Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

Intended for you.....

Don't 'Mr. grammar person' my occasional typos. No, we don't agree on links. None were needed for what is so clearly self-evident about you and your posts.

For every fact that is supported by evidence there is NOT an alternative non-fact. Either there is evidence or there is not.

The only people who who don't understand that are the trolls who post their bothsidesisms here and boneheaded Kellyanne Conway.

As for 'not even a sentence'? Your word salad concoctions of bad syntax and misinformation are your default mode. I don't lose sleep over my occasional typo or awkward sentence structure, so you shouldn't go chicken shit on them


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts

"Alternative facts" was a phrase used by U.S. Counselor to the President, Kellyanne Conway, during a Meet the Press interview on January 22, 2017, in which she defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's false statement about the attendance numbers of Donald Trump's inauguration as President of the United States. When pressed during the interview with Chuck Todd to explain why Spicer would "utter a provable falsehood", Conway stated that Spicer was giving "alternative facts". Todd responded, "Look, alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods."[1]

On February 23, 2017, fifteen professors of law, some of whom are themselves obliged to adhere to the District of Columbia Bar Association's Rule of Professional Conduct, rule 8.4(a), filed a disciplinary complaint with the D.C. Bar's Office of Disciplinary Conduct. Their complaint applies against Conway, a lawyer in public office, on the grounds that under rule 8.4(c): "It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation", because of Conway's pattern of misrepresentation as well as her misuse of words such as "massacre" at a time when she holds high public office.

The letter of complaint makes a specific reference to the use of the phrase "alternative facts" as being involved in one of the cases of alleged misconduct, citing as a reference for its claim an opinion article by a New York Times op-ed columnist.[47]

In popular culture
The term alternative facts became a mainstay in popular culture, from late night comedians to serious news outlets. Jimmy Fallon created a segment "Two Truths and an Alternative Fact" on The Tonight Show.[48] Stephen Colbert criticized Conway for saying she was not Inspector Gadget or "in the job of having evidence"[49] on The Late Show, claiming "Kellyanne Conway has only one move: 'Go, go, alternative facts!'"[50]

CNN's ad campaign "Facts First" was a direct response to the concept of alternative facts and fake news.[51] USA Today listed it in their "Glossary of Trump terms".[52]

Both Robert De Niro and Steven Spielberg referred to alternative facts in their acceptance speech at the National Board of Review awards for the Spielberg film The Post. Spielberg said: "We are in a fight and it's a fight not just about alternative facts but it's a fight for the objective truth."[53]

The 2017 short film Alternative Math is a satire about the absurdity of the concept of alternative facts.[54]

On January 16, 2018, German linguists declared the phrase "alternative facts" the un-word of the year 2017.[55] It was also chosen by Austrian linguists as the un-word of the year in December 2017.[56]