Yes, I read it. I think you’ve been watching too much fake news and believing it.
The fake news tried to create the narrative that Kellyanne Conway is a loose cannon, a gaffe-prone train wreck, when really she’s a super effective spokesperson for Trump, who completely devastates the MSM every time.
The so called “alternate facts gaffe” is part of that fake news narrative but it’s a nothing burger - nobody cares that she said “alternate facts”. It was a lame attempt by the left to make it look like Conway is a trainwreck but it didn’t work.
Kellyanne Conway has nothing to overcome.
By calling it “unfortunate”, and using their word gaffe, and worrying about whether she can overcome it, you are buying into their fake news narrative.
Don’t believe she has some unfortunate gaffe she needs to “overcome”, just because the MSM says so.
The phrase itself is pretty bad. But like you point out, even the left-wing media has moved on from it.