Yeah, "alternate facts" made me cringe too. But maybe not for the same reason it made you cringe. I understand what Kellyanne Conway was trying to say in her exchange with Chuck Todd, and on substance she absolutely had the better of the argument. That's why it's so frustrating to see what happens when the Trump team gets into these shouting matches with blowhards like Todd. You use one ill-advised term - and yes, "alternate facts" was very ill-advised - and it takes all the focus off the fact that Todd's position was indefensible.
At the heart of it was Todd's angry insistence Sean # had come forth with a series of "provable falsehoods," the clear implication of that being that the media had provable facts to the contrary. They didn't. They still don't. What they have are assertions to the contrary from people they trust more than they trust Trump, Conway or #. Because Chuck Todd's self-regard is so high, that makes these assertions facts. They are not facts.
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