Untruths?

[mushroom25]

apparently telling fibs is OK now because they're not really lies but Alternative Facts...

http://time.com/4642689/kellyanne-conway-sean-spicer-donald-trump-alternative-facts/

do you ever present alternative facts to back your arguments?

[-Talbot-]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Politics/Question1534194.html

[Gromit]

The alternative fact is not an outright lie. It is a biased, one sided, distorted piece of information that omits inconvenient parts, to support an argument.

It is nothing new, the Daily Mail have had that modus operendi for decades. UK Governments, Conservative and Labour have been doing it for years, and calling it 'spin'.

[youngmafbog]

Yeah, your not averse to using that method either are you Gromit>

[Gromit]

Ymb,
The timeline usually goes like this...

AOG posts a DM link that omits half the story.
I post the inconvenient side the DM omitted.

[mushroom25]

//I post the inconvenient side the DM omitted//

like the trident missile that landed on Rusholme?

[youngmafbog]

I think you meant to write

I post the inconvenient embellished half truth from the other side the DM omitted.

[Gromit]

A Trident missile hitting Manchester, no damage reported - was a joke. As was it got lost because it was using Google maps, which of it doesn't use.

I did not expect anyone to actually believe that had happened, or take it as a lie when it plainly didn't happen.

[ToraToraTora]

PMSL, you've gotta love that, Alternative facts!

[hereIam]

I often tell 'little white lies', usually to avoid hurting someone, don't we all ??

[Khandro]

//do you ever present alternative facts to back your arguments? //

Of course, and that's what lawyers do all the time.