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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, its 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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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)sad
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,659 posts)Simple math: i^2 = -1
An imaginary unit (fact) squared equals a negative real unit (fact)
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Throw in the towel and head for the locker room.
Initech
(100,097 posts)It's a lie within a lie within a lie within a lie within a lie.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)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)the Sunday shows called a halt on her appearances.
I hope it continues. Thank you for this from Cosmopolitan, bigtree
"He did, its 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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Green_massacre
Got that from the Wikipedia page on it!
It's Covered Now, Twit!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Cha
(297,496 posts)Cha
(297,496 posts)BuddyCa
(99 posts)"how many people died at the Bowling Green Massacre?"
My guess is the average answer will be something like 20.