Don’t you love politics. The game of just lying to voters is now being re-branded as ‘alternate facts.’ This weekend 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.
This issue of the crowd has been widely publicised but the fascinating element we’re now seeing is this new term, pause for a second, ‘Alternative Facts.’
Alternative Facts are ‘facts’ which offer an alternative to what actually happened. anyone with half a brain knows a fact is something which is proven. So alternative facts are pretty much just bullshit.
As a new political too thisl is possibly the best thing to hit the press secretary or politician in decades. Don’t like the facts, say ‘economic bad news’ or ‘votes weren’t there’ then just apply the ‘alternative facts’ to the messaging and boom, you’re now explaining what you would have liked to happen instead of what did happen.
Here’s Kellanne in full flight. Given the scope of the opportunity to all political spinners to embrace Alternate Truth, surely it’s now up to the media to just not allow it? Let’s watch this space!
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