Should Anything Conway Tells the Media Be Trusted?
Kellyanne Conway last week cemented her reputation as an untrustworthy liar after MSNBC aired a pre-recorded interview in which the White House Counselor to the President referenced the “Bowling Green Massacre,” a supposed terrorist attack that never happened. The media immediately descended upon Conway, whose reputation for lying became legendary after she tried to defend the White House and Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s fake inauguration attendance numbers as “alternative facts.”
The following day, Conway tried to defend her “Bowling Green Massacre” lie by claiming it was merely an “honest mistake,” and she was off by just one word, and really meant to say “terrorists,” not “massacre.”
Not only did Conway lie about the supposed “massacre,” but she used her attack to slam the media for not reporting on it, suggesting that because it “happened” under President Barack Obama, it wasn’t reported, which of course is false. Also false was Conway’s claim that Obama had “banned†Iraqi refugees in 2011, which The Washington Post notes they previously fact-checked as false.
As it turns out, Conway was not only lying when she claimed that there was a Bowling Green massacre, she was lying when she claimed it was an “honest mistake” and she had meant to say “terrorists.”
Cosmopolitan reports that in a late January interview with the magazine, Conway also discussed the fake “Bowling Green massacre” that never happened. Cosmo reports today, “this wasn’t the first time she used the words ‘Bowling Green massacre’ in an on-the-record conversation with a reporter.”
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Conway, Cosmopolitan reports, “not only used this same phrase but also went a step further in describing the actions of the two Iraqi men involved in the case to which she was referring.”
So much for being off by just one word.
Cosmo notes that “in an interview with Cosmopolitan.com conducted by phone days earlier, on Sunday, Jan. 29, Conway used the same phrasing, claiming that President Barack Obama called for a temporary ‘ban on Iraqi refugees’ after the ‘Bowling Green massacre.’ (The quotes did not appear in either of two stories recently published on Cosmopolitan.com.)”
“He did, it’s a fact,” she said of Obama. “Why did he do that? He did that for exactly the same reasons. He did that because two Iraqi nationals came to this country, joined ISIS, traveled back to the Middle East to get trained and refine their terrorism skills, and come back here, and were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre of taking innocent soldiers’ lives away.”
So, Conway lied about the massacre that never happened, which in itself is revolting. She lied about “innocent soldiers” being killed. She lied about it being a mistake. And she used her lies to attack the media, first for not reporting something that never happened, and then for attacking her for lying.
Did we miss anything?
UPDATE: 3:13 PM EST –
Third times’s the charm?
Via ThinkProgress’ Zack Ford:
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