Merriam-Webster Gets In On The 'Alternative Facts' Fun

[DonViejo]

By ESME CRIBB Published JANUARY 22, 2017, 3:22 PM EDT

After top Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway coined the phrase "alternative facts" on Sunday, Merriam-Webster decided to weigh in by reminding everybody that some definitions just aren't that subjective.

In an interview Sunday morning, Conway argued that White House press secretary Sean Spicer wasn't lying about crowd size at Donald Trump's inauguration—he was just giving "alternative facts."

Lookups of the word "fact" spiked after Conway's impromptu semantic innovation, according to Merriam-Webster, which tweeted its own definition.

Merriam-Webster ✔
@MerriamWebster

📈A fact is a piece of information presented as having objective reality. https://www.merriam-webster.com/news-trend-watch/conway-alternative-facts-20170122 …

12:32 PM - 22 Jan 2017

In the last year, Merriam-Webster weighed in on Donald Trump's misspelled tweets, went apocalyptic in honor of the presidential election and summed up 2016 with its word of the year: "surreal."

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kellyanne-conway-merriam-webster-alternative-facts

[Warpy]

1. It will be totalitarianism until the other panelists burst out laughing

when some ferret faced Trump spokesmodel comes out with one of these howlers.