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Letter to the editor:

Top counselor Kellyanne Conway was looking a bit haggard as she defended President Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer’s bare-faced lie about the size of the inauguration crowd. Conway was hired to shill for the Trump administration’s agenda and that includes selling his lies and calling them “alternative facts.” Just how stupid do they think we are? I’m all for giving Trump a chance to Make America Great Again but it shouldn’t include accepting lies and “alternative facts.”

Herb Stark; Mooresville, N.C.

Letter to the editor:

It’s time to stand up to the lies that the Trump administration is going to expect you to report as truth to the American people. Do not fall for it. Do not do their bidding. Call a lie a lie. There are no “alternative facts.” There is truth and there are lies, and they must be distinguished as such. Be prepared to help members of the Trump administration discern between the two, and be prepared to share your successes with all of us.

Support one another in pressers. Do not allow legitimate questions go unanswered. Do not allow falsehoods to go unchallenged. Stand united as a force of good and support one another in finding and reporting the truth.

Trump lied on the campaign trail, in debates, in interviews. The press has a responsibility to serve us all with honesty and dignity.

Christina Wise; Boulder Creek, Calif.

Facebook comments are edited for clarity and grammar:

Kellyanne Conway was great on “Meet the Press.” She took apart a dishonest Chuck Todd and a dishonest, liberal-biased news media.

Finally someone within the GOP with a backbone willing to confront a biased news media live on national TV.

— Barry VanTrees

The majority of the news media are most likely liberals who have looked for the worst possible spin on everything President Trump does and says.

— Chad Clausen

Has someone added the count of the worldwide viewing audience? Press Secretary Sean Spicer is clearly including them in the count, not just feet on the ground in Washington.

It is going to be a long eight years.

— James Tapley

When the majority of Trump supporters believe the National Mall photo comparisons were fake news, “alternative facts” matter. If you can’t agree on what the facts are in an easily proveable instance like this, how can you ever agree on what they are on more contentious issues? And if you can’t agree what they are, how can you ever agree on what to do when facing them?

— Dan Porath

Policing the USA

We asked our followers their thoughts on President Trump’s counselor Kellyanne Conway’s use of the term “alternative facts.” Tweets are edited for clarity and grammar:

Very creative, but a lie is still a lie.

—@nauga54

Warning to teachers everywhere: My answer wasn’t wrong, it was just an alternative fact. #SlipperySlope

—@heymjm

The ancient maxim, “The king can do no wrong,” has been updated to include, “No wrong can be done to the king.”

—@agavalis

It’s called lies. You can’t change the story to fit the narrative. Trump is constantly lying. Look at his Politifact rating!

—@iipulcherequus

I think it’s absolutely absurd and we shouldn’t trust a word from the White House.

—@johnlouissmith

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