CNN Doubles Down: No, We Really Did Refuse to Have Kellyanne Conway on Our Sunday Shows This Weekend

‘We Passed. Those Are the Facts’

CNN was offered White House Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway for its Sunday “State of the Union” news show but declined, telling The New York Times the network has “serious questions about her credibility,” after she lied about a “massacre” in Bowling Green, Kentucky, that never happened. 

But Conway, whose credibility has been in question even since before the November election, has lost the respect of many, especially after she claimed White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was merely offing “alternative facts” about attendance numbers at President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Conway struck back quickly, tweeting that she was not on the Sunday talk shows because she was busy with family:

But in a surprise move, CNN doubled down on its insistence it had declined to host Conway – a move that likely would not have happened but for President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on the news network, calling them “fake news” and even refusing to answer a question from a CNN reporter.

Via Twitter, CNN refuted Conway’s claim: “We passed. Those are the facts,” the network’s communications team responded.

As Talking Points Memo observed, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski tweeted, “you are not the first.”

The White House has grown increasingly combative with the media, as evidenced in a brilliant skit – possibly one of the best, ever – on “Saturday Night Live.” Melissa McCarthy portrayed a very angry White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, apologizing to “himself” on behalf of the media, then not accepting the apology. 

And in a truly disturbing and fascistic act Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump lied to U.S. military service members at CENTCOM, claiming the “very, very dishonest media” is refusing to report on terror attacks.

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