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(86,005 posts)
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 05:56 PM Feb 2017

Kellyanne lied about her lie




Kellyanne Conway took to Twitter on Friday to walk back her comments on MSNBC's Hardball about a nonexistent terrorist attack in Bowling Green, Kentucky. However, this wasn't the first time she used the words "Bowling Green massacre" in an on-the-record conversation with a reporter.

In an earlier interview with Cosmopolitan.com, she 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...

Roundly condemned and mocked for the comment (there has never been a terrorist massacre in Bowling Green), Conway tweeted Friday that she meant to say "Bowling Green terrorists” and had made an “honest mistake.”

But 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."


read: http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a8674035/kellyanne-conway-bowling-green-massacre-repeat/



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Kellyanne lied about her lie (Original Post) bigtree Feb 2017 OP
Proving again that she's a Compleat Republicon Achilleaze Feb 2017 #1
Agreed Sherman A1 Feb 2017 #2
Complex numbers central scrutinizer Feb 2017 #3
Your credibility has expired KA. lpbk2713 Feb 2017 #4
Lie-ception? Initech Feb 2017 #5
Distance between innocent soldiers and Bowling Green jmowreader Feb 2017 #6
A despicable liar who finally got caught in lie so blatant even Cha Feb 2017 #7
About her halted appearance .. SHE says it because of ...family. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2017 #8
I just saw that and CNN says.. Cha Feb 2017 #9
P.S. Con said "Bowling Green Massacre" a 3rd time on TMZ Cha Feb 2017 #10
i'd like to see a poll question BuddyCa Feb 2017 #11

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
6. Distance between innocent soldiers and Bowling Green
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 06:19 PM
Feb 2017

There are two military bases close to Bowling Green, but neither is THAT close:

Fort Campbell: 72 miles from the Bowling Green Massacre
Fort Knox: 92 miles from the Bowling Green Massacre

I gotta tell ya, if the masterminds of the Bowling Green Massacre were attempting to take innocent soldiers' lives away, they have to be the worst terrorists who never lived.

Cha

(297,496 posts)
7. A despicable liar who finally got caught in lie so blatant even
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 06:19 PM
Feb 2017

the Sunday shows called a halt on her appearances.

I hope it continues. Thank you for this from Cosmopolitan, bigtree

"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."

Don't forget the time she said it on tweety's show.. she said we may not have heard of it..

Statements by Conway

I bet, there was very little coverage?—?I bet it's brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized?—?and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre. I mean, most people don't know that because it didn't get covered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Green_massacre

Got that from the Wikipedia page on it!

It's Covered Now, Twit!
 

BuddyCa

(99 posts)
11. i'd like to see a poll question
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 07:26 PM
Feb 2017

"how many people died at the Bowling Green Massacre?"

My guess is the average answer will be something like 20.

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