Alternative Facts Quotes

For years, right wing outlets like outlets like Fox News and talk radio have been telling their audience day after day that any information coming from outside of conservative media is not to be trusted.

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

Tea-baggers love the truth. They just hate facts.

Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another

The Washington Post is quickly trying to become the safe space for Donald Trump deniers, for the Trump-won-the-election deniers. I think the Washington Post is establishing itself as the safe space for anti-Trump delicate snowflakes to go.

Like many people, I became increasingly alarmed during the 2016 campaign and the first year of the Trump administration by the full-on war being waged on the very idea of truth.

In the era of President Trump, we've gone from believing things that are 'true enough' to believing things that aren't true at all, and can be demonstrably proven so.

There's a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many.

The 'truthiness' of Trump's so-called facts, the questions he posed on President Obama's nationality or jobs destroyed by free trade, has the same effect as dueling scientists on issues such as obesity or climate change.

I do think the strategy of Trump, and now the Republican Party, is to eviscerate the idea of objective truth.

When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

Point of view changes so much as time goes on. And it's important to acknowledge that the truth is multifaceted. And yet that conversation has a very different meaning now because of this whole alternative facts thing, calling everything you don't like "fake news."

Great Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. I'm not sure that's true anymore.

Truth is for the minority.

'Alternative facts' is really one of the better things that's come out in a long time. 'Alternative facts?' It's brilliant! Really? Alternative facts? There are two different realities?

There's something outrageously funny about the bold-faced lying that's going on, in a general way. Just the blatant denial of facts, whether it's climate change or crowd sizes. Every day, there's another blatant lie. I think there's comedy in there somewhere.

There's no truth anymore.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

The Democrats right now are living in an alternative universe.

You don't want the truth. Truth is boring.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

We live in an age where truth really doesn't matter anymore.