When Ms. Conway tried to deflect the accusations of lying away from Mr. Spicer with her claim the he was using “alternative facts,” Chuck Todd explicitly noted “Look, alternative facts are not facts. They’re falsehoods.".
At that point Ms. Conway made no effort to defend the silly phrase and provided no further information that would have indicated that Mr. Spicer was relying on other data. She simply avoided any further commentary, tacitly acknowledging that there was no other information and that Mr. Spicer’s words were, in fact, falsehoods.
The phrase means falsehood from its inception and any use directed at the statements of another poster will be treated as an accusation of lying.
We do not intend to base our rules on the Trump administration’s definition of “glory.”