White House counselor Kellyanne Conway bashed the many fact-checking websites that have attempted to keep track of the hot air spewing out of the Trump administration, saying that "Americans are their own fact-checkers" and they "have their own facts."
Conway, who infamously coined the term "alternative facts," might even impress George Orwell at this point with her ability to deny, deflect and spin the truth. During a recent radio interview with Mark Simone of New York's 710 WOR Radio, the two took aim at fact-checking websites, claiming that the fact-checking industry, such as it is, has been seized by liberals.
"Hey, Kellyanne Conway, here’s something you guys got to work on," Simone said, "liberals seize more and more control of the infrastructure, they control the newspapers, they control the networks."
He added, "In the last few years, they’ve taken total control of the fact-checking sites, and they’re very slanted. Something’s got to be done about this."
"Yes, fact-checking the fact-checkers," Conway agreed. "It's not a bad idea, only because people say 'well the facts speak for themselves' right but, you're selecting what you think should be fact-checked."
The interview comes after various news organizations fact-checked President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Incidentally, Trump has claimed that the number of people who watched that speech, 45.6 million, was higher than the record-setting 66.9 million who watched Bill Clinton's first State of the Union in 1993.
"You're right though, it's not just academia it's not just the mainstream media," Conway said.
She added that there are "so many different organs and organizations that are slanted towards this president and towards his agenda." However, Conway is confident in the American people because, according to her, they have their own sets of facts.
"But look, Americans are their own fact checkers," Conway said. "People know, they have their own facts and figures, in terms of meaning which facts and figures are important to them." She added, "The stock market is something they know about because they’re part of the investor class."
"I just have the faith in people to see through that," Conway said.
In the end, Conway's bizarre interview may make for appealing soundbites and headlines, but it is also truly stunning to see how disconnected the Trump administration, and pro-Trump media punditry, are from reality.
American politics have become increasingly, and dangerously, polarized in recent years, but Conway's doublethink Orwellian rhetoric has made it nearly impossible to get people to even agree on an establish set of facts in order to have a productive debate or conversation about the issues. Instead, we have opinions masquerading as truths in a dialogue where even simple math is beginning to be denied in order to fit into a political agendas.
Forget "alternative facts": the Trump administration is establishing their own alternative reality through its own Ministry of Truth.
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