Now We've Got "Alternative Facts" Along with Fake News!

From NBC39s Meet the Press this pastamp160Sunday quotKellyanne Conway counselor to President Donald Trump said White House press secretary Sean Spicer gave 39alternative facts39 when he inaccurately described the inauguration crowd as 39the largest ever39 during his first appearance before the press this weekendamp160Spicer had gathered the press to deliver a fiveminute statement Saturday in which he issued multiple falsehoods declaring erroneously the number of people who used the DC metro on Friday that there was a change in security measures this year and that this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period both in person and around the globequotWelcome to quotreality politicsquotIf quotthe manquot doesn39t like what39s reported the quotfactsquot are now simply fungible amp8230 and amazingly this is done with a straight faceWe now have an inner circle in the White House that believes what Rush Limbaugh says amp8230 if of course he and they say it often enoughamp160 Never mind real realityamp160 Can you imagine someone writing quotreal realityquot a couple of years agoamp160amp8230 and meaning itThe President39s inner circle amp160Bannon Kushner Preibus Conway Spicer Barrack et alamp160amp160claim the press is quotdelegitimizingquot Donald J Trump39s hard won Presidencyamp160They are after all the experts on that with years of quotbirtherismsquot behind themThe White House is attempting to systematically delegitimize quotthe pressquotamp160As The Hill39s Rebecca Savransky reported quotWhite House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus on Fox News Sunday said 39The point is not the crowd size The point is the attacks and the attempts to delegitimize this president in one day39 amp160And we39re not going to sit around and take itquotIn other words facts don39t matter amp8230 and it turns out that is especially true when the reports simply repeat what the President saidAll of that seems surreal amp160But it isn39tamp160 It is realamp160 We39re in an alternate universe where ontherecord even recorded quotes are quotattacksquotFreedom of speech and freedom of the press are under systematic attackamp160We need to be careful out thereClick the social buttons above or below to share this story with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this article are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated bloggers

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