crowd in superlatives that did not comport with reality.
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In our age of alternative facts, real stories about real people who have been directly impacted by discrimination and marginalization are more vital than ever.
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Liar, Liar, pants on…eh, you know the rest: EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is a big fan of alternative facts -- or things that aren't true.
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Last year, the Society for the German Language, another association, voted to crown the German for "alternative facts" as the ugliest word in the language.
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" He also said, "We must look closely at where the alternative facts on climate change are coming from and who is paying for their manufacture.
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Trump's 24-hour a day assault of conspiracy theories, alternative facts and political attacks on his opponents has left the Washington system struggling to cope.
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Everywhere the disaffected are recoiling from establishment politicians and the mainstream media, and succumbing to alternative facts — a fragmentation of truth quickened by digital technology.
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Especially in an era of "alternative facts," command of the details is crucial to ensuring that we make good decisions, uncolored by emotion or partisanship.
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"I think in this era where terms are used such as 'alternative facts,' you've got to go for the truth – wherever that is," Cummings said.
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The scientific community has responded with fury, defiantly countering the Trump administration's "alternative facts" on social media and mobilizing to organize a massive march on Washington.
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So we don&apost want to have alternative facts, we want to make sure-- INGRAHAM: It&aposs an actual poll, not my poll, an actual poll.
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He cheered her use of the phrase "alternative facts" in a recent interview as a way to counteract what he believes is the media's inherent bias.
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He is spitting alternative facts about undocumented immigrants causing violent crimes and claims he is one of the people who wants to protect her from them.
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And in Alberta, a recently unified party led by Jason Kenney, a conservative accused of sharing Mr Trump's penchant for "alternative facts", enjoys a vast lead.
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Here are the appearances that made headlines, coined new terms (see: "alternative facts"), graced the opening monologues of late-night TV and spawned countless memes. 1.
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As long as we still have evidence-based institutions that are willing to contradict Trump's alternative facts, we are not quite at the Orwellian crisis point.
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"In just the first three days of the administration, we've been trolled by 'alternative facts' and petty arguments over crowd sizes," Trusty told Mashable via email.
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Sara Anderson of West Viriginia Americans love nothing more than dividing themselves into a FiveThirtyEight map: red or blue, Clinton or Trump, facts or alternative facts.
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Top White House aide Kellyanne Conway told NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday that Spicer provided "alternative facts" to reporters during his press briefing on Saturday afternoon.
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Either way, a Twitter search for "Goodell TNF" turns up a host of references to Sean Spicer, "alternative facts," and the Why You Always Lying Guy.
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President Trump's top aide Kellyanne Conway said everyone makes mistakes, appearing to compare her comments about "alternative facts" to the error made during this year's Oscars.
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But alternative facts, to borrow the phrase coined by White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway to reject facts they reject without evidence, only go so far.
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" Here, I ask Krauss about the tension between religion and science, whether life itself has any discernible purpose, and why he's so worried about "alternative facts.
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If you keep saying stuff like "alternative facts" or that facts are "in the eye of the beholder," you erode out the very idea of truth.
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In the 21st-century media ecosystem, "alternative facts" — as Kellyanne Conway's famous formulation goes — can reign supreme, or at the very least blot out the truth.
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" Not long after Donald J. Trump's inauguration, sales for George Orwell's "1984" surged, spurred by controversy over Kellyanne Conway's use of the Orwellian phrase "alternative facts.
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Members of Mr. Trump's conservative fan base demonstrated that, even if the president continues to insist on alternative facts, they are capable of acknowledging that truth.
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Many of these tweets were a response to prodding by UK humor site the Poke, and I thank them for their thirst for memes alternative facts.
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The things that aren't actually true but nevertheless preserve that worldview are "alternative facts" — that's what Conway was getting at, whether she knew it or not.
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In many instances, Trump used these "alternative facts" to paint a dire picture of the country that he claimed so-called experts were deliberately hiding from view.
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The phrase "alternative facts" has lit up the internet since Kellyanne Conway infamously used it to describe the White House's version of Trump's sad inauguration crowd numbers.
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Kellyanne Conway, one of Trump's top White House advisers, told NBC News that Spicer was giving "alternative facts" when he claimed Trump drew the largest inauguration audience.
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I ask him about the political implications of his research, and if he thinks the rise of "fake news" and "alternative facts" has amplified our cognitive biases.
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RELATED: Internet mocks 'alternative facts' "Make no mistake, any death or killing is one too much," Cayetano told the UN review of the Philippines' human rights record.
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There is no off-the-shelf product for cutting through hyper-targeted misinformation, no software patch for alternative facts, and no antivirus for nation state troll farms.
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At a time when the counselor to the president has promoted the term "alternative facts," presidential tweets that include unconfirmed claims can cause a lot of alarm.
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Taurus is also the sign that rules ethics, bringing a fierce retribution for the "alternative facts" and shady business that Mars in Aries swept under the rug.
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Such ubiquity has become self-perpetuating, as he's now become, to some observers in mainstream media, the national spokesman for science in an age of "alternative" facts.
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"We intended Alternative Moons to be a metaphor for the perception and interpretation of images in times of 'alternative facts' and 'fake news,'" Schlieper and Pufleb said.
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The health cost of alternative facts: The Somali community in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota is being ravaged by the measles in the largest outbreak in decades.
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The trailer is almost certainly real, but until Blizzard steps up and confirms things, any suggestion that it is authentic falls into the realm of alternative facts.
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That's to say nothing of White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway, who famously/infamously created the phrase "alternative facts" in the early days of the Trump administration.
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He'll also take cover with his ultra-loyal political base, rely on Republicans who are too cowed to repudiate him and fog an issue with alternative facts.
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The deflection campaign is a fresh example of Trump deploying his trusted method for winning his battles: flinging disinformation, alternative facts and biting attacks at his enemies.
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Only in this new world order of post-truth and alternative facts would it make sense for Mr. Trump to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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He has been accused of overstating the attendance of his events — a trend that gave rise to the term "alternative facts" — from his inauguration to campaign events.
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We're bringing on a death-spiral of distrust — and I fear that in the 2020s and beyond, grifters peddling alternative facts may come to suffocate us all.
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Trumpism supports neo-mercantilist tariffs, huge deficits, abandonment of international treaties and alliances, and attacks on its own intelligence agencies while conjuring alternative facts to protect criminals.
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Charles M. Blow This is not a presentation of "alternative facts," whatever that may mean, as Kellyanne Conway, President Trump's mistress of misdirection, posited over the weekend.
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He knew that the pusher of alternative facts would find an audience among those who wanted what he said to be true, even if it obviously wasn't.
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I think we have to understand "alternative facts" in this way, and understand that when Trump is lying, he's lying in ways that register with his audience.
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Donald Trump is a man of quick fixes — a big wall to deal with immigration, random rallies to build popularity, or "alternative facts" to blur away undesirable truths.
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Even if you clear away the issues of fake news or "alternative facts," just following the news and commentary on topics you care about can be a chore.
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Conway's reference to alternative facts, and Spicer's strange Saturday rant, provoked pointed criticism of the sort that would trouble someone unaccustomed to Trump-style combat against the facts.
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But the cost of Alternative Facts—of lies—in the public sector can be far greater than a depleted 401K, worthless stock options, or time spent collecting unemployment.
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In 2018 we are in a world where alternative facts and the entire spectrum instead of what is a fact and what the viewpoint is, it's all muddled.
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Throughout the micro-talks, several speakers will openly deride Kellyanne Conway's infamous comment about "alternative facts," or policy makers that want to ignore the issue of climate change.
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Science has taken collateral damage, as a president who embraces "alternative facts" ignores traditional standards of evidence — but this is just one symptom of a wider information war.
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It's one thing to talk about "alternative facts," but when your actual house has been destroyed by a Russian shell, and you'll still saying nonsense, that's quite stunning.
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Later, when she arrives, one of Red's friends attacks her for peddling "alternative facts," with her story and interviews about the risk of Zika in the ninth ward.
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Throughout that time was when I was feeling like everything was chaotic and disorganized, we don't know right from wrong, alternative facts, what the fuck is going on?
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Conway's a pretty fascinating character in of herself, from her coinage of the term "alternative facts" to her habit of accusing the left of sexism while disavowing feminism.
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Early in his administration, Trump's aide Kellyanne Conway confirmed that lies are not lies, but "alternative facts" that can be whatever best serves Trump's interests of the moment.
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Indeed, the U.S. is so eager to renew ties with Sri Lanka that inconvenient truths will be ignored and more "alternative facts" may emerge in the weeks ahead.
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Time to Meet the Truth The majority's plan to decrease access to birth control as a tactic to prevent unplanned pregnancies is a disturbing embrace of alternative facts.
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A statement on the website alludes to the "alternative facts" phrase coined by Trump aide Kellyanne Conway when defending a statement by White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
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Seth Meyers is back taking "A Closer Look" at the Women's March, Trump's in'ugh'uration, its attendance, and of course, Twitter's new favorite term, "alternative facts" on Late Night.
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Dombrovskis said there was a need to preserve European values like free rational thought, tolerance, solidarity and openness when threatened by "alternative facts" in financial and other sectors.
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And with conspiracy theories swaying elections, public health losing the battle against anti-vaccine campaigners, and "alternative facts" being presented as evidence, the findings couldn't be more timely.
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These threats, Baker argues, are realized by fears of environmental destruction through violent indifference, racial animus that haunts the future, alternative facts, weaponized technology, and unbridled income inequality.
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Few people remember anymore, but just years before she became the dark empress of "alternative facts," Kellyanne Conway was a respected, reasonably mainstream, uncontroversial Republican pollster and strategist.
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Well, for one thing, there is something very appealing about the notion of universal truth — especially at a time when people entertain the absurd idea of alternative facts.
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With President Trump's administration embroiled in debates over blatant falsehoods, "alternative facts," and "fake news," Mr. Nye's fans are saying the timing of this show couldn't be better.
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También en Facebook, César Elías Sanjur dijo: "En esta era de alternative facts [hechos alternativos], esta miniserie nos trae una advertencia a todos en todos lados del mundo".
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Doubling down on her position as a source of "alternative facts," Conway's remarks were seemingly an attempt to both foster anti-Muslim sentiment and build distrust for the media.
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So while CNN panels and J-school professors are debating the validity of "alternative facts," the New Media Upside Down of the right is preparing for its land grab.
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The account followed up the definition of "fact" days later with another pertinent response to Conway's "alternative facts" statement: Other posts require little explanation to get the message across.
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On Sunday, Conway inflamed things when she hit the morning talk show circuit to explain combatively that Spicer was simply relaying "alternative facts" during his briefing -- and not lying.
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Then there's role of the media, now one of the most contentious topics and tools in American politics as "fake news" and "alternative facts" take root as common phrases.
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When Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to Donald Trump, explained in January that the president sometimes avails himself of "alternative facts", Merriam-Webster slyly tweeted its definition of "fact".
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"This is part of a wider fentanyl panic that goes beyond having alternative facts [and] leads to bad decisions," Northeastern University drug policy expert Leo Beletsky told BuzzFeed News.
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Before she was all over TV representing Donald Trump and presenting laughable "alternative facts," Kellyanne Conway was Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, a Washington, D.C., pollster and apparently aspiring stand-up comedian.
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By cheekily mentioning the existence of alternative facts (with a wink emoji, no less!), Tatum and Dewan Tatum position themselves as the only people who can tell their story.
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Conway made waves this weekend when she claimed White House press secretary Sean Spicer used "alternative facts" when he falsely claimed Trump's inauguration was the most-watched inauguration ever.
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And state after state has enacted restriction after restriction that aims to make abortion care too expensive or impossible to provide — all based on "alternative facts" about abortion safety.
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Or that Trump administration senior counselor Kellyanne Conway famously/infamously coined the phrase "alternative facts" to explain away Trump's false claims about the size of his inauguration crowd. Now.
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Many on social media compared "alternative facts" to the use of "doublethink," a type of rhetoric in "1984" by which the government presents two contradictory facts as both true.
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The movie, written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, sprouts from this rift between the true state of affairs and the alternative facts that are presented to the public.
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He seems to fundamentally believe his own world of alternative facts and is comfortable moving forward with his plan regardless of what people think about his performance or ethics.
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It was the year the public saw the White House enshrine alternative facts in the American lexicon as justification for what used to be simply called old fashioned falsehoods.
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So when the president of the United States continually makes clear that he is a huge fan of "alternative facts," what's an eager-to-please administration official to do?
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At the close of a year when lies and so-called alternative facts have dominated the conversation; when "misinformation" was chosen as the word of the year by Dictionary.
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In the service of this agenda, Mr. Netanyahu elevated fake news, alternative facts and whataboutism into art forms in Hebrew, long before those terms gained any traction in English.
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I should also add that alternative facts had currency long before Kellyanne Conway christened them such and that junk science, nutty hypotheses and showy apostasies have been around forever.
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You know, have just kind of decided to go to war on these alternative facts that if you don't listen too closely, kind of sounds like the real facts.
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"When someone uses the term 'alternative facts,' it just cannot be left there to stand," said Margaux Ewen, the advocacy and communications director for Reporters Without Borders, North America.
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He has continued to double, triple, quadruple down on his version and continued to brag of the big numbers now proven to be not "alternative facts," but a lie.
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Call it "alternative universes," blame "alternative facts," cite the "A to Z" scale -- the upshot is the media and its audience are being dragged into this uncharted territory together.
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"To rule against the government here, the Ninth Circuit, and ultimately the Supreme Court, will have to hold that the Executive Order is premised on 'alternative facts,'" Blackman writes.
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But in a post-truth world full of "alternative facts," it pays to examine things from every single angle you can think of before you decide what something's about.
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What Really Happened: Hey, remember when Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway talked about "alternative facts" as a way to avoid admitting that Press Secretary Sean Spicer had lied to the press?
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Then there is Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the President, who has made such outrageous claims about the existence of "alternative facts," that she, too, has lost much of her credibility.
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Washington (CNN)White House press secretary Sean Spicer's false claims about the size of the crowd at President Donald Trump's inauguration were "alternative facts," a top Trump aide said Sunday.
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To describe the situation as chaos, bedlam, dysfunction -- whatever term you want to use to describe the situation in the White House -- is not hyperbole, alternative facts, or fake news.
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No, with swiftboating, birtherism, voter fraud, anti-vaxxing, Pizzagate, crisis actors, false flags, and alternative facts, the conspiracy theory has clearly been weaponized in the most cynical and partisan way.
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" The letter, which also references Russian election meddling, "alternative facts" and the Women's March, ends with Honey challenging Mr. Landlord to a dual, before threatening, "Tweet me … I dare you.
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The left-leaning Liberation daily weighed in too, saying "Fillon is in Trump-style alternative facts mode," a reference to a phrase coined by President Donald Trump's adviser Kellyanne Conway.
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One of the most dangerous "alternative facts" coming from the White House these days is that the Affordable Care Act — ObamaCare — is an abject failure on the brink of collapse.
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Following Conway's comments, many on social media compared "alternative facts" to the use of "doublethink" in "1984," a concept in which the government presents two contradictory facts as both true.
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While this work could be seen as a nod to "alternative facts," it's more about sci-fi absurdity and Azar's B-movie inspired quest to create an extreme, altered reality.
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Rudy Giuliani just added a new edition to the "alternative facts" library from the Trump White House -- telling a reporter "truth isn't truth" when it comes to ... well, the truth.
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Thanks to a presidential administration that defends "alternative facts" as something other than just a synonym for lies, fake news and the intentional spread of misinformation is on the rise.
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"It is harder to see the fun in deception when the fate of the world seems to depend on resisting lies, 'alternative facts,' and 'fake news,' " as he puts it.
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"So many details were taken from his history, and on the other side there were so many things that were alternative facts, as you say in the States," Elger said.
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Regrettably, President Trump has elevated "alternative facts" to a high political art, and many members of his party and its talking-head cheerleaders seem perfectly happy to follow his lead.
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"The bottom line: Truth is a four-letter word," someone says in the season premiere (Wednesday, June 28, on TV Land) before debating the harm — or not — of alternative facts.
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Their mimicry was not limited to a day of flattery; several have also adopted Mr. Trump's rhetorical style of doubling down on false claims and pushing so-called alternative facts.
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To the Editor: After watching President Trump's so-called news conference on Thursday, and after reading the reviews of it, I am now persuaded that he believes his alternative facts.
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In this time of "fake news" and "alternative facts," commentators worry that people with different political orientations base their judgments of right and wrong on entirely different perceptions of reality.
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Social media users on Sunday mocked Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President Trump, for saying a White House spokesman used "alternative facts" in his first press briefing on Saturday.
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It was a year which saw the White House enshrine "alternative facts" into the American lexicon, as justification for what used to be known simply as good old-fashioned falsehoods.
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A description for the $55 tank dress with a newspaper print design and "FAKE" written across it boasts that wearers can "spread all the alternative facts" in the get-up.
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On Wednesday night's Desus & Mero, the Bodega Boys threw proverbial tomatoes at the two masters of "alternative facts"—the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, and senior advisor Kellyanne Conway.
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The new year has brought us the apparently new phenomena of fake news and alternative facts, in which black is white, up is down, and reality is up for grabs.
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Allison Janney channeled her West Wing character for the opening monologue, Steve Buscemi analyzed the Trump team's obsession with "alternative facts," and Will Ferrell reprised his impression of George W. Bush.
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These "alternative facts," or lies, to use an old fashioned term, continue to be used to promote harmful legislation designed to shame and punish women and push abortion out of reach.
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Trump's queen of "alternative facts" had a very public dispute with the cable news network in an exchange that displayed to everyone how hard she's trying to spin her latest blunder.
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Jake Tapper's 25-minute interview with Kellyanne "Alternative Facts" Conway is a rollercoaster ride—maybe the most engaging document of the Trump era since the video of Richard Spencer getting decked.
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Then there was the debut "alternative facts"—which struck me as Orwellian when I first heard it—this idea that people could be lead to believe that somehow facts are subjective.
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Wolf's takedown was brilliant and a great reminder that the White House press secretary is still complicit in spreading the lies and "alternative facts" that flood out of the White House.
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"Let me just get some basic housekeeping out of the way, because we're in this day of fake news and alternative facts," the Louisiana Democrat said as he began his remarks.
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For him, the troubling thing about the current climate is how easily "alternative facts" are thrown around—often it seems as if Trump supporters and opponents are living in separate worlds.
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Unfortunately, Mr. Trump's claim that he has a keen eye for talent, like so many of his other promises, turned out to be a mix of alternative facts and hot air.
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But in a world where "alternative facts" can influence elections and help spread misinformation, people standing up for the very building blocks of a functional democratic society is a big deal.
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We are all familiar with the ways in which Donald Trump's demagogic assault on the press has already normalized presidential mendacity, mainstreamed "alternative facts," and desensitized millions of Americans to both.
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Although it does disturb me that I might enjoy any show that Kellyanne "Alternative Facts" Conway could be watching, I will stay tuned to see what else Roseanne has to offer.
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Frank Bruni For a president so given to fantasy and fond of alternative facts, Donald Trump has been right about one thing all along: His government is a shockingly leaky vessel.
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Additionally, the labor unions choose to share "alternative facts" with their members in hopes of keeping them tethered to the old guard instead of seeking career opportunities with an industry disruptor.
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Then came Donald J. Trump's inauguration and Kellyanne Conway's now-famous comments about "alternative facts," which sent the novel zooming to the top of the Amazon charts in the United States.
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Critics may guffaw at Kellyanne Conway's ''alternative facts,'' express revulsion at the white nationalist Richard Spencer's ''alt-right'' or tilt their heads at Sean Hannity's attempt to brand an ''alt-left.
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The need to show our work and earn trust has never been more important, since once reliable official sources are peddling "alternative facts" — as the White House press secretary did Saturday.
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That is the result of a prolonged campaign -- led by Trump but not initiated by him -- to discredit the media and offer "alternative facts" in the place of plain old facts.
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The reality is that all three individuals named Monday had pivotal roles in the Trump campaign and to spin that into something else takes one to new levels of alternative facts.
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In a moment steeped strongly in "alternative facts," Conway said during an interview on MSNBC's Hardball that two Iraqi refugees were behind the "Bowling Green massacre" — an event that never happened.
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The president and his enablers have been busily knitting together inaccurate data, misleading anecdotes, exaggerations and other "alternative facts" about the flow of criminals, drugs and terrorists across the southern border.
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In an "alternative facts" year, maybe it's no surprise that "Evaluating Sources in a 'Post-Truth' World: Ideas for Teaching and Learning About Fake News" was our third most-viewed resource.
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Regardless of the "alternative facts" the Republicans are peddling, we should all understand the GOP's tactics last year in opposing Garland for what they were: a blatant power grab that ultimately worked.
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And sooner or later, dwelling on trivialities and dealing in what Trump senior advisor Kellyanne Conway called "alternative facts" on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday could damage the credibility of the administration.
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In an age of "alternative facts," it can be difficult to parse truth from fiction, and the distancing methods of the project leave me to wonder: Could the confessors really be actors?
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"Kellyanne comes to mind as another suggestion, Though not in the interview portions, / For she'd bulldoze her judge in the midst of a question, With alternative facts and distortions," the book reads.
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The Lasting Trauma of Alex Jones's Lies Megan Garber criticizes the current state of "information pollution": Competing truths — "alternative facts" — are no longer the primary threat to American culture; competing lies are.
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Senator Alan Peter Cayetano told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that reports to the contrary were based on "alternative facts" -- a term first coined by senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway.
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The bit plays off of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway's use of the term "alternative facts" during an interview last month to defend the White House's statements about the president's inaugural crowd size.
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" Photograph by Danna Singer for The New Yorker Cases like Stumpf's have long offered the courthouse equivalent of what the counsellor to the President Kellyanne Conway described, in January, as "alternative facts.
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Ms. Conway has been a frequent target of media critics since she justified the White House's reports about the size of Mr. Trump's inauguration crowd by calling them "alternative facts" in January.
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My head is swirling from "alternative facts," trade deals canceled, pipelines initiated, Obamacare in the Twilight Zone and utterly bizarre rants about attendance on Inauguration Day and fake voters on Election Day.
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Take, for example, the definition of "fact," which was posted on the same day as Kellyanne Conway's much-mocked television interview, in which Conway used the term "alternative facts" to describe false information.
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Deceptive, like directing Sean Spicer to report false information or allowing Kellyanne Conway to use the term "alternative facts" to explain falsehoods, as if we're living in the society of 1984's Oceania.
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Related: "Fatherless" Collective Seeks Truth in an Alternative Facts Exhibit Giant Hands Emerge From a Venice Canal to Raise Climate Change Awareness Here's How Over 170 Female Artists Are Reacting to Trump's Presidency
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But an America that did not come together to watch a presidential inauguration, regardless of what kind of alternative facts people want to put out there, did, as always, watch a football game.
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Its emergence is a side-effect of the rise of the Upside Down conservative media, which, along with its "alternative facts," audience, and interpretation of the truth, has created two opposing political realities.
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More recently, Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, the blood-testing company she founded, tried to survive using Alternative Facts, and now she's managed to do something thought to be impossible: get banned from Walgreens.
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Kellyanne Conway, a Trump spokeswoman, was briefly barred by CNN for using alternative facts—her references to a fictitious jihadist atrocity, which Ms Conway called the "Bowling Green Massacre", were the last straw.
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"We are living in the world of alternative facts," Mr Plokhy lamented when, at the end of the dinner, he was declared the prize's winner, in which "the only salvation is the book".
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On April 22, lovers of non-alternative facts gathered by the thousands in Washington D.C. and across the country for the Science March, a non-partisan demonstration in support of the scientific community.
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" We're living in very strange times for media — a president calling networks and major publication fake news; actual fake news on social feeds; White House officials contradicting each other, putting out "alternative facts.
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At around 4:73 minutes in, Norah O'Donnell brings up Conway's "Bowling Green massacre" moment and the "alternative facts" statement, in which Conway attempted to defend Sean Spicer's claims about Trump's inauguration attendance.
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But without careful consideration, open-mindedness opens the door to falsehoods disguised as "alternative facts" — whether about the mechanism of energy healing or the size of a crowd — and disables our critical faculties.
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Conservatism has been "compromised by a decidedly unconservative stew of celebrity and authoritarianism," he writes, and he traces the likely birth of "alternative facts" to the "birther" movement, which Trump for years championed.
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Thanks to Trump, the group is now routinely and respectfully cited by mainstream news outlets as a "conservative think tank," with no mention of the kind of "alternative facts" it promotes about immigration.
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer compared the Trump team's recent "alternative facts" controversy to conflicting weather reports as he criticized the media for being too quick to paint him as a liar.
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In another of Trump's recurring lies, which his flack Kellyanne Conway labels his "alternative facts," he delegitimizes his own election by falsely claiming that three to five million immigrants illegally voted in 2016.
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This means Oxman now holds the best blueprint out there for how to get young people to think critically and arm them with the tools they need to spot "alternative facts" and misinformation.
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Trump tweeted about his new photo on Tuesday, after he and his press secretary Sean Spicer threw around some "alternative facts" on Saturday regarding the number of people who attended the inauguration ceremony.
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Why it matters: While many other major national news brands have been openly critical of the Trump Administration's use of alternative facts, WSJ has remained relatively cautious about calling out the Trump Administration.
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"During [Tillerson's] hearing, he presented more 'alternative facts' to try to deny that Exxon Mobil had lobbied against sanctions being placed on our most serious adversaries," he said, citing Russia as an example.
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In his legislative statement, he not-so-masterfully used alternative facts to assert that these companies — but apparently no other integrated oil firms —unnecessarily benefit from tax code provisions he wants to cut.
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Essay Pinocchio, that lying rascal, would seem a ready-made icon for an age of fake news and bots, of alternative facts and internet trolls, of doubts about the reliability of conventional media.
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In January 2017, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway famously used the phrase "alternative facts" on MTP while defending a false statement by then-Press Secretary Sean Spicer, just two days into the administration.
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The United Nations Human Rights Council examined the Philippines record this week, where the government delegation said there had been no new wave of killings prompted by the campaign and denounced "alternative facts".
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Mr. Trump and company seem to be betting that much of the electorate will not care if the president tells demonstrable lies, and will pick and choose whatever "alternative facts" confirm their views.
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Just as loggers might swing an alternative ax And fell a great tree with alternative whacks When the truth won't cooperate, try some new tacks We live in an age of alternative facts!
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Two "alternative facts" have been offered time and again to justify a U-turn at the bureau: Critics first point to complex rules that they say are choking off the flow of credit.
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These days, she said, those in power are discarding reality in favor of inventing their own "alternative facts," which, she warned, could lead to the beginning of the end of a free society.
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While blasting Gates for his crimes, she praised him for then delivering real facts — and no "alternative facts," in a direction quotation of a notorious phrase once uttered by Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway.
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Spicer's statement drew further criticism after Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday the White House had wanted to "put alternative facts out there" to counter what she said was a biased media.
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As the day went on Merriam-Webster went from calling out Trump spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway's use of "alternative facts" to including a ridiculous news development about the audience at one of Trump's campaign events.
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Trump and his team have also signaled their disrupting intentions with diatribes against the press, assertions of "alternative facts," and wild claims about voter fraud that cast doubt on the foundation of American democracy.
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Kennedy's insistence that troops were merely serving as advisors, Johnson's Gulf of Tonkin incident, and Richard Nixon's claim that he did not sabotage the 1968 peace talks could all be described as Alternative Facts.
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On the morning news today, Donald Trump's campaign strategist Kellyanne Conway said that Spicer wasn't lying, but rather presenting "alternative facts" — yet multiple outlets have been able to verify the falsity of Spicer's statements.
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I am not someone who actually buys into the idea that alternative facts and fake news are some sort of very new thing or even the most difficult of the things we are facing.
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But the press has to be ready for a 24/7 media environment with fact checking, with journalistic and editorial standards, so that, no, we don't wanna live in a world of alternative facts.
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Trump's short time in office has been riddled with an enormous amount of fake news, Twitter tirades and alternative facts, so this simple yet statement-making cover accompanying such an important interview seems appropriate.
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The joke was a reference to Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway's weekend comments when she said White House press secretary Sean Spicer provided reporters with "alternative facts" about the crowd size at Trump's inauguration Friday.
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If the administration insists on basing policy or pronouncements on "alternative facts" or cherry-picked press accounts, expect a repeat of Monday's performance by intelligence professionals who have no safe haven but the truth.
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The March for Science, which takes place on Saturday in more than 500 cities across the world, is an implicit rejection of President Donald Trump and his embrace of "alternative facts" over objective truth.
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It would be bad enough if Trump were simply sticking to his alternative facts and trotting out flat-out lies about the economy, like when he said he "inherited a mess" from President Obama.
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Attacks on the judiciary, free press and the freeform lunacy and alternative facts radiating from the White House cast a bleak outlook on the possibility of thoughtful policy conversations on these issues and others.
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But in an era of alternative facts when politicians think that policies can be devised through baseless speculation and unsubstantiated calculations, it may seem that you can just make up policies on the fly.
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In Trump's America, half the population lives in a world where the "crooked media" tells "fake news" made up of "alternative facts," while the other half fights to maintain public trust in traditional media.
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On a recent episode of Recode Media hosted by Peter Kafka, New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen discussed the challenges facing professional journalists in the age of alternative facts, Trump and fake news.
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In a White House where one aide described the existence of "alternative facts" and another acknowledged telling "white lies," staff members scramble to defend his claims without putting their own credibility on the line.
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How will tomorrow's artists bring our attention to these wrongs, as Mr. Haacke and Ms. Holzer have done, and can museums do anything to keep them from drowning in a morass of alternative facts?
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Oh it works for the Donald and all of his hacks As they go 'bout promoting their retrograde acts Don't fret if your documentation is lax You can always get by with alternative facts!
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Don't fear all those women with signs on their backs The straight and the queer, the whites and blacks You can trivialize them with snide little cracks And wash them away with alternative facts!
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David Thewlis's turn as V.M. Varga, a bulimic loan shark with decaying teeth and far-right political leanings, has been a hilariously chilling aspect of this season's exploration of "alternative facts" and magical realism.
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Her infamous comments about "alternative facts" and other public relations blunders kept her off the air for a while, but she has returned to doing interviews and remains the staunchest of the president's defenders.
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Kellyanne Conway, the adviser to President Trump who coined the phrase "alternative facts," is facing another round of criticism and fact-checking after she falsely spoke of a "Bowling Green massacre" by Iraqi refugees.
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The Times has built a global propaganda machine, similar to Russia's Sputnik or RT, that pushes a mix of alternative facts and conspiracy theories that has won it far-right acolytes around the world.
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To the Editor: I know we live in an age of facts and alternative facts, news and fake news, but Michael Cohen's testimony lies somewhere in that no man's land between myth and reality.
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Indeed, dozens of news stories this week have alerted us to surging sales of George Orwell's "1984" since the inauguration and even more so in the wake of Kellyanne Conway's now-infamous "alternative facts" gambit.
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The problem of misinformation runs much deeper than sporadic cases of our friends unintentionally sharing "alternative facts" on their social media feeds, or diving down a rabbit hole of echo chambers because of over-personalisation.
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She infamously used the term "alternative facts" in 2017 to describe easily debunked information put forward by Sean Spicer, then the White House press secretary, as he discussed the size of Mr. Trump's inauguration crowd.
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During the presidential transition, she falsely denied that anyone involved in the Trump campaign had contacts with Russia, then infamously coined the term "alternative facts" when defending Sean Spicer's lies about Trump's inauguration crowd size.
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Kellyanne Conway, the Trump counselor most famous for coining the phrase "alternative facts," who recently argued that the president's critics are attempting to "politicize" the tragedy in Puerto Rico, is regularly compared to a monster.
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Bursting the social media filter bubble to free the constraints on information is the vision of establishing a techno-utopia where simple exposure to alternative facts or persuasive arguments naturally yields a reorientation of belief.
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The social media combined with self-realizing feedback loops utilizing the latest machine learning methods, simultaneously being vulnerable for malicious or unintended gaming, has led us to the world of "alternative facts" and fake news.
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"Ohio should heed the warnings of numerous pharmacists, pharmacologists, and anesthesiologists -- rather than relying on alternative facts -- and immediately halt any further use of midazolam and the paralytic drug in lethal injection executions," he said.
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Sales of Orwell's book have surged since Trump's inauguration, and in particular since adviser Kellyanne Conway's use of the phrase "alternative facts," which many see as echoing the concept of "doublethink" from the dystopian novel.
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" Perhaps more so than her references to the imaginary "Bowling Green Massacre" or "alternative facts," it was Conway's declaration, during an interview on MSNBC, that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had Trump's "full confidence.
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Innumerable screens with the name of the alt-right website surround her campaign poster, recalling how she controlled mass-media through "alternative facts" while deflating the national pension at the behest of a Samsung heir.
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Wade first guaranteed the right to abortion throughout the United States 44 years ago, opponents of abortion have been systematically working to establish their own "alternative facts" and have turned those lies into harmful laws.
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The space felt reminiscent of the Occupy protesters camp in the park, filled with artist-instructors from the Pioneer Works' Fact Craft series—programs meant to challenge identity, data and the notion of alternative facts.
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The sudden surge also comes days after Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway coined the term "alternative facts" when defending White House press secretary Sean Spicer's comments about the size of the crowd at Trump's inauguration.
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In our current media hellscape—where cable news talking heads spout "alternative facts," gets way too excited about missile strikes on Syria, and plays fast and loose with supposed objectivity, things can look rather grim.
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More, the exhibition tries to make a beeline from the paranoiac 1960s to 2016, linking how artists have rendered "alternative facts" right up until the election of President Donald Trump, America's greatest tycoon of misinformation.
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Despite evidence that foreigners were less likely than native-born Americans to violate the law, anti-liquor crusaders marshaled alternative facts: "Seventy-five percent of liquor law violators are foreigners," the Indiana W.C.T.U falsely claimed.
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In his first week in office the president has stomped over our proud American tradition of welcoming immigrants and refugees, trafficked in alternative facts, and is attempting to fill his cabinet with billionaires and bankers.
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If by philosophy we mean reasoned and thoughtful analysis, then it can address the moment, though not by confronting the "alternative facts" but by analyzing and clarifying what is at stake, whatever the issue is.
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But in today's toxic political climate, when deliberate ambiguity and "alternative facts" stand in for knowledge, it's never been more important for scientists and academics to be accurate in their presentation of what we know.
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Kellyanne Conway has made a name for herself over at the White House for developing new theories about microwave surveillance, coining the term "alternative facts," and even trying to sell some of Ivanka Trump's merchandise.
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Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, said the White House press secretary gave "alternative facts" when he inaccurately described the inauguration crowd as "the largest ever" during his first appearance before the press this weekend.
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In case you're living under a rock — or living in a universe ruled by alternative facts — on January 21st, the day after President Donald J. Trump was elected into office, millions of people marched in solidarity.
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When Kellyanne Conway went before NBC's Meet the Press and described statements made by Press Secretary Sean Spicer as "alternative facts," it had the unintended consequence of driving up sales of George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984.
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The notion of "alternative facts," newly introduced to the West by the Trump administration, is one that's been peddled for years by politicians in Nigeria, rushing in to fill a vacuum created by fear and discontent.
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With his cries of "fake news" (and, conversely, Kellyanne Conway's defense of "alternative facts"), Trump and his subordinates are giving Americans a simple message, one that he's repeated plenty of times: "Believe me" — not the media.
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One could argue that their actions damage the legacy of Deconstruction beyond repair in an age where alt-right academics are already using the language of social construction to justify the "alternative facts" of white nationalism.
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In the new era of "alternative facts," journalists will need all the help they can get in covering the Trump administration and administering the correct Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to hold the administration accountable.
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By appealing not just to his evangelical base but to a theological, even apocalyptic reading of history, and Trump's role in it, Trump is not merely legitimizing alternative facts but, more dangerously, writing alternative sacred history.
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That they would deny something as small -- in the grand scheme of things -- as the origins of a GIF in a tweet sent by the president suggests a commitment to "alternative facts" that is truly stunning.
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Whatever failings they have they'll convince their base of supporters that the media is manipulating the story with "alternative facts" and point them to platforms they control that show the president in a distortedly positive light.
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Science is the best method that we as human beings have of figuring out the truth of reality, and wishing away the facts by trying to substitute them with "alternative facts" will greatly impede scientific progress.
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After master of spin Kelly Ann Conway announced that White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer wasn't lying about the size of his inauguration — just presenting what she called "alternative facts" — the internet lost its goddamn mind.
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Donald Trump aide Kellyanne Conway entered the history books and became late-night comedy fodder when she tried to rebrand falsehoods, untruths and outright lies as simply "alternative facts" during a nationally televised TV interview Sunday.
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Discouraged by the current era of fake news and alternative facts, Eren was inspired to recreate the frozen fecal knife from Wade's famous account as a way to illustrate the importance of data and scientific testing.
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In a world of alternative facts, when even words like fake news — coined for the specific purpose of trying to objectively measure our post-truth existence — lose all meaning, it's hard to be sure of anything.
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Its story is not one that required any updating to resonate in the Trump era of alternative facts and fake news, but the play does not go out of its way to draw these parallels, either.
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"Post-truth" politics and "alternative facts" have long been deployed in Latin America, from Mr Fujimori's use of tabloid newspapers to smear opponents, to Chávez's imaginary coups and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's fake inflation statistics in Argentina.
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She took jabs at the right-wing Pizzagate conspiracy, the White House's "alternative facts" — from the crowd size at inauguration to "drumming up rampant fear about undocumented immigrants" — and compared his administration to that of Richard Nixon.
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" In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" the next day, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway rejected Chuck Todd's assertion that the administration's crowd-size claims were a "falsehood" by saying that Spicer's numbers were legitimate "alternative facts.
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Conway on NBC's "Meet the Press" the next day said Spicer had simply presented "alternative facts" -- sparking equal or great incredulity -- in support of Trump's enduring belief that his inaugural crowd was bigger than it actually was.
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But she is also heavily criticized for sometimes taking it too far — entering the realm of alternative facts, a term she now-infamously used on NBC's "Meet The Press" in 2017, days after Trump was sworn in.
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"Given that phrases such as 'alternative facts' and 'post-truth' have entered the vernacular only very recently, I think it is remarkable how prescient this work, that was begun nearly twelve years ago, has become," Lewis says.
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"Contrary to their alternative facts, New York is the safest big city in the country, with crime at record lows in large part because we have policies in place to encourage cooperation between NYPD and immigrant communities."
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Well, over the past month the 50-year-old strategist has managed to inflame her critics on both sides of the aisle with her public statements, including references to "alternative facts" and a "massacre" that never happened.
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From those of us fighting for accessible, affordable abortion care to everyone now grappling with what to do in the face of "alternative facts" with grave implications, the real alternative is to stand strong and fight back.
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"Alternative Facts" sounds a lot like the book's "Newspeak," the simplification and rebranding of common language, and "Doublethink," whereby the government controls historical records and the news, sounds an awful lot like Breitbart retellings of current events.
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"In his first week in office the president has stomped over our proud American tradition of welcoming immigrants and refugees, trafficked in alternative facts, and is attempting to fill his cabinet with billionaires and bankers," he said.
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This, after all, is the age of alternative facts, which means in MMA terms that a champion like Bisping is allowed, even encouraged, to make up his own reality—as long as that reality can be sold.
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And even if he winds up backing down — as he has before and seems likely to do in this case as well — he'll simply spew a bunch of nonsensical double talk and alternative facts and declare victory.
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This week, in the world of politics and media, there's been a lot of discussion about facts, alternative facts, and lies, and it's been framed in stark black and white terms: truth, it would seem, is obvious.
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But she is also heavily criticized for sometimes taking it too far -- entering the realm of alternative facts, a term she now-infamously used on NBC's "Meet The Press" in 2017, days after Trump was sworn in.
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Ms. Conway's CNN appearance came amid growing questions about her credibility after she falsely spoke of a "Bowling Green massacre" that never happened and used the phrase "alternative facts" to justify the administration's view of the truth.
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Bottom line: Look for ever more death and destruction against civilians and the inevitable blowback that sends us into a downward spiral of violence, all accompanied by an increasingly robust offer of "alternative facts" on civilian casualties.
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Questlove, who co-hosted the event, spoke out against the new presidential administration's reliance on "alternative facts" — saying that science should belong to the masses and that making it accessible to people is now more important than ever.
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" Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads MEXICO CITY — The immeasurable importance of Dada, which arose as a reaction to the unprecedented violence of WWI, is especially important to evoke during this moment of post-truth and "alternative facts.
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Fred Shapiro, an associate director at the Yale Law School has updated the"The Yale Book of Quotations," first published in 2006, and the top quote of the year is Kellyanne Conway's "alternative facts" statment on Jan. 22.
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Contrary to Trump's "alternative facts," our nation's murder rate is the lowest it has been since 1963, and there hasn't been an epidemic of terrorist attacks covered up by the media — not in Bowling Green nor anywhere else.
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When Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway referred to "alternative facts " earlier this month, she succinctly encapsulated the ongoing narrative of some governments propagating the shadowy, Orwellian world of "disinformation" that has risen to prominence in recent months.
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Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway told a befuddled Chuck Todd of NBC that Spicer didn't lie to the press about the inauguration, he just presented "alternative facts" to the press, sending sales of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four skyrocketing.
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Its title draws directly from the words of counselor to President Trump, Kellyanne Conway, who made the absurd claim of "alternative facts" almost exactly one year ago, in defense of false attendance numbers of Donald Trump's inauguration crowd.
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Conway, who ran Trump's campaign during the 2016 general election and joined the White House last year, is a frequent combatant with members of the press and famously coined the term "alternative facts" during an interview last year.
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Following Spicer's inaccurate claim about crowd size at Trump's inauguration, and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway's subsequent description of Spicer's claim as an "alternative fact," Twitter users' comedic takes on other "alternative facts" made the hashtag trend worldwide.
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This weekend's "alternative facts" were fairly innocuous, but soon he will be meeting with foreign leaders, sitting in on intelligence briefings, and deciding the fate of the world, and the lies will grow graver and become more frequent.
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David McCraw is deputy general counsel of The New York Times Company and the author of "Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts," from which this essay is adapted.
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Mr. Giuliani's phrase that "truth isn't truth" joins Ms. Conway's assertion in January 2017 that the White House had put forth "alternative facts" to ones reported by the news media about the size of Mr. Trump's inauguration crowd.
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With his "alternative facts," his scapegoating of foreigners and international trade, and his barrage of executive orders, Mr. Trump confirmed what the opposition had feared: that he will run the country like a populist autocrat and paranoid protectionist.
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The point is that America is very good at making its own reality, which is another way of saying it has always tolerated — even welcomed — fake news and alternative facts for the sake of power and political convenience.
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As much as anything, Twitter is the broadcast network for Mr. Trump's parallel political reality — the "alternative facts" he has used to spread conspiracy theories, fake information and extremist content, including material that energizes some of his base.
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MUNICH (Reuters) - The number two official at the European Commission accused the Polish foreign minister in a heated exchange on Friday of using "alternative facts" to defend Warsaw's controversial judicial changes that Brussels says threaten the rule of law.
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And while today a rapprochement with Russia and the end of US-led sanctions may seem inevitable, what government would be willing to bet on the sagacity of an administration that relies on "alternative facts" to argue their case?
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Prepare to roll your eyes: In yet another blatant disregard for empirical evidence for alternative facts, the Administrator the EPA, Scott Pruitt, told at least five members of the EPA's scientific review boards that they could back their bags.
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For more than two years, the news media and progressives have been outraged by the the president lying about all things great and small; it pains me to see the president create "alternative facts" counter to the obvious truth.
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His version of the story was, however, picked up at the time as a news story by a network of right-wing blogs as evidence of Hollywood's long-standing communist sympathies (in a moment of pre-Trump "alternative facts").
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WASHINGTON — Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday that the White House had put forth "alternative facts" to ones reported by the news media about the size of Mr. Trump's inauguration crowd.
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To assert that there are "alternative facts," as his adviser Kellyanne Conway did, is to assert that there is an alternative, delusional, reality in which those "facts" and opinions most convenient in supporting Trump's policies and worldview hold sway.
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HAMBURG, Germany — The New York Times was awarded a major German prize on Sunday for its efforts to remain "a beacon of reason and enlightenment in an era of 'alternative facts' and allegations of 'fake news,'" the jury said.
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Long before Trump came on the scene, conservative ideologues on Capitol Hill constructed a set of alternative facts about repealing the Affordable Care Act that served as a useful electioneering strategy but simply don't work as a governing agenda.
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Welcome to the New Media Upside Down: a parallel universe (think the Upside Down from the Netflix series Stranger Things) that operates as a mirror image of its mainstream counterpart with its own "alternative facts," audience, and interpretation of truth.
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In a world of "alternative facts," gag orders on scientists, and toxic rhetoric that would've drowned Sonic the Hedgehog in a hot minute, it's worth remembering that a lot of Sega games in the 1990s were really psyched about environmentalism.
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MATHISEN: AND HOW YOU LOOK AT –WHEN THERE ARE PEOPLE SAYING, THERE ARE ALTERNATIVE FACTS, WHEN THERE ARE PEOPLE SAYING, WE JUST DON'T BELIEVE YOU BECAUSE IT'S YOU, WHERE STATEMENTS OF OBJECTIVE FACT GET TURNED ARTFULLY INTO QUESTIONS OF MOTIVE.
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The "alternative facts" remark drew widespread criticism on social media and has been credited with a spike in sales of George Orwell's "1984" novel about a dystopian future where people are forced to simultaneously accept contradictory versions of the truth.
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Their support for Trump won't dissipate, Vance argues, based on skirmishes over "alternative facts" and crowd sizes at the inauguration, or Trump's early moves to staff his White House with Wall Street executives and gut regulations established after the financial crisis.
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The first weekend of Trump's presidency, Kellyanne Conway told Meet the Press' Chuck Todd that White House press secretary Sean Spicer was just presenting "alternative facts" when he made blatantly untrue claims about the size of the crowd at Trump's inauguration.
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Given the Republican Party's ongoing denial of information it doesn't like — from climate change science to empirical economic analysis of tax cuts — what is truly so new about Trump's cries of fake news or his administration's insistence on "alternative facts"?
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Putin and Flynn got cozy in Moscow after the general was deposed as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency for his crackpot theories (then known at the DIA as "Flynn facts," now known to one and all as "alternative facts").
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Donald Trump is really, really, really obsessed with numbers, especially those that reflect his popularity, sending members of his staff into the world armed with lies and "alternative facts" to claim the attendance at his inauguration on Friday was HYUGE.
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That provoked Sean Spicer — new White House Press Secretary, advocate of "alternative facts," and outspoken critic of Dippin' Dots — to ironically call out "media danger" as he reassured the world that MLK is, indeed, still at home in the office.
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Conway is the first woman to run a successful presidential campaign, but her infamy stems from cable news appearances, where she spins her boss's controversies into what she deems "alternative facts" while flaunting blond split-ends and fruit-colored dresses.
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Netflix bought the film at the festival — reportedly for around $2 million — and it has since been updated with a new ending and clips of Trump allies Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer talking about "alternative facts" and false crowd numbers.
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We roll our eyes because, from Conway's "alternative facts" to Lord's penchant for anachronistic time-travel, to Spicer's head-spinning spin, they routinely and intentionally refuse to answer questions or will answer them in ways meant to veer off topic.
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Organizers have planned over 500 marches around the world, with the main event happening in Washington, D.C. The March for Science is decidedly nonpartisan, bringing together protestors from both sides of the aisle to rally against unfounded and alternative facts.
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Earlier in their interview, Floyd takes Captain America to task for, well, his "alternative facts" in claiming Hydra won World War II. And Captain America also slams Floyd and others as "so-called journalists," echoing one of Trump's favorite insults.
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A Democratic senator asked President Trump's pick to lead the White House budget office if he would use "alternative facts" and pushed him to compare crowd sizes from former President Obama's and Trump's first inaugurations at his Tuesday confirmation hearing. Sen.
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The Trump insurgents – chief strategist Steve Bannon, senior adviser Stephen Miller, counselor Kellyanne Conway, the president himself, thumbs ever a-tweeting – are outsiders, storming into the White House and TV studios, assaulting liberal policies and pieties, proclaiming their alternative facts.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House vowed on Sunday to fight the news media "tooth and nail" over what it sees as unfair attacks, with a top adviser saying the Trump administration had presented "alternative facts" to counter low inauguration crowd estimates.
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He traffics in alternative facts; she has woven those into history, to the extent that the school kids Greenfield interviewed about the nine dark years of Ferdinand Marcos's reign can't articulate whether this was a good or a bad thing.
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The British novel was reprinted in January, decades after it was written, following the Trump administration's defense of "alternative facts," a term White House official Kellyanne Conway used during a dispute over the size of the crowd at Trump's inauguration.
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Trump's alternative facts behind his false charge of voter fraud are designed to escalate GOP efforts at voter suppression of legitimate voters through various state laws, which now face challenge in court that Trump's Justice Department has already begun to oppose.
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A regime that gave the world "alternative facts" has been working overtime at year's end to banish words it doesn't like or believe in, and to take credit for, or reframe, good things that it had very little to do with.
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Day one shows inauguration, day two reminds viewers of the Trump administration's claims that he had the "largest audience" ever at his inauguration, day three shows adviser Kellyanne Conway using the term "alternative facts" and so on until day 99.
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While truth was deemed an endangered species in the nation's capital long before President Trump's arrival, it has become axiomatic in the era of "alternative facts" that each person or party entertains only their own preferred variant, resisting contrary information.
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But the assistance to Ukraine that Trump imperiled is something many Republicans favor, and the facts of the case are so plain that it has slightly punctured the bubble of right-wing alternative facts that normally shields the president from criticism.
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In the Trump era, when long-held facts seem to matter less, conspiracy theories — theories that create not just, in Kellyanne Conway's terminology, "alternative facts," but an entirely new reality — are more threatening, and more critical to understand, than ever before.
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Kellyanne Conway made up a terrorist attack but later admitted it was mistake Kellyanne Conway made up a terrorist attack but later admitted it was mistake Donald Trump's senior adviser Kellyanne Conway has taken her use of "alternative facts" to another level.
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But it's also witnessed some very unusual spectacles, including both the president of the United States and his press secretary telling baldfaced lies about crowd size, a senior adviser coining the term "alternative facts," and an unusually harsh wave of dishy insider leaks.
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That was in response to Queen of Alternative Facts Kellyanne Conway, who recently said the kitchen appliances are just one of the many ways Big Brother was probably watching Donald Trump during his campaign (as he believes but has not yet proven).
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Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, suggested to Pompeo that this was "an effort here to create alternative facts in which North Korea walked away," and questioned the Trump administration's overall approach to North Korea.
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Again, the Trump administration's economic team seems to be at odds with itself, ignoring large and small details, failing to adequately prepare and having no alternative plan (though plenty of alternative facts) while Chinese negotiators are playing the long game for the win.
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One couldn't write it better that this adminstration is the source of a term sounding as if it were ripped straight out of "1984" -- "alternative facts" -- only to see it, too, deep-sixed by ridicule within hours of its floating by Kellyanne Conway.
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However, it would appear that this administration is so giftless with language -- from "alternative facts" through "covfefe," typo-riddled memos, and an inaugural address of index-card length and on to "tender age facility" -- that it lacks the rhetorical power to deceive.
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" Yet, President Trump and his top aides have been spinning a web of alternative facts, claiming that their response has received "tremendous reviews," that "we're very proud of it," and that "everybody has said it's amazing the job we are doing there.
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During his presidential campaign and after, Trump denounced CNN, owned by Time Warner, for its "FAKE NEWS" – which I take to mean persistently reporting the truth about Trump's serial lies, rather than reporting Trump's alternative facts as if they were the truth.
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To recap the weekend: Millions of people marched against him; he sent mean tweets; his speech at the CIA was tone-deaf; he declared war on the media; his press secretary lied; and his spokesperson turned "alternative facts" into a hot hashtag.
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I generally admire Frank Bruni's columns and share his views of President Trump, but equating another appearance of the Patriots in the Super Bowl with Mr. Trump, income inequality, declining N.F.L. ratings and assorted other ills strayed into the universe of alternative facts.
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" On Page 30, he denounces the "embrace of 'alternative facts' at the highest levels of American life," adding that it "creates a state of confusion, dividing us along fissures of truth and falsity and keeping us in a kind of low-level dread.
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Conway has added some communications responsibilities to her portfolio, though she has had her own share of troubles, generating headlines with a claim that the administration offers "alternative facts" and feuding publicly with CNN over whether the network canceled one of her appearances.
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This week, the startup's CEO stepped down and was replaced by a Big Tobacco exec, a truly fitting development for a company that has long tried to maintain a moral high ground based on the alternative facts of the reality at hand.
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Fresh from the Trump campaign, Boris Epshteyn, was named Sinclair's chief political analyst, filling precious local news minutes for almost 22019 minutes each day, reaching 2.2 million American households with his alternative facts based "commentary" beamed in from thousands of miles away.
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Goebbels was the minister of propaganda for the Nazi Party in Germany during and just before World War II. Conway, who coined the phrase "alternative facts," has been criticized for her defenses of President Trump and his administration, especially on media appearances.
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" Ms. Conway has drawn scorn, and been disinvited from some news programs, for her references to a "Bowling Green massacre" that never took place and her defense of claims about the size of the crowd at Mr. Trump's inauguration as "alternative facts.
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Margaret L. Harrer, Oradell, N.J. In an era when all of us are concerned about the damaging impact of "fake news" and "alternative facts," why would the NYT choose to publish an ad that denies the relationship between CO2 and global warming?
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Even in a "post-truth era," a critical attitude allows us to question dominant systems of thought, whether they derive authority from an appearance of neutrality, objectivity or inevitability or from a more Trumpian appeal to alternative facts that dispense with empirical evidence.
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At the Irish pub, Trump's sensei transported his audience to the Stone Zone, as he calls it, where alternative facts are gospel, Nixon is held up as the Beltway version of Mahatma Gandhi, and the current sitting president is America's anointed messiah.
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But in this new era of "alternative facts," some criminologists are expressing concern that the integrity of crime data used to shape criminal justice policy, drive decisions about law enforcement funding and personnel, and tackle problems like gun violence could be under threat.
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He spent the weekend complaining about media coverage during a visit to the CIA's memorial wall, a top aide suggested the White House simply presented "alternative facts" about the crowd size at his inauguration, and Saturday saw a series of nationwide protests against him.
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Handling falsehoods and 'alternative facts' Trump's unprecedented verbal attacks on the press, his chaotic management style and his assaults on the truth have often confounded his own advisers, placing some members of his beleaguered team in the position of explaining the President's outright falsehoods.
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But another element of the story — familiar to Americans in the age of Donald Trump — has to do with the difficulty of reasoned democratic debate in a world where "alternative facts," information silos, and conspiracy theories deprive citizens of a common view of reality.
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It's hard to imagine those same voters seriously making the same argument after a steady stream of alternative facts, Russian influence, the media being labeled an "enemy of the American people," stories of pastors preparing safe houses for undocumented immigrants and a failed Muslim ban.
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But it is imperative to avoid the kind of sloppiness Conway exhibited with her reference to Bowling Green and when she defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's use of "alternative facts" when he pushed back at reports on the attendance at the Trump inauguration.
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Our president boldly disregards factual information, and his spokesperson Kellyanne Conway suggests that "alternative facts" are just as real as actual facts, and in the process dismisses the historical lessons that may be drawn when politicians replace fact with exaggeration — or worse, outright fiction.
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McCarthy channeled that first abrupt press conference the day after the inauguration: she yelled and berated the assembled reporters around a mouth full of gum, touted a whole litany of alternative facts, accidentally spelled out a password, and sprayed reporters with a Super Soaker.
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Whether we call the problem fake news, alternative facts, or the old favorite of FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt), Sagan's foreboding of a world where we're "unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true" seems to be materializing right before our eyes.
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Beaten by the news into seclusion at his home in Great Falls, Montana, the old stomping grounds of cowboy artist Charles M. Russell, Zarzyski questioned the very notion of reconciliation in an era of invective social media and the conscious proliferation of alternative facts.
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I admit that my tweet was a bit more pointed than my other tweets to Trump, some of which have gone viral, but the media must call a liar a liar and not a person who posits "alternative facts" or any other silly euphemism.
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Read these stories next: Black & Latinx Teenagers Keep Disappearing In D.C. — But No One's Talking About It Black History Is Not About "Alternative Facts," Say The Most Adorable Kids Ever This Video Of Black Parents Talking To Their Kids About Police Will Break Your Heart
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Read more: Alternative facts: How white supremacists got the black man they brutally beat charged with felony Harris, who was 20 at the time, suffered a concussion, a head laceration that required 10 staples, a broken wrist, a spinal injury, and a chipped tooth.
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Personal Health In this era of alternative "facts" and rising industrial sway in Washington, the well-being of Americans depends more than ever on financially and politically independent organizations that inform consumers and advocate for policy changes that help to keep all of us healthy.
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TRUTH IN OUR TIMES Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts By David E. McCraw For many Americans, the greatest reason to cheer during the sleepy, low-scoring game that was Super Bowl LIII was not the Patriots' victory.
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It's all a bit saccharine, but A River Below—which premiered at Tribeca on Earth Day—is not so much a touchy-feely movie about conservation and endangered species as it is a vital work of art for the post-truth era of alternative facts.
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They talked about his new book, "Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts," and about Mr. McCraw's life on the job, including what it's been like to fight legal battles against President Trump and Harvey Weinstein.
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THE UNQUOTABLE TRUMP By R. Sikoryak (Drawn and Quarterly, $19.95.) Sikoryak, an artist known for his arch comic adaptations of literary classics, casts President Trump, along with his outlandish claims and alternative facts, as some of the most notable villains in comic book history.
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In an Orwellian era when the president's personal lawyer says that "truth isn't truth" and when lies are excused as "alternative facts," a newly released documentary film provides a potent reminder of one public official who wasn't afraid to speak his mind without perverting reality.
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Luntz points to her utter rejection by the left, while Palin's "obliteration of fact from fiction, of truth from lie," as Schmidt puts it, helped pave the way for charges of "fake news" and "alternative facts" that have become familiar during the Trump presidency.
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In its second and weaker half, the film becomes a modernist fable, a kind of multiple-choice question that, in the light of today's ambiguous moral climate rife with terms like truthiness, alternative facts and fake news, throws the past into shadowy half-light.
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" Getting into minor scandals has become something of the Kellyanne Conway brand, whether it be sitting a couch kinda weird, telling a white nationalist "love you" on Twitter, or getting disinvited from TV shows for spreading misinformation, or in her own words, "alternative facts.
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""[The Trump administration is] trying to undermine people's confidence in their ability to make objective observations and are so bold as to state things that can clearly be discredited as simply 'alternative facts' just to see who's willing to abandon reason and jump blindly on board.
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Their conclusions still stand today -- and perhaps take on more significance now that we live in a world where alternative facts color the public discourse, and the President of the United States publicly calls into question the actions of judges presiding over cases of national significance.
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In an effort to help recent graduates navigate the post-truth age of alternative facts, mistruths and blatant falsehoods, billionaire Bill Gates is gifting everyone who earned a degree this spring from a U.S. college or university with a copy of one of his favorite books – Factfulness.
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Ms Hobbs has highlighted the bits that are most pertinent to the 21st century, focusing on Plato's analysis of democracy, how it is vulnerable to attacks both from without and within, on the role of women, the danger of alternative facts, of fake news and of sophistry.
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GENEVA — Reports of thousands of people killed by the police in the Philippine government's crackdown on drug use are "alternative facts," a Filipino senator and ally of President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday, brushing off accusations of extrajudicial killings as a way to discredit Mr. Duterte.
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In the House of Commons last week, May repeated Kellyanne Conway's expression "alternative facts," while her opposite number, Jeremy Corbyn, used a Trump favorite "fake news" in an interview with the BBC -- the national broadcaster -- rejecting reports that he was considering standing down as leader of the Labour Party.
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Sarah Paulson Probably Won't Play Kellyanne Conway... Murphy previously joked that Paulson would be perfect to tackle the role of Donald Trump's counselor — who inadvertently coined the "alternative facts" as one of 2017's most popular memes — but it looks like that might not be the case after all.
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"Alt" has been a super-useful descriptor for 90s teens and MTV programming (again, only in the 90s) so it's sad to see that the word has been co-opted by the "alt-right" white nationalist movement and the neologism "alternative facts," coined by Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway.
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Kenny is more than dismayed when he hears this from Rachel — especially because it seems to him that she believes Lee (who Kenny calls an "alternative facts piece of garbage" and, for good measure, a "reptilian piece of garbage"), which seems odd, given that Lee is otherwise universally disliked.
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In a rare intra-party rebuke from the Senate floor, Flake said Trump's portrayal of the press as "the enemy of the people" and repeated White House references to "fake news" and "alternative facts" had spurred copycats such as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
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In a rare intra-party rebuke from the Senate floor, Flake said Trump's portrayal of the press as "the enemy of the people" and repeated White House references to "fake news" and "alternative facts" spur copycats such as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
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"I'm satisfied with the sentencing because for me it's about raising awareness to this growing problem of alternative facts and people who are easily influenced by those facts, and then, take it upon themselves to think that they are the part of some army of good," Pozner said.
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THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH The Biography of George Orwell's "1984" By Dorian Lynskey Shortly after the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump and his counselor's invocation of "alternative facts," anxious readers, bracing themselves for the worst, propelled George Orwell's "1984" back to the top of the best-seller lists.
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I can't think of a better way to counter the "alternative facts" we have been hearing in the political discourse about Mexico and Mexicans than to go there and see for ourselves, to experience firsthand the country's physical beauty, its rich traditions, the hospitality and kindness of its people.
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But in this time of President Trump's almost daily "fake news" accusations against The New York Times, and of his counselor Kellyanne Conway's "alternative facts," and of untruths seeping like a plague from the highest office in the land, there's increasing talk of "real" or "fact-based" journalism.
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Well, we're going to talk about that next, because I've had some real big run-ins with people at all these companies recently about fake news and alternative facts, and all kinds of things that I think they're absolutely responsible for, and they absolutely do not think they are.
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In a series of tweets Friday morning, Conway clarified her gaffe and tweeted a link to a "Nightline" investigation from 2013, which made clear the two Iraqis attacked U.S. soldiers in Iraq, not the U.S. Donald Trump's senior adviser Kellyanne Conway has taken her use of "alternative facts" to another level.
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As the fashion industry confronts its own inner demons, such as the depths and decades of sexual harassment in the worlds of modeling and photography and an imbalance of diversity of all kinds, it's time to use our biggest platform (outside of Instagram) to separate alternative facts from hard, painful truths.
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In the 51 days since Trump took office she's repeatedly lied to the American people—claiming "alternative facts" and actual ones have equal validity and later inventing a mass murder—not to mention breaking ethics rules by shilling for the president's daughter's clothing line on TV. These are not normal things.
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Jokes about "alternative facts" were rampant, and Twitter-ready signs punctuated the crowd: "I'm With Her," with an arrow pointing to the Earth; "Make Earth Great Again"; and "Keep Your Tiny Hands Off Our Data," with the word "Tiny" spelled out in the elemental symbols for titanium, nitrogen and yttrium.
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While Trump's speech would otherwise be perceived as just one of his typical rambling and patronizing talks that attempt to make a crowd believe what his administration is now referring to as "alternative facts," it is the location of the speech that makes his nobody-treats-me-fairly speech utterly despicable.
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We live in a moment when "The Handmaid's Tale" is a hit television show, and Kellyanne Conway's use of the term "alternative facts" reminded so many readers of the double talk in George Orwell's classic "1984" that the novel hit the best-seller list seven decades after its original publication.
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — Impetuous and instinctive, convinced of broad but hidden plots to undermine him, eager to fight and prone to what an aide called "alternative facts," President Trump has shown in just days in office that he is like few if any occupants of the White House before him.
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CNN's "facts first" branding campaign, rolled out last fall, was pitched to the press as an effort to "blunt Trump attacks" on the network, but the reference to Kellyanne Conway's infamous alternative facts gaffe belies the fact that CNN isn't so much countering Trump's anti-CNN rhetoric as feasting off it.
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Even though portions of Trump's base have agreed with the administration's description of reality — 15 percent of Trump supporters agreed with him that the crowds at his inauguration were bigger than those at Obama's — the institutions that are supposed to offer an evidence-based check on "alternative facts" have continued to do so.
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While Trump has repeatedly stated that Mexico will pay for it, both Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and former President Vicente Fox Quesada have met Trump on his favorite platform for spewing "alternative facts," tweeting that their country does not support the construction of the wall, nor will they be paying for it.
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The Trump administration's disdain for factual information has become abundantly clear from the falsehoods uttered by Trump's aides in recent days, such as press secretary Sean Spicer's inaccurate assertions about the inaugural crowd sizes, as well as senior advisor Kellyanne Conway's use of the Orwellian term "alternative facts" to describe Spicer's figures.
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From expanding the Global Gag Rule to appointing anti-abortion activists and peddlers of alternative facts to key positions in the Department of Health and Human Services, President Trump and this Congress have proven they are dedicated to implementing policies that threaten a woman's health and ability to exercise her constitutional rights.
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Annette B. Clawson Lakewood, Ohio Alternative Facts Elizabeth Kolbert makes passing mention of demographics in her article on conspiracy theories, noting that, according to the research of Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent, the poor and the uneducated tend to be more inclined toward conspiratorial thinking ("That's What You Think," April 22nd).
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Even in soft focus and sweaters, it'll be nearly impossible for all but Trump's most ardent supporters to separate the Spicer they see on TV from the one that declared Trump's inauguration was the most heavily attended in history, to forget about Conway's Orwellian "alternative facts" line, or to dismiss Sanders's withering credibility.
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Tensions were pretty much at a boiling point in DC last weekend during Donald Trump's presidential inauguration, and while we all saw alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer get decked in the face—over and over again—there was apparently another brawl involving senior White House advisor and "alternative facts" defender, Kellyanne Conway.
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The piece, which discusses the lawsuit filed against the DOJ by the legislative advocacy group Songwriters of North America (SONA), sets out a series of what can only be classified as "alternative facts" as they neither reflect the current actions of the SONA, nor the long standing practices of the music industry as a whole.
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Conway's tweet comes amid mounting criticism of her media appearances after she used the phrase "alternative facts" to describe disagreements over the crowd size at President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE's inauguration.
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The extra attractions include Frieze Masters (work done before the year 19773, including art by Alexander Calder, Joan Miró and Romare Bearden), Frieze Talks (daytime events with a 2017 focus on the age of "alternative facts"), music, film, guided tours and a place where beginners can buy artwork for 50 pounds (about $67) or less.
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" Alfonso Dastis, Spain's Foreign Minister, said many photos and stories about police violence against voters during the Catalan referendum were fake: "If there was any use of force, it was a limited one...I am not saying that all are fake pictures, but some of them are and there have been a lot of alternative facts and fake news.
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Exxon knew in the 28503s and President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE and Myron Ebell know today: climate change is real, it's happening and there is no "Planet B." Those are not alternative facts but sobering truths.
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We hear from a lot of people who always loved words but hadn't necessarily found the dictionary relevant to their lives before, and from people who have come to love words because they've engaged with us there In the case of responding to "alternative facts," how do you decide what is important to focus on when tweeting?
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In his fine new book, "Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts," the New York Times deputy general counsel David E. McCraw thoughtfully (and entertainingly) addresses this state of affairs as he takes us behind the scenes of the venerable (or failing, depending on your perspective) New York Times.
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White House economic adviser Gary CohnGary David CohnTrump says US will hit China with new round of tariffs next month Gary Cohn bemoans 'dramatic impact' of Trump tariffs Press: Acosta, latest to walk the plank MORE participated this week in a White House town-hall meeting to discuss infrastructure and other initiatives, and alternative facts were flying.
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Her zeal on Mr. Trump's behalf has sometimes landed her at the center of controversy, such as when she claimed that the White House was entitled to put forward "alternative facts" about the crowd size at his inauguration, and in a separate interview a few weeks later, referred to a terrorist attack in Bowling Green that never occurred.
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Later in the day, agitated by that and by the remarkable swell of women's marches with their pink-hat contempt for him — around the world and outside his window — President Trump brushed off the advisers trying to calm him down and sent Sean Spicer rushing out to hotly confront the press and offer his now infamous alternative facts.
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While the enormity of the disaster at Grenfell Tower was difficult to understand, it also exposed a bewildering media landscape: A broken established media that had lost the trust of the community in North Kensington, England and the wider public, and an insurgent alternative media that is, at its worst, only "alternative" in so far as will blithely promote alternative facts.
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" Philippines to UN: Reports of extrajudicial killings based on 'alternative facts' 'Anti-American' Duterte has a "very long, complex history of anti-Americanism," Joshua Kurlantzick, a Southeast Asia fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations told CNN, and his relationship with former President Barack Obama was particularly fractious, with the Filipino leader once calling Trump's predecessor a "son of a bitch.
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And yet, as United's season drifted, as Mourinho has meticulously constructed a set of alternative facts in which he is not to blame for that failure but the ultimate victim of it, his interminable regurgitation of his own greatness has not served to remind anyone of the heights he once scaled, but acted as proof of how far he has fallen.
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From sending tweets attacking journalists and stating fictitious claims we now refer to as "alternative facts," to pushing art to reprehensible limits by holding a mock decapitated head of the leader of the free world, to political leaders in one party referring to the other as the "death party," we are doing nothing to tackle the many problems our country faces.
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The scrambling of what's real and what's illusion began well before Mr. Trump's counselor Kellyanne Conway offered the concept of "alternative facts" on Sunday when commenting on false statements by Mr. Trump and Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, and before Mr. Trump's repeated false claims on Monday that millions of illegal voters cost him a popular vote majority.
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In today's Hillcast PM View, your daily evening update on what went down in Washington: A plan is coming together to avert a government shutdown, but its critics may yet bring it down; former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon is in the spotlight in the Russia investigation; and we return with "alternative facts" to examine White House claims on immigration.
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I was lucky enough to interview Jobs many times over the course of my career, and it was entirely true he was deft at throwing up an epic reality distortion field, which was still in no way like the "alternative facts" that the Trump administration's most deft Pinocchio, Kellyanne Conway, spews with an enthusiasm last seen in public when Joe Isuzu ruled the airwaves in the 1980s.
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And they also know that the best way to keep in his good graces -- and keep your job -- is to facilitate and defend his version of the truth (even if they know it isn't actually the truth.) Creating an alternate reality -- or using "alternative facts," to borrow a phrase from senior counselor Kellyanne Conway -- is simply an accepted way of doing business in the Trump White House.
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Trump Wants to Bring Back Coal and Steel Jobs as China Cuts 500,000 In a Tuesday night speech full of half-truths, demi-truths, and of course, alternative facts,…Read more ReadAccording to the study, China and India have accelerated reaching their goal by taking advantage of the shifting energy market, cutting utility reliance on coal, slashing hundreds of thousands of mining jobs, and investing heavily in renewable energy.
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Conway's use of "alternative facts" referred to White House press secretary Sean Spicer's statement Friday that Trump's inauguration had "the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period," despite photos and video showing former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 85033 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 0,000 at auction Dirty little wars and the law: Did Osama bin Laden win?
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Good American foreign policy is not made with alternative facts, but that is all they offer when it comes to rationalizing their approach to Iran -- as we heard Tuesday from Ambassador Haley, who tried to build a case against staying in the deal by citing violations that didn't happen, implying that there are hundreds of suspicious sites left uninspected when there aren't, and brushing off the security concerns of our allies.
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Despite the relentless flow of misinformation and "alternative facts," the federal workforce is not "bloated" and federal employees are not unresponsive bureaucrats in far-away Washington, D.C. Civilian employees of the federal government make up just 22019 percent of the national workforce, slightly less than the 2.2 percent of the workforce in President Obama's first year, and far less than the 3.1 percent level that prevailed during the Reagan years.
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Week One, in a nutshell: Donald Trump took office as the least popular president since at least 1945; faced a lawsuit over conflicts of interest; became associated with "alternative facts;" declared that he wanted to investigate massive voter fraud — fraud that according to all available evidence doesn't really exist; signed a few questionably actionable executive actions; and tried to break up with Mexico before Mexico broke up with him.
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Other events they have said were also highly important and abnormal — though none as important as Mr. Comey's firing — were the administration's use of terms like "alternative facts" and "fake news"; its continued attacks on news organizations; Mr. Trump's false accusation that President Obama wiretapped him; the White House's decision to give its staff members secret waivers to its own conflict-of-interest rules; and the F.B.I.'s Russia investigation.
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In a time in which Kellyanne Conway's "Alternative Facts" seem like the least of our problems, publisher Penguin has seen a 9500% sales increase of the sci-fi novelist's final work; stage renditions and screenings of Michael Radford's screen adaptation are popping up all over the world; anonymous donors are handing out the book like bibles; wholesaler Costco has even started stocking the book; and 1984 fan fiction is now part of the news cycle.
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At the time, Conway said then-White House press secretary Sean SpicerSean Michael SpicerOvernight Defense: Dems talk Afghanistan, nukes at Detroit debate | Senate panel advances Hyten nomination | Iranian foreign minister hit with sanctions | Senate confirms UN ambassador Trump taps Sean Spicer to join Naval Academy board of visitors Trump falsely claims his events have never 'had an empty seat' MORE was presenting "alternative facts" after he mischaracterized the size of the inauguration crowd.
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How strange that in the very week president Donald Trump was forcing his brand-new press secretary to lie about the size of the crowd at his inauguration and his trusted advisor Kellyanne Conway was introducing "alternative facts" into the lexicon, an avowed Donald Trump supporter was getting kicked off Donald Trump's own television show for committing just the kind of brazen fraud and linguistic trickery that would earn him a job in Donald Trump's White House?
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But on Saturday, The Roots and Tonight Show drummer Questlove traded in the arts to preach about the importance of science at the March for Science in Washington, D.C. Co-hosting the Earth Day event, the 46-year-old musician and multi-instrumentalist (né Ahmir Khalib Thompson) spoke out against the new presidential administration's reliance on "alternative facts" — saying that science should belong to the masses and that making it accessible to people is now more important than ever.
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Schiff offers bill to make domestic terrorism a federal crime New intel chief inherits host of challenges MORE (D-Calif.) on Sunday ripped White House counselor Kellyanne ConwayKellyanne Elizabeth ConwayThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Florida first lady to miss Women for Trump event due to planned execution Trump adopts familiar mantra on possible recession: fake news MORE for what he called her "display of alternative facts" on Russian election interference.
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" Using a theatrical performance to deconstruct responses to a months-old debate performance seems like another corridor in the hall of fun-house mirrors that is coming to define the Trump presidency, in which facts are countered with alternative facts, rogue social media accounts replace those that are muzzled and Mr. Trump as president-elect can take to Twitter to compare his cabinet selection process to reality TV or to carp about his impersonation on "Saturday Night Live.
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There it all is — the spectacular flameouts, from semitragic former generals ending up in court to harlequins flitting through White House corridors; the kooky theories of "The Fourth Turning," which informed Stephen Bannon's understanding of American history; the impulsive hires of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the national security adviser H. R. McMaster, and their humiliating tweet-singed send-offs; the jumped-up mediocrities incapable of writing a memo and the multimillionaires on the make with schemes to outsource the Afghan war; the birther conspiracy theories about Barack Obama; Kellyanne Conway's invocation of the Bowling Green massacre and alternative facts; the constant expletive-laden discourse in which major American foreign policy decisions were conceptualized by the president as variations on the Anglo-Saxon monosyllable for sexual intercourse; the contempt for human rights, loyalty to allies and fidelity to covenants.
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Here's everything that happened during Trump's first year: January January 26 Trump signs his first executive order to start rolling back Obamacare January 27 The Women's March comes to Washington, and millions rally around the worldWhite House press secretary Sean Spicer takes no questions but slams the media over their coverage of Trump's inauguration crowd sizes January 28 Kellyanne Conway defends Spicer, saying he was giving 'alternative facts' January 2020 Trump signs an executive order withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership January 210 Trump signs executive order to advance Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines January 211 Trump signs two executive orders directing the construction of a US-Mexico border wall January 212 Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto cancels a meeting with Trump over the wall January 213 Trump signs the executive order that came to be known as the travel ban January 216 Trump fires acting Attorney General Sally Yates for 'refusing to enforce' the travel ban January 217 Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court February February 218 Trump marks Black History Month, talks Frederick Douglass February 225 Judge blocks Trump's travel ban February 2000 Pence casts tie-breaking vote, confirming Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Sen.
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