Earlier today, CNN anchor Rosa Flores apparently chose the wrong mom to exploit in her futile effort to boost CNN ratings.
While it"s unclear exactly what happened off-air in the moments leading up to this interview, it became clear very quickly that this "shivering cold" mother of two exhausted children had no appetite for Flores shoving a "microphone in her face" to get a couple of sound bites for Jim Acosta"s show.
"We walked through four feet of water to get food on the first day. Yeah, that’s a lot of shit.”
“But y’all sit here, y’all trying to interview people during their worst times — like that’s not the smartest thing to do. Like people are really breaking down and y’all sitting here with cameras and microphones trying to ask us what the fuck is wrong with us."
"And you really trying to understand with the microphone still in my face? With me shivering cold, with my kids wet, and you still putting the microphone in my face."
Not surprisingly, Kellyanne Conway immediately took to twitter to shame CNN for the failed interview.
Watch this clip to end.Shames @CNN to get the mike out of her face, notes her kids are shivering & in need of things other than an interview https://t.co/jGbvfJGecx
Of course, even though Conway"s tweet will be dismissed as a cheap shot, it does seem somewhat obvious from the jump that this mom is exhausted beyond belief and probably slightly more interested in finding some dry clothes for herself and her children than sharing her feelings with CNN. That said, maybe we"re just really good at picking up on subtle social cues...
Meanwhile, the whole episode left Jim Acosta noticeably "triggered"...
OUT AND ABOUT IN THE HAMPTONS — Lally Weymouth held her annual summer party last night at her house in Southampton.
There was a long gold carpet entrance from where the parking was to a big tent next to her house. She served champagne, rare filet, fried chicken, cornbread, a big chocolate cake, ice cream and cookies decorated as American flags. Brother Don Graham did a big tribute to toast Lally (whose birthday is tomorrow) and shouted out Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film about how Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham challenged the government for the right to publish the Pentagon Papers in 1971 (Tom Hanks is playing Bradlee and Meryl Streep is playing Graham). Don made a big deal that Spielberg was there and jokingly conceived a Spielberg movie about Lally and described the cast (some actors and some in the room).
SPOTTED: Jared and Ivanka chatting with Joel Klein and Alan Patricof, Kellyanne Conway on the dance floor, Boyden Gray, Chris Ruddy, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and wife Iris, Katharine Weymouth, Mary Jordan, Richard Cohen, Margaret Carlson, Gillian Tett, Steven Spielberg chatting with Steve Clemons and Robert Hormats, Carl Icahn, Tom Lee (famous for doing a leveraged buyout of Snapple and now lives in Princess Radziwill’s house), David Koch, John Paulson, Dina Powell, Richard Edelman, George Soros and his wife Tamiko Bolton, former Florida Gov. and Sen. Bob Graham (Lally’s uncle), her cousin Gwen Graham (who is running for Florida governor), Maria Bartiromo, Ray Kelly, Bill Bratton, Jeff Rosen, William Drozdiak, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.).
As DailyWire.com writes,David Koch was at a party with George Soros? Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and Kellyanne Conway, too?
This should surprise absolutely no one. It must be noted that attending the same gathering as someone with whom you disagree isn’t wrong, nor is it a sign that you are colluding with them.
That said, it shouldn’t come as a shock that these people — Soros, Conway, Kushner, etc. — were all partying together. They are the Washington elites. The majority of those in the D.C. political world are homogeneous. They may play enemies on the great American stage, but behind the curtain, this acting troupe is thick as thieves.
This is actually a good lesson on perception. We, as voters, must be able to discern who is simply playing the game, and who is truly trying to change Washington for the benefit of the people.
The men and women who are doing everything they can to bring the United States back to constitutionalism are in the minority. It’s our job to recognize the value in these people, and vote for them. It’s also our job to see the actors for what they really are, rebuke them, and remove them from office.
This slice of life – this snapshot from a party – tells a thousand words. Washington, D.C. is a carefully crafted stage play, designed to distract the American people from what goes on behind the scenes. If we fail to recognize that, we will never achieve substantial change.
The feud between Trump and Steve Bannon appears to be a thing of the past.
As part of his extended interview with Bloomberg on Monday, Trump dismissed speculation that his administration is split by discord, saying he is sticking by his polarizing chief strategist, Steve Bannon, calling him a “very decent guy” who is getting a “bad rap.” Trump even revealed his own term for Bannon’s ideology, calling it "alt-left," a pun on Bannon’s ties to the conservative "alt-right" movement.
Why alt-left? Because as Trump explains, “Bannon’s more of a libertarian than anything else, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said during the Oval Office interview.
More importantly, Bloomberg adds that Trump’s "playful approach" to the former chief of Breitbart News, arguably the biggest target of liberal fury, and his other comments about his staff suggest that a widespread shakeup of his inner circle is unlikely in the near future.
Trump added that both Bannon and Reince Priebus would likely still be in their same roles several months from now, along with two other figures in his administration who have drawn withering fire: counselor Kellyanne Conway and press secretary Sean Spicer. Confirming reports from early April, Trump also said that Bannon and his son-in-law Jared Kushner had managed to repair their relationship.
"Bannon is a very decent guy who feels very strongly about the country. Likewise, Jared. And they’re getting along fine," Trump said, calling Kushner “a very brilliant young guy.”
The president did, however, acknowledge past tensions on the staff: "We have a lot of people that are getting along well," Trump said. "It’s coming out better now than it was, you know, for a while. And for a while it was a little testy, I guess for some of them, but I said they’ve got to get their acts together." Taking a walk down memory lane, Bloomberg reminds us that the heat switched to Bannon (previously it was on Priebus after the first failed attempt to pass Obamacare repeal) after his April 4 removal from the principals committee of the National Security Council. This was followed by reports of in-fighting between Bannon and Kushner. As we reported on April 8, one day prior Priebus, at Trump’s request, oversaw a session of "marriage counseling" for Bannon and Kushner. The pair agreed to resolve their differences, aides said.
The Bloomberg interview then goes over the tenuous relationship between Trump"s two (until recently) top advisors.
Priebus, the former Republican National Committee chairman, has looked to merge the outsider world of the Trump campaign with the party establishment he’s long led. Bannon, for his part, been among the most vocal advocates for a nationalist, anti-establishment approach to governance within the Trump White House.
The two men were in charge of running operations within a Trump White House that has experienced a string of blunders and missteps, including a travel ban barring visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries that was hastily written and quickly blocked by federal courts.
One White House official said last week that Trump’s top aides believe they have learned better the governing process and are now striving to keep various agency leaders and decision-makers in the loop so that no one feels shut out.
Either that, or they have both realized that with the ascent of Mnuchin and Cohn to the innermost circle of Trump advisors, their opinions simply no longer matter as much, and so it is best to simply indeed get along, or at least go along for the ride.
Trump concluded by saying that he didn’t expect to see departures from the White House soon. “Now, I will tell you, probably people are going to get job offers. You know, things happen,” he said. “But I’m very happy with our group. We’re doing very well.”
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) staged a nationwide training event Saturday to make sure people are aware of their rights as protesters and urge organized, public resistance by those opposed to policies of President Donald Trump.
A month ago Kellyanne Conway pointed out the media"s role in "emboldening" violent protesters (in this case at Berkeley).
“What’s going on out there is what’s going on all across the country,” Conway, a key aide to President Trump, said on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” Thursday.
“You have protesters who feel very emboldened,” added Conway, who served as Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign manager. "They’ve got media cameras following them, they give interviews.”
“I don’t even know if they know what they’re protesting. Really, what is it, the free speech? Having someone on your campus who has a dissenting point of view or wants to present an alternative point of view?”
Conway said students lashing out at Yiannopoulos, who is a popular figure with the alt-right, are in for a rude awakening upon graduation.
“In the real world, when these kids grow up and try to find jobs – which they will in the Trump economy – [they’ll see] life doesn’t work that way, folks.”
Which was followed last week by the violent clashes between pro-and anti-Trump protesters (in Berkeley)...
And so, as tensions roil between the left and the right, the gay and the straight, the "everyone else" and the white, the legal and the illegal immigrants, and the taxpayers and the freeloaders; it appears the ACLU has decided the already-divided nation needs help... in becoming more divided(as AP reports):
Organizers said the event at a sports arena on the University of Miami campus was livestreamed to locations in all 50 states. ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero said 200,000 people had signed up to attend one of an estimated 2,000 local events.
The event, staged in town hall style, was aimed at capitalizing on numerous demonstrations since Trump"s election in November and to make sure people know their rights to protest, Romero said. He said priority issues are immigration, the First Amendment free speech and religious freedom rights, civil and reproductive rights and rights of gay, lesbian and transgender people.
"We will bring all the lawsuits necessary to defend these rights," Romero said. "We"ll do the work in the courts. You do the work in the streets. People are motivated. They want to be engaged."
The ACLU also launched a new grassroots online organizing platform called PeoplePower.org. It"s billed as a way for people considering a local protest or rally to connect and coordinate with others around the country with similar intentions, and to provide details of ACLU initiatives.
Another plan is creation of "freedom cities" around the country that would encourage local officials to pass laws resisting Trump policies such as stepped-up deportations of people living in the country illegally, said Faiz Shakir, ACLU national political director.
Other parts of Saturday"s event detailed the rules for demonstrations on streets, sidewalks and in public parks, and the rights people have when arrested such as the right to remain silent. ACLU attorney Lee Rowland said large demonstrations generally require a local permit, but government can"t typically shut down protesters in public places without good reason.
"The government can"t censor you just because it disagrees with your opinion," Rowland said.
Also speaking at the event was Padma Lakshmi, an Indian-born cookbook author, actress, model and television host. She said she emigrated to the U.S. at age four and said the nation appears to be retreating from its welcoming ways.
"Lately I"ve started to feel like an outsider," she said. "What makes America great is our culture of inclusion. We must not tolerate the intolerance."
With half the nation being pumped on the belief (by various entities) that their protests will unseat a president that they have been told - day in and day out - is as bad as hitler, is a racist, sexist, mysoginist, pussy grabber - we suspect this will only end badly. As Chindit13 previously concluded, the "other side" has been waiting...
The Deplorables have already considered what is coming. They are as prepared as they can be. Years of decline have enabled many to build their survival skills, to make due with less, to build real communities where one man can trust another, to discover what is truly important and what can and should be salvaged from this society.
Outside of that demographic, however, people are stark naked. They are vulnerable in ways they simply cannot imagine. They are unprepared and unskilled for what will matter most. They are cannon fodder living on borrowed time.
History is full of examples of this sort of collapse. We humans have always rolled along a sine wave of progress and decline, of civility and social unrest. We think we have outgrown the sort of mayhem with which the history books are full, but that thought stems from recency bias. Most of history---the vast majority---is not peaceful.
Societies are not, on average, stable and safe. Thomas Hobbes knew that quite well, as evidenced in his most famous quote. Humanity is likely on the verge of returning to the mean, and the mean is exactly that: mean. In case some have forgotten their Hobbes: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
"It"s T-Day" as one trader put it this morning. President Trump will address a joint session of Congress Tuesday night for the first time as president in a much anticipated speech with a lot of hyped-up hope hanging on it.
As The Hill notes, the speech isn’t an official State of the Union - that will come next year - but it’s a chance for Trump to set out his legislative priorities after a tumultuous first month that has at times rattled congressional Republicans.
Here are five things to watch for in Trump’s speech...
Will Trump stay dark or go light?
The president’s first major address to the American people offered a grim view of the country he was elected to lead. At his inauguration, Trump painted a picture of a nation in decline, marked by “American carnage” such as “rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape” and marauding criminal gangs plaguing major cities. Stephen Miller, the influential White House aide who wrote that speech, has been tasked with authoring this one, too. But White House officials say the address to Congress will present “an optimistic vision” aimed at how his administration will help Americans of all races, parties and economic status. He will also stress how his early actions, while controversial, have fulfilled campaign promises. Offering a positive message that appeals to people outside his base could help bring together a country that remains deeply divided over a presidential election in which Trump lost the popular vote. It would also break with the style that got Trump elected. And previous “pivots” telegraphed by his team have not panned out. Before the inaugural address, White House press secretary Sean Spicer, then a spokesman for the Trump transition effort, told reporters it would focus on “areas where he can unite the country.”
Will there be specifics?
After spending his first month handing down a flurry of executive orders, Trump looks ready to get down to business with Congress. Trump is not a policy wonk, and the White House says he’ll reaffirm his desire to work on broad goals such as tax reform and repealing and replacing ObamaCare . But Trump will eventually need to take a side in specific policy debates if he wants to get his agenda passed. For example, he’s been grappling with what to do about Medicaid if the Affordable Care Act is repealed. Millions of Americans gained coverage under the healthcare law’s Medicaid expansion. Figuring out if or how to provide coverage to those people if federal funds supporting the expansion are eliminated is a difficult question for the GOP. The White House has largely left the specifics to congressional Republicans. “Nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated,” Trump said during a meeting Monday with a group of governors.
Will Trump challenge the congressional GOP?
Trump’s relationship with the Republican Congress has been far from perfect, from the rocky rollout of his travel ban to simmering disagreements over tax policy, infrastructure and trade. Lawmakers have publicly and privately complained about Trump’s bombastic style and penchant to go it alone. And members are taking some heat themselves from the right. “Republican party should be sued for fraud,” Matt Drudge, founder of the conservative Drudge Report, tweeted earlier this month. “NO discussion of tax cuts now. Just lots of crazy. Back to basics, guys!” It’s unlikely that Trump will voice those same frustrations with the lawmakers he needs to pass his agenda. But they might not like what the president has to say on some issues. For example, Trump has been reluctant to throw his support behind the border-adjustment tax that’s at the center of Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) tax reform plan. Trump also hinted Monday that he would make a “big” announcement on infrastructure spending during his speech, something that could give heartburn to fiscal conservatives. Separately, GOP defense hawks said Trump’s plan to boost military spending in his 2018 budget didn’t go far enough. Despite those disagreements, GOP leaders emerged from a meeting with Trump Monday afternoon insisting they are on the same page. “We’re looking forward to a positive, upbeat presentation tomorrow night and then proceeding with our agenda, which is exactly the same as the Trump agenda,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters.
Will Trump break with protocol?
Trump has shown a penchant for shaking up staid Washington traditions, but it’s unclear whether he will veer from the usual format for State of the Union-style speeches. The joint-address format has remained relatively unchanged for years. The president makes a dramatic entrance into the House chamber and then delivers his speech from the Speaker’s rostrum to members of both chambers, Supreme Court justices, military brass and handpicked guests, with tens of millions of people watching live on television. Some past presidents have tinkered around the edges. Former President Obama released the entire text of his 2015 State of the Union on the online publishing platform Medium ahead of its delivery. The White House has not yet indicated what, if any, changes it will make, but it wouldn’t be a surprise if the former reality television star did something different. “The Trump address won’t be boring, because Donald Trump’s not boring,” counselor Kellyanne Conway said last week on Fox News.
How will Democrats react?
Democrats have vocally opposed nearly everything Trump has done in his first weeks as president. And the president has responded in kind by lobbing personal insults at top Senate Democrats. Many are wondering whether that feud will boil over in his Tuesday night address. If it does, it would certainly break with the typically civil tone during presidential joint addresses. Some Democrats are planning quiet forms of protests by filling the gallery with immigrants, ethnic minorities and LGBT individuals. In 2009, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) shouted “You lie!” at Obama during an address on healthcare reform, a shocking moment at the time that earned him an official admonishment from the House. Trump has shown no qualms about verbally confronting critics and protesters at his campaign rallies, so such a disruption could cause him to break from his prepared remarks and respond. A typical speech to a joint session includes passages that win standing ovations from both parties, but it seems possible that some Democrats will sit for the entirety of Trump’s speech. “I hope a very robust and applause-filled reception,” Spicer said Monday when asked how Trump hopes he will be received by Democrats.
We suspect it will look a little more like this...
Finally, here are ten specific questions to pay attention to (via Axios)
The real state of our Union is unsettled - on edge. Does the president acknowledge that, and do anything to alleviate it?
If he tries to break the ice with humor about himself, what trait does he choose?
What will Trump say that"s tailored directly to lawmakers, to balance the bulk of his speech, which"ll be aimed beyond the chamber?
Can Trump convince Republicans that there"s a clear path to success on his big-ticket agenda items: health care, taxes, infrastructure?
Will Democrats have a "You lie!" moment?
How will Trump handle it?
What will he say about Russia?
What will he say about the media?
How closely does he stick to the prompter?
Does he deliver on aides" promise of a sunny speech?
The bond market is beginning to lose faith, will stocks?
The left is engaged in an allout war on Trump and his supporters. One of its weapons is to attack declarations as “Fake News.” Prominent journalists had a field day with Trump Counselor Kellyanne Conway for coining the phrase “alternative facts” in defending Sean Spicer’s observations about the crowd size at Trump’s inauguration.
The left pioneered what it now criticizes. The irony there is so delicious that someone ought to open a restaurant named Alternative Facts, presumably in San Francisco or New York City, where irony is a delicacy. Serving up such delicious irony surely would earn three Michelin stars and an opulent clientele.
Real Fake News — the concoction of not merely fictitious but utterly concocted stories designed merely to draw traffic — indeed is pernicious. It’s also a minor, fringe problem. Its political effect is overblown.
Something fundamental is at stake. What we are seeing in the political arena is a War of the Narratives. Conway, of course, is only a proxy target. Trump is the real target. Trump’s adversaries are trying to strip him of his most valuable advisors through ridicule and catastrophizing their trivial slip-ups.
Meanwhile, the left and right have their own views of the way the world works, as do subfactions within each. Loud voices on each side now tend to invalidate the other’s views as “Fake.”
I am aware of some of the flaws and contradictions within my own worldview. While not softening my convictions, that awareness disinclines me to go ballistic when I (often!) detect errors or omissions in the arguments of my adversaries. As one who knows he dwells in a glass house it doesn’t makes sense to throw stones at those who disagree with me.
As it happens, though, the left laid the foundation for “alternative facts.” That’s an artifact of a worldview that it pioneered. It condemns this as pernicious only when adopted by populist conservatives.
I’ll let you in on this Open Secret. It is one I know as I myself am a self-identified dues-paying postmodernist. Postmodernism sounds scary. It’s not.
Consider its most succinct definition by Jean-Francois Leotard who distilled postmodernism into “incredulity toward metanarratives.” In plain English: “Don’t swallow stories that pretend to explain everything.”
I am incredulous toward my own passionately held arch-conservative metanarrative. That incredulity toward my own gives me license to be genially incredulous toward the progressive metanarrative. I don’t drink my own Kool-Aid®. I am not about to drink the other team’s.
Me, a postmodernist? In the light of the Copenhagen School of Quantum Physics and the powerful findings of modern cognitive psychology, isn’t everyone? Well, admittedly not. The world is still infested with Modernism. Bother!
Yes, postmodernism is commonly associated with the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy. But holster that shootin’ iron, podner.
Postmodernism’s a neutral thing. It can be used for good or evil. There are neo-orthodox postmodernists. One was the late Umberto Eco. Another one: me. That makes at least two of us. Then there are the nihilistic postmodernists a.k.a. the “Bad Guys.”
Walter Truett Anderson, a Good Guy, wrote the clearest (and most fun) exposition of postmodernism I’ve encountered in his book Reality Isn’t What It Used To Be. Per cultureandyouth.org‘s review of this indispensable and delightful book:
Constructivists, with whom he [Anderson] generally identifies, understand that “we do not have a ‘God’s eye view of nonhuman reality, never have had, never will have.” (p. x) Rather, each culture, and now each generation, attaches meaning to reality by symbols. It is through these collective symbols that we begin to view and experience the objective “real world.” The world is not a “single symbolic world, but rather a vast universe of ‘multiple realities,’ because different languages embody different ways of experiencing life.” (p. xi)
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As postmodern as some are calling today’s culture, the author notes the persistence of faith and spirituality; “if there is anything we have plenty of it is belief systems.”
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People and societies today, then, are trying to adjust to the increasing plurality of worldviews. The author is optimistic as to our ability to make the best of this cacophony of beliefs, to make sense of it all, to find meaning in our lives, and to live with others in a positive manner.
What are the political implications? For one, the concept of “Alternative Facts” grew in the loam of postmodernism and its sister philosophical schools mostly hosted by the left. The left, not Kellyanne Conway, fostered this way of looking at things. Conway just played the hand she was dealt.
President Donald Trump will not attend the annual Alfalfa Club dinner Saturday night that is often referred to as the "board meeting of America"s establishment", Kellyanne Conway confirmed to Politico that Trump will not attend the exclusive black-tie dinner - and White House roast - that every president since Ronald Reagan has attended.
As Politico notes,the swanky event gathers various elements of the Washington elite to toast the new administration - as well as fire a few barbed jokes at the new president. The event is closed to reporters, so the ribbing tends to be more biting.
President Trump"s name is in the program, seated between Michael Bloomberg and Chief Justice Roberts.
Rather than hobnobbing with senior politicians, billionaire donors and media titans, Trump is expected to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone on Saturday.
There had been speculation that Trump might attend the dinner as a way to show that he’s ready to rub shoulders with the Washington establishment.
Presidents since Reagan have not gone every year, but they"ve all gone at least twice. Bill Clinton was the only president to skip the dinner days after his inauguration in 1993, but he showed up in 1994.
Instead of the president himself, a squadron of senior administration officials and Trump family will attend, including Vice President Mike Pence, Ivanka Trump and her husband, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway.
As Axios reports,the 750 guests tonight include Warren Buffett, Tim Cook, Jamie Dimon, Bill Gates, Bob Gates, Vernon Jordan, Charlie Rose, Jeb Bush, James Baker and plenty more moguls and grandees. The head table, stretching across a giant ballroom, includes the Cabinet, the congressional leadership and the cream of the diplomatic corps.
When it comes to presidential inaugurations, size matters, particularly to the Trump administration. Obama’s was bigger than Trump’s, at least in the number of attendees who were physically present on Capitol Hill for the festivities.
The firestorm of controversy began between the administration’s press secretary Sean Spicer and members of the mainstream media as they clashed over published reports indicating Trump’s inauguration was poorly attended. But it’s how Trump’s advisor and former campaign chair Kellyanne Conway reacted to the controversy that has the news and social media abuzz today with references to George Orwell’s famous work entitled “1984.”
In an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday, Conway was asked to comment on one of Spicer’s fallacious claims, the most controversial of which was the following;
“This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe.” Spicer (Jan. 21st, 2014)
Todd asked Conway why Spicer, under orders from the president, would address the press and utter such a falsehood. Conway responded, “Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts…” Conway’s use of the term “alternative facts” seemed to perplex Todd, who immediately reacted by stating, “Alternative facts! Four of the five facts he uttered were just not true. Look, alternative facts are not facts. They’re falsehoods!”
"Alternative facts" is a phrase that could have come directly out of Orwell"s 1984. https://t.co/WVNm7xUdWk
The exchange was immediately noticed by fans of Orwell’s bestselling book “1984.” Although most readers of the Free Thought Project most likely already know, the novel, first published in 1949, but set in the dystopian future of ‘1984,’ is about a society in which the government lies to its citizens through ‘Newspeak,’ which was designed to limit freedom of thought of the people, and conducted surveillance on its dissenters, as RT points out.
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We’ve often made the claim that government ignores the warning made in 1984 and instead uses the book as an instruction manual. And, it appears that Spicer’s false comments about the how the crowd was “the largest audience ever” to be labeled by Conway as ‘alternative facts’ are just that — 1984 newspeak.
Conway used the confrontation with Todd to refocus attention to Trump’s other planned policy initiatives, but the “alternative facts” statement has caused quite a stir on social media, now ablaze with references and connections to Orwell’s book.
While the opposition to Trump is certainly holding no punches, even going so far as to create false news about him, this statement has made some serious waves.
When Conway uttered the combination of words “alternative facts” the self-inflicted damage was done, further delegitimizing the president’s administration. To have one of your senior advisor’s statements be compared to a phrase from a book, which has been used by conspiracy theorists for decades as a sort of litmus test against government control, is very damaging.
The exchange wouldn’t have taken place, arguably, if Spicer hadn’t come out so strongly against the mainstream media’s attempt to downplay the number of attendees to Trump’s inauguration. But an interesting phenomenon has occurred as a result of the heated exchange between Todd and Conway whereby Conway uttered the words “alternative facts”. According to Fortune, Orwell’s book “1984” is now on Amazon’s bestseller list — nearly seven decades later.
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“Readers have been buying up George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel in recent days, driving it to number two on Amazon’s best selling books list as of Tuesday night,” reported Fortune, who also claimed, “The spike in popularity seemed to come in the wake of Kellyanne Conway defending Sean Spicer’s falsehoods about Donald Trump’s inauguration crowd size as ‘alternative facts.’ Many on social media compared the phrase to the ‘NewSpeak’ employed in 1984.”
To members of the mainstream media, it would appears "size matters", as the Inauguration crowd-gate debacle continues following Sean Spicer"s unusual press conference yesterday. During a combative interview this morning with NBC"s Chuck Todd, Trump top advisor Kellyanne Conway blasted media "falsehoods," crushing Todd"s "size" issues by noting that "Presidents aren"t judged by crowd sizes at their inauguration, they"re judged by their accomplishments."
But Conway was not done with the "Meet The Press" anchor yet, as she cornered him, noting this was just more evidence of the unfair and biased treatment of the Trump administration by the media:
"We"re going to have to rethink our relationship with the press...
Yesterday, we allowed the press into the Oval Office to witness the signing of executive orders and what happens almost immediately - a falsehood is told about removing the bust of Martin Luther King Jr - that"s just flat-out false."
"I"m thrilled that all of a sudden NBC News and Chuck Todd is so focused on covering crowd control, because we were mocked daily for talking about the historic significance of the size of the crowds at our rallies during the campaign... on great days were ignored, and on most days we were mocked."
"You want the American people to think they can"t trust The White House press secretary, that"s a very dangerous statement to make. Your job is to report the news, not to give your opinion, you"re not an opinion columnist."
...you"ve got a 14% approval rating, that you"ve earned..."
And Todd"s response...
"...you attack us [the media] with some weird Twitter feed that you guys are obsessed with."
(INTELLIHUB) — “CNN and BuzzFeed have a lot in Common,” Kellyanne Conway said, referring to a fake 35-page report released by BuzzFeed and reported by CNN recently.
CNN reported on the story and posted it on their website, prompting Donald J. Trump to call out CNN in a presser Wednesday morning, resulting in CNN’s (Time Warner) stock dropping rapidly.
(INTELLIHUB) — “CNN and BuzzFeed have a lot in Common,” Kellyanne Conway said, referring to a fake 35-page report released by BuzzFeed and reported by CNN recently.
CNN reported on the story and posted it on their website, prompting Donald J. Trump to call out CNN in a presser Wednesday morning, resulting in CNN’s stock dropping rapidly.
“It’s true that you have no evidence of it other than unnamed briefing documents,” Conway told Cooper, who claims CNN has “multiple sources.”
“The fact is the media has a 16% approval rating for a reason, it has been earned,” said Conway.
Cooper continued to argue the fake unsourced news six ways to Sunday.
(INTELLIHUB) — President-elect Donald J. Trump has “accountants and lawyers and protocol offices literally working around-the-clock to make sure that everything that needs to be done for a man who has been so brilliant and so successful in business […]. Trump is making sure that he “is sufficiently disentangled for him to take his job as president and focus on that one-hundred-and-ten percent,” Kellyanne Conway told MSNBC’s Rachael Maddow Thursday, after Maddow pushed the old ‘conflict of interest’ narrative against Trump for wanting to privatize big banks, also having an obvious ownership stake in his various hotels.
The bottom line is that the stock market has been “booming” and that a lot of the investors seem “to like the fact that Donald Trump will be the next president,” Conway said. ‘The stock market is up to 20,000, about twenty percent since the day he was elected.’
Soon after, Maddow, a self-proclaimed liberal who has also been touted as “the creme de la creme of leftist ideologues at MSNBC,” went on to attack the President-elect over her newly concocted conspiracy theory in which Maddow suggests that a foreign government “could rent out Trump hotel suites at the Trump Hotel in Washington,” which would essentially count as a payoff to Trump “who is the primary owner of the corporation.”
[…] it’s money for him, Maddow proclaimed.
Maddow went on to say, “Anybody who wants to, any foreign country, anyone, can now have the option to basically pay money to the American President by doing favors to this business that he owns.”
Maddow then aimlessly spewed, “corruption is corruption,” which Conway countered, calling Maddow’s statement “attenuated.”
“If you want to give money to the president, the American President, we have never had a way to do that before,” Maddow said.
“No foreign government has had a way to do that before. The American people, special-interests, haven’t had a way to funnel money to the American President […].”
Maddow then haphazardly stated that anyone who “effects” Trump’s “bottom line” is in fact “paying the president” in a roundabout way, despite the fact that Trump has been openly moving toward total transparency and the personal disentanglement of his businesses, which the general public and Trump supporters alike are very aware of.
To Trumps credit Conway put Maddow in her place by saying, “[…] please don’t leave people the impression that the money goes into Donald Trump’s pocket. He employs tens-of-thousands of people worldwide. […] He said he will do whatever is necessary to comply with the law [and] protocol.”
Conway then went on to rip Maddow a new one by demonstrating how former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton funneled money through the Clinton Foundation which likely trickled up to the current sitting president in some instances.
“The fact is that, Rachel, you just said that we’ve never had a president that could financially benefit — that a foreign country could funnel money — and I was like ding, ding, ding [verbal sound of alarm bells] we had a Secretary of State that did exactly that and Americans didn’t like it. She [Hillary Clinton] used the State Department as a concierge for foreign governments to dump money into the foundation. Her husband gets a million bucks over in Russia to give a speech at UNT” and he also gave up “twenty percent of our uranium rights.”
After her colossal defeat Maddow went on to whitewash the Clinton Foundation’s “pay-to-play” issues before ending the segment shortly after with her guest Conway.
