Grazing before the "massacre."
Feb 17 // Feb 3 2017
In this case, "honest mistake" means you're just making things up.
"Kellyanne! We're not going to tell you again...." (That's what we imagine it sounded like, anyway.)
Kellyanne, Kellyanne, Kellyanne. What the….did you learn nothing?
The outrage we all expressed a few weeks ago took a somewhat more lighthearted tone, when we relentlessly mocked, shamed, exposed and degraded Ms. Kellyanne Conway for her misguided and ridiculous story about the “Bowling Green Massacre,” a tragedy that somehow went unreported by the media.
Everyone knows the story by now, but it’s sort of fun to recall it anyway. During an appearance on Hardball with host Chris Matthews, Ms. Conway used the “Bowling Green Massacre” to support and defend the President’s immigration Executive Order, implying that had a stronger ban on immigrants with terrorist intentions been in place, our country may never have experienced such a horrible event. It may have prevented a “massacre.” Very shortly after her enormous gaffe – there was no massacre; there wasn’t so much as a stubbed toe on any of the good citizens of Kentucky as near as we could tell - she admitted her error and tweeted “Honest mistakes abound.” Sure they do. But this one was ridiculous.
The sad truth is, the event she was referencing would have been a reasonable example to use had she wanted to illustrate the thinking behind the immigration Executive Order. Turns out that in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in early 2013, two men were indicted and ultimately imprisoned on federal terrorism charges.
Why? It wasn’t because they were immigrants and it wasn’t because they were Muslims. It was because in May 2011, they committed terrorist activities against the United States. One was sentenced to life in prison; the other, whose fingerprints were found in an IED in Iraq, will spend 40 years in a federal prison. The Assistant District Attorney on the case claimed that these “former Iraqi insurgents participated in terrorist activities overseas and attempted to continue providing material support to terrorists while they lived in the United States.”
We’re not PR / damage control experts here at Two Weeks Ago News but dear God. How do you explain this? Even we know that Kellyanne couldn’t have made up a better story to underscore the importance of why the President and his team feel so strongly about the immigration laws. [We’re NOT going to start debating the EO here. It exists – for now – and that’s not the point of this TWAN flashback.] Isn’t the true (not alternative fact) narrative about the terrorist acts of two Iraqi immigrants in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and their subversive activities to support Al Queda and help the enemy kill American soldiers enough of a talking point? Isn’t it just about perfect, in fact? No? She had to fabricate not only a massacre, but then go on to say the media covered it up?
Insanity. No wonder we were all worked up about it.
How she still has a job is a mystery to everyone at Two Weeks Ago News. No sooner had the Bowling Green story faded – sort of – when the Nordstrom/Ivanka/ethics juggernaut began. Assuming she’s bringing something of value to President Trump’s White House, someone needs to find her something else to do. Something that will keep her away from cameras. (Although that’s happening anyway, on its own. See: Brzezinski, Mika; also CNN.)
You have to give Kellyanne this, though. She got her guy elected. Inexplicably, incredibly, somehow - she did. She got him there but she may not keep him there. Then again, as long as she doesn’t misstate something like a launch code (no need to worry on that score; aren't they chatting about them over dinner these days?), we'll all keep creating memes and dismissing her as a chuckle-head and a joke. The comic relief from a maelstrom.
We hope.
In this case, "honest mistake" means you're just making things up.
"Kellyanne! We're not going to tell you again...." (That's what we imagine it sounded like, anyway.)
Kellyanne, Kellyanne, Kellyanne. What the….did you learn nothing?
The outrage we all expressed a few weeks ago took a somewhat more lighthearted tone, when we relentlessly mocked, shamed, exposed and degraded Ms. Kellyanne Conway for her misguided and ridiculous story about the “Bowling Green Massacre,” a tragedy that somehow went unreported by the media.
Everyone knows the story by now, but it’s sort of fun to recall it anyway. During an appearance on Hardball with host Chris Matthews, Ms. Conway used the “Bowling Green Massacre” to support and defend the President’s immigration Executive Order, implying that had a stronger ban on immigrants with terrorist intentions been in place, our country may never have experienced such a horrible event. It may have prevented a “massacre.” Very shortly after her enormous gaffe – there was no massacre; there wasn’t so much as a stubbed toe on any of the good citizens of Kentucky as near as we could tell - she admitted her error and tweeted “Honest mistakes abound.” Sure they do. But this one was ridiculous.
The sad truth is, the event she was referencing would have been a reasonable example to use had she wanted to illustrate the thinking behind the immigration Executive Order. Turns out that in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in early 2013, two men were indicted and ultimately imprisoned on federal terrorism charges.
Why? It wasn’t because they were immigrants and it wasn’t because they were Muslims. It was because in May 2011, they committed terrorist activities against the United States. One was sentenced to life in prison; the other, whose fingerprints were found in an IED in Iraq, will spend 40 years in a federal prison. The Assistant District Attorney on the case claimed that these “former Iraqi insurgents participated in terrorist activities overseas and attempted to continue providing material support to terrorists while they lived in the United States.”
We’re not PR / damage control experts here at Two Weeks Ago News but dear God. How do you explain this? Even we know that Kellyanne couldn’t have made up a better story to underscore the importance of why the President and his team feel so strongly about the immigration laws. [We’re NOT going to start debating the EO here. It exists – for now – and that’s not the point of this TWAN flashback.] Isn’t the true (not alternative fact) narrative about the terrorist acts of two Iraqi immigrants in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and their subversive activities to support Al Queda and help the enemy kill American soldiers enough of a talking point? Isn’t it just about perfect, in fact? No? She had to fabricate not only a massacre, but then go on to say the media covered it up?
Insanity. No wonder we were all worked up about it.
How she still has a job is a mystery to everyone at Two Weeks Ago News. No sooner had the Bowling Green story faded – sort of – when the Nordstrom/Ivanka/ethics juggernaut began. Assuming she’s bringing something of value to President Trump’s White House, someone needs to find her something else to do. Something that will keep her away from cameras. (Although that’s happening anyway, on its own. See: Brzezinski, Mika; also CNN.)
You have to give Kellyanne this, though. She got her guy elected. Inexplicably, incredibly, somehow - she did. She got him there but she may not keep him there. Then again, as long as she doesn’t misstate something like a launch code (no need to worry on that score; aren't they chatting about them over dinner these days?), we'll all keep creating memes and dismissing her as a chuckle-head and a joke. The comic relief from a maelstrom.
We hope.