No more alternative facts

President Trump is ready for war. With the media. Trump has long been a media basher, but stepped up his criticism over the weekend with his declaration that journalists are among the lowest life forms and that he has a running war with the media. His Press Secretary’s very first order of business was to gather journalists to bash them over reports that Trump’s inauguration crowd was not as large as that of Barack Obama. Trump counsel Kellyanne Conway defended the Press Secretary, arguing he presented “alternative facts.” But there are no such things as alternative facts, except in a George Orwell novel. But this is reality. Facts are facts. Trying to call something an alternative fact is really just a lie. Even the dictionary Marriam Webster trolled Conway, pointing out the definition of fact is a piece of information presented as having objective reality. Perhaps this is a political tactic, rallying his supporters around the supposed media bias. Many people believe that to be true, even if it is an alternative fact. It seems that in today’s reality, the new administration may claim it is at war with unfair journalists, but in truth, the real war seems to be against the facts. But as former Senator Patrick Moynihan once told us, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but no one is entitled to their own facts.