Michael Wolff Quote
The next day Kellyanne Conway, her aggressive posture during the campaign turning more and more to petulance and self-pity, asserted the new president’s right to claim alternative facts. As it happened, Conway meant to say alternative information, which at least would imply there might be additional data. But as uttered, it certainly sounded like the new administration was claiming the right to recast reality. Which, in a sense, it was. Although, in Conway’s view, it was the media doing the recasting, making a mountain (hence fake news) out of a molehill (an honest minor exaggeration, albeit of vast proportions
Michael Wolff
The next day Kellyanne Conway, her aggressive posture during the campaign turning more and more to petulance and self-pity, asserted the new president’s right to claim alternative facts. As it happened, Conway meant to say alternative information, which at least would imply there might be additional data. But as uttered, it certainly sounded like the new administration was claiming the right to recast reality. Which, in a sense, it was. Although, in Conway’s view, it was the media doing the recasting, making a mountain (hence fake news) out of a molehill (an honest minor exaggeration, albeit of vast proportions
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