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Kellyanne Conway got caught – and mocked – for inventing a massacre by two Iraqi men on Chris Matthews’ “Hardball” last night and she’s now playing the innocent victim for her employment of alternate facts.
Her first tweet employed a news report that turned out to be inaccurate:
On @hardball @NBCNews @MSNBC I meant to say "Bowling Green terrorists" as reported here:
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— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) February 3, 2017
As the Toronto Star‘s Daniel Dale, who so thoroughly fact-checked Donald Trump, pointed out, however,
This is, again, highly dishonest – links to old story about fears there were more refugee terrorists. There weren't. https://t.co/BMa2oBDo9y
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 3, 2017
So dishonesty to excuse lies. All too typical in the Trump administration. But Conway wasn’t done by a long shot. Her persecution tale had yet to come, but we did not have to wait long. First, it became Chris Matthews’ fault that she lied:
NBC reporter texted me at 632am re:a diff story; never asked what I meant on @Hardball b4 slamming me on @TODAYshow Not cool,not journalism
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) February 3, 2017
Then she heaped abuse on an unnamed “prominent liberal site”:
1/2: Honest mistakes abound. Last night, prominent editor of liberal site apologized for almost running a story re: tweet from fake account
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) February 3, 2017
Before praising her own imaginary “class” and “grace”:
2/2: yet won't name him, attack him, get the base 2 descend upon him. Same with MLKJr bust fake story. It's called class, grace, deep breath
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) February 3, 2017
Clearly, Kellyanne Conway takes her example from Trump, with a persecution complex and an imaginary self-image so far out of whack that it can scarce be comprehended. Her unhinged and far from gracious rants demanding Trump’s critics be fired, are near as epic as her boss’s.
Kellyanne Conway got caught lying, and lying big, and rather than praising her imaginary class and self-image, she ought to be issuing a mea culpa and apologizing for her frequent use of “alternate facts” as an excuse for Donald Trump’s inexcusable actions.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.