Yes, Kellyanne Conway did say "Alternative Facts" and it was a very silly thing to say BUT just not a bit deal....at all. It was clear she meant alternative information. This IS actually very true.
The Chairman of the (Bi-Partisan) Presidential Inauguration Committee, Thomas Barrack Junior was responsible for the Inauguration. The Parks and Recreation did not do an official count. The Liberal Left was giving Trump shit about the size of the crowd. The Trump team went to Thomas Barrack to see how big the size was and he told them it was the biggest and best and bigger and better than Obama's. Armed with that information (or alternative fact) they comment on the crowd size and the audience.
They were actually right about the viewing audience once livestreaming is taken into account. As to the crowd numbers? It seems like they got it wrong but NOT because they were lying but just the information from the right person, was the wrong information.
The "facts" they relied upon, were wrong. No reasonable person thinks that this is somehow meaning that everything they say THEREFORE is "an alternative fact". No reasonable person at all.
As for Liberal News...
The Liberals HATE trump. Not only do they hate him and his supporters and his ideas and the political party he represents, but they are literally prepared to do ANYTHING to strike out at him and anyone remotely associated to him. Truth and morality are not at all needed in their want to "defend" against Trump. Remember all the reports of hate crimes "by Trump supporters" The graffiti on the side of the church found to be by a parishioner, the Mosque that was burned down - ended up being a Muslim anti-Trump, The gay man who was supposedly beaten up and was covered in blood (that in the photos look suspiciously like raspberry jam) and who had to call police and go to hospital to get staples in his head - only to have the police confirm no call made and no hospitals admitted him and the infamous Trump supporters that attacked a Muslim girl and ripped off her hijab - only to find out later that she was lying and charged with making false reports.
They were all before the #pissgate dossier and such. FAKE NEWS. I am sure there is a bit on the right too. In times gone by they were the fake news factory and rightly mocked for it. But in the last few years this has been a feature of the Liberal media. They are propaganda merchants and they have a ready supply of lying Liberals to incriminate, humiliate and destroy themselves on the altar of Progressivism. They will EVEN use their recently dead mother to try to discredit Trump.
After ANY big Liberal news you HAVE to wait at least a week to see if truth overtakes it. They play their readers for mugs and see who the patsies are that will be outraged by their propaganda. You were that person.
It is not that no fake news ever happens on the Right, it does but they are just not as plentiful nor do they have the same audience. There is plenty of crazy on the right. Glenn Beck and Alex Jones have enough crazy to negate any Salon or Buzzfeed. Unfortunately, there is far more than just those two on the Left.
The Right USED to be the kooks and crazies. I think the Liberals of yesteryear were more like the Moderate right is today. The pendulum has swung as the Left has been more infused with crazy Progressives. It will swing back and I suspect after 8 years of Trump, they will be the intolerant, bible bashing, gun toting maniacs they were in the past. But the intolerant ones now are the ones screaming bigotry whilst rioting and burning down communities and assaulting people for not holding the same political ideals that they do.
