The latest Orwellian doublespeak to come out of the Trump Administration was spoken by Donald Trump's favorite minion Kellyanne Conway on Sunday's Meet the Press.
While discussing press secretary Sean Spicer's bizarre first briefing from the White House during which he lied at least four times, according to PolitiFact, about the number of people who attended the Trump inauguration and accused the media of distorting the true attendance numbers.
Host Chuck Todd was flabbergasted by Spicer's remarks and practically stupefied when Conway justified his statements by saying he was merely providing "alternative facts" to the media.
"Why did he do that? It undermines the credibility of the entire White House press office on day one," Chuck Todd asked Conway.
"Don't be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck... You're saying it's a falsehood... Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that," Conway fired back.
"Wait a minute," an incredulous Chuck Todd interrupted, laughing, "Alternative facts!?... Four of the facts he uttered are just not true. Alternative facts are not facts!"
But, of course, Kellyanne Conway doesn't care about facts. Instead, she changed the subject to Barack Obama's policies because that's what Kellyanne does best. When she knows she's beat, she pivots to a completely different topic and paints herself and the Trump administration as the helpless victim of the gotcha media's biased coverage.
It's going to be a long four years.
