{"id":5241,"date":"2017-02-03T21:02:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T04:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5241"},"modified":"2017-02-05T19:38:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T02:38:33","slug":"the-queen-of-alternative-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5241","title":{"rendered":"The Queen Of Alternative Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration&#8217;s spin doctor, a.k.a resident bullshit artist, a.k.a. Queen of Alternative Facts, Kellyanne Conway, has made quite a splash since Donald Trump has started his reign as CEO\/Dictator of America.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2017\/01\/kellyanne-conway-alternative-facts\" target=\"_blank\">she created the Orwellian term &#8216;alternative facts&#8217; to defend Press Secretary Sean Spicer&#8217;s outright lie about the immensity of the Inauguration crowd despite the visual evidence to the contrary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2017\/02\/03\/kellyanne-conway-cites-bowling-green-massacre-that-never-happened-to-defend-travel-ban\/?utm_term=.dfb2727bbebb\" target=\"_blank\">she referenced the Bowling Green Massacre to justify Donald Trump&#8217;s immigration ban<\/a>. The only problem with this is that the Bowling Green Massacre never happened. <strong>It&#8217;s not a lie folks, it&#8217;s just another alternative fact from the Queen of Alternative Facts, Kellyanne Conway<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5243\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5243\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kellyanneconwaytrumpbowlinggreenmassacre.jpg\" alt=\"The Trump Administration's Queen of Alternative Facts, Kellyanne Conway, explains how Donald Trump ended the Bowling Green Massacre by killing Iraqis\/Aliens with a laser cannon, thus saving America from certain death.\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kellyanneconwaytrumpbowlinggreenmassacre.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kellyanneconwaytrumpbowlinggreenmassacre-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Trump Administration&#8217;s Queen of Alternative Facts, Kellyanne Conway, spins another yarn inflating the legend of America&#8217;s CEO\/Dictator Donald Trump.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration&#8217;s spin doctor, a.k.a resident bullshit artist, a.k.a. Queen of Alternative Facts, Kellyanne Conway, has made quite a splash since Donald Trump has started his reign as CEO\/Dictator of America. Last week, she created the Orwellian term &#8216;alternative facts&#8217; to defend Press Secretary Sean Spicer&#8217;s outright lie about the immensity of the Inauguration &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5241\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Queen Of Alternative Facts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,61,60,68,85,3,198],"tags":[1491,1493,1492,1490,20,389,27,9,592,663,1494,199,21,1495,98,596,296,19,1496,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5245,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions\/5245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}