David Axelrod: I woke up this morning as an alternative fact January 93 I woke up this morning as an alternative fact.
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The Morenz era in Montreal was hatched on alternative fact.
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Criticism can be constructive — and that's not an alternative fact.
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But that has taken root as a sort of alternative fact.
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It's up to you to decide whether that's an alternative fact or not.
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Which when looking up the synonym for alternative fact, it means bull waste.
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Here is a fact, not an alternative fact: Blue-collar workers speak English.
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The remainder of the book, based on this alternative fact, is a fantasy.
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It's alternative-fact central (you know, there are no Russian troops in Ukraine).
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Or to be politically correct for Conway, that it is not an alternative fact.
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This is what they now call an 'alternative fact,' but I call it bullshit.
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This is what they now call an 'alternative fact,' but I call it bulls---.
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Okay, so that's an alternative fact — but Conway did once try to make people laugh.
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Spicer rolled out a podium to repeat the same alternative fact about the Emmy crowd.
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We're learning quite a lot about Sean Spicer, our new White House press secretary and alternative-fact-fan.
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An optimistic interpretation is that Mr Trump has realised that the promise was based on an "alternative" fact.
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Everyone was asking if sentient alternative fact Kellyanne Conway was on her way out of the White House.
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This is what they now call an alternative fact," he continued, adding: "I call it what it is: Bullshit.
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"I would like to say it's an honor to be here, but that would be an alternative fact," he said.
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I realize I was floating the proposition as an "alternative fact" — in my case, a conviction fueled by infantile rage.
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A single "alternative fact," though it may seem trivial, can have far-reaching consequences for the web that sustains rational belief.
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" On headlining the WHCA dinner: "I would say it is an honor to do this, but that would be an alternative fact.
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Jake Tapper is penning what could be considered an "alternative fact"-filled book: a fictional thriller about a congressman in the 1950s.
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It sounds like an "alternative fact": Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, apparently swallows dozens of pieces of gum every day.
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Now all of that is true, but at the same time another truth existed, an alternative fact if you'll allow: I felt old.
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What is your purpose, your mission as one of the most recognizable scientists in popular culture in this alternative fact, post truth world?
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During EW's SAG Awards party, host Lola Ogunnaike asked television's brightest stars to share an "alternative fact" about the plots of their TV shows.
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Siri surfaces information from Wikipedia, but the Wikipedia pages for Bulgaria, its real national anthem "Мила Родино," and "Despacito" don't mention this alternative fact.
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To avoid falling into this quicksand, think (and think again) before blurting, tweeting, texting, or firing off what might soon become an alternative fact.
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" Here are a few more of the evening's very best zingers: "I wouldn't know an alternative fact if it hit me in the face.
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I think the main difference is the President now has Fox prime time and that allows his supporters to live in this alternative fact world.
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One series called Un-Current Events featured a camouflage hat–wearing "alternative fact analyst" named Alabama Boss, who joked each week about offbeat human interest stories.
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But anti-choice groups and lawmakers are trying to get around this fact by offering, well, an alternative fact—that fetuses can feel pain at this stage.
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For some time now everyone has been worrying about "fake news" or the world of "alternative fact" and wondering just how and why this unhappy phenomenon has flourished.
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It is not an alternative fact that state-regulated medical marijuana has been proven to possess important benefits to millions of patients while not undermining public safety or health.
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"We are really now in alternative fact territory," Frans Timmermans, first vice president at the Commission, told the minister, Witold Waszczykowski, on the first day of the Munich Security Conference.
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If Migos are better than the Beatles, which was the first and only legitimate alternative fact, by the transitive property, there can be no best Migii, nor best Migos song.
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President Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Republicans (and even some Democrats) have called for a need to carefully balance environmental regulation with the precepts of economic growth ("alternative fact number two").
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Whites should be afraid of the migrant caravan traveling from Central America, especially since "unknown Middle Easterners" were hidden in its midst, an alternative fact that he cheerfully acknowledged was based on nothing.
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Some states force doctors to lie to women about a purported link between abortion and breast cancer — an "alternative fact" that has been debunked by the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute.
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While private sector companies might try and get away with shading the truth in a favorable way, it's hard to imagine a company spokesperson telling the media a blatant, observable falsehood was actually an Alternative Fact.
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" In a Sunday interview on "Meet the Press," Conway referred to White House press secretary Sean Spicer's statement about Trump's inauguration crowd being the "largest audience to ever witness" such an event as an "alternative fact.
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While organizers said the march was nonpartisan, concerned individuals used the march's opportunity to criticize Trump's agenda on the environment, displaying placards such as "Science not Silence", "Make Earth Great Again", and "Science is not an alternative fact".
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In other words, every alternative fact that Trump disseminates on Twitter, in interviews, and in statements serves to further delegitimatize sources of accurate information, and also to normalize both the act of spreading misinformation and the misinformation itself.
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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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The science of human-caused global warming "is not settled"The logical fallacies that pervade the entire report start with title and introduction, which reiterate the enduring alternative fact that human-caused global warming is still up for debate.
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Why it matters: As noted by Thompson in his memo, the role of an internal watchdog across many newsrooms has outgrown its original purpose due to the rise of alternative fact-checking outlets in the digital and social media age.
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Other states require doctors to repeat anti-abortion lies about women's feelings and mental health after abortion, compelling them to give the false information that abortion has negative mental health outcomes – another "alternative fact," this one refuted by the American Psychological Association.
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Yes, Sikoryak reminds us, Trump really did go on and on about the size of his hands; and yes, on his Inauguration Day, he really did talk about God not making it rain on his speech (that's an alternative fact, by the way).
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I don't know, I have a little bit of an alternative-fact view on this where it is true that I think the media had for a little while, is somehow ridiculous to debate about whether or not you can call a flagrant untruth from President Trump a lie.
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The black frames that line the West Wing no longer display photographs of POTUS shaking hands with worlds leaders, little kids, and wounded warriors," she writes, "instead, it's a pathetic display of inauguration day crowds with the aerial shots cropped tight in the attempt to establish yet another 'alternative fact.
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" ---- I woke up this morning as an alternative fact By David Axelrod "Trump's warmth to right-wing populist movements in Europe and hostility to trade and global institutions are wholly consistent with the worldview of Bannon's Breitbart, which recently opened bureaus in France and Germany in advance of elections there.
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Trump Entertainment shows up every day now in the form of an outrageous "alternative fact," a pugnacious press conference, a tweet denouncing the news media as "the enemy of the American people" — or as a pep rally in Florida, unconnected to any particular legislative agenda and organized entirely for the purpose of giving the president an ego sugar high.
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If you don't want to believe American intelligence assessments that the Russians were behind the breach — supposedly to help the electoral prospects of President Trump — and if you don't like all the news about the investigations into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, well, there's an alternative fact set to grab onto: Mr. Rich did it and paid for it with his life.
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Each episode has the same format, two mini- stories and the week's alternative fact. The mini-stories are in essence a shorter version of the main series in-depth format, introducing the story and explaining the problem. For example, a story where Woman's Day ran an article about Paul Hogan's ex-wife (Noelene Hogan) in which, using a photo of Noelene with her son, the article incorrectly portrays the son as her deceased partner Reg, stating the couple were a "cute pair", only to be corrected by a tweet from a family member. The Alternative Fact of the Week points out an incorrect or baffling tidbit, often involving US President Donald Trump.
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On January 23, 2017, the segment reviewed the Trump Administrations first press briefing. Due to the Kellyanne Conway's gaffe about alternative facts, the segment was renamed What The Alternative Fact. In this segment, Lydic went through and satirically and sarcastically rated all of Trump's falsehoods as true, by justifying them with "alternative facts".
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The term alternative facts has become a mainstay in popular culture, from late night comedians to more serious news outlets. Jimmy Fallon created a segment "Two Truths and an Alternative Fact" on The Tonight Show. Stephen Colbert criticized Conway for saying she was not Inspector Gadget or "in the job of having evidence" on The Late Show, claiming "Kellyanne Conway has only one move: 'Go, go, alternative facts!'" CNN's ad campaign "Facts First" was a direct response to the concept of alternative facts and fake news.
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