Top White House adviser Kellyanne Conway called her “alternative facts” comment was a “La La Land” moment.
“Well, it was alternative information and additional facts. And that got conflated,” she said on CBS’ “Sunday Morning.”
“But, you know, respectfully, I see mistakes on TV every single day and people just brush them off. Everybody thinks it’s just so funny that the wrong, the wrong movie was, you know, heralded as the winner of the Oscars.”
She was referring to the infamous Academy Awards flub that announced “La La Land” as best picture, before officials corrected the presenters by saying “Moonlight” was actually the winner.
Conway in a January interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” was defending White House spokesman Sean Spicer’s estimate of the crowd size at President Trump’s inauguration parade by insisting it wasn’t a “falsehood” only him presenting “alternative facts.”
Conway also told “Sunday Morning” in the taped interview that more women don’t run for elected office because you have to have “bile in your throat.”
“It’s not just the fire in your belly anymore,” she said. “You have to have the bile in your throat. And this is why I think many women do not run for office.”
Asked by host Norah O’Donnell to elaborate, Conway replied:
“Yeah, just to swallow so much that the country looks at you through this negative lens and corruption and cronyism and you’re lying and you’re – you want money and you’re motivated by power.”